Product manipulation and stacking systems

Efficiently transition products from flat to stacked on a conveyor while minimizing waste and ensuring consistent product flow, crucial for maintaining high-speed production lines in the food industry.

Transfers and Stacks Products Efficiently

The Product Manipulation and Stacking system from Royal Houdijk revolutionizes how you handle and process high-speed food production. This system seamlessly transfers, guides, stacks, and expands lanes for solid products such as cookies, biscuits, and croissants. It features a multi-stage process to maintain consistent spacing and flow, reducing waste and ensuring efficiency even at capacities exceeding 1,000 products per minute per lane.

Ideal for the food, bakery, and confectionery industries, this system is especially beneficial for snack and confectionery producers aiming to keep pace with smaller, high-demand packaging trends. Its integration capabilities are robust, allowing you to align row rates between ovens and loaders, minimizing overcharge risks. By employing an optional VISION SELECTOR, you can further protect downstream processes.

With its focus on continuous and high-speed operations, this system is designed for demanding environments where maintaining low product speeds and constant spacing is crucial for efficiency. This equipment minimizes the risk of lane migration and maximizes loader performance by optimizing lane pitches before product handling begins.

Material options include construction suitable for food processing environments, and additional features can be customized to fit unique plant requirements. Users also benefit from engineering support to tailor configurations ensuring optimal operational fit. This equipment is a critical asset for enhancing throughput in processing and packaging departments.

Benefits

  • Enhances productivity with efficient lane expansion and product stacking at speeds exceeding 1,000 products per minute per lane.
  • Minimizes waste and maximizes loader efficiency by maintaining consistent product spacing and speeds.
  • Reduces operational bottlenecks with seamless integration into existing production lines.
  • Supports high-speed continuous operations, crucial for meeting modern packaging demands.
  • Protects downstream equipment and optimizes product flow with optional vision-based quality selectors.

General


Applications
Cookies,Biscuits,Snacks,Sweets,Bakery products
End products
Sugar cookies,Digestive biscuits,Potato chips,Chocolate bars,Croissants
Steps before
Product receiving,Lane pitch expansion
Steps after
Vision selection,Downstream processing
Input ingredients
flat products,incoming products,products on conveyor
Output ingredients
stacked products,continuously stacked products,products transferred on belt
Market info
Houdijk is known for designing and manufacturing advanced handling and processing equipment for the biscuit and bakery industry, specializing in automated systems to improve efficiency and maintain product quality.

Technical Specifications


Product Handling Capacity
Up to and above 1,000 products per minute per lane
Lane Expansion
Before dribble board
Product Spacing Consistency
Low and constant
Speed Matching
Row rate matching with oven and loader
Vision Selector Integration
Optional

Operating Characteristics


Product handling speed
Up to and above 1,000 products per minute per lane
Product lane pitch expansion
Before the dribble board
Speed and spacing control
Intermediate metering conveyor
Lane expansion
Essential for oven and loader row rate matching
Vision system
Vision Selector for downstream protection

Material Compatibility


Cleanability
High
Density/particle size
0.5–2.5 g/cm³ / 50–1000 µm

Product type Characteristics


Product handling style
Flat to stacked

Physical Characteristics


Capacity
Up to 1,000 products per minute per lane
Lane Management
Multiple and consecutive functional steps
Dribble Board Design
Expands lane pitch before the board
Speed Control
Low and constant speed maintenance
Vision Selector
Optional addition

Custom Options


Control panel type
HMI,PLC interface
Lane expansion capability
Customizable
Vision selector inclusion
Optional
Conveyor speed adjustment
Adjustable