Automated system for hanging, tying, and packaging sausages
In the sausage production industry, maintaining high efficiency while ensuring precise and safe suspension of sausages is a challenge. This is especially true when dealing with different casing types, calibers, and string lengths.

Automate hanging, tying, and packaging processes
The TTStick Automated Hang, Tie, and Packaging System by JBT provides an advanced solution for these challenges. This system employs innovative automated suspension technology, integrating highly intuitive user controls to efficiently produce sausage portions or strings. With the TIPPER TIE automated double clippers, the TTStick system suspends sausages of various casing types, calibers, and string lengths safely and precisely. The design minimizes downtime and reduces labor and maintenance costs. The system can handle calibers from 20 mm to 120 mm, and string lengths up to 800 mm, making it suitable for dry, smoked, vegan sausages, and raw/frozen/refrigerated pet food. The SwiStickXXL variant accommodates even larger sausages with string lengths up to 1,700 mm. With a capacity to produce up to 100 loops per minute and powered by maintenance-free servo motors, the system features an advanced PLC control system operated by a user-friendly touch screen. This maximizes convenience, hygiene, safety, and efficiency, and promotes virtually uninterrupted production. Made of stainless steel with smooth surfaces, the system is easy to clean and maintain. An integrated safety control system puts it in standby mode during machine errors, ensuring safety during operation.
Benefits
- Minimizes downtime with continuous operation
- Reduces labor costs with single-operator design
- Handles a wide range of sausage types and sizes
- User-friendly touch screen controls for easy operation
- High-capacity production up to 100 loops per minute