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Grains, Feed & Petfood
Gentle, food-safe bulk material handling systems for grain mills, feed plants and pet food production
Processing raw agricultural grains, animal feed, extruded pellets and premium pet food requires material handling systems designed to absorb wear, maintain hygienic standards, prevent product degradation and eliminate cross-contamination.
Whether you are handling wheat, corn, fragile animal feed pellets, high-fat kibble or delicate pet food treats, our solutions prioritize gentle material handling, food-safety compliance and total ATEX dust explosion mitigation.
Bulk Material Handling Built for Grain, Feed and Pet Food
Grain Handling & Processing, Animal Feed Mill Systems and Pet Food Processing & Handling require reliable conveying, dosing and screening to protect product quality and maintain steady production. Food Safety, Hygiene and Dust-Explosion Protection depend on Food-Grade, Easy-Clean Construction and ATEX & Combustible-Dust Mitigation for safer, cleaner handling.
Handling and Processing Technologies for Grain, Feed and Pet Food
Mechanical & Pneumatic Conveying
Fragile animal feed and extruded pet food pellets break easily under high shear. We engineer gentle mechanical conveying lines, like tubular drag systems, to transport products without fracturing the kibble. For raw grain logistics and fine ingredients, our closed-loop pneumatic conveying systems offer fast, enclosed and completely dust-tight transport across long distances.
Hygienic Process Piping & Wear Protection
To support strict sanitation protocols, our process piping features food-grade stainless steel construction with smooth, continuous welds to prevent organic material accumulation and bacteria growth. For raw grains carrying highly abrasive field dirt and silica, we integrate specialized wear protection piping with polymer or ceramic linings at high-impact bends to maximize pipeline lifespan.
Slide Gates, Rotary Valves & Diverters
Designed to eliminate dead zones where organic material could spoil, our rotary valves feature quick-clean, drop-out rotors for rapid product changeovers. Self-cleaning slide gates and multi-way diverters provide airtight stream routing beneath grain silos, mixers and extruders, ensuring positive shut-off without trapping or crushing fragile pellets.
Vibrating Screens for Fines Removal
Positioned immediately after pellet mills, extruders or fluid-bed dryers, our high-efficiency vibrating screens gently separate out oversized agglomerates and remove broken pieces or fine dust, ensuring only uniform, premium-grade product moves to packaging.
Weighing, Dosing & Feeding Equipment
Recipe accuracy is vital for nutritional compliance. Our high-precision gravimetric weighing & feeding equipment ensures continuous dosing or metering of grains, vitamins and protein meals into mixers or other equipment, preventing recipe drift and guaranteeing batch tracking.
Magnetic Separation for Product Safety
To protect your process machinery and guarantee food safety, high-intensity magnetic separators are installed inline to continuously extract tramp iron, wire fractions and scale from incoming raw grain feedstocks before processing.
Big Bag Filling & Emptying Units
To safely handle bulk ingredients, our FIBC emptying units utilize dust-tight docking seals and massage paddles to reliably discharge poor-flowing meals or sticky ingredients. Our filling stations combine integrated load cells with automatic densification tables to maximize bag capacity and stack stability.
Telescopic Loading Chutes
For grain and feed distribution via bulk trucks or railcars, our telescopic loading chutes use internal double-wall cones and negative-pressure dust extraction to manage massive flow rates, while keeping the surrounding facility clean and safe from combustible dust.
Packaging, Palletizing & Wrapping
To preserve freshness, automated packaging lines form, fill, and seal finished feed and pet food into moisture-barrier bags. These bags are transferred to automatic palletizers that neatly stack packages of varying bulk densities into perfectly squared loads. Automated stretch-wrapping or stretch-hooding systems then secure the pallets with precise film tension, providing complete weatherproofing and structural stability for safe storage and transit.
Grains, Feed & Petfood Solutions
Bulk Handling Technologies for Grains, Feed & Petfood
Frequently Asked Questions
What is grain, feed and petfood handling equipment?
Grain, feed and pet food handling equipment is the system of machines that receives, moves, screens, doses and packages bulk agricultural products — from raw grain and oilseeds to extruded feed pellets and high-fat kibble — through a processing plant. A complete line combines gentle mechanical and pneumatic conveying, vibrating screens, magnetic separation, gravimetric dosing and dust-tight filling and packaging, engineered for food safety, minimal product breakage and dust-explosion protection.
How do you handle fragile feed pellets and pet food kibble without breaking them?
Fragile extruded pellets and high-fat kibble break under high shear, so ROCOM specifies gentle conveying — tubular drag systems and correctly sized, low-velocity pneumatic lines — plus smooth transitions and self-cleaning rotary valves that avoid crushing or trapping product. The result is lower fines, less waste and consistent, premium-grade product reaching packaging.
How is dust explosion risk managed in grain and feed plants?
Grain, flour and feed dust can form combustible clouds, so the line is designed for mitigation: ATEX-rated equipment where required, dust-tight pneumatic conveying, enclosed transfer points, telescopic loading chutes with negative-pressure extraction, and industrial vacuum cleaning of fugitive dust. Together these reduce both the fuel and the ignition risk along the process.
What food-safety and hygiene features are built in?
Contact parts use food-grade stainless steel with smooth, continuous welds and crevice-free, easy-clean designs that prevent organic build-up and bacteria growth. Drop-out rotary valve rotors, drawer-type magnetic separators and quick-clean slide gates allow fast changeovers and inspection, supporting strict feed- and food-safety protocols.
Which technologies does ROCOM integrate for grains, feed and pet food?
ROCOM integrates mechanical and pneumatic conveying, vibrating screens for cleaning and fines removal, inline magnetic separation, gravimetric weighing and feeding, slide gates, rotary valves and diverters, big bag filling and emptying, telescopic loading chutes, and end-of-line packaging, palletizing and wrapping — supplied and commissioned as a complete, sector-specific system.
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