Automatic portion volumetric feeder for biscuits and crackers
Streamline your biscuit and cracker packaging process with efficient portioning and gentle handling technology, ensuring product integrity and consistent feed rates for various shapes and sizes.
Portions and Feeds Bakery Products for Wrapping
The APVF, offered by IMA Group, is a vertical electronic slug feeder designed specifically for bakery product handling, ensuring precise portioning and feeding. It excels in supporting demanding packaging lines by smoothly transporting round, square, and rectangular biscuits and crackers to the wrapping stage. This versatile feeder, featuring three independent brushless motors, accommodates semi and fully automated configurations. Operating at speeds up to 25 cycles per minute, it maintains gentle product handling, reducing the risk of breakage during transfer. The modular design allows scalability, adapting to various lane numbers from processing lines, and ensuring seamless digital integration with wrapping machines. Constructed to support high-speed continuous operations, the APVF is ideal for bakery manufacturers seeking to enhance throughput without compromising product integrity.
Benefits
- Enhances production efficiency by seamlessly integrating with existing wrapping processes.
- Decreases product damage with gentle handling, preserving product quality.
- Increases operational flexibility with configurable lane setups and automation levels.
- Boosts packaging speed with a capacity of up to 25 cycles per minute.
- Minimizes manual intervention, reducing labor costs through automated operations.
- Applications
- Bakery products,Biscuits,Crackers,Sandwich biscuits
- End products
- Salted crackers,Digestive biscuits,Round vienna biscuits,Buttery crackers,Rectangular water biscuits,Cream-filled sandwich cookies,Vanilla cream biscuits,Whole grain crackers,Chocolate-filled sandwich biscuits
- Steps before
- Biscuit Production,Baking,Cooling
- Steps after
- Wrapping,Packaging,Case Packing
- Input ingredients
- dry biscuits,sandwich biscuits,crackers,bakery products
- Output ingredients
- wrapped dry biscuits,wrapped sandwich biscuits,wrapped crackers,wrapped bakery products
- Market info
- IMA is known for its expertise in manufacturing automated packaging machines and solutions, particularly for the pharmaceutical, cosmetics, food, tea, and coffee industries, offering innovative, high-quality equipment and comprehensive customer service.
- Product handling
- Gentle
- Product shape compatibility
- Round,square,rectangular
- Automation level
- Semi and fully automated
- Speed
- Up to 25 cycles per minute
- Motor type
- Brushless
- Working mechanism
- Vertical electronic slug feeder
- Automation level
- Fully automated / Semi-automated
- Flexibility
- Flexible configurations
- Handling capability
- Round,square,rectangular products
- Cycle speed
- Up to 25 cycles per minute
- Brushless motors
- Three independent motors
- Integration level
- Real-time integration between loader and wrapper
- Density/particle size
- 0.5–2.5 g/cm³ / 50–1000 µm
- Product shape
- Round / Square / Rectangular
- Product type
- Dry / Sandwich biscuits / Crackers
- Automation level
- Semi / Fully automated
- Feed/discharge method
- Vertical electronic slug feeder
- Product handling capability
- Round,square,and rectangular shaped products
- Speed
- Up to 25 cycles per minute
- Motor type
- Brushless motors
- Modularity
- Modular conception for different applications
- Control panel type
- Digital HMI
- Integration possibilities
- Modular design with real-time connectivity
- Motor type
- Brushless motors
- Operational configuration
- Semi and fully automated configurations