Ice cream transfer and dipping solution
For ice cream manufacturers looking to maximize production efficiency, this solution offers rapid, precise dipping and transfer capabilities to handle diverse product lines, from chocolate-dipped bars to mini bites, ensuring consistent quality and reduced waste in high-speed operations.
Transfers and Dips Ice Cream Products
The Tetra Pak® Dip and Transfer Unit 1800 M2 is a versatile equipment designed to enhance your ice cream production line. Ideal for ice cream manufacturers and food processing companies, this unit seamlessly integrates with the Tetra Pak® Extrusion Tunnel M3. It excels in transferring and dipping products like ice cream sticks, sandwiches, slices, candy bars, and cones, handling up to 24,000 products per hour.
This equipment features a unique gripper head system with overlapping profiles, ensuring minimal product waste and precise handling, even when positioning is slightly off. The chocolate tank with a controlled dipping system ensures consistent coating with minimal giveaway, enhancing cost efficiency. The unit’s adaptable design allows for future expansion with additional modules and supports a wide range of product types, including mini-bites and multipacks, thanks to the dual-section coating tank.
Automation is achieved through a PLC-controlled recipe handling system, promising accuracy and repeatability in dipping parameters. Maintenance is simplified with tool-free dismantling, reducing downtime and ensuring easy cleaning. Constructed with robust materials for durability in continuous operations, this unit also enhances food safety with a servo-driven, contact-free lay down system. Customization options and engineering support are available to meet specific operational needs.
Benefits
- Maximizes production efficiency with a capacity of up to 24,000 products per hour.
- Minimizes product waste through precise overlapping gripper technology.
- Ensures cost-effective coating application with controlled dipping and minimal giveaway.
- Facilitates rapid product changeovers, reducing downtime to just one minute.
- Enhances food safety with a hands-free, servo-driven lay down system.
- Applications
- Wafer cups,Ice cream sticks,Ice cream slices,Ball top cones,Candy bars,Bite-sized treats,Ice cream sandwiches
- End products
- Chocolate-dipped ice cream bars,Mini ice cream bites with almond slivers,Strawberry ice cream slices with nut topping,Vanilla ice cream sandwiches with chocolate coating,Vanilla wafer cups with sprinkle topping,Ball top waffle cones with chocolate drizzle,Chocolate-coated nougat candy bars
- Steps before
- Extrusion,Product Forming,Tray Loading
- Steps after
- Wrapping,Cold Storage,Packing
- Input ingredients
- ice cream base,chocolate coating,dry ingredients (e.g. rice puffs,nuts,almond splits)
- Output ingredients
- ice cream sticks,damwiches,slices,candy bars,bite sizes,ball top cones,wafer cups
- Market info
- Tetra Pak is renowned for providing innovative packaging solutions, specializing in carton packaging for the food and beverage industry. It is esteemed for high-quality, sustainable, and efficient processing and packaging equipment on a global scale.
- Capacity
- Up to 24,000 products/hour
- Product Types
- Ice cream sticks,sandwiches,slices,candy bars,bites,cones,wafer cups
- Automation
- Recipe handling system
- Gripper Head Cradle
- Ingenious design for fast changeovers
- Chocolate Tank
- Coating precision with controlled temperature
- Energy Efficiency
- Servo-driven system
- Changeover Time
- Approx. 1 minute
- Dipping Control System
- Automated dipping speed,time,and level
- Modular Design
- Easily add extra modules
- Changeover time
- 1 minute with two operators
- Automation level
- PLC-controlled
- Cleaning method
- Tool-free dismantling,CIP
- Batch vs. continuous operation
- Continuous
- Density/particle size
- 0.5–2.5 g/cm³ / 50–1000 µm
- Suitable for
- Tetra Pak Extrusion Tunnel M3 models
- Machine footprint
- Compact
- Discharge method
- Lay down system
- Control panel type
- PLC-controlled
- Tank shape
- Chocolate tank with sloped bottom
- Control panel type
- HMI/PLC
- Integration possibilities
- Compatible with Tetra Pak® Extrusion Tunnel M3 models
- Module addition
- Easy to add extra modules for future needs
- Design
- Highly compact and robust
- Gripper head system
- Ingenious gripper head cradle,fast connection air fittings
- Dipping divisions
- Split coating tank with separate pumps
- Dip-cup design
- Uniform dry ingredients distribution,no build-up
- Dipping control system
- Automated with recipe handling system
- Tool-free dismantling
- Pumps and dip cup