Styne Engineering’s experience of constructing equipment for use in factories where hygiene is of paramount importance came to the fore when building a conveyor system for ready-to-eat salads.

Brief

Styne Engineering were asked to design and fabricate an easy-to-clean conveyor for the high care area of a salad factory. The conveyor had to transport delicate salads in the strictest hygiene conditions to that they were ready to be delivered to supermarkets and commercial clients.

Project Information

Our design team worked closely with our client and our suppliers to develop a design solution that met all of the exacting demands that would be put on the conveyor.

In order to meet the hygiene requirements and to make the conveyor easy to clean, our design team elected for a tubular frame design. Belt selection is also a vital part of conveyor design and we discussed many options with specialist belt suppliers before selecting the Intralox Thermodrive conveyor belt which met both the design’s demanding tension requirements and had homogeneous construction.

The homogeneous design of the belt material itself is particularly important in a project for the food industry as it gives bacteria nowhere to hide. In addition, the tensionless belt system allows easier access for hygiene teams to clean the conveyor. This reduces costs by substantially reducing cleaning times and also uses less water.

The conveyor we designed also featured removable ‘carryway’ bars and rollers to further reduce areas that could harbour bacteria.

Outcome

The salad conveyor built by Styne Engineering bears all the hallmarks of a well designed and expertly engineered solution tailor made for the exacting demands of the food industry. Not only was the conveyor a huge success in its operating environment, but it was also very competitively priced too.