Overfilling to stay compliant means “giveaway” and it can cost tens of thousands. Net Weight filling is the solution to reduce this cost.
Sample Case: The Cost of Product Giveaway
*Using assumptions of production & cost
Product & Cost: Whole Milk @ $1.00 per kg
Annual Operation: 300 days/year (6 days/week × 50 weeks)
Daily Production (before calculating Downtime):
- 64 fl oz Whole Milk (8 hours @ 12,000/hr) = 96,000 containers
Total Annual Production: 28.8 Million containers
Target weight: 1,950 grams per container
Based on this production volume, the only variable is the filler’s accuracy:
OTHER FILLER
(for 64 fl oz Whole Milk)
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3g
sigma (σ)
Annual Giveaway
$86,400
86.4 tonnes
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NET WEIGHT FILLER
(for 64 fl oz Whole Milk)
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1.5g
sigma (σ)
Annual Giveaway
$43,200
43.2 tonnes
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YOUR ANNUAL SAVINGS WITH NET WEIGHT FILLER
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DOLLARS SAVED
+$43,200
per year
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PRODUCT SAVED
43.2
tonnes per year
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50% REDUCED LOSSES
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A note on accuracy: Net Weight fillers typically achieve 0.10% accuracy (e.g., ±1g per 1,000g target). For larger format containers like this 64 fl oz example, accuracy can improve further — in this case to approximately 0.08% (±1.5g per 1,950g). Actual performance depends on your specific product recipe and viscosity.
This is an illustrative example. Actual savings vary based on your specific operation parameters.
