Conveyor belts and equipment for bakery plants

Modular plastic pan line solutions from Intralox greatly reduce pan wear, enabling bakeries to achieve significant savings in pan replacement costs while eliminating metal contamination. Before you invest in a new set of pans, consider replacing your steel chains/belts with plastic and reap the benefits of longer pan life.

ProTrax belting: The plan for your pans

The Intralox ProTrax magnetic conveyor belt is a breakthrough solution for many common pan area applications, including pan inclines and declines, metering conveyors, depanners/de-lidders, and radius pan conveyors. Winner of the American Society of Baking (ASB) Innovation Award for Operational Excellence, the patented ProTrax belt features permanent magnets embedded within the belt. The pattern and distribution of magnetic modules is configurable based on specific application needs.

ProTrax belts can help you lower labor costs and minimize maintenance by delivering critical pan area benefits:

• Maintain pan orientation and eliminate pan jams
• Reduce product contamination risks
• Extend belt and pan life
• Achieve stable performance in hot, dry, and oily environments
• Increase pan conveyance versatility

Learn more about the ProTrax belt's ASB Award win

To help you meet the specific challenges and conditions of your bakery processing line, we offer several straight-running and radius modular plastic conveyor belts targeted to bakery plants. These include:

Series 2400 Radius belt with Heavy-Duty Edge (HDE): The longest lasting and most fault-tolerant radius conveyor belt for the food industry, its innovative design and patented Load-Sharing edge (LSE) technology reduce downtime and extend belt life.

High Performance Friction Top (HPFT) material: A more durable alternative to our original Friction Top belting, HPFT withstands higher temperature applications—up to 212°F (100°C)—and performs especially well in oily and abrasive applications.

Series 900 Large Roller belt: An FDA-compliant solution for bread slicer infeed conveyors that’s proven to decrease product damage and maintenance while improving worker safety

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For small or delicate baked products like cookies, mini muffins, and croissants, transfers between conveyors can be especially fraught. The Intralox Series 560 belt provides smooth, gentle product handling to improve yield and minimize damaged or wasted product. Its distinctively small nosebar makes it ideal for transfers of small or delicate products, including machinery infeed and outfeed, product transfer, tight transfer conveyors, or product handling within the machine.

Benefits:

• Positive tracking with superior sprocket engagement
• Exposed rods and open channels allow easy water access during cleaning
• Eliminates mistracking and maintains product orientation

Learn more about the Intralox Series 560 belt

The performance and reliability of your spiral conveyors are critical to the success of your bakery plant. For bakery spiral applications like freezing, cooling, or proofing, the one and only DirectDrive System has set the standard for more than a decade.

DirectDrive technology has revolutionized spiral conveyance by eliminating overdrive, creating reliably smooth operation that performs without interruption. Today, over 1,000 DirectDrive System spirals are installed in processing plants around the world, delivering improved production, reduced maintenance, and simplified sanitation.

DirectDrive System benefits:

• Creates a positively driven belt with zero overdrive
• Reduces belt tension
• Delivers reliably smooth operation
• Eliminates product orientation issues
• Ensures consistent system performance

Learn more about the One and Only DirectDrive System

The major packaging challenge for bakery plants is balancing throughput and efficiency with the need for gentle product handling.

With Intralox Packer to Palletizer, you can ensure maximum return on investment for your back-end projects—from initial planning to final installation and beyond. Whether you're building a new plant, expanding an existing facility, or undertaking a reconfiguration, our team can help you reach key performance indicators (KPIs) and limit project risks.

Packer to Palletizer technologies and services for bakery plants include:

• ARB equipment for package and case handling
• Series 2100 ZERO TANGENT and Series 2300 Nose-Roller Tight Turning radius belts
• Line layout optimization and simulation services

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