Food processors and packagers are always seeking a more efficient and safer method to transport their products. While belt, bucket, or pneumatic systems have been the traditional choices, tubular drag conveyors offer superior attributes. With the recent availability of 8-inch diameter conveyors, they can now handle larger product sizes and offer comparable volumes and pricing to conventional industrial systems.
These conveyors can move up to 2,000 cubic feet and 80,000 pounds per hour, making them suitable for even large products like whole potatoes and medium-sized grapefruit. They are also gentler on delicate blends, making them ideal for food types such as pet food, cereal, nuts, and whole fruit. Using a coated, flexible stainless steel drag cable, these conveyors gently transport the product without the use of air. This results in improved power usage, safety, product preservation, product quality, and production uptime, making them a preferred choice among food processing and packaging professionals.
With the introduction of 8-inch diameter conveyors, the food processing industry has benefited from improved power usage, enhanced safety measures, and increased product preservation. Even large and delicate products like whole potatoes and grapefruit can now be transported efficiently and gently, leading to an increase in production uptime.
With these conveyors, food processors and packagers can confidently handle various products, including pet food, cereal, nuts, and whole fruit, with comparable volumes and pricing to traditional industrial systems. Tubular drag conveyors offer superior attributes and are the preferred choice for transporting products without the use of air, ensuring product quality remains at its best.
Power Consumption
As energy costs continue to increase, packaging companies are now prioritizing ways to decrease the power needed for material conveyance. While pneumatic conveyors require larger, more power-consuming motors of 20-50 HP to move materials at a high velocity using air pressure, belt conveyors and bucket elevators fall in the middle range, utilizing approximately 25 HP motors.
However, at the lower end, 8-inch tubular drag cable conveyors use only a 7.5 HP motor due to their unique design of pulling discs at a low speed, resulting in lower energy consumption. These cable conveyors offer similar capacity to traditional conveyors, making them a more efficient option. Maximize efficiency and decrease energy costs with our 8-inch tubular drag cable conveyors.
Their unique design allows for lower power consumption, using only a 7.5 HP motor, while still providing similar capacity as traditional conveyors. No need to sacrifice performance for cost savings.
Safety
Closed systems, such as tubular drag cable conveyors and pneumatic units, effectively prevent product from being exposed to outside contaminants. This enclosed design guarantees dust-free and sanitary conditions in the work environment, reducing the potential for dust explosions and slip and fall accidents. Maximize safety and cleanliness with our closed system designs. Keep dust and debris away from your product and workplace, lowering the risk of accidents and ensuring sanitary conditions.
Product Preservation
Enclosed conveyors prevent the product loss. Once food product is in the enclosed tube, it cannot fall out, and no powdered product is lost in the form of escaped dust.
Preventing product loss can offer considerable benefits to the food processor’s profitability with surprisingly quick return on investment in some cases.
For example,an international pet food manufacturer processing dog kibble switched to an 8-inch tubular drag cable conveyor, they minimized product spillage and reported a 1-year ROI for the system.
Product Quality
Utilizing tubular cable conveyors can provide a more gentle solution for transporting delicate products, like cereal or nuts, while still maintaining their integrity. This system works by pulling a coated, flexible, stainless-steel drag cable through a sealed tube in a loop, with solid circular discs attached to the cable pushing the product at a low speed. This method eliminates the need for air and ultimately reduces waste, preserving product quality.
For instance, a cereal manufacturer was able to reduce product damage by using a high-volume tubular cable conveyor, while a food processor found that using the same approach increased the value of their product significantly. By avoiding damage to high-value products, like almonds, processors could potentially sell their products for a higher price, with undamaged almonds selling for $4 per pound compared to only 40 cents per pound if they were damaged.
Overall, using a tubular cable conveyor can be a wise choice for minimizing damage and maximizing profits. Increase profits and product quality with a gentle and efficient tubular cable conveyor system. This innovative technology eliminates the need for air and prevents product damage, making it a valuable investment for manufacturers and processors alike. For example, a cereal manufacturer reduced product damage using a high-volume conveyor, while a food processor increased the value of their product significantly.
With undamaged high-value items, processors could potentially sell their products at a significantly higher price point, such as almonds selling for $4 per pound compared to only 40 cents per pound if they were damaged.
Production Uptime
Food processors are increasingly expecting conveyor systems to be designed for easy cleaning and maintenance in order to reduce production downtime. Failure to properly clean the conveyors can result in contaminated food products, leading to lost profits or even harm to consumers, which can result in expensive recalls, damage to brand and reputation, or potential legal action.
Tubular drag cable conveyor systems offer a variety of options for both dry and wet tube cleaning, including brush boxes, urethane wipers, air knives, inline sponges, inline bristle brushes, and automated Clean-In-Place (CIP) methods. By utilizing more automated forms of cleaning, such as inline wipers, sponges, and air knives or CIP wet cleaning, food processors can achieve hours of additional production uptime after every product change, compared to traditional manual methods.
With 8-inch tubular drag cable units, food processors and packagers can achieve high-volume output similar to traditional conveyor systems, but with the added benefits of lower power consumption, Decrease production downtime and minimize the risk of contaminated food products with tubular drag cable conveyor systems. Our versatile options for both dry and wet tube cleaning, including brush boxes, urethane wipers, and automated CIP methods, offer an efficient and reliable solution for maintaining the highest level of food safety.
With superior cleaning capabilities, our systems allow you to achieve hours of additional production uptime after every product change, compared to traditional manual methods, while maintaining high-volume output and reducing power consumption. As an industry expert, we understand the importance of easy cleaning and maintenance to avoid costly recalls, damage to your brand’s reputation, and potential legal action.