ATEX compliant Fully Automatic Sack Opening Solution
Palamatic produce food grade materials handling solutions including Vacuum Lifters , Automatic Sack Opening machines and hygienic lifting and handling systems .
Equipment is produced in stainless steel and can be provided with food grade options to suit clean process areas .
Where dust is an issue , ATEX certified equipment can be offered .
Recently a valued customer and global manufacturer of food materials , had a requirement to upgrade manufacturing facilities and production machinery to replace end of life equipment .
Their need was to open and discharge 180 sacks of ingredients per batch and required a system compliant to latest ATEX directives . The equipment needed to meet COSHH regulations , health and safety guidelines and to improve process efficiency .
Our recommendation was our new to the range , PAL-F-AST ATEX compliant Fully Automatic Sack Opening Machine .
The PAL-FAST machine is a fully automatic solution for medium throughput sack discharging for up to 3-5 sack a minute . Ideal for food , pharmaceutical and chemical applications where production is discharged into a mixing process , all within a safe dust free environment without the need for manual cutting of sacks . The system is designed to prevent any contamination from the outer bag once the bag is inside the machine body thus keeping the product contamination free .
The operator can load the PAL-FAST -MF using a Palamatic Vacuum Tube lifter to lift the sacks . The door is manually closed which locks
58 FDPP - www . fdpp . co . uk automatically starting the opening and emptying process and feeds the emptied sack into the waste sack compactor . The door automatically opens in readiness for the next sack to be loaded . The compact design of this machine ensures the neatest footprint , and another important feature is that the product is never in contact with the outer sack .
The system is an electro - pneumatically powered machine that can be supplied with either a pneumatic logic control system or a plc control panel complete with optional HMI display . It is manufactured in stainless steel with contact parts in stainless steel 304L or 316L . The system is ATEX by standard and can be offered with a range of powder discharge options and waste sack collection systems .
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