Industrial spiral cooler for thermal treatment
Improve your final conditioning and packaging process with a spiral cooler designed to efficiently adjust product temperatures, ensuring optimal freshness and quality for foods like pasta, snacks, and cereals before they reach the packaging stage.

Cools and Conveys Food Products
The Spiral Cooler from GEA Group is engineered to enhance the cooling and conveying stages for food processing operations. Distinguished by its spiral configuration and robust stainless-steel structure, it ensures efficient air cooling through a ventilation system utilizing freon/glycol-water and inverter-controlled ventilators. Ideal for producing spaghetti, potato chips, cornflakes, tortellini, and granola bars, it supports a range of food processing applications. The machine features 3 to 6 belts with widths of 1500-2000 mm, cooling lengths of 4-12 meters, and operates continuously with full automation. Its design optimizes airflow, maintaining uniform temperatures and preventing product stagnation, while openable lateral panels and rinsing ramps facilitate easy and efficient cleaning. Customizable belt configurations allow for reduced spiral footprints, supporting seamless integration into existing production lines.
Benefits
- Enhances productivity with rapid cooling to optimal packaging temperatures.
- Streamlines integration with existing lines via customizable belt configurations.
- Minimizes cleaning time and effort with easily accessible design and rinsing ramps.
- Maintains product quality with uniform temperature control across the entire spiral length.
- Reduces operating costs with efficient inverter-controlled ventilation systems.
- Applications
- Snacks, Pasta, Food processing, Fresh pasta, Breakfast cereals
- End products
- Spaghetti, Cornflakes, Tortellini, Granola bars, Potato chips
- Steps before
- Fresh pasta processing, Cooking, Blanching
- Steps after
- Packaging, Labeling, Storage
- Input ingredients
- fresh pasta, snacks, breakfast cereals
- Output ingredients
- cooled pasta, packaged snacks, temperature-ready cereals
- 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.
- Number of belts
- 3-6
- Belt width
- 1500-2000 mm
- Cooling chamber length
- 4-12 m
- Ventilation system
- Freon/glycolyzed water
- Air cooling control
- Inverter-controlled
- Structure material
- Stainless steel
- Cooling footprint
- Reduced curve belts
- Cooling method
- Freon/Glycolyzed water
- Ventilation control
- Inverter-controlled ventilators
- Accessibility for cleaning
- Stainless-steel structure, rinsing ramps, openable panels
- Airflow optimization
- Equal temperature throughout spiral
- Cooling footprint flexibility
- Reduced curve belts available
- Cleanability
- Stainless steel structure, rinsing ramps
- Corrosive resistance (e.g. acids)
- Stainless steel
- Machine footprint
- Compact
- Belt width
- 1500-2000 mm
- Cooling chamber length
- 4-12 m
- Number of belts
- 3-6
- Discharge method
- Conveying belts
- Structure material
- Stainless steel
- Spiral footprint
- Reduced curve option
- Structure material
- Stainless steel
- Ventilation system configuration
- Modular, with inverter control
- Accessibility features
- Openable lateral panels
- Cooling medium
- Freon/glycolyzed water