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Food & Beverage
Baking goods
Typical materials conveyed with Piab vacuum conveyors in the Baking Goods market are various forms of flour, sugars, starches, seasoning, nuts, etc. Since materials change often, it’s important to have conveying equipment, which is versatile, easy to clean, and can accommodate a quick changeover. We also offer food grade suction cups and grippers for finished goods picking.
What Piab offers
- Made for food: hygienic and safe for direct food contact as well as easy maintenance and cleaning
- Ease of use: our vacuum conveyors are easily adjusted for a quick changeover of materials
- Human safety: our enclosed system help to reduce exposure to dust
Coffee
Handling operations within the coffee industry is a delicate task and the industry covers everything from large scale industrial roasteries to small scale micro roasteries, but all with the same goal: to deliver a high-quality product to end consumers, where the coffee is taken care of throughout every stage of the process. Piab’s vacuum conveyors are customizable to your operation, for example, if you want to run your process with nitrogen gas instead of atmosphere, we can accommodate that. Most importantly, our vacuum conveyors will not change the characteristic of your product.
What Piab offers
- Enclosed conveying: keeps oxygen sensitive beans fresh without changing any characteristics of the coffee
- Profitability: reduced waste in beans and grounds due to gentle conveying
- Human focus: easy maintenance, hygienic, and safe for human handling
Confectionery & candy
Typical materials conveyed with vacuum conveyors in the Confectionery/Candy markets are sugar in various forms, cocoa powder, flour, and finished candy products. Since materials change often, it’s important to have conveying equipment which is versatile, easy to clean, and can accommodate a quick changeover. Piab’s SMART technology can automatically change settings to better optimize your equipment and conveying production. We also offer food grade suction cups and grippers for finished goods picking.
What Piab offers
- Profitability: reduced waste due to a gentle vacuum conveying setting
- Optimized production: vacuum conveyors tailor made for candy and confectionary
- Human focus: easy maintenance, hygienic, and safe for human interaction
Instant food
In the production of instant food such as dry soups, noodles, sauces, etc. the materials are often dusty and can be fatty, so it’s crucial to use equipment which is easy to clean and allows for a fast changeover between products. For certain material blends dense phase conveying will help to minimize segregation. Our vacuum conveyors are designed as an enclosed system which will help to increase productivity as well as ensure employee health and safety.
What Piab offers
- Profitability: reduced waste due to a gentle vacuum conveying setting
- Innovative design: made with food grade materials that meet industry regulations
- Hygiene and health: easy to clean and maintain
Nutraceuticals
For many of the nutraceutical products, the requirements are as high as in the pharmaceuticals industry with similar challenges such as cross contamination and dust generation. Piab’s vacuum conveyors are design to resolve these challenges. Since materials change often, it’s important to have conveying equipment which is versatile, easy to clean, and can accommodate a quick changeover. We also offer food grade suction cups and grippers for finished goods picking.
What Piab offers
- Small footprint: our vacuum conveyors will not compromise on limited space
- Profitability: reduced waste due to a gentle vacuum conveying setting
- Hygiene and health: easy to clean and built to meet industry requirements
Applications
Nutraceutical direct picking
Fiber drum and barrel pick-up
Feeding material to and from blender/mixer
Feeding material to and from milling and grinding
Feeding material to and from sieving unit
Conveying through/to and from metal detection equipment
Feeding to and from capsule filling
Feeding to and from tablet coating
Feeding to and from tablet press
Reclaim of powder
Powder packaging
Pet food
Typical materials conveyed with vacuum conveyors in the Pet Food market are finished products (pellets, kibble, and treats) or ingredients. Customers in this industry change materials quite often, and consequently need conveying equipment which is versatile, easy to clean, and allows for quick changeovers. Our vacuum conveyors increase productivity and save space when conveying pet food.
What Piab offers
- Profitability: reduced waste due to gentle vacuum conveying
- Hygiene and health: easy to clean and maintain
- Small footprint: our vacuum conveyors will not compromise on limited space
Snacks
In the production of snacks, it is crucial to use equipment which is easy to clean and allows for a fast changeover between products. Vacuum conveyors are used to convey seasoning to the seasoning machine or to reclaim broken products from the packaging step and move them back to the previous step. Manual feeding of the snacks can easily be replaced by a vacuum conveyor since powder pick up is possible from a barrel or container.
What Piab offers
- Innovative design: made with food grade materials that meet industry regulations
- Efficiency: thorough and quick to convey products from point A to point B
- Hygiene and health: easy to clean and maintain