New Processing Equipment: March 2021
Snack food and wholesale bakery companies looking for new or upgraded belts, conveyors, and associated equipment are looking for options that are more compact, offer easier cleanability, permit greater automation, have faster delivery time, the welcome the ability to handle gluten-free and other specialized products, among other qualities.
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Company: Dorner
Website: www.dornerconveyors.com
Dorner has refreshed its product line with the Aquagard conveyor system, which is ideally suited for snack foods and bakery items
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Company: Ashworth Bros., Inc.
Website: www.ashworth.com
Ashworth, Winchester, VA, has rolled out the SmartSpiral, an app for tablets and phones that allows a plant manager, or even an off-site corporate executive, to have access to the heartbeat status of the equipment. The system can pull from multiple pieces of equipment and multiple locations over time.
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Company: SideDrive Conveyor Co.
Website: www.sidedriveconveyor.com
SideDrive Conveyor Co., Souderton, PA, which spun off from NCC Automated Systems in January, provides sanitary spiral and long-run transfer-less conveyors that can accommodate as many drives as necessary, creating layouts that wouldn’t otherwise be possible because belts would break with only one drive.
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Company: Intralox
Website: www.intralox.com
Intralox offers a newly designed side-drive technology allowing for greater layout flexibility and easier maintenance. The design enables unique configurations and eliminates transfers between equipment, all while being fully washdown capable.
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Company: Key Technology
Website: https://www.key.net/en/
Key Technology has introduced the Zephyr, a horizontal motion conveyor that reportedly handles product more gently to preserve quality.
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Company: Flexco
Website: www.flexco.com
Flexco has released the FGS food-grade secondary belt cleaner, which attaches itself to a conveying system and helps to remove residual carryback product that’s stuck to the belt.
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Company: Dynamic Conveyor
Website: www.dynamicconveyor.com
Dynamic Conveyor continues to refine its DynaClean conveyor line, which includes a modular or flat conveyor that can be shortened or lengthened as needed. The company offers a mixing table conveyor that automatically and homogenously blends together raisins, sesame seeds, M&Ms, and other inclusions.
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Company: IPCO
Website: https://ipco.com/
IPCO, Totowa, NJ, has released the Compact Belt Tracker, which works virtually with any belt edge detector system on belt widths from 600 to 3,000 millimeters to manage tracking, which it does by tilting the belt using a linear actuator.