Over the years, we have delivered a lot of weighing technology to Froneri Finland Oy’s Turenki plant. The equipment had worked great, but as the scale electronics were aging and, for example, spare parts availability was declining, it was time for new weighing terminals.
The solution we offered proved to be very technically efficient and it was easy to choose us as a supplier. Decision-making was also facilitated by the fact that we know Froneri’s needs and have been involved for years in maintaining of their scales.
“The renewal of the scales became topical with a larger automation renewal project, and we wanted to start renewing the weighing terminals at the end of their life cycle as planned. Although the existing terminals had served very well, when the availability of spare parts deteriorated, it was the right time to start replacing them,”says Lasse Jaakkola, Automation Engineer at Froneri Finland Oy.
By modernizing the equipment, we also upgraded the interfaces up to date. “We had asked for other offers, but it was easy to choose Lahti Precision, because the previous equipment had served so well,” Jaakkola continues.
The customer also visited our reference site and ended up with a similar installation method. The equipment was installed alongside the old equipment during operation and commissioned in a short time during a normal maintenance outage. The new devices have been operating smoothly since commissioning.
Lahti Precision’s long experience in food industry processes and problem solving ensures that optimal solutions and equipment can be found for different destinations. Accuracy, repeatability and reliability, as well as hygienic cleanability of materials and equipment, are key issues when designing systems for the food industry.
The Froneri Group is the second largest ice cream manufacturer in Europe and the third largest in the world, operating in more than 20 countries around the world. There are two hundred employees in Finland. In Finland, operations are based on strong, more than 80 years of expertise in domestic ice cream production. Froneri will now continue to manufacture Finnish ice cream at the Turenki factory even stronger in the name of Froneri Finland Oy. The Turenki factory is one of the largest ice cream factories in the Nordic countries. For example, the familiar “Pingviini” ice cream is made in the Turenki factories.