Food & Dairy

Food & Dairy Handling Challenges

Food and dairy powder handling must control hygiene, product retention, allergens and combustible dust while maintaining reliable flow and accurate dosing. Key challenges include bacterial growth, cross-contamination, difficult cleaning, moisture sensitivity and dust emissions, requiring sanitary design, food-contact materials, easy-access or CIP-ready components and appropriate ATEX protection.

Hygiene & Compliance

Our approach considers EHEDG principles, FDA food-contact requirements, HACCP controls, ATEX food-powder risks and NFPA 652 combustible-dust guidance. The result is dependable powder handling from raw-material intake through conveying, screening, separation and dosing.

Our Bulk Handling Solutions for Food & Dairy

Conveying — Pneumatic, Vacuum & Mechanical

To transfer fragile milk powders and ingredients without degradation or environmental exposure, we utilize dense-phase pneumatic conveying and gentle vacuum conveying systems. Vacuum transport is inherently safer for explosive environments, as any leak draws air inward rather than blowing combustible dust out into the plant. For high-capacity ingredient transfer, our enclosed mechanical conveying lines ensure smooth, dust-tight transport.

Modular Piping & Flexible Connectors: Our process lines utilize food-grade, stainless-steel modular piping systems featuring quick-release clamps for rapid disassembly during Clean-In-Place (CIP) or Wash-In-Place (WIP) cycles. To isolate vibrating machinery while maintaining absolute containment, we integrate hygienic, flexible dust-tight connectors that eli
minate crevices where organic material could collect, spoil and harbor bacteria.

Hygienic Slide Gates, Rotary Valves & Diverters

Engineered to prevent product entrapment, our ATEX-certified rotary valves feature support rails and quick-demount rotors, allowing operators to safely slide the rotor out for direct washing. Accompanying pneumatic slide gates and multi-port diverters feature mirror-polished internal surfaces and food-grade seals, ensuring positive material shut-off and stream diversion without dead zones.

Dust Filters & Industrial Vacuum Cleaners (ATEX)

To proactively eliminate the primary cause of secondary dust explosions, we supply specialized ATEX-rated vacuum industrial cleaners. These heavy-duty, grounded vacuum systems safely capture fugitive combustible food dust from floors, ledges and structural beams before it can pose a safety hazard.

Screening & Sieving — Sanitary Vibrating Screens

Positioned before mixing or directly ahead of packaging lines, our high-frequency vibrating screens gently sift out oversized agglomerates, foreign matter, and lumps caused by humidity, ensuring a perfectly uniform particle size while protecting recipe purity.

Weighing, Feeding & Dosing

High-Accuracy Weighing & Feeding Equipment: For strict nutritional compliance and recipe consistency, our gravimetric weighing & feeding equipment delivers split-second dosing accuracy. Built with fully welded, polished contact surfaces, these feeders prevent material build-up and are easily sanitized between product batches.

Magnetic Separation — Easy-Clean Drawer Magnets

To guarantee absolute consumer safety and protect downstream machinery, high-intensity, dairy-grade magnetic separators are integrated inline. Featuring easy-clean drawer designs, they continuously extract ferrous particles and scale from the ingredient stream.

Filling, Emptying & Packaging

Big Bag Filling & Emptying Units

Designed for sanitary bulk bag (FIBC) logistics, our emptying stations utilize inflatable, dust-tight docking seals to prevent fine powders from escaping during discharge. Active massage paddles gently break up bridging dairy powders, while our filling stations feature integrated load cells and automatic densification to pack bags cleanly, safely and accurately.

Dust-Controlled Loading Chutes

For high-volume shipping of flour, sugar or starches into bulk tankers, our telescopic loading chutes extend directly into the vehicle hatch. They use double-wall internal cones to separate the falling product from the exhaust air, utilizing negative-pressure dust extraction to keep the loading bay completely free of combustible dust risks.

Hygienic Packaging, Palletizing & Wrapping

Our automated packaging lines form, fill and seal finished food products into modified-atmosphere, moisture-barrier bags to preserve shelf life. These are transferred to high-speed palletizers that assemble perfectly square, stable stacks, followed by automated stretch-wrapping or stretch-hooding units that secure the loads with high-tension film for dust-free, hygienic transport and storage.