tna, Mettler Toledo Safeline honored at PPMA Awards
Global packaging solutions provider tna, Sydney, and the industrial metal detection expert Mettler Toledo Safeline, Tampa, won the Partnership of the Year award at the Processing & Packaging Machinery Association’s (PPMA) Group Industry Awards 2013. The companies received the prestigious award for integrating the hyper-detect metal detector into the tna robag VFFS bagger.
The hyper-detect is the world’s first nonsymmetrical balanced coil metal detector with a conical aperture in the detector, according to tna. While conventional “throat” metal detectors have long been used in the industry to inspect product before it enters the bag to allow the use of metalized film, packaging speeds have been limited to date. The integrated design of the hyper-detect allows the metal detector to be positioned much closer to the multi-head weigher, increasing the speed at which the bagger can produce finished bags.