Conveyance systems for fruit and vegetable processing

Our fruit and vegetable industry specialists are committed to helping you achieve your operations, sustainability, and food safety goals. For every type of product and any type of application—from receiving to secondary packaging, from direct food contact to case handling—we’ll work with you to determine the right solution.

We provide solutions across a range of fruit and vegetable segments, including:

• Fresh produce
• Frozen products
• Canned, jarred, and pouched products

RECEIVING

Take abrasion resistance to a new level

In the harsh, highly abrasive conditions of the receiving area, debris and grit can migrate and accumulate between belt modules and rods, causing wear and shortened belt life. Series 1700 and 1750 Flush Grid belts are designed specifically to address high-abrasion challenges that can lead to shortened belt life, unscheduled downtime, low process reliability, and other issues common on receiving lines.

Benefits:

• Ideal for highly abrasive loads and long production cycles
• Designed for straight runs, inclines, and declines
• Engineered to reduce downtime and lengthen belt life

PROCESSING

FoodSafe solutions help you produce safe food, every day

Intralox® FoodSafe™ is a portfolio of services and technology backed by experts to help you produce safe food and protect your brand. Our innovative line of FoodSafe products and services can help you optimize your facility’s new or existing conveyors to achieve food safety and operational goals.

Intralox FoodSafe includes:

• ThermoDrive belting: The most advanced belt system for hygienic food processing, featuring a lightweight belt that's easy to clean in place
• Food-safe modular plastic belting: Designed to reduce belt breakage and safeguard against foreign material contamination risks
• FoodSafe services: Includes the Hygienic Conveyor Design Program, Sanitation Essentials Training, Hygienic Design Training, Advanced Food Industry Leadership Training, and the FoodSafe Conveyor Program

FREEZING

Optimal performance in IQF and tunnel freezers

Intralox’s conveyor belt for individual quick freezing (IQF) and tunnel freezers, the Series 800 Perforated Flat Top Round Hole PLUS is designed for optimal performance and unparalleled food safety. Because it delivers even airflow throughout the entire belt with no “dead spots,” this solution ensures uniform freezing of individual products, zero clumping, and enhanced product release.

Design features:

• Open hinges
• Evenly distributed holes
• Full-length stainless steel rods

BLANCHING

A better belt for blanching: Series 888

Any time you experience an issue with your blancher conveyor belt, it can affect the performance of not only that application, but the entire line. Our Series 888 belt helps ensure efficient blanching and drainage while delivering food-safe, hygienic, and durable performance.

S888 belting’s open-hinge design, combined with molded-in sideguards, reduces cleaning time and effort. Its consistent thickness ensures better belt strength and reduced risk of belt breakage and product contamination. And its unique center-driven sprocket and drive bar design produces positive engagement (even under strenuous conditions) and eliminates belt wear.

BLANCHING

A better belt for blanching: Series 888

Any time you experience an issue with your blancher conveyor belt, it can affect the performance of not only that application, but the entire line. Our Series 888 belt helps ensure efficient blanching and drainage while delivering food-safe, hygienic, and durable performance.

S888 belting’s open-hinge design, combined with molded-in sideguards, reduces cleaning time and effort. Its consistent thickness ensures better belt strength and reduced risk of belt breakage and product contamination. And its unique center-driven sprocket and drive bar design produces positive engagement (even under strenuous conditions) and eliminates belt wear.

PACKAGING AND CASE HANDLING

Reliably increase throughput on your critical packaging lines

Intralox’s reliable and innovative packaging technologies, combined with early-stage line layout consulting, allow fruit and vegetable processors to automate all or some end-of-line processes. Standardizing your packaging lines with ARB or AIM technology increases throughput and reliability while eliminating product damage.

Intralox's technologies and services for fruit and vegetable packaging areas include:

ARB equipment: A patented, automated conveyance solution that creates new possibilities for system or line layouts. Proven in thousands of installations worldwide, ARB equipment enables efficient, gentle, and reliable product handling for applications and areas that more traditional technology cannot support.

AIM technology: Enables optimal performance for switching, sorting, or merging in primary packaging. AIM equipment performs in multiple environments, including washdown, to promote cleanability and line flexibility and reduce dependence on labor.

Line Layout Optimization consulting: With industry expertise and transformative technologies, we help you achieve future-ready flexibility, unlock potential, and improve overall performance.