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Frozen seafood packer upscales weighing operations

Semi-automatic combination weighers reduce labor requirements and product giveaway.

Seattle, WA-based Northwest Seafood Processors (NWSP), a division of Odyssey Enterprises, Inc., specializes in custom processing, private label packaging, and product development for frozen breaded, battered, and par fried seafood, as well as battered vegetables. NWSP’s operations include a complete range of equipment options and packaging solutions to accommodate both large and small (5-oz to plus 10-lb) retail and foodservice vacuum-packed, tray-packed, bagged, and/or boxed product runs.

For its frozen seafood products, NWSP had been hand-scaling each item. But this process was time-consuming and labor-intensive. So in the Summer 2015, after evaluating various automated options, NWSP installed two Model TSDW-205W semi-automatic combination weighers from Yamato. These compact units measure 28.9” wide x 61.1” deep by 31.9”-35.1” high.

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