Honeytop Speciality Foods
recently asked Astec
Conveyors to design a
conveying system from the discharge
of the flow wrappers in its production
hall, through to the warehouse for
packing into baskets or cases ready
for hand palletising.

This appeared simple, but in
practice was less so, as flow wrappers
were located between the RG Luma
lines, space restrictions created
difficulties for access and a passageway
had to be maintained for pallet trucks.

Astec Conveyors designed, built
and installed a stainless steel, food
quality modular plastic belt conveying
system, combining a series of 11.5cm
slat conveyors and 90 and 180° bends.

Space problems were overcome in
co-operation with RG Luma. The
outer guarding of Robot machines
was modified to create a passageway
through the machines to allow
wrapped product to be discharged
from the flow wrappers down a
chute to a low level conveyor, to be
transported through the machines,
and up an inclined modular belt
conveyor to the warehouse via overhead
modular plastic slat conveyors.