Food extruders for pet food production
In the production of diverse food and pet food items, ensuring a consistent texture and quality throughout the process can be a challenge. Precise control over ingredient mixing and cooking conditions is essential for achieving the desired product characteristics.
Enhance food and pet food extrusion processes
The ZSK Food Extruders by Coperion are designed for the efficient extrusion of various food and pet food products. The extruders feature a series of co-rotating, closely intermeshing screws that eliminate stagnant zones, thereby ensuring a consistently high conveying efficiency and self-cleaning capability. Their modular design allows for configurations tailored to specific applications, leveraging a combination of free screw volume, screw speed, and torque. The extruders come in a range of sizes, suitable for laboratory to full-scale production. The ZSK Mv PLUS series offers speeds up to 1800 rpm with a specific torque of 11.3 Nm/cm3, making it suitable for high throughput and diverse formulations. Typical applications include pet food, cereals, snacks, and texturized proteins. The stainless steel, open-frame design promotes hygiene and easy cleaning, minimizing downtime.
Benefits
- Hygienic design with easy cleaning minimizes downtime
- High operational reliability and durability
- Low thermal stress on raw materials for quality retention
- Scalable from lab to production scale
- Flexible configurations for various applications