Pasta cutter for short pasta production
In short pasta production facilities, quick and precise format changes are essential to maintaining high efficiency and product quality. Challenges such as maintaining proper ventilation, avoiding product defects, and ensuring easy cleaning can arise during operations, potentially impacting overall output.

Facilitates and speeds up format changes
The Pennaut, developed by GEA, is a pasta cutter designed specifically for short pasta production plants. The Pennaut simplifies and accelerates format changes with its innovative design and high precision engineering. Its stainless steel structure ensures durability and ease of maintenance. Equipped with wheels, it is easily transportable. Its lifting head allows for precise raising and lowering of the cutting mask, preventing defects in the finished product. The oil hydraulic control unit facilitates smooth operations. The high precision chrome-plated steel flow guides ensure perfect centering between the cutting mask and the line head. The cutting and ventilation mask maximizes efficiency in terms of ventilation and product flow. The system’s innovative knives and disks enable rapid application and removal of various dies or cutting disks for different pasta shapes, such as penne and macaroni.
Benefits
- Quick and precise format changes
- Easy cleaning and maintenance
- Prevent defects in finished product
- Durable stainless steel construction
- Efficient ventilation and product flow