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Confectionery, Snacks and Nuts
High performance weighing solutions for food processing
This category covers a wide range of high-frequency, net-weight sensitive products, typically including: Hard candies, soft chews, gummies, toffees, chocolate bars, filled chocolates, chewing gum, Potato chips, popcorn, tortilla chips, cereal bars, energy bars, crackers, extruded puffs, mixed snack packs, Roasted almonds, peanuts, cashews, pistachios, sugar-coated nuts, and dry nut-fruit blends (trail mix).
These products are often produced in high volumes with numerous SKUs, making them highly sensitive to weight compliance and labeling regulations.
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Food Processing Industry Challenges
Regulatory Net‑Weight Compliance
Under FDA 21 CFR 101.7 and NIST Handbook 133, every pack must meet labeled weight or risk fines and recalls.
SKU Proliferation & Pack
Size Variation – Retailers demand mini, single‑serve and family packs, driving frequent changeovers.
Sticky or Fragile Products
Gummies, chocolate‑covered nuts and wafer bars can stick, smear or crumble, complicating stable weighing.
Foreign‑Material & Allergen Risks
Metal fragments, shell pieces or hard plastic must be detected before shipping to protect consumers and brands.
High Line Speeds in Tight Spaces
Modern snack lines exceed 200 ppm, yet floor space is at a premium, especially in retrofit projects.
Application Scenarios
In candy, snack, and nut production lines, dynamic checkweighers automatically detect package weights, rejecting overfilled or underfilled products to ensure each item meets precise weight standards. Installed after multihead weighers or at the end of flow-wrapping lines, they can handle speeds exceeding 200 packs per minute. With real-time feedback mechanisms, these systems optimize upstream filler settings, reduce product waste, and enhance production efficiency and compliance. Suitable for pillow bags, bars, and nut tins.
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Preserved Fruit
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Multi-lane Checkweigher SCP6
- Product Features:The high-precision multi-lane dynamic checkweigher supports customizable lane counts, with up to 12 lanes. It is ideal for multi-lane weight inspection of bar-shaped boxed and bagged products at the discharge end of packaging or filling machines, enhancing production efficiency and sorting accuracy.
Checkweigher with Metal Detector Combination System SCM-4530L2
- This integrated system combines metal detection and weight sorting in one compact unit, saving space and simplifying production lines. It accurately detects metal contaminants and checks product weight simultaneously, reducing false rejections, improving efficiency, and lowering operational costs for reliable quality control.
Combination Weigher SBW-2512B12
- This high-precision combination weigher features individual weighing trays for accurate, high-speed weight calculation and mixing. Made of 304 stainless steel with IP65 waterproof and dustproof protection, it includes a detachable belt platform for easy cleaning. The system supports target weight settings, adjustable discharge intervals, overweight alarms, and low-stock alerts—ideal for flexible and efficient production.
Dual Lane Checkweigher SCP2
- The dual lane dynamic checkweigher features a space-saving design that allows simultaneous inspection of two production lines with a single device. It is widely used for dynamic weighing of bar-shaped, tubular, bagged, and inline packaged products after filling and packaging processes, ensuring efficient and accurate inspection.
Hygienic Checkweigher SCF-4523L3
- The SCF‑4523L3 is a hygienic, high-speed checkweigher tailored to food and pharmaceutical environments. Built with 304 stainless steel and an open-frame layout, it tolerates high-pressure, high-temperature washdown and chemical cleaning, to prevent water ingress and residue buildup . It accurately weighs single small-pack items (chips, candy, nuts) with precision of ±0.3–2 g and intelligently rejects overfilled, underfilled, missing, or empty packages. Automating this process reduces labor by up to 50% and boosts throughput by around 200%.
Metal Separator HC-700
- The metal separator is designed for free-falling bulk materials, efficiently separating both magnetic and non-magnetic metal contaminants. It utilizes advanced software algorithms to enhance detection performance and features both automatic and manual product effect learning functions. Integrated with a fast metal rejection system, it is ideal for bulk material inspection and can detect metals even when enclosed within the product, ensuring production safety and product quality.
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Food Processing Industry Success Stories
SameGram offers an all-in-one checkweigher system tailored for the confectionery, snacks, and nuts industry
Gummy Producer
“We were constantly battling weight inconsistencies due to the stickiness of the product. Since installing the SCF-4523L3 checkweigher on our gummy bottling line, we've seen underweight rejects drop by over 90%. Even better, our overall line speed improved without any compromise in accuracy. It’s been a real game-changer for our throughput.”
A sticky‑gummy bottling line added SCF-4523L3 and cut underweight rejects by 92 % while gaining 18 % throughput.
Jason M
Production Manager
Pata Snack Nuts
“With the SCM-4530L2 integrated with a metal detector, we’ve finally reached the weight precision and food safety standards required by our top retail partners. Product giveaway has dropped dramatically—from 3 grams to less than 0.4 grams per tub—translating into substantial annual savings. This system has paid for itself in under 9 months.”
Switch to SCM-4530L2 and metal detection reduced giveaway from 3 g to < 0.4 g per tub, saving €110 k/year in raw nuts.
Luca
QA Director
European Chocolate-Bar Plant
“Replacing manual checkweighing with the SCP6 was one of the best upgrades we’ve made. Not only did we boost OEE by nearly 10%, but the system also enabled real-time feedback to our flow-wrapping line, reducing giveaway and stabilizing pack quality. Integration was smooth, and support from Samegram was excellent throughout.”
European Chocolate‑Bar Plant – Replacing manual check scales with SCP6 boosted OEE from 78 % to 87 % and enabled automatic feedback to flow‑wrappers.
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