Bag, box, and drum container handling solutions for powder products
Optimize the flow and integrity of your powder packaging line with advanced container handling solutions, ensuring precise control from filling to palletizing while maintaining product quality across diverse applications.
Handles, Palletizes, and Tests Powdered Products
The container handling and palletizing equipment by GEA offers an integrated solution for diverse industries such as food, beverage, pharmaceuticals, and chemicals. Specifically designed for semiautomatic and low-production capacity operations, it streamlines the handling of powdered products like infant formula or coffee creamer. Utilizing equipment groups such as Bag Turners and Conveyors, this system ensures smooth and precise handling, from the initial sampling to the final testing stages.
Connected via a distributed control system, the equipment integrates seamlessly with existing production lines, allowing for efficient monitoring and remote control via SCADA. Capable of customizing operations to fit specific packing facilities, it ensures consistent product quality and integrity. With focus on energy efficiency and ease of maintenance, GEA’s equipment supports continuous operation, providing a robust solution for handling delicate powdered products while maintaining compliance with industry standards.
Benefits
- Preserves product quality by providing gentle handling for sensitive powdered products during processing.
- Enhances operational efficiency with seamless integration and distributed control, enabling precise monitoring and adjustments.
- Minimizes production downtime with a design optimized for easy maintenance and cleaning procedures.
- Supports versatile production needs with customizable configurations tailored to existing facilities.
- Ensures compliance with industry standards across food, beverage, pharmaceutical, and chemical applications.
- Applications
- Chemicals,Ingredients,Beverage,Food powders,Powdered products,Dairy,Pharmaceuticals
- End products
- Powdered milk,Spice blends,Instant beverage mixes,Coffee creamer,Pharmaceutical tablets,Infant formula,Baking powders,Protein powder,Chemical catalysts,Food preservatives,Dietary supplements
- Steps before
- Filling,Weighing
- Steps after
- Quality Checks,Palletizing,Transferring to Finished Product Store
- Input ingredients
- flexible containers,rigid containers,powdered products,filled bags
- Output ingredients
- palletized products,finished product store,checked containers
- 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.
- Automation
- SCADA connectivity
- Capacity
- Up to 100 bags/hr
- Bag turning
- Vertical to horizontal adjustment
- Bag orientation
- 90° rotation using bag kicker
- Bag flattening
- Powered rollers
- Control system
- Line control MCC
- Monitoring
- Local and remote SCADA
- Integration
- Seamless with GEA filling systems
- Automation level
- Manual / PLC / SCADA
- Batch vs. continuous operation
- Batch / Inline Continuous
- Cleaning method
- CIP / Manual
- Density/particle size
- 0.5–2.5 g/cm³ / 50–1000 µm
- Container type
- Flexible bags / Rigid containers
- Discharge method
- Conveyors
- Bag type
- Flexible bags,FIBC's,or rigid containers
- Drum size
- 10–300 L
- Control panel type
- Integrated with MCC,SCADA connectivity
- Integration possibilities
- Compatible with check-weighing and bag coding equipment
- Discharge method
- Conveyor systems for flexible bags and rigid containers
- Automation level
- Manual / PLC / SCADA
- Batch vs. continuous operation
- Batch / Inline Continuous