J&J Snack Foods is an innovative national leader in the snack food and frozen beverage industries. Across its 18 production facilities, the brand manufactures a wide range of products under 25 house brands, including ICEE and LUIGI’S Real Italian Ice, as well as customers’ private labels. To protect product quality, J&J Snack Foods turned to Mettler Toledo Safeline (mt.com) and installed three X-ray systems — one X33 model in 2017, followed by another X33 and an unusual two-lane X36 model in 2018.
“We have lots of Mettler Toledo equipment, including checkweighers and metal detectors, at our Moosic, Pennsylvania, facility. We’ve always had positive experiences collaborating with them, so they were our first choice when we decided to install X-ray inspection on a new line and two existing lines,” says Ernest Fogle, vice president of research and development, Frozen Desserts Division at J&J Snack Foods. “We spoke with multiple suppliers to find X-rays that offered impressive sensitivity, ease of use and reliability at an affordable price, all while fitting our workload and flow. Mettler Toledo was the best fit.”