Innovative Conveyor Systems Designed for Smooth and Hygienic Operations

In the food industry, hygiene and production are essential. Conveyor systems are useful in this situation! These systems play a crucial role in streamlining processes and ensuring the seamless flow of raw materials, ingredients, and finished products. These conveyor systems are made with specific features to address the particular difficulties faced by the food industry. Let’s delve into the world of innovative sanitary conveyors that enhance hygiene, streamline operations, and reduce contamination risks.

Efficient Conveyor System Designs for the Food Industry

Hygienic design is the key requirement of food processing equipment used in the industrial sector. Such hygienic conveyors are those that are formulated evidently to strictly satisfy the food industry's hygiene guidelines. They come in different models and use different materials, such as polyurethane belts and stainless steel 316, which are easy to clean, resistant to corrosion, and can be subjected even to everyday washdowns. This kind of design is the most needed and safest in the food sector.

Key Features

• Customization and Modularity: Flexibility remains crucial almost everywhere in food production today. Conveyors flexibly handle varied product sizes and fluctuating production levels, which proves crucial under rapidly changing facility needs.

• Hygienic Design: Our conveyors are less likely to retain bacteria because of their smooth surfaces and small horizontal sections. This design ensures product safety and hygiene.

• Gently Managing: Every food manufacturing business should prioritize maintaining the strength of delicate food items. These conveyors utilize food-grade belts and precise mechanisms to prevent product damage during transportation. 

• Superior Automation: Our conveyors utilize advanced automation technology, including automated sensors and controls, to enhance productivity and minimize human error. 

• Simple Maintenance: These conveyors feature accessible elements and quick-release mechanisms, ensuring minimal downtime and consistent food safety. These systems are designed for rapid and efficient maintenance. 

• Adherence to Regulations: These cutting-edge systems meet strict food industry standards, ensuring both high-quality product output and consumer safety.

High-Performance Food Grade Conveyor Systems

Blue belt conveyors play a crucial role in food-grade conveyor setups, ensuring durability and stringent hygiene standards for fairly safe food processing operations.

Blue Belt Conveyors

Conveyor belts designed for preserving food quality and preventing contamination are of this style. Food-grade belts have a high contrast level; due to this, the contamination on the surface of the belt becomes easily noticeable. Blue is the most common color of conveyor belts found in the food manufacturing and processing industry.

Undoubtedly, the visibility here is indispensable, given that the main task is to prevent contamination and cater to cleanliness. This is easily detected by the staff as they are doing it, especially when an object of a different color appears, and hence, this can be removed immediately, and the food safety is maintained.

Sanitary belts are engineered to be quite robust, designed to thwart bacterial proliferation typically found in poultry processing facilities, and withstand rigorous cleansing procedures.

Furthermore, these belts are usually designed with features such as sealed edges to avoid dirt accumulation.

Stainless Steel in Food Conveyors

The decision between 314 stainless steel, commonly used for direct contact with food, and 304 stainless steel, perfect for non-direct contact components, is critical. This decision has a significant impact on the development of food processing equipment.

Grade 304 Stainless Steel for Non-Direct Touch

Elements in 314 stainless steel are perfect for direct contact with food. Contrary to direct-contact parts, the support parts, structural frames, or non-food-facing surfaces can be easily made from 304 stainless steel most of the time. As opposed to 314 stainless steel, this grade has a cheaper price but a higher corrosion resistance level.

304 stainless steel exhibits greater robustness and resists corrosion remarkably well under relatively benign conditions with somewhat lower nickel content. Using 304 stainless steel for non-direct-contact components enables affordable construction without compromising the overall hygiene and durability of food conveyor systems. This grade of stainless steel is used to build non-contact parts for the majority of conveyors.

Last but not least, using premium stainless steel ensures that food processing equipment operates properly, dependably, and for a long time.

Metal Detection Features for Contaminant Prevention

Metal detection is an important aspect of quality and food safety practices in the food manufacturing industry. The recognition and withdrawal of foreign bodies, for example, metal contaminants, in food are very important to maintain the safety and quality of food products and to keep the consumers safe.

By rapidly detecting and eliminating metal contaminants in real time, food manufacturers can confirm the highest standards of quality assurance. This strategy can satisfy consumers' demands for healthy, safe food products. Therefore, metal detection in food conveyors is essential to the industry's continued dedication to food safety.

Sum Up

In short, food-grade conveyor systems offer a unique set of challenges for logistics automation and design, including the need to meet strict hygiene standards and detect/eliminate foreign bodies. Additionally, these systems need to be able to handle a wide range of materials and withstand the basic nature of some food types.

CHL Systems has years of experience delivering conveyors for the food processing and manufacturing industries, helping their clients succeed. Their engineers create a conveyance system and conveyor belt for material handling that improves product quality, safety, efficiency, and sustainability, resulting in increased business development.