Food / Pet Food Processing Equipment Overview: Sanitary Feeders, Pneumatic Conveying, and Automated Systems
Typical Applications in Food and Pet Food Processing
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Gain-in-Weight Batching of Soft Drink Concentrate | Mixing and Extrusion of Breakfast Cereals | Ice Cream Ingredient Feeding | 3-A Dairy Standards | Pet Food Processing | Metering Ingredients for Snack Mixes | Batch Weigh Receivers in Food Production
K-Tron is a global leader in the gravimetric and volumetric feeder market, producing feeders, pneumatic conveying equipment and related controls for the food and pet food processing industries. Within the food industry, K-Tron has served numerous applications including tortillas, bread and cake mixes, pasta, snack food, cereal, candy, cookies and crackers, ice cream, pet food and more.
Food Processing Equipment Overview
Volumetric / Gravimetric Feeders and Sanitary Pneumatic Conveying Equipment
Whether you are feeding by volume or feeding by weight, in batch or continuous processes, no one gives you more smart feeding solutions then K-Tron. K-Tron feeders provide high-accuracy feeding solutions to handle a wide range of ingredients, from chocolate chips to floodable powders and waxy liquids. Product line includes volumetric feeders, loss-in-weight feeders, weigh belt feeders and mass flowmeters.
How to choose the right feeder for your process
| Smart Weigh Belt Feeders (SWB) K-Tron's stainless steel Smart Weigh Belt (SWB) feeder serves many food applications and is the first weigh belt feeder to offer the continuous online auto tare function, enabled by a second weigh bridge. Weigh belt feeders offer gravimetric feeding at higher feed rates in areas where low headroom is a problem. |
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The Smart Weigh Belt (SWB) feeder is available in open and closed frame versions and in 300 mm and 600 mm belt widths, enabling feed rates up to 40,000 kg/hour (88,000 lb/hour). K-Tron has earned industry recognition for its proprietary digital weighing technology. Using the K-Tron Smart Force Transducer (SFT) weighing technology in combination with the K-Tron Smart Connex™ feeder control platform, K-Tron Soder feeders have demonstrated excellent performance, accuracy and return on investment in demanding food industry applications.
Central Powder Receivers: Premier P-Series (Sanitary)
Maximum batch conveying rates: Rates dependent on specific application. Continuous conveying rates are higher. Units meet strict sanitary requirements of the food and pharmaceutical industry.
| Model | Typical Products | Typical Application | Maximum Conveying rate | ||
| kg/hr | lb/hr | ||||
| powder/fragile products | Food, Pharma | 600 | 1,300 | ||
| powder/fragile products | Food, Pharma | 1,800 | 4,000 | ||
| powder/fragile products | Food, Pharma | 4,000 | 8,800 | ||
How Vacuum Conveying Works
Gain-in-Weight Batching: Custom Engineered Batching Solutions
K-Tron Gain-in-Weight Batching Stations are the preferred choice for flexible and economical batch preparation in applications involving up to 8 components and 100 recipe lines. Each component is sequentially and independently metered to a weigh collection hopper from which the completed batch is dischaged. Any of K-Tron's wide range of volumetric metering devices may be employed as demanded by ingredient handling characteristics.
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Systems Engineering
For more than 40 years, K-Tron has been providing smart solutions to the problems of material handling and process control. As the world's leading feeder company, K-Tron is able to focus on what many engineers call the hardest part of the process—the art and science of getting material into the process. When you require quality, consistency and control in your process look to K-Tron for single source systems engineering.
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