At Autoquip, we recognize that any time food and beverage are being processed and stored, there is a heightened requirement for customized material handling solutions that will maintain the integrity of the product and ensure employee safety. Autoquip has an extensive design database of custom solutions that include features developed specifically for the food processing industry, including stainless steel lifts, wash-down electrical components, food-grade hydraulic oils, and powder-coat finishes.
Do you have a freezer application? Not a problem. Or, how about an oven application? We’ve done that. Or maybe it’s a process where equipment must be compatible with certain chemicals, powder, dust, or salt? Regardless of the environment, Autoquip is uniquely qualified to provide you with an innovative, affordable, and safe equipment solution.
Typical custom equipment solutions for the Food and Drug Industry include:
Freezer lifts – Portable and fixed scissors lifts are used to build up and break down pallets of frozen packages, placing each layer of product at ergonomic heights.
Mezzanine storage lifts – Vertical reciprocating conveyors and high travel scissors lifts transfer pallets or unit loads of merchandise vertically between landings for storage, processing, etc.
Ingredient tilters – Industrial tilters tilt baskets, boxes, and other containers to ergonomic work heights to minimize bending and reaching by employees.
Dairy truck levelers – Hydraulic truck leveling platforms are used at the loading dock to load and unload products used in dairy processing.
Potato truck dumper – High-capacity hydraulic tilters tilt the entire truck and trailer at the unloading dock to dump out complete truck loads of potatoes in one operation
Oven lifts – Manually operated mechanical lifts are used to adjust the height of carts or products in a commercial walk-in oven.
Multi-level ingredient handling lifts – Mechanical and hydraulic vertical reciprocating conveyor lifts deliver and receive ingredients in bulk containers between landings in a processing plant.
End-of conveyor pallet build-up lifts with turntables – Industrial scissors tables, with manual or powered turntables, are used to build up layers of finished product onto pallets for shrink-wrapping.