Conveyor belts for poultry processing

Technical Requirements of the Belts

Live transportation of birds requires very tough belts. Because they are frequently cleaned to remove animal excrement, they need to be resistant to abrasion and chemicals and hard wearing. It’s also useful if they are UV resistant and easy to repair. When belts transport slaughterhouse waste, their mechanical requirements are less critical. Nevertheless, belts conveying offal for processing must comply with exacting hygiene standards. Food-grade conveyor belts are also a must for conveying and processing offal and slaughterhouse waste.

Our solution

We have coatings and belt designs that can handle any task at this step in the process.

We recommend our Prolink plastic modular belts for transporting live birds. These belts are made of hard-wearing, chemical-resistant polyethylene (PE), for instance, series 6.1.

A range of easy-to-clean belt types are ideal for slaughterhouse waste. Our portfolio offers various, exceptionally hygienic, EU- and FDA-compliant HACCP belts for conveying offal in particular.

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Technical Requirements of the Belts

Just like all areas of the food industry, food-grade conveyor belts are required here too. To skin the poultry, the belt types between the upper and lower belt need to be as robust as possible. To bone and joint the meat, incision-resistant belt surfaces are essential.

3. Dip tank conveyors

Some countries stipulate dipping meat to prevent contamination. The slaughtered poultry is rinsed in chilled chlorinated water and disinfected. The chlorine dioxide kills germs such as salmonella and campylobacter in broiler, chicken and poularde meat.

X-rays

How do you make sure your meat and poultry doesn’t contain any glass, bones, or stones? X-ray detectors inspect your products for contamination. The also perform quality control checks.

Technical Requirements of the Belts

The belts must be food grade, but a high friction coefficient on the top face is also an advantage. This feature improves positioning stability when the belt passes through the lead or lead substitute curtain.

Our solution

The FRT (closed surfaces with friction tops) versions of our Prolink plastic modular belts achieve a very high and therefore beneficial friction coefficient. But even with our Transilon conveyor and processing belts, numerous belts with suitable surface coatings (e.g. rhomboid patterns, silicone) achieve the friction coefficient required.

Our belts guarantee efficient, perfect processes and therefore no faulty measurements.

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Technical Requirements of the Belts

Each step in the process requires specific belts. Belts used during marinating need to be food grade and have large open areas. Forming processes require hard-wearing belts with good release properties. During the weighing process, belts must always be the same thickness because varying belt weights will impact the meat’s weight. Consequently, you’ll achieve the product quality desired and comply with the standards.

6. Deep freezing

Many sales channels require deep-frozen products.
Linear or spiral freezing systems cool them down to the requisite temperature. Cardboard or plastic packaging are customary for shipping.

Technical Requirements of the Belts

In deep-frozen sections, the belt must still be flexible and not become brittle at temperatures down to -40°C. To ensure it doesn’t hamper the cooling process, the belt carcass must have an open area and be easy to repair if necessary.
Spiral freezers also require belts that are suitable for curves.

Our solution

Our Prolink plastic modular belts made of temperature-resistant polyoxymethylene (POM) and polyethylene (PE) are ideal for deep-freezing applications. For short cooling sections, the Prolink product portfolio includes linear and curved modules with large open areas. Series 5 has all these features. It’s ideal for curved and straight conveyor sections and has an open area of up to 45% for good airflow and drainage.

To withstand the high tensile forces in cooling towers, we add stainless steel hinge pins to our curved Prolink belts.

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Technical Requirements of the Belts

Food-grade, easy-to-clean belts are a must. But they need to have other characteristics too. For instance, for weighing processes, belt thickness must be identical and the surfaces able convey and position products reliably. They should also be heat-resistant if shrunk-wrapped.

Our solution

Our special belts also help you to complete these processing tasks successfully as well. At the same time, they meet your HACCP concept’s requirements.

Our check-weigher belts’ functional surfaces guarantee dependable conveying and precise positioning of products. They stand apart because their thickness is the same. And very precise splices make endless belts superfluous. Temperature-resistant belts are ideal for shrink tunnels. For these steps, the Prolink and Transilon series are alternatives.

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8. Check-weighing

Weight is usually inspected inline using check-weighers. It doesn’t matter whether your products are packaged or unpackaged.

Our solution

Our Transilon conveyor and processing belts come in various designs with maximum thickness consistency. Exact fabrication guarantees the same surface weight, even in the area where the splice is. Because their thickness is consistent and splices precise, you can easily use our check-weigher belts instead of endless ones. On request, we can seal the edges of our fabric-based belts to meet the most stringent of hygiene standards.

What’s more, elastic belts with homogenous product designs and easy-to-clean surfaces are predestined for use in check-weighers. They are very flexible and elastic, keep sufficiently taut to enable perfect tracking and require no additional take-up units. We also supply these elastic belt types endless with maximum splicing precision (thickness uniformity).

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9. Metal detectors

During final inspections, you check your products for contamination by foreign bodies. Metal detectors help guarantee that the final product contains no metallic objects.

Technical Requirements of the Belts

Depending on the process and how your products are conveyed, the parameters specific to the conveyor govern the technical requirements. For example, very elastic belts might be beneficial in some process while exceptional tensile strength might be essential in others.

Our solution

We supply both fabric-based belt types and plastic modular belts for any sub-process. We can easily fit many belts from this portfolio to your packaging systems. As a result, you’ll be able to exploit your productivity potential and ability to produce quality products to the full.

Robust belts with long service lives guarantee reliable processes and HACCP-compliant belts allow direct contact with food. At this step in the process, the belts meet stringent hygiene requirements at all times.


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