Do you folks know of any reliable Spiral Conveyors for the Food Industry ?

Good Afternoon ,

Sometimes we have an over abundance of product. Sometimes we do not want to always shutdown our manufacturing process. Do you know of any good , reliable , somewhat maintenance free Spiral Conveyors ? We are actualy in the food industry , so it needs to be food grade.

Thanks so much for your input in advance.

Any time we've dealt with spiral conveyors (which isn't that often) they have been Ryson.


http://www.ryson.com/spiral-conveyors/

I would think better production planning would be the key item to look at.

http://www.materialhandlingtech.com/integrated-solutions/custom-fabrication/

I use to work with this company. Good Stuff. Located in Raleigh N.C. So not to far away. They do work in Food and Beverage industries.

I did a bunch of PLC work with these folks years ago in Seattle for the frozen seafood industry. High quality systems with good support, their customers swore by them.
http://www.jbtfoodtech.com/en/Solutions/Processes/Freezing-and-Chilling

jraef said:

I did a bunch of PLC work with these folks years ago in Seattle for the frozen seafood industry. High quality systems with good support, their customers swore by them.
http://www.jbtfoodtech.com/en/Solutions/Processes/Freezing-and-Chilling

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Might be different in the USA, but that's not the experience I've had with JBT. Terrible, terrible support - we wanted a simple code change done, they wouldn't let us do it, and they took 8 months to get it done (even with a remote access option, which is how they eventually did it) because "there's only one engineer who services your area, and he's busy". He was off in Sweden and Egypt at various times we asked, so I'm not sure what sort of territory this "one engineer" has to cover. When they finally did make the change, he only read half my documentation, did a half-a**ed job, and then got grumpy when we woke him back up to finish the job according to the spec he'd been given.

I also saw the PLC code in the end, and it was godawful. Still to this day in the top ten worst I've ever seen.

Like I say, might be different over in the states, but JBT is one company that will never ever be asked to quote again for this (quite large) company or any of their associates.

We use Ambaflex, and I quite like their products. They are also used widespread in Food/Bev around various sites I've been on both in Aus and overseas.

http://www.ambaflex.com/

Several of my customers use FlexIcon. Seems like good stuff, just a bit pricey.
https://www.flexicon.com/

We have used Amba Flex have had issues getting part. Now we use https://www.allianceindustrial.com/spiral-conveyors.html.

I've used and am about to use again these guys.

http://www.spiroflow.com/

Excellent in everything I have ever asked of them.

Cheers

Mark

We have been using Sentry conveyors for some years now, and I think they are pretty good. We actually just installed our first spiral conveyor a couple of months ago now, and so far so good. Some of their controls I think might be a little overbuilt (using a ControlLogix system to control a few conveyors - start/stop/speed) and sometimes overly complicated, but it all works really well once it's tuned. I'd say they are at least worth getting a quote from!

www.sentryequipment.com

MarkNightingale said:

I've used and am about to use again these guys.

http://www.spiroflow.com/

Excellent in everything I have ever asked of them.

Cheers

Mark

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I worked for Spiroflow for about 18 months. They have good systems and their controls team is great.

bright676 said:

I would think better production planning would be the key item to look at.

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Yes that would be by far the best response to a customer waving a chequebook at you.