Anyone who says that money cannot buy happiness has clearly never bought a pizza. Americans LOVE their pizza. So-much-so that according to the Washington Post, approximately 100 acres of the saucy, cheesy goodness is consumed every day! That’s a whole lotta pie. We also love our toppings from pineapple to plain cheese with the most popular single pizza topping being pepperoni. Frozen or fresh, it’s safe to say pizza is an American dietary staple.
From mixing the crusts to adding seasonings, specialty bulk material handling machinery helps bring pizzas to our tables each day. In a recent custom build, Dynequip and our creative engineers were put to the task of helping a pizza manufacturing plant create a portable piece of equipment that was needed to streamline their process.
Some of the requirements of the build included:
- Portability
- Easy Clean Up
- Seamless Integration with Existing System
- Ability to Easily Change Between Flavorings
- Self-contained System
- Food-grade and Sanitary
The customer needed to move this piece from one manufacturing location in the plant to another. In doing so, it needed to fit easily through doorways. For this reason, the long arm at the top was made to pivot so it could be lowered when needed.
Because multiple kinds of toppings such as onion bits would be passing through the machine, the piece needed to be easy to clean. We made it able to be tipped so employees would be better able to clean it out completely to eliminate cross contamination between batches and between locations.
As with many of our custom jobs, integrating our conveyors and hoppers into already existing systems is where the magic of engineering takes flight. This flexible screw conveyor feeder and hopper was built to seamlessly integrate with more than one production line within the customer’s plant.
Does your manufacturing process need an upgrade? We can help. Contact us today for a consultation.