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Crate Handling System

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Crate Handling System

Reduce Labour When Handling and Cleaning Crates

Our Crate Handling System offers automation in the reception area. The stacked crates are manually loaded onto the conveyor system, after which they are conveyed to automatic destacking, crate washing and crate stacking. The automation enables crates to be constantly fed to the shackling area and optimize the slaughter line utilization

Benefits

Automation to keep up with higher processing speeds
Controlled and smooth flow of crates to shacklers
Hard-wearing conveyor system
Highly reliable reception system
Shackling directly from crates
Flexible to operate with different crate types
Designed to handle several stacks of crates
Fast and effective crate washing

Ensure Daily Efficiency

We offer complete crate handling systems in a variety of layouts that are easily integrated into your existing production lines. The system is designed to handle a variety of crate sizes, and two or three stacks of crates with four to 10 crates in each stack.

Fit for Different Automation Levels

In the reception area, roller conveyors transport the full crates to automatic destacking saving workers for the manual work. The smooth movements during destacking and conveying reduce bird stress and ensures constant feeding of birds to the shackling area – a necessity to optimize slaughter line utilization.

Reliability to Optimise Uptime

The Crate Handling System is a wear-resistant system designed for daily use and washdown. The robust constructions of the belt and chain conveyors ensure reliable daily production and low cost of ownership.

A robust belt conveyor is used to transport full, stacked crates

The destacked crates are transported on reliable chain conveyors

Automatic crate destacking and stacking is performed using hydraulic lifting devices

Fast and Effective Crate Washing

Crate washing is performed in three steps:

Soaking to remove solids and soften debris
Washing using water nozzles
Rinsing with clean water to remove any remaining debris (optionally equipped with disinfection pump)

High-pressure water pumps ensure optimal water
pressure during washing and the separator drums separate the offal from the water before the water runs down into the reservoir. The washer is available in different lengths to best fit your line speed.