Depositors keep food dips flowing

Lancashire-based Riggs Autopack, a market leader in volumetric depositors and filling machines, transfer pumps and conveyor filling lines, recently installed an automatic depositor line and transfer pumps for Zorba Delicacies, an established UK manufacturer of chilled dips and deli products.

Three Riggs Autopack twin-head automatic depositors were installed to fill three-portion plastic trays with hummus, salsa and guacamole products. The company then invested in three Riggs Autopack transfer pumps, which pump the different products from holding tanks into the depositor hoppers, enhancing the continual production process. The machines are working at a rate of 60 packs per minute.

The low-level, twin-head automatic depositors were designed specifically for single or multi-portion pot, tub or tray filling for producers of products such as dips and deli fillers. They provide precise depositing of hot or cold liquid and semi-liquid products such as salsa, guacamole, hummus, dips and sauces.

The horizontal transfer pumps provide damage-free transfer of products and efficiently pump products direct from tote bins, cooking kettles or mixing vessels, and transfer into low- or high-level hoppers and holding tanks. These robust food industry pumps provide continuous food production and negate the need for manual loading of hoppers by using tubs or buckets.

Riggs Autopack also has depositors that can fill hot and cold liquid, semi-liquid and suspended solid goods, including a wide range of ready meal products such as stews, mashed potato, casseroles or curries and are able to deposit fragile vegetables and cooked meats in sauce with particulates up to 38 mm cubed as standard.