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Greggs Ensures Quality Products with SAFELINE Metal Detector
A passion for product freshness and quality led Greggs to METTLER TOLEDO SAFELINE the supplier of product inspection equipment to many leading bakeries throughout the world.
Founded in the 1930’s as a family bakery business in Newcastle, Greggs is now the leading bakery retailer in the UK. Today it comprises of over 1,000 shops nationwide and serves approximately 4 million customers per week.
Greggs have 11 regional bakeries situated throughout the country, each supplying their regional shops with freshly made products to help ensure great taste, quality and value to their customers.
The possible risk of product contamination can come from a number of sources from within the bakery environment, as the production process involves a number of stages including, batching, mixing, depositing, baking and slicing. Earlier this year, to detect any contamination, a double headed metal detection system, comprising of a SAFELINE R Series Profile metal detector and a Ferrous-in- Foil Detector in one complete unit was installed at the Greggs Northwest Division site. This system is capable of delivering high performance in-line metal detection even when products are wrapped or packaged in aluminium foil.
This dual detector solution utilises the R-series Profile detector when inspecting products in non-aluminium foil packaging materials where it is capable of finding all types of metal contamination. When products packaged in aluminium foil are being produced, the ferrous detector is used to identify ferrous contamination. The dual head machine inspects a wide variety of cake based products and frequent product changeovers are required. Chief Engineer, Mr Spencer explained, “Product changeovers are simple, the metal detector's settings can be changed to inspect different products in less than a minute." He continues, “I personally like METTLER TOLEDO SAFELINE's customer focused attitude, professionalism and the way they are always trying to develop and implement new solutions for their customers.”
He adds, “Our metal detectors help us to demonstrate 'due diligence' and eradicate metal contamination in our manufacturing process, which contributes towards and ensures that our products are always going to be of the highest quality for our customers.”