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Canned Meat Producer Improves Quality with X-Ray Inspection System

Ohio-based canned meat producer Keystone Meats improved its production quality with this new inspection tool.

Mettler Toldeo X37
The X-ray inspection system helps Keystone Meats inspect a few hundred cans per minute.
Image provided by Mettler Toledo

Keystone Meats, a canned meat producer based in Lima, Ohio, has introduced a state-of-the-art X-ray inspection system to help ensure the safety of the company’s canned meats, broths, and soups.

Keystone’s meat processing involves substantial cutting, grinding, and canning of their products. Thus, the company needed a way to prevent metal from contaminating the production line. In addition, an overall quality checker was needed. That is where Mettler Toledo’s X37 X-ray inspection system comes in.

“While a metal detector could have worked earlier in our process, we wanted inspection at the very end of the packaging line to help ensure overall final product quality before distribution,” says Pete Dorley, President of Keystone Meats.

The X37 X-ray system helps Keystone inspect the company’s entire range of canned products, which include beef, chicken, pork, and turkey. These products are packed in 14.5 oz, 28 oz, and 50 oz metal cans. The X37 can run at 1,200 packages-per-minute processing speed. It finds and removes a variety of foreign materials from products including metal, glass, bone, and dense plastic.

Keystone’s X37 inspects a few hundred cans per minute and gives the company flexibility to increase its line speed if needed, according to Dorley.

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