As a brand-focused dog treat supplier with deep roots in Halifax, over the past 5 years Sniffers Pet Care have grown from a family business of three to over 50 employees. Having sourced, imported and pioneered Buffalo products on the UK natural dog-treat market in 2017, what started as a strategic gamble has proliferated into NAW, Sniffer’s multi-protein flagship brand.

With some huge upcoming retail partnerships to be announced, and ambitions to maintain high customer satisfaction and double-digit annual growth, Sniffers approached Yamato to help deliver vital automation upgrades in production.

Whilst natural treats are an easy choice in terms of feeding your dog, they present a challenge when it comes to efficient weighing and bagging. Unprocessed dried offal naturally varies in size, shape, and weight, and we needed one machine that was adaptable enough to keep up across our entire product range.

Yamato Scale Dataweigh in Leeds recommended their TSD-N3 scale, alongside a bespoke packaging solution built by engineering partners TE solution, as a suitable and cost-effective means to upgrade production.

Through use of the Yamato Scale Dataweigh and TE solution bespoke bagging unit, our output across all product lines has increased, our production costs have decreased, and we’ve been able to redistribute staff from the production line into other vital areas of the business.

Yamato Scale Dataweigh has continued to work alongside us post-installation to train staff, continually improve mechanical efficiencies and help us increase our overall productivity. As we look to the future, and other production areas where we can utilize automation, Yamato Scale Dataweigh will be our partner of choice.

Would you recommend Yamato Scale Dataweigh and why?

As a fast-growing business, Yamato Scale Dataweigh have been invaluable in helping guide us to the right machinery. Mark (Bentley) has been fantastic as our point of contact, always on hand to offer advice and support, and using his and Yamato’s partners has been able to provide us with weighing and filling capability that has drastically increased our throughput whilst minimizing give away. Machinery was tested on-site at Yamato Scale Dataweigh with our own product prior to committing to a purchase with videos sent to us for review, giving us confidence that the equipment was the right fit for us.

We’ve found Yamato Scale Dataweigh to be a huge support in beginning to automate our production line.

Yamato Scale specialises in the provision of technologically advanced weighing and checking equipment for the food processing industry. To find out how our solutions could help your plant, get in touch today.