Ishida Europe
Ishida Co Ltd was established in Kyoto, Japan in 1893.From its roots in weighing equipment, Ishida went onto build the world’s first automatic weighing machine in1959. Thirteen years later, the revolutionary multi head weigher was launched.
Since 1972, Ishida has grown steadily, expanding the product range vastly to offer not only weighing systems, but also packing machines, quality control systems and complete solutions for fresh, frozen and dry foods.
Ishida Europe was established in 1985 in Woodgate Birmingham with a total of 450 employees on site and Ishida Poole was purchased in 2002. Ishida Poole have been instrumental in Developing products for group utilising a highly skilled group of Engineers that are able to Design, manufacture, prototype and develop concepts.
The Poole Team have designed X-ray systems for Europe, Grading equipment for poultry worldwide, CO2leak detection equipment, Rotary filling systems for USA and a range of Tray sealing machines for global projects.
After pre-production machines are proven production is transferred to our Birmingham manufacturing facility.
By utilising a standalone highly skilled and innovative team to develop products, Ishida Europe have changed the business model from a Sales outlet for Japanese systems to expanding the group product portfolio and now exporting globally and back to our Japanese colleagues.