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Vacuum Conveying:
The Principle

Examples of Conveyed
Materials

Vacuum Conveying:
Cost Example

Our Conveyor Designs
VR - Vacuum Conveyors
PPC - Vacuum Conveyors
Tablet-Conveyors
Vacuum Conveyors
with Inerting Option

Pressure-Proof
Vacuum Conveyors

Vacuum Conveying
inside Explosion-Zones

Vacuum Conveyors
with Weighing and
Measuring Function

Loading and Unloading
Stations for Vacuum
Conveyors

Suction of Liquids

Applications:
Chemicals
Dye-Powder and Pigments
Pharmaceuticals
Tablets, Capsules and
Dragees

Food

Complete Solutions for the
Handling and Processing
of Powders

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Vacuum-Conveyors for Foodstuff

Advantages

  • dust-free and gentle material handling
  • gap-free and all-accessable design of the conveyor
  • easy disassembling and cleaning of the conveyors
  • smooth surfaces, electro-polished or mirror polished
  • different high-standard filters
  • small sizes
  • safe for operation with ignitable materials and for the use inside explosion zones
  • minimum of residual material inside the conveyor
  • WIP- / CIP-conveyors upon request
  • Inerting function optional
  • manual or automatic suction processes
  • easily connected to various bag-unloading stations
  • material can be conveyed and measured/dosed with one unit
  • lightweight and mobile systems available
  • FDA-approved materials, optional with all necessary 3.1B material certificates
  • works also with substances like mushrooms (transportation in water to prevent oxidization), alcoholized cherries, cream-fat powder, chicken-wings, roasted peanuts ...

Typical Applications

  • Material discharging out of loading funnels, Big-Bags, IBCs, drums, bags, driers, granulators, Tablet presses, Coaters, Moulds, sheets etc.
  • Feeding of materials into mixers, reactors, mills, filling and packaging machines, coaters, blenders/sieves, Big-Bags, weighing hoppers, dosing stations, IBCs ...
  • dustfree conveying and feeding of all different powders, pellets, prills, flakes, spices, herbs etc.
  • Safe handling of aggressive substances

feeding of a filling station with a vacuum conveyor VR 450

vacuum conveyor feeding a drum coater for fruit gum

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