Slicing loader for automatic portion loading
Efficiently manage portion loading with a system designed to balance slicing flow, seamlessly integrating into high-speed production lines, ensuring optimal handling of various food products from deli meats to alternative proteins.
Accumulates and Loads Sliced Food Portions
The GEA HorizontalBuffer is a pivotal solution for food processors, utilizing a multi-level buffer system to efficiently accumulate and load sliced food portions. Designed to ensure seamless integration into high-speed production lines, it handles products such as deli meats, cheese, and alternative proteins with precision. This equipment excels in automatic sorting and conveying of portions through intelligently synchronized conveyors, optimizing material flow and minimizing downtime during the slicing process.
Capable of processing up to 100 portions per minute, the HorizontalBuffer can be combined with the GEA InLiner for enhanced lane management, allowing two lanes to converge into one with precision. Its operator-friendly interface, shared with slicers and thermoformers, ensures ease of use and consistent operation. Constructed with an open design, it boasts easy accessibility and rapid belt removal facilitated by pneumatic tension, streamlining maintenance and cleaning tasks.
The equipment meets stringent hygiene standards, requiring no tools for disassembly, and is equipped with a touch-screen interface for intuitive operation. Optional correction lanes further support quality control by handling rejected portions, providing flexibility in ensuring product weight accuracy. With robust construction and optional configuration support, the GEA HorizontalBuffer is engineered to meet diverse production demands efficiently.
Benefits
- Enhances production efficiency by synchronizing loading speeds with downstream systems.
- Minimizes operational delays with automatic accumulation and sorting capabilities.
- Facilitates easy maintenance and rapid cleaning with tool-free disassembly.
- Improves quality control with integrated correction lanes for accurate portion management.
- Ensures adaptability and scalability with configurable lane management options.
- Applications
- Food,Alternative proteins,Processed foods,Meat processing,Dairy products
- End products
- Ready-to-eat meal components,Sliced cooked meats,Turkey slices,Sliced cheese,Alternative protein deli slices,Pre-packaged cold cuts,Deli meats,Sliced ham,Plant-based sandwich slices
- Steps before
- Slicing,Portion Accumulation
- Steps after
- Portion Loading,Weight Correction,Product Distribution
- Input ingredients
- sliced portions,incorrect weight portions
- Output ingredients
- accumulated portions,loaded portions,corrected weight portions
- 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.
- Automation
- Automatic loading
- Capacity
- Up to 100 ppm
- Buffer Width
- 400 mm
- Operation Type
- Continuous or batching
- Screen Size
- 10" colored touch-screen
- Hygiene
- Perfect hygiene,easy cleaning
- Working mechanism
- Horizontal buffer
- Integrated steps
- Portion loading and sorting
- Batch vs. inline operation
- Continuous / Batching
- Automation level
- Automated with operator interface
- Changeover time
- Fast preparation
- Cleaning method
- Fast preparation,no tools required
- Density/particle size
- 0.5–2.5 g/cm³ / 50–1000 µm
- Correction capability
- Upper correction lane for incorrect weights
- Machine footprint
- Compact design
- Buffer width
- 400 mm
- Number of buffer levels
- 3
- Belt type
- Wide belts for smooth handling
- Open design and accessibility
- Very open
- Operator interface
- 10” colored touch-screen
- Control panel type
- Touch-screen panel
- Conveyor tension method
- Pneumatic
- Control panel type
- 10” colored touch-screen
- Integration possibilities
- GEA InLiner 2-lane to 1-lane
- Correction lane option
- Optional with upper correction lane
- Belt removal method
- Pneumatic tension