Food Engineering
“As most food and especially meat processors know, harsh washdown conditions ravage electronic components. It is not uncommon for an electronic floor scale or hopper scale to require frequent load cell replacements during the course of a year.
The Emery Winslow model 709 pit scales at Boars Head, installed flush with the floor, vary in size and capacity. Some are used in shipping and receiving, while others pre-weigh rolling vats of product before they are dumped into mixers and grinders. Some processors shy away from pit scales because of electronic load cells are easily damaged by flooded pits. The Emery Winslow pit scales at Boars Head do occasionally get flooded, but the Hydrostatic load cells remain unaffected.
“We get the price difference back many times over in the form of dramatically reduced down-time, fewer repairs and no replacement load cells.”
