I asked Steve Gidman, founder and president of Fortress Technology, about some of the challenges and successes in designing the company's Interceptor DF system.

Doughnut Peddler had always wanted to invest in metal detection but needed a business justification for the investment. The company's rapid expansion provided the opportunity and the commercial case that it needed.

Requiring no metal-free area above or below its sensing head, the Eriez Xtreme vertical form/fill/seal (FFS) metal detector is built for installations in space-restricted areas below FFS packaging machines.

Providing a traceable, auditable way to test the performance of food metal detectors, Fortress Halo automatic testing technology effectively duplicates the signal disturbance that occurs during manual testing, without having to physically pass a metal contaminant through the metal detector.

Puritan drawer magnets are engineered to remove medium and fine ferrous contaminants from dry, free-flowing products under gravity flow.

The Eriez DSC (dust-tight, sanitary, convertible) grate in housing magnet handles fine powders and some head velocity pressure, while maintaining a positive seal.

The METTLER TOLEDO Profile Advantage metal detector analyzes product signal data captured across a spectrum of frequencies simultaneously and virtually eliminates false triggering by suppressing the active and unwanted signals produced by the products themselves.

The Fortress Technology Interceptor DF multi-orientation, multi-scan food metal detector is designed to detect metal contaminants in high-value foods, such as confectionery and low-side profile products.

CEIA MS21 multi-spectrum metal detectors use multiple frequencies simultaneously and continuously.