Cooling tunnel for confectionery extrusion
Optimize your production line with a versatile cooling tunnel capable of efficiently lowering the temperature of extruded products, ensuring seamless integration into continuous processes and maintaining product quality for subsequent cutting and packaging steps.
Cools and Conditions Extruded Products Efficiently
Extrufood’s multi-tier cooling tunnels are pivotal for manufacturers in the confectionery, pet food, and plastics industries seeking efficient cooling solutions for extruded products. These tailor-made tunnels accommodate continuous production by cooling and conditioning products like soft caramels, gummy bears, dense plastic sheets, and extruded pet food, readying them for seamless cutting and packing.
The tunnels feature a retractable infeed belt, allowing for easy transition between single and multi-tier configurations, perfectly adapting to various product formats, especially those with high filling ratios. This flexibility minimizes production line disruptions and optimizes throughput.
Engineered for customization, Extrufood cooling tunnels can be customized to your specific requirements, ensuring integration into your existing processes. Through optimized air flow design, they reduce energy consumption during the cooling phase. Available in robust materials accommodating a wide range of operating conditions, they are a reliable choice for both food-grade and industrial applications.
Maintenance is straightforward with easy access points, while automation options like PLC controls and remote monitoring ensure precise operation and timely adjustments. Trust in Extrufood’s expertise to deliver a dependable solution that enhances your production efficiency and product quality.
Benefits
- Enhances production efficiency with customizable multi-tier and single-tier operations.
- Minimizes energy consumption through optimized cooling process design.
- Ensures product quality with precise cooling and conditioning for various extruded products.
- Adapts seamlessly to high filling ratio products without major line modifications.
- Facilitates easy integration with existing production lines, boosting overall productivity.
- Applications
- Snacks,Confectionery,Sweets,Plastics,Pet snacks
- End products
- Gummy bears,Soft caramels,Air-popped snacks,Jelly candies,Marshmallows,Coated confectionery,Dense plastic sheets,Chewy candy,Chocolate bars,Extruded pet food,Dog treats,Cat treats,Plastic films,Protein bars
- Steps before
- Extrusion,Forming
- Steps after
- Cutting,Packing
- Input ingredients
- extruded product,high filling ratio products,30/70 filling products
- Output ingredients
- conditioned products,room temperature products
- Market info
- Extrufood is known for manufacturing custom-engineered food extrusion equipment, particularly in the confectionery sector. They excel in designing machinery tailored to specific client needs, emphasizing innovation, quality, and efficiency in the production process.
- Cooling tunnel type
- Single / Multi-tier
- Product filling ratio
- 30% outside / 70% filling
- Adaptability
- Retractable infeed belt
- Customization
- Tailor-made to specifications
- Cooling process
- Continuous
- Working mechanism
- Single and multi-deck cooling
- Automation level
- Integrated continuous production
- Integrated steps
- Cooling and conditioning to room temperature
- Batch vs. continuous operation
- Inline Continuous
- Changeover time
- Adjustable infeed belt
- Cooling method
- Air-cooled
- Biological compatibility
- Food-grade materials
- Cleanability
- CIP capability
- Corrosive resistance (e.g. acids)
- Stainless steel construction
- Abrasion resistance
- Durable conveyor materials
- Cooling tunnel type
- Single tier / Multi-tier
- Infeed belt type
- Retractable / Adjustable
- Cooling tunnel size
- Custom / Tailor-made
- Product filling ratio handling
- 30/70 (outside/filling)
- Footprint
- Compact
- Customization level
- Customer specifications
- Configuration flexibility
- Adjustable line setup
- Cooling tunnel configuration
- Single-tier / Multi-tier
- Infeed belt adjustability
- Retractable / Adjustable height
- Line setup flexibility
- High filling ratio adaptability
- Customization level
- Tailor-made to specifications