Pneumatic Conveying of Finished Petfoods

gde associates (uk)'s up-to-date technical knowledge of the latest processing and materials handling techniques available to their clients' specific industry, combined with a commercial and practical awareness of the competitive market/industry trends, has been a key factor in gde's success and growth since formation. Providing clients with a new state-of-the-art factory, or the remodel of an existing plant, necessitates hygienic building designs, an environmental compliant and an ergonomic process plant layout incorporating energy efficient equipment combined with guaranteed "cross contamination free" conveying systems to meet the increasing demands imposed by the client and their respective trade or retailer customers to achieve optimum Product Quality Assurance.

Finished Product Conveying System

Bin Distribution System

gde's most recent project, completed for one of the UK's oldest established private petfood manufacturers, utilises a unique continuous dense phase pneumatic system for transfer of all products after the extruders. A condition of gde's design brief received from the client's team was to eliminate traditional mechanical handling methods utilised in their existing factory to increase production efficiency by reducing the plant down time lost through clean-out between formulation changes/production runs.
After extensive investigation, networking and trials with numerous equipment manufacturers, gde and their client nominated Mac Equipment from Kansas, USA, to supply eight conveying systems.

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