Flow control ensures a gentle touch in conveyor for fragile goods

Published: 11-Apr-2017

piFLOWt is an extension to Piab’s range of piFLOW conveyors for powder and bulk material

Piab’s piFLOWt conveyor is dedicated to the gentle handling of delicate ingredients and products, addressing problems of using vacuum technology to convey nuts, seeds, beans, candy, as well as nutraceutical tablets and capsules.

Jarno Tahvanainen, Vice President of Piab’s Material Handling division, said:

“A controlled low speed, guided entry into the conveyor and the elimination of all sharp edges are the keys to our success, ensuring that products are handled with great care in our conveyors.”

Suitable for transporting up to four million items per hour, the piFLOWt conveyor can be used to transport any fragile goods within a processing plant.

There will be no more chipped candy in plants using piFLOWt.

This enables the safe handling of coated sweets, candy, roasted coffee beans, whole nuts, and nutraceutical tablets.

“There will be no more chipped candy in plants using piFLOWt,” said Tahvanainen.

piFLOWt will transfer ingredients and products between the various processing units, such as tablet presses, coating drums and packaging lines.

At the core of piFLOWt is piGENTLE technology, which maintains a gentle flow by regulating the feed pressure of the pump, ensuring that fragile ingredients or products are handled as delicately as possible.

piFLOWt is an extension to Piab’s range of piFLOW conveyors for powder and bulk materials and is specially developed to meet the stringent demands regarding operational safety and hygiene within the food, pharmaceutical and chemical industries (piFLOWf, piFLOWp and piFLOWi).

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