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Weighing and Labeling
At Nordic
Cheese Dairies
Bent Nygaard Elektronik A/S was founded
by Bent Nygaard and celebrates its 30th
anniversary this year.
By Bent Nygaard, CEO, Bent Nygaard Elektronik A/S
Years of collaboration
The company has been supplying weighing machines to
the food industry since 1980. Much of this equipment has
been supplied to Danish cheese dairies.
Collaboration with Danish dairies has been very important
to the business, as the dairy trade’s many customer
requirements have helped to shape and develop our product
range into what it is today.
The first computer-based systems for weighing cheese
were delivered to Skødstrup and Nr. Vium dairies, where
the new technology brought major savings by means of
automatically generated weighing lists, printouts of selfadhesive
weighing labels, computer monitors with orderhandling
programs, etc.
Although the systems from those days are now pure
nostalgia, and hopelessly out of date today, back then
they were the start of many years of collaboration with the
dairy trade.
Many deliveries followed on in the intervening years.
Many production sites have been closed down and some
have become very large.
The weighing systems that used to be so simple have
now been replaced by large, complex, turnkey solutions,
several with extensive IT superstructures, which are becoming
an increasingly dominant aspect.
Complete weighing lines
The company produces its own dispensing label printers,
label dispensers, check-weighers, weighing lines for
weighing and weight labeling, weighing terminals, interface
units, etc.
All products are specially manufactured for use in the
food industry, corrosion resistant and with high capacity.
Particularly notable is our latest generation of dispensing
label printers, which is the only Danish-produced label
printer on the market capable of handling up to 70 labels
per minute with variable information and a resolution of
300 DPI.
The complete weighing lines are usually custom built to
suit an array of customer requirements. Weight labels on
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the top, side, base, the end of the pack, around the base
and end of the pack, and furthermore application of various
additional labels, etc.
The photograph shows an example of a weighing line
designed for weighing packaged cheese.
IT superstructure
The products always have an IT superstructure aspect of
varying degrees of complexity. At the very least, all incorporate
graphic label design and an order-handling program.
All systems have IP connection to central PCs or are
supplied with local weighing terminals.
All requests for data exchange, databases, etc., are accommodated
using local SQL databases.
Dairy and food industry
The company sells its production to all branches of the
food industry. The fishing industry is particularly noteworthy,
where our products are often used for labeling finished
products in onshore factories as well as on trawlers.
Some products are sold to Danish companies which incorporate
our products into their own turnkey solutions
for worldwide export.
We have machines in installations from the far north of
Norway to South Africa, from the Ukraine in the east to
Belize in the west. ■
• Check Weighing
• E-Weighing
• Price Labeling
Flexiblity at
your Service!
Svend Andersen
Dairy Manager
Bent Nygaard Elektronik A/S
www.BNYelektronik.dk
Haremarksvej 12 • 8723 Løsning • Denmark
Phone +45 7579 0400 • Fax +45 7565 0187
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