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Cat and Dog Food

Industry Background and Core Challenges

 

Pet owners have extremely high standards for the food safety and packaging quality of cat and dog food. Hard bone fragments, broken metal needles, or mold and green mildew caused by leaky packaging or missing desiccants in cat food can easily trigger negative public opinion in the social media age, causing devastating damage to pet food brands.

However, pet food packaging is extremely complex (high-barrier aluminum foil bags, tin cans, PET plastic bottles, plastic bags, tubes, metal pipes, etc.), and the materials themselves are diverse (dry food, wet food, freeze-dried food, canned food, meat puree, raw meat and bones, jerky, tablets, powders, pastes, etc.), causing serious interference from conventional testing equipment. HISTOM X-ray Inspection Machine provides customized intelligent sorting and testing based on product and packaging characteristics, building a comprehensive, closed-loop intelligent quality control matrix for you.

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  • Packaging Form 1
  • Packaging Form 2

Packaging Form 1: Stand-up pouch/back-seal pouch/M-shaped bag/pure aluminum foil cat treats

 

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Application scenarios: Mainstream 500g - 2.5kg bagged dry cat food, high-end baked food, and high-value freeze-dried meat double-bag production lines.

【Date printing missing or blurry】 When a high-speed inkjet printer is running, insufficient ink or printhead blockage may cause production dates to be missed, batch numbers to be blurry or overlapped.

 Weighing deviation in quantitative packaging: When the packaging machine is feeding material at high speed, due to material adhesion or unstable mechanical feeding, a single bag of cat food may be underweight.

【Malignant Non-metallic Foreign Objects】 Small bone fragments, broken glass, or metal shavings from the wear and tear of packaging machine blades can easily be mixed into pure meat raw materials.


Intelligent testing projects:

X-ray Inspection Machine- Foreign Object Detection: X-ray rays penetrate various bagged materials, and a special algorithm is used to automatically check whether each bag of product contains foreign objects such as metal, stones, and bones;

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Visual inspection machine-based inkjet printing inspection: A high-definition camera captures the inkjet printing area to identify inkjet printing defects such as duplicate codes, unclear codes, and missing codes.

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Packaging Form Two: Tinplate Staple Food Cans

 

Application scenario: High-end cat and dog staple food canned food (tinplate/aluminum can).

Key technical pain points “Metal shielding blind spot” and “meat trapping and juice leakage”

Wet food packaging itself is made of aluminum or tinplate, which causes traditional metal detectors to become completely ineffective due to their shielding effect.


Intelligent testing projects:

Side-illuminated X-ray inspection machine: HISTOM side-illuminated X-ray technology intelligently identifies and shields the metal material interference of the tin can itself, directly sees through the meat inside, and accurately identifies foreign objects such as animal bone fragments, fish bones, metal needles and glass shards.

 

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