6 Rotary Features that Enhance Your Food-Safe Filling

Filling food products can be challenging for a myriad of reasons–but keeping them food-safe is perhaps the most challenging. When it comes to hygienically filling food or nutraceutical products like baking mix, candy, coffee, drink and vitamin mixes, protein powder, vitamin gummies, rice and beans, nuts and snacks, Spee-Dee rotary fillers are a cut above the rest.

Watch the video below to see why. 

Read on to explore 6 rotary filler features that enhance your food-safe dry filling. 

Eliminate Cleaning Headaches with Tool-Less Change Parts

Simplify cleaning, maintenance and changeover. Our rotary fillers are designed with tool-less change parts.

Filling funnels feature a patented method to attach to the turret using embedded magnets, not fasteners, making the filler more hygienic and quicker to change over. The hygienic conveyor has a tool-less slider bed and roller returns that remove for full access. 

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Improve Cleanability with Stainless-Steel Bars 

Though not all applications require it, the FDA’s guidance continually points to a preference for stainless-steel materials, especially when it comes to the cleanability of surfaces for food products. Spee-Dee hygienic rotary fillers feature stainless-steel bars on the guard package that are long-lasting, durable and easy-to-clean, making them an ideal design feature for food filling applications.    

Get Rid of Niches with Molded Hinges 

Areas that are hard to clean can create niches within packaging systems. Niches are ‘spaces for the biological units of selection’, essentially meaning that they can create environments where bacteria can grow and thrive given the appropriate conditions. On rotary filling systems, traditional hinges can become a niche since much of the hinge is inaccessible for cleaning. Over time, product build up can lead to bacterial growth, making it a potential source of contamination. Spee-Dee rotary fillers feature hinges on doors that are molded. This reduces the number of niches where bacteria thrive, in addition to making them easier to clean. 

Reduce Hollow Bodies

In addition to small catchpoints like hinges, bacteria can easily harbor inside of hollow areas of equipment that are difficult or inaccessible to clean. Spee-Dee hygienic rotary fillers feature a solid design that reduces hollow bodies. 

Contain Dust on Your Dry Filling Line

Eliminate airborne particulates. Top covers on the funnels of our hygienic rotary help contain dust, enhancing the safety of your production line.

Ensure a Completely Enclosed System

If your filling system isn’t fully enclosed, contaminants can get in, and product can get out. Our hygienic rotary fillers feature containers that lift and engage with the container adapters, sealing tightly against them to ensure the hygienic rotary system is closed. These adapters help you quickly and easily adapt to different container height and shape, making them a flexible solution for multiple products or sizes.  

Sources: 

Baquero, F., Coque, T. M., Galán, J. C., & Martinez, J. L. (2021). The Origin of Niches and Species in the Bacterial World. Frontiers in Microbiology, 12. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2021.657986  

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