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Screw feeders specifically designed to meet the rigorous demands of the food industry, combining efficiency, precision, and hygiene, design to enhance production lines. Is your revenue affected by extended downtimes due to difficult cleaning processes? Does your application require accurate and efficient dosing of various seasonings or flavourings? If so, Trantec Solids Handling have the perfect solution for you. Innovative Easy-Clean Design Maintaining strict hygiene standards is critical in the food industry. Trantec’s quick release, easy-clean design not only ensures compliance but also simplifies your maintenance procedures. * Hygienic construction - crevice-free, polished surfaces to eliminate potential contamination points and make cleaning easier and faster. * Quick Maintenance - Tool-free, quick-release mechanisms allow for rapid dismantling, significantly reducing downtime and streamlining maintenance processes. This feature enables production lines to resume operation swiftly without compromising cleanliness or efficiency. Head over to Trantec’s website to see their feeder in action. Advanced Performance Features Designed

Developed especially for the food industry, Trantec’s QR TEC feeder range offers fast strip down and rebuild of the complete machine within minutes. Trantec metering screw feeders are designed to improve cleanliness, boost productivity, and provide a cost-effective solution. Every component, from the hopper, agitator and auger screws, complete with their drive mechanisms and seals, can be effortlessly removed without the use of tools. This facilitates thorough, easy cleaning, as almost the entire machine can be loaded into an autoclave, ensuring the highest standards of hygiene. The interchangeability of parts also allows machines to be duplicated and pre-cleaned for hot swapping onto process lines, optimising operation continuity. Boasting features like blue metal detectable gaskets, PTFE cartridge shaft seals, and stainless crevice-free contact parts throughout means your compliance with food safety standards is assured, providing customers with unparalleled peace of mind. Renowned for their innovative solutions in material handling, particularly in the realm of screw conveyors, metering feeders, and powder

Weighing techniques offer the advantages that they work extremely precisely, have no direct contact with the bulk material, and work independently of grain size, solid density and bulk density. Due to their physical properties, bulk solids place high demands on the exact determination of the contents of a container and on quantity balancing in a processing operation. This applies equally to static weighing, for example in a tank, and to the dosing of free-flowing products. Gravimetric, i.e. weight-determining, methods are an established method for determining the content of bulk materials. These weighing techniques offer the advantages that they work extremely precisely, have no direct contact with the product and record the weight of the bulk material independently of grain size, density and bulk density. It is precisely this last advantage that becomes apparent when dosing bulk material. Here, volumetric dosing is available as an alternative, which measures the discharge by means of volume per time unit. However, the density of the dosing medium plays a decisive role in volumetric dosing. If the density of the material fluctuates during the discharge

Trantec’s quick-release feature ensures that production times are maximised and downtime is reduced to minutes Due to machines needing regular cleaning, maintenance, or product changeover, manufacturing businesses are heavily impacted by downtime. This can have a drastic impact over time on profit margins from having to halt production. Trantec’s quick-release features were designed to provide a cost-effective solution that offers rapid dismantling and non-problematic cleaning of their machinery. Downtime is reduced to under five minutes for complete dismantling of their screw feeders and below ten for a complete product changeover. Few screw feeder manufacturers offer a similar easy-release feature. However, the feeder body usually remains in place. This can be problematic, making the cleaning process longer and more troublesome. Trantec’s quick-release screw feeder sets itself apart from its competitors as almost the whole feeder can be dismantled, including the feeder’s body. Developed, tested and proven over the past ten years, Trantec’s unique design offers

Testing of pet food and salmon feed was done to argue why a gravimetric feeding system is preferable when working with mixed meal types. Investigation density and flow properties Variations in both density and flow property often occur in mixed meal types used for the animal, aqua and pet food productions, density variations above 15 % are not unusual – these variations possibly occur due to variations in the recipe and since meal can compact in bins. This article focuses on the differences in meal mixes for pet food and aqua feed production and what type of knowledge testing the product will generate. Testing of two material types: pet food – dog and aqua feed – salmon was done to argue why a gravimetric feeding system is preferable when working with mixed meal types Testing and Results Four types of tests were performed in the Jesma test laboratory: bulk density, angle of repose, particle size, and moisture content. Bulk density can interfere with powder flow, large variations between loose and tapped bulk density may signify a poorer flowing material. Using the compressibility index for

Precise dosing of dry fruit The renewed Brabender Technologie FDSR Feeder reliably doses dried fruit such as raisins. This enables accurate dosing of bulk solids, which is soft and cohesive and has a tendency to compact and bridge. Easy cleaning After disassembly, parts can be cleaned with water. Load cell, weighing frame and -feet are made of stainless steel 1.4301 and are designed for better accessibility for cleaning underneath the feeder. The feeder is also easy to clean internally due to the fully removable frontplate of the trough and the ViwateQ surface treatment. Cable junction boxes and glands are hygienically designed, motors are aseptically equipped with H1 lubrication and parts are electrolytically coded. The design conforms to CE and fully complies with all relevant standards, directives and recommendations for the food industry (DIN EN 1672-2, EHEDG, FDA, etc.).

Classify with Feeder Scout How do you make someone explain the properties of the bulk material when it is practically not measurable data such as product type and flow behavior? In order to select the right knowledge of a product feeder is indispensable. In addition to matters such as bulk density, particle size, temperature, pressure and dosing are mainly the product type and the flow behavior essential data. The product type and flow behavior are difficult to classify in practice; this are not specify any standards. What calls the n powder, calls the other grain. What is a normal flowing product in the perception of one producer, is the other manufacturer with a very good running product and so we can still mention a few examples. Feeder Scout as a tool for classifying product type and flow behavior The online program Feeder Scout is a simple tool to classify product type and flow behavior and capture. Thus it easier to select the correct feeder. Moreover, it is thus possible to communicate

Innovative feeding of natural fibres, wood fibres, long carbon fibres and film chips With its new fibre feeder, Brabender Technologie is breaking new ground in the feeding of long and uneven fibres. While conventional feeders used to be restricted to short and compact bundles of fibres such as glass fibres, for example, the new feeder is now capable of accurately metering natural fibres, wood fibres, long carbon fibres and film chips. New fields of application As one of the main fields of application, the new fibre feeder can be used for shredded film strips. These are waste materials from plastic film production processes, where the film edges are cut off by film edge trimmers. This results in 10-30 % of unspoilt material, further utilisation of which has until now been difficult. The new feeder allows to refeed the remnants back into the production process as film chips so that they can be recycled. This saves resources and optimises the production process. Feeding of natural fibres is another field of application. The fibre feeder is capable

FROM POWDER MIXING TO FINISHED GRANULATE IN THE ISOLATOR Three-Tec develops high-quality volumetric and gravimetric feed units and extruders together with peripheral equipment such as spheronizers, granulators, hot die faces, conveyor belts and water baths. They impress due to their easy cleaning, simple handling and flexible adjustment to process requirements. Versatile options to integrate them into the production processes or test and laboratory applications of research and development make Three-Tec machines very popular products. Three-Tec machines are produced as custom-made designs to meet customer requirements and are largely used in the testing and laboratory sectors of the pharmaceutical and food industries. Three-Tec has now reacted to the growing demand for a production process for granulates in an isolated environ-ment and realised an isolator with integrated gravimetric feed unit, extruder, conveyor belt and granulator in accord-ance with ISO 14644-7 in collaboration with ART-Reinraumtechnik. As a result,

Performance of Loss in Weight Feeders depends on accuracy, linearity, stability, drift and quantity of raw material in the hopper. Weigh modules with MonoBloc Technology meet these requirements perfectly. Improve performance of your equipment with high resolution weigh modules which will expand time of uninterrupted operation at the highest accuracy. The performance of feeders range from 100g up to 50,000 kg per hour. The accuracy ranges from 0.25 to 1 %. The maximum achievable accuracy depends on the properties of the material being dispensed. A characteristic of loss in weight feeders is the cyclical change between controlled gravimetric dispensing and uncontrolled volumetric dispensing during refilling. The uncontrolled volumetric dispensing during refilling has to be kept as brief as possible in order to achieve accurate results. An suitable electronic feeder control and a conveyor, which fits to the material properties of the dispensed product, can strongly

Feeder-mounted electronic modules ISC-CM plus and ISC-FC plus For economical reasons plant operators in bulk ingredient processing industries demand maximum process automation also covering the gravimetric loss-in-weight or weigh-belt feeders used. To meet the requirement, suppliers of automation systems (PLC, automation software) offer integral feeder control functions within their system-wide control solutions. Functional guarantees, however, do well cover all control operations but not the performance of the gravimetric metering feeders with their complex interaction of metering, weighing, control and regulation functions. Understandably enough, feeder suppliers refuse to guarantee failure-free feeder performance unless proprietary control technology is used. Hence, it is the plant operator who bears the risk. As a solution, Brabender Technologie now offer a newly developed successor generation to their fully digital control and regulation modules ISC (Intelligent Signal Conditioner) under their new designations ISC-CM plus

Gravimetric metering feeders for the food industry Great demands on hygiene in the food industry do not only require easy cleanability of machines applied but also involve a wide range of additional measures to prevent contamination with microbiological, chemical and physiological contaminants. Equipment suppliers must make sure to comply with hygienic design principles. For the field of bulk ingredient metering Brabender Technologie has therefore developed the "Brabender Food Line" in close cooperation with leading food companies, resulting in an array of metering feeders strictly complying with all relevant standards, guidelines and recommendations for the food industry (DIN EN 1672-2, EHEDG, FDA, etc.). On the one hand, special attention was given to technical solutions allowing particularly quick and easy cleaning. On the other hand, however, the development especially focused on preventive measures to avoid contaminations, for instance plain stainless steel surfaces, non-porous and ground welding seams

Coperion K-Tron Expands ProRate PLUS Feeder Line with twin screw feeder for powder additives; Preconfigured Feeders for Plastics Industry Coperion K-Tron announces the expansion of the original ProRate™ PLUS feeder portfolio with more solutions for feeding powders. A ProRate PLUS-MT twin screw feeder will be added to the product line that will be available end of April 2023. Together with the recently introduced ProFlow™ bulk solids activator the new twin screw feeder is an efficient solution for feeding powder additives in plastics applications. Last year Coperion K-Tron developed a completely new feeder line built on 100 years of feeding experience to provide a robust and reliable feeder for simple feeding applications in the plastics industry. The ProRate PLUS continuous gravimetric feeder line is an economical solution and offers a quick return on investment due to its good price-performance ratio and fast delivery times. The original product line featured three single screw feeders that are ideal for the feeding of pellets, granules and other free-flowing bulk materials in secondary plastics applications.