Accumulation conveyor for snacking industry
Optimize your production line with a space-saving accumulation conveyor that reduces product breakage and maintenance needs, ensuring your goods, from delicate snacks to frozen foods, move seamlessly between processing and packaging.
Facilitates Smooth Accumulation and Gentle Conveying
The FastBack SwitchBack Accumulation Conveyor, a standout offering from Heat and Control, is engineered to streamline processing lines for manufacturers in food and related industries. Its innovative design features the patented FastBack modular belt drive, eliminating the need for gates or pneumatics, thus reducing maintenance requirements and enhancing reliability. Ideal for conveying delicate products like potato chips, tortilla chips, and frozen poultry, the conveyor’s gentle horizontal motion and sloped pan configurations minimize product breakage and eliminate abrupt handling. With a capacity tailored for high-speed operations, this system integrates seamlessly into existing production setups, ensuring continuous, trouble-free accumulation. Its efficient energy use minimizes operational costs, and the robust construction withstands both wet and dry environments. Available in stainless steel, it supports CIP (Clean-In-Place) capabilities for reduced cleaning downtime, maintaining hygiene standards critical for food safety.
Benefits
- Streamlines production flow by eliminating bottlenecks.
- Minimizes product damage with gentle horizontal motion.
- Reduces cleaning downtime with non-stick surfaces.
- Lowers maintenance costs with few moving parts.
- Adapts to wet and dry environments, enhancing operational versatility.
- Applications
- Salad,Snacks,Fruit snacks,Potato chips,Legume snacks,Meat products,Seafood,Frozen meats,Delicate snacks,Extruded snacks,Pasta,Pellet snacks,Pet food,Banana chips,Tortilla chips,Nuts,Corn chips,Cereal,Plantain chips,Potato co-products,Vegetables,Poultry,Cannabis products,Prepared foods,French fries,Fruit
- End products
- Frozen beef patties,Apple chips,Spaghetti,Pork rinds,Corn snacks,Dry kibble,Frozen chicken nuggets,Fresh salad kits,Blended fruit snacks,Granola bars,Dried flower,Lentil snacks,Dried banana chips,Chicken pot pie,Cornflakes,Sliced fruits,Cheese puffs,Salted peanuts,Crinkle cut fries,Edibles,Nacho chips,Delicate pastries,Straight cut fries
- Steps before
- Processing,Frying,Cutting,Seasoning
- Steps after
- Packaging,Inspection,Weighing
- Input ingredients
- potato chips,tortilla chips,delicate snack foods,frozen meats,poultry
- Output ingredients
- accumulated products,intact snacks,intact frozen meats,intact poultry
- Market info
- Heat and Control is known for its expertise in manufacturing food processing and packaging equipment, providing innovative solutions and high-quality systems for industries like snacks, prepared foods, and pharmaceuticals, with a strong reputation for reliability and technical support.
- Speed
- Not specified
- Capacity
- Not specified
- Size
- Compact
- Automation
- No gates or pneumatics
- Material Handling
- Gentle horizontal motion
- Maintenance Requirements
- No preventative maintenance required
- Slope Configuration
- Sloped pan configurations
- Environment Suitability
- Wet and dry environments
- Working mechanism
- Horizontal motion with sloped pan configurations
- Automation level
- manual / PLC
- CIP/SIP
- not required due to no coatings build-up
- Batch vs. continuous operation
- Continuous
- Changeover time
- minimal due to few moving parts
- Density/particle size
- 0.5–2.5 g/cm³ / 50–1000 µm
- Product delicacy
- Delicate snack foods,Frozen meats,Poultry
- Cleanability
- Eliminates seasonings and product coating build-up
- Compact footprint
- Compact design
- Control panel type
- Not specified
- Control panel type
- World’s simplest drive
- Discharge method
- Gentle horizontal motion and sloped pan