Automatic loading system for sliced cheese packaging
Streamline your packaging operations with precise loading and continuous high-speed performance, ensuring seamless integration in your food processing line for enhanced efficiency and product safety.
Automates Loading and Packaging of Sliced Products
The GEA ShingleLoader 600 and 700 from GEA are precision-engineered systems for seamless integration into high-speed food processing lines. These loaders efficiently automate the transition from slicing to packaging, accommodating products like sliced cheddar cheese, prosciutto, and ready-to-eat lasagna. Featuring integrated buffer conveyors synchronized with thermoformer indices, they ensure uninterrupted packaging operations while compensating for slicer reload times. Offering high throughput rates of up to 15 cycles per minute, the loaders support flexible format changes through simple recipe adjustments. Their hygienic design facilitates effective wet cleaning, with quick-detach belts simplifying maintenance. Tailored buffer conveyor configurations and optional components such as lane diverters and twist correction units enable customization to meet specific production needs, making them a robust choice for food processors and packaging companies seeking enhanced efficiency and operational continuity.
Benefits
- Enhances production efficiency with continuous operation and synchronized buffer conveyors.
- Reduces cleaning downtime through a hygienic design and fast, tool-free belt removal.
- Offers flexibility with customizable configurations and recipe-based format changes.
- Supports high-volume operations with throughput rates up to 15 cycles per minute.
- Improves product safety with precise portion control and integrated detection systems.
- Applications
- Sliced cheese,Processed meats,Packaged food products,Ready-to-eat meals
- End products
- Sliced cheddar cheese,Packaged turkey breast slices,Ready-to-eat macaroni and cheese,Sliced emmental cheese,Prosciutto slices,Vacuum-packed deli meats,Shingled mozzarella slices,Pre-packaged ham slices,Ready-to-eat lasagna,Packaged salami slices
- Steps before
- Slicing,Portioning
- Steps after
- Packaging,Thermoforming
- Input ingredients
- sliced cheese,sliced portions,logs
- Output ingredients
- fully automatically loaded portions,packaged portions,aligned portions,overlapped portions
- Market info
- GEA is known for its expertise in engineering innovative and sustainable equipment and solutions, focusing on sectors such as food, beverages, pharmaceuticals, and energy, with a reputation for quality, efficiency, and advanced technological applications in industrial processing.
- Number of lanes
- GEA ShingleLoader 600
- GEA ShingleLoader 700
- Min. 1,max. 6
- Length of format
- GEA ShingleLoader 600
- GEA ShingleLoader 700
- Max. 750/1,200 mm
- Film width thermoformer
- GEA ShingleLoader 600
- GEA ShingleLoader 700
- Max. 700 mm
- Portion height
- Max. 50 mm
- Number of buffer belts
- GEA ShingleLoader 600
- GEA ShingleLoader 700
- 3 or 4
- Power supply (max.)
- 16 kW
- Compressed air
- 6 bar 40NI/min
- Noise emission
- 73.0 db (A)
- High throughput rate
- Up to 15 cycles/min. on the thermoformer
- Automation level
- Fully automatic
- Batch vs. continuous operation
- Continuous
- Cleaning method
- Wet cleaning / Manual
- Changeover time
- Via recipe change
- Machine footprint
- Customizable based on number and length of buffer belts
- Number of lanes
- Min. 1,max. 4 for 600 model
- Min. 1,max. 6 for 700 model
- Length of format
- Max. 800 mm for 600 model
- Max. 750/1,200 mm for 700 model
- Film width of thermoformer
- Max. 560 mm for 600 model
- Max. 700 mm for 700 model
- Portion height
- Max. 50 mm
- Number of buffer belts
- 2 or 3 for 600 model
- 3 or 4 for 700 model
- Control panel type
- Integrated GEA control and 15” display
- Machine footprint
- Customized by number and length of buffer belts
- Modular design
- Integrated buffer conveyors,optional addons like Twist Correction and Lane Diverter
- Portion configuration
- Customizable portion patterns
- Loading accuracy
- High,with optional Twist Correction