The food processing industry is one of the most important industries in the world, with a global market value of over $4 trillion. It is responsible for processing raw materials into food products that are consumed by people all over the world.
However, the industry faces several challenges that impact production processes and overall efficiency. These challenges are numerous and diverse, and they affect different areas of production.
Production challenges faced by food processing industries.
There are several production challenges faced by food processing industries, some of which include:
Food Safety: One of the primary difficulties food processing industries faces is food safety assurance. They must follow stringent regulations and standards to prevent contamination and preserve product quality. Maintaining product integrity is essential to ensure that the food products are safe for consumption. This involves implementing comprehensive safety protocols, verifying the quality of raw materials and ingredients, and performing regular inspections to detect any potential hazards.
Screening Impurities: Contaminants, such as pesticides, heavy metals, or pathogens, can pose serious health risks to consumers and negatively impact the quality of the final product. These impurities can affect food products' taste, texture, and nutritional value, leading to customer dissatisfaction and even product recalls. Therefore, it is essential to implement screening measures to detect and remove any potential contaminants from raw materials before they enter the production process.
Production Efficiency: Efficient production is vital for food processing industries to remain competitive. To achieve this, they must optimize their processes, reduce waste, and enhance supply chain management. By streamlining operations and eliminating inefficiencies, food processing industries can improve productivity, reduce costs, and increase profitability. Effective supply chain management also helps to ensure that the right materials are available at the right time, minimizing delays and disruptions. Overall, maximizing production efficiency is crucial for the success of food processing industries in a competitive market.
Equipment Maintenance: Food processing industries face costly downtime and production schedule disruptions due to equipment breakdowns. To ensure smooth operations, regular maintenance and repair of equipment are necessary. This proactive approach can minimize unplanned downtime, avoid costly repairs, and help ensure that equipment is operating efficiently. In turn, this helps to maintain production schedules and improve overall productivity in food processing industries.
Wastage Control: Controlling wastage in food production is essential to running a successful food processing business. First, it helps to reduce costs associated with purchasing new materials or disposing of unused ones. Second, it can help increase the production process's efficiency and productivity, leading to improved profitability. Third, reducing food waste can have positive environmental impacts by reducing the amount of organic material sent to landfills, which can generate harmful greenhouse gases.
Sustainability: To address growing consumer concerns about the environmental impact of their products, food processing industries must prioritize finding sustainable solutions. This means implementing measures that can reduce waste, conserve energy, and lower their carbon footprint. By doing so, these industries can meet the changing demands of their customers and contribute to a more sustainable future.
How can Galaxy Sivtek's Vibro Sifters mitigate these problems?
While these problems pose a grave threat to a company, they can also become valuable factors where you can shine and get a better edge over your competitors by mitigating them.
And one of the best ways to mitigate them is by employing one of Galaxy Sivtek's vibro screening machines. From increasing your accuracy to providing a hygienic environment for your raw materials, our vibro sifters can be a boon for any food processing company.
Here are a few ways in which Galaxy Sivtek's vibro sifter can help you enhance your production:
Accurate Gradation
Galaxy Sivtek's vibro screening machines are engineered to consistently deliver the most optimal gradation results for your production needs. With a focus on finesse and accuracy, they can accurately and efficiently separate up to five different levels of particle gradations in a single operation. This level of control over the texture of the finished product gives you a competitive edge, allowing you to achieve a superior product compared to your competitors.
Optimal Screening Solution
Galaxy Sivtek's vibro sifters are a powerful solution for food processing industries seeking to improve the purity of their raw materials. These sifters efficiently remove impurities and foreign particles from insect mixtures, ensuring consistent quality and high-quality end products. The sifters enhance the efficiency of the production line by producing cleaner and purer raw materials.
Minimizes Operation Costs
Galaxy Sivtek's fine range of vibro sifters and self-cleaning filters® are designed with unique features that can significantly reduce operation costs. They optimize resource utilization, minimizing errors and wastage. With higher screening accuracy, the final product is enriched and refined for consumption. Also, the self-cleaning filters' automatic process eliminates the need for manpower, reducing expenses for the food processing industry.
Additionally, reduced power consumption further reduces operating expenses. In summary, the combination of these features provides a cost-effective solution for food processing industries seeking to enhance their filtration process.
Filtration Control
Galaxy Sivtek's screening and filtration machines stand out due to their unique filter control system. The machines feature a modified Programmable Logic Control (PLC) box, which intuitively controls the pneumatic cylinders and actuators. This "Set & Be Free" feature allows users to control the movement of cleaning disks and purging chamber valves. This enables precise calibration of the filters to suit the dairy product being processed, making it stand out from conventional machines. The feature is embedded in a range of self-cleaning filters and gyratory machines.
Easy Maintenance
Food manufacturers often face the challenge of spending considerable time disassembling filters for intensive cleaning, reducing production capacity. Galaxy Sivtek's self-cleaning filters and vibratory screening machines are ingeniously designed to be easily assembled and disassembled. The parts relate to reliable, easy-to-disconnect clamps, simplifying the mesh-changing process and reducing overall maintenance time. This eliminates the need to remove machine parts and enables efficient processing of raw materials.
Galaxy Sivtek's fine range of vibro sifters ideal for food processing industries
To provide a safe and effective screening experience for your food production, Galaxy Sivtek presents its curated list of machines designed to meet your every need.
Sivtek Vibro Separator
Galaxy Sivtek's Sivtek Vibro Separator is a gyro separator machine designed with years of expertise and experience in the industry. This efficient and intense vibro separator can sieve all kinds of materials, offering support for scalping, de-dusting, and gradation settings. It is the most versatile screening machine, ideal for the dynamic applications of food processing industries.
The machine's strategically placed vibratory motors provide circular motion and greater productivity. The eccentric weights on the upper and lower ends of the motion generator shaft create high-intensity vibrations, resulting in more even distribution of the materials being screened. This enables faster screening, which is advantageous for bulk screening.
The Sivtek Vibro Separator is a reliable and cost-effective solution for all types of sieving requirements. Its smooth and secure operating experience makes it an optimum vibro separator machine. Its robust woven mesh embedded in the vibrating sieve ensures a longer life span without any downtimes.
This gyro separator offers numerous benefits, such as significantly increasing the screening capacity and providing five different gradations in a single operation. It is also one of the most versatile machines in the industry, with a diverse range of add-ons that can transform its modes of application. Different types of screening rings can be installed to bring a whole new level of versatility to this gyratory separator.
The Sivtek Vibro Separator is ideal for companies looking for a reliable, cost-effective, and efficient screening solution that provides high gradation accuracy and versatile applications. Its features and capabilities make it one of the most efficient and effective machines for food processing.
Self-Cleaning Filter
The SIVTEK Self-Cleaning Filter is a highly efficient and versatile filtration system that can handle both watery and viscous substances. This automatic filter is designed to remove unwanted particles present in the substance, providing optimal filtration.
Compared to conventional self-cleaning strainers, the SIVTEK Self-Cleaning Filter is a superior choice due to its continuous filtering process. Its automatic self-cleaning filters regulate pressure difference by working on the Delta P principle, ensuring that the filter operates 24x7 without requiring filter changes.
The filter is powered by pneumatic actuators with a cleaning disk that collects and cleans the solid particles that accumulate in the mesh basket. Its robust design enables it to filter liquids as hot as 250℃, making it a durable and reliable filtration system. The Self-Cleaning Filter is made entirely of high-grade stainless steel, ensuring utmost sturdiness and integrity. It comes in four different sizes - 2”, 4”, 6”, and 8” - and can be customized to meet specific requirements.
For heavy flow of liquid substances, the filter can be enhanced by installing a dual cylinder that can handle the additional pressure. SIVTEK is committed to continuously improving its filtration systems to increase productivity and user satisfaction for its clients.
Overall, the SIVTEK Self Cleaning Filter is an excellent choice for food processing industries as it offers a reliable and efficient filtration system and reduces downtime and maintenance costs. Its automatic cleaning feature ensures continuous filtration, making it a cost-effective and time-saving option.
Sivtek Roto Sifter
Sivtek Roto Sifter is a reliable and efficient centrifugal sifter that is highly recognized for its innovative screening process. This sifter can handle materials with low bulk density and is ideal for screening particles ranging from powders to granules. One of the unique features of this machine is its ability to operate in a vacuum environment, making it versatile for use in food processing industries.
The beater bars on the screener create a centrifugal force, which separates the screening material based on particle size. The cantilever design of the machine helps maintain a hygienic environment while reducing sound emissions to less than 80 decibels and minimizing power consumption without creating any additional vibrations.
The Roto Sifter is highly beneficial for materials that require high-powered sifting while maintaining a hygienic environment, such as those in the food processing industries. It can also perform various functions, such as classifying and de-dusting, and is available with screens in four different sizes for greater flexibility in controlling the final product.
The Sivtek Roto Sifter is designed to meet the highest standards of sanitation and hygiene. It provides safe processing of materials, preventing any contaminants from entering raw materials, making it a popular choice for industries that require a high level of sanitary and hygiene parameters, such as food and pharmaceuticals. The compact and concealed design of the machine ensures dust-free operations, and it can easily rotate 360 degrees, making inspection easy.
Inline Sivtek
The Inline Sivtek is a highly efficient inline vibro sifter that can process fine mesh and reduce the screening time, thereby increasing your capacity and efficiency. It is a low-headroom gyratory screener that is highly regarded in the industry for its unique construction and compact sieves. The machine's acute design sets it apart from conventional single-motor screeners, as the inlet and material discharge outlet are installed in the centerline, reducing the movements of the screening material.
It uses two imbalance-weight gravity motors mounted on the machine to reduce the minimum height requirement of your machine. The dual motors, mounted on both sides of the machine, create a 3-D motion that allows maximum flow-thru. The Intels and Outlets of Inline Sivtek can be custom designed as per your existing equipment and piping infrastructure.
The Inline vibro sifter's compact structure uses minimal space, significantly reducing your maintenance costs. It requires very minimal headroom space, making it easy to install and adjust the machine according to your accommodation area. It can also be easily disassembled and cleaned, which further cuts your costs on manpower.
The Inline Sivtek is ideal for performing roles like raw material screening, in-process screening, pre-packaging screening, and de-dusting, which make it ideal for the food processing industry. It provides you with high throughput and speeds up your screening process. You can customize the machine according to your requirements and enhance its efficiency with a range of add-on equipment to match your established processing line.
The inline sifter comes in a mirror and bead blast finish, and you can add a ultrasonic deblinding system, clamping system, and castor wheels to make the machine more efficient for your screening needs. Overall, the Inline Sivtek is an excellent choice for increasing efficiency and capacity while reducing maintenance costs of your food production process.
Enhance your food production capacity and quality with Galaxy Sivtek's amazing screening machines
Galaxy Sivtek's screening and filtering machines are designed to enhance your production capacity and efficiency in screening a diverse range of food products, surpassing conventional alternatives in performance while maintaining the highest quality standard.
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