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.
- 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.
- 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
- 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
- Cleanability
- High
- Density/particle size
- 0.5–2.5 g/cm³ / 50–1000 µm
- Product handling style
- Flat to stacked
- 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
- Control panel type
- HMI,PLC interface
- Lane expansion capability
- Customizable
- Vision selector inclusion
- Optional
- Conveyor speed adjustment
- Adjustable