Rice & Beans

Fast, Accurate Fills for Rice and Beans

Fill rice and beans into a variety of packages with accuracy at high speeds with Spee-Dee’s volumetric fillers and checkweighers. Our machines easily integrate with other equipment to help increase the speed and reliability of your packaging line.

Our filling equipment can accommodate a wide variety of rice and bean packaging, including:

  • Glass and plastic jars
  • Flexible, stand-up pouches
  • Pillow bags
  • Cardboard cartons

We offer rice and bean filling machines that easily integrate with:

  • Vertical form fill and seal baggers (VFFS)
  • Horizontal form fill and seal pouch machines (HFFS)
  • Pre-made pouch machines
  • Single or multi-lane cup lines
  • Spee-Dee in-line conveyor systems

Spee-Dee’s filling machines help optimize your operations with faster production rates and minimal changeover. Our filling and weighing machines include volumetric fillers and checkweighers for reliable, accurate fills.

Spee-dee Rice and Beans
Spee-dee-Volumetric Cup Filler

Cup Fillers Offer Accurate, Dependable Fills

Spee-Dee volumetric cup fillers are designed for fast cup size changeovers to optimize productivity, and can also accommodate bags, pouches or rigid containers.

  • Accurately fill containers up to 20 pounds
  • Achieve speeds up to 120 containers per minute
  • Simple servo drive system and minimal number of parts reduces changeover time and maintenance
  • Address diverse product fill needs with cups of varying sizes that can be easily inserted without tools
  • PLC controls offer flexibility to adjust timing settings and accommodate multiple drop fills

Conveyor Systems Automate Cup Filling Lines

Spee-Dee’s efficient conveyor systems fill products, including rice and beans, into a variety of rigid containers, including glass and plastic jars.

  • Freestanding fillers reduce downtime and ensure fast product changeover with adjustable height stands for different container heights and diameters
  • Achieve easier cleaning and maintenance with removable belt and rails that remove without tools
  • An adjustable speed drive offers the ultimate flexibility and timing controls are readily accessible
  • Integrates with Spee-Dee’s volumetric cup fillers and auger fillers
Spee-dee-Automatic Cup Filler
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High-Speed, PLC-Based Checkweighers for Accurate Fills

Spee-Dee’s PLC-based checkweighers check product weights at high speeds, helping to reduce costly product loss and ensure accurate product weights.

  • Use as a standalone unit or integrate with new or existing lines
  • Electro-Magnetic Force Restoration (EMFR) weighing technology is 10 times more accurate than traditional strain gauge models and guarantees precise and reliable measurement
  • Communicate with other plant systems via non-proprietary PLC-based controls
  • Calibrate at your facility in one minute, without needing a Spee-Dee technician–simply follow on-screen prompts

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