X-Ray Inspection Services
For the food industry
ABM Equipment provides comprehensive x-ray inspection services—contract inspection at our facility, on-site inspection at yours, and service for x-ray equipment you already own. With photon-counting units available, we can inspect the highest range of products with the highest accuracy of any available solution. We will help you find any physical contaminant in any product in any packaging—the greater the density difference, the smaller the material we can find.
Thorough
We can find most physical contaminants in most packaging types.
Fast
30 machines in stock, 24/7 emergency service, and responsive technicians.
Documented
Our reporting software provides analytics and proof of inspection.
Inspect Product At Our Facility
3rd Party Inspection Services
If you don't have the resources to inspect your product and it's cheaper to ship product than rent a machine, send your product to us! Our technicians have inspected hundreds of product types and can tune x-ray algorithms to your application more precisely than any other group. And with photon-counting units in the fleet, they have the best hardware and software available to work with. But if you have several tons to inspect, it may be more economical to rent a machine ⬇.
Inspect Product at Your Facility
X-Ray Rentals
If your volume of product is too expensive to ship or you need a temporary machine while you wait for another, we can rent you one. With a fleet of ~20 machines, we're able to supply a high-performing solution for most products without added time pressures. After installing it, our technician can perform the inspection themselves, leave it entirely to your staff, or stick around to work with them.
Depending on location and urgency, machines and technicians can arrive within days.
X-Ray Machine Service
We service your x-ray equipment
If you need service for your existing x-ray machines, ABM Equipment services all makes and models. We provide validation/verification, radiation surveys, and RAD packages—including training—for all machines. We provide calibrations for most, and we offer repairs and modifications for the aspects we can access, as detailed in the linked page. Our expert technicians are trained supervised by the industry’s most experienced technician who has bee servicing x-ray machines since they were introduced to the industry.
Years In Business
Machines Available
Happy Customers
Top Producers Use ABM
% of Inspected Product is Cleared
% of Inspected Goods Recalled
Contaminant Types
We can find anything you're looking for as long as its density differs sufficiently from the product:
- Metal (Ferrous + Non-Ferrous)
- Stainless
- Carbon Steel
- Aluminum
- Tin
- Copper
- Glass
- Plastic
- Rubber
- Bone
- Air Pockets/Voids
- Packaging
Packaging Types
We can inspect product in any packaging type, the most common being:
- Plastic
- Cans, Tin, Aluminum
- Foil & Mylar
- Glass
- Cardboard
- Paper
Product Types
Specializing in food, we can inspect nearly any type of product, the most common of which being:
- Bread & Baked Goods
- Bagged Grains
- Canned Goods
- Sugar
- Salt
- Flour
- Vegetables
- Fruit Medleys
- Soup
- Ready Meals
- Sausages
- Red Meat
- Poultry
- Pet Food
- Frozen Foods
- Fish & Other Seafood
- Cheese & Other Dairy
- Oils
- Legumes, Beans
- Dried Fruits
- Salads & Leafy Greens
- Spices
- Pasta & Noodles
- Pizza
- Cereal
- Pharmaceuticals & Neutraceuticals
- Tortillas & Wraps
- Baby Food
- Infant Formula
- Bulk Products
- Beverages
- Candy & Other Confectionary
Avoid a Recall
Whether you know product is contaminated or only suspect it might be, letting us inspect it will greatly reduce the risk of a recall.
Recover From A Recall
Potentially contaminated batches often take up space in quarantine until they spoil. Loss of production time, product, and space take their toll on your bottom line, especially if it’s made it to final packaging. By using x-ray, you can confidently and non-destructively clear product for sale.
Recover Compromised Product
Potentially contaminated batches often take up space in quarantine until they spoil. Loss of production time, product, and space take their toll on your bottom line, especially if it’s made it to final packaging. By using x-ray, you can confidently and non-destructively clear product for sale.
For bulk product, our software can also show operators the contaminant's location within the product. This allows them to quickly remove it and put good product back into the line.
F.A.Q.
How can you say you're the best?
As one of the first representatives of Heimann when they first brought x-ray to the industry, it is likely that we are more experienced than any other group—and yes, some of our staff has been with us since then. Secondly, we use Eagle's new photon-counting technology, which has yet to be beaten, especially for complicated (messy) images. Don't believe us? Send your product to us and any competitor to see for yourself.
Why X-ray?
X-ray inspection finds more than just metal. It’s incredibly safe and can find multiple contaminants as well as perform other quality checks such as package integrity, weight, and item count if needed. X-ray also performs better than metal detector in most applications and is not thrown off by frozen or thawing foods.
What's the turnaround time?
As soon as the product parameters are set-up on the x-ray machine, inspection can begin. We have enough staff on-hand to handle large jobs quickly, and they can be supplemented with your own on-site to speed things up even more!
How do we know you actually found the contaminant(s)?
Not only do we have some of the current-best equipment on the market, we also have the best software. A detailed report of the inspection including all data and analytics, as well as x-ray inspection images if desired.
Which X-Ray Systems Do You Use?
We use Eagle PI's systems, and we are their principal distributor. And this is not by chance. Originally called Smiths Detection, Eagle was the first well-known company to develop x-ray for food, they were the first to use x-ray for metrics like product weight, fat analysis, and item count, and the first to use multi-layer imaging to distinguish contaminants in "messy" images (called MDX). And now, again in partnership with ABM, Eagle was the first to develop the PXT solution, which is currently the highest-performing on the market. Other manufacturers have begun to follow suit but have not yet solidified the methodology. If you do not require such high precision or it makes sense to have a machine shipped from further south or east, we can also provide Sesotec and Mettler Toledo/Safeline.