Cereal
Known by many names, and varying in types of food amongst ancient civilizations, breakfast was radically transformed during the Industrial Revolution by the convenience and nutritional benefits of ready-to-eat cereals. Created accidentally by some historical accounts, ready-to-eat cereals redefined the first meal of the day for the hurried lifestyles of an increasingly metropolitan population. By 1909, the Battle Creek Toasted Corn Flake Company produced 120,000 cases of cereal daily. Today, cereal brand leaders rely on Thayer Scale equipment to produce the roughly 2.7 billion boxes of cereal consumed globally every year.
Cheese
Thayer Scale offers a broad suite of food safe technologies that help our customers in the cheese processing industry protect their brand and develop products that appeal to their customers, keeping them satisfied.
Coffee
Coffee is the second most traded commodity in the world after oil. Global coffee production exceeds more than 11 million tons annually, providing more than two billion cups of coffee. Thayer Scale provides the coffee processing industry with food safe gravimetric and volumetric feeder solutions for industrial coffee roasters.
Confectionery
Thayer Scale’s confectionery clients benefit from guidance on material handling problems and from innovative solutions.
Nuts
Thayer Scale offers continuous weighing and batching solutions for growers and nut processors ranging from NTEP approved weighing solutions that generate certified for trade origin weights for crop yield reports and packing operations in the fields, to accurate and repeatable sanitary metering solutions for nut butter / paste, powder, oil and dairy-free beverage base processes, as well as proportional flow rate control of individual product streams in mixed nut blending systems.
Pet Food
For decades, pet food manufacturers have trusted Thayer Scale to provide safe and innovative material processing and handling solutions.
Snack Food
Thayer Scale’s solutions for the snack food industry ensure compliance with the industry’s strict standards for safety and cross-contamination.
Tobacco
The commercial manufacture of cigarettes had been a cottage industry until 1881 upon the invention of an automated cigarette-making machine. Within five years, James Buchanan Duke’s tobacco company was producing nearly a billion cigarettes annually.
More than half a century ago, Thayer Scale supplied its first weigh belt feeder to the largest tobacco company in the world. Today, our market-leading products and services for the tobacco industry remain durable, innovative, and cost-efficient. Many of these original units are still in operation maintaining measurement accuracies of ± 0.5% or better.
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Broad Suite of Sanitary and Hygienic Equipment
Hygienic Weigh Feeder Offers Next Level Sanitation and High Accuracy Weighing
Thayer Scale’s HWF model Hygienic Weigh Feeder is designed to accurately weigh food and dairy products which are subject to stringent sanitation requirements. The feeder provides a flow rate measurement solution for the enhanced food safety processing segment. Thayer Scale developed the HWF model to help the sanitary space meet the challenges of this new era of smarter food safety initiatives imposed by the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA). The HWF is designed and built in accordance with the applicable provisions of NAMI (North American Meat Institute), 3-A, NSF and USDA specifications for industry segments that require compliance with food traceability rules and food safety plans.
Compliance with FSMA Hygienic Food Traceability Rules and Food Safety Plans
Thayer Scale’s Model HWF Hygienic Weigh Feeder is designed and built in accordance with the applicable provisions of 3-A, USDA, and NSF design standards to:
- Provide accurate and repeatable in-process bulk material flow rate measurement for mass balance calculations and process control.
- Reduce sanitation time – the HWF disassembles quickly without hand tools to optimize sanitation effectiveness.
- Tolerate high pressure, high-temperature sanitation evolutions without calibration drift or compromising measurement sensitivity.
- Provide a long-term, low cost of ownership with rugged, “Built-to-Survive” construction.
- Assist with GMP (Good Manufacturing Practices), HACCP (Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Points) and HARPC (Hazard Analysis and Risk-Based Preventive Controls) program compliance.
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Broad Range Weighing Solutions for Food Processing
Thayer Scale has a broad suite of sanitary products for the food industry. Our equipment is used to weigh and convey candy / confectionery, cheese (shred / grate), coffee, nut processing, pet food, potato products and snack food. Our products include sanitary weigh belt feeders, loss-in-weight feeders, flexible conveyor belt scales, hopper- and silo-discharge solutions, and weigh belts. By providing a full line of SANITARY feeders, and emerging solutions for the HYGIENIC space, Thayer Scale is able to meet most any food processing requirements and provide solutions that are durable and cost-efficient.
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Safe and Innovative Material Processing and Handling Solutions for the Food Industry
Thayer Scale’s customers rely on Thayer Scale to design, manufacture, and service long-lasting equipment that can be easily integrated and modified to accommodate existing systems. Thayer Scale’s commitment to innovation and technical advancement leads the company to produce highly-accurate equipment that can be managed and maintained remotely, thereby reducing cost of ownership.
Thayer Scale’s significant process knowledge has resulted in highly-engineered designs that ensure long-term accuracy and functionality, and adherence to the industry’s stringent sanitary and safety requirements. Thayer Scale provides safe and innovative material processing and handling solutions for the food industry.
MWF-OS Sanitary Weigh Belt
Sanitary & Hygienic Equipment
- Sanitary weigh belt feeders
- Loss-in-weight feeders
- Flexible conveyor belt scales
- Hopper- and silo-discharge solutions
- Food grade conveyor weigh belts