Vertex Metal Detector to be Featured at Interpack

Visitors at Interpack 2020 will be able to see Fortress Technology's top selling Vertex Metal Detector performing at their booth. The machine, equipped with automatic testing, can inspect multiple snack formats and flavors and enhance product quality, while at the same time help save money by reducing labor costs.

The slim-line Vertex metal detector system, measuring just 125mm in height with a circular aperture, can easily slot into existing VFFS packaging and snack checkweighing turnkey lines to enhance quality and consumer confidence. Supporting fast product changeovers, this throat unit incorporates an advanced automatic testing program, addressing productivity issues, rising labor costs and staff shortages.

Designed specifically to inspect free-falling snacks, more than 700 new Fortress Vertex units were installed by snack manufacturers last year. To help future proof equipment, all were fitted with Halo Automatic Testing, saving manufacturers an estimated EUR250 a day on every product inspection line. Fortress Technology’s European Managing Director Phil Brown notes that for large scale operations this could equate to a weekly saving of EUR250,000: “The costs associated with manually testing the performance of every single snack metal detectors at the start, end and throughout a shift (often hourly) and after every product changeover can be extortionate.”