Belt loader for slicing and packaging lines
Enhance your production line with seamless integration and efficient portion handling for high-speed slicing and packaging, ensuring minimal downtime and maintaining product quality.
The GEA OptiLoader 6000 and 5000 from GEA offer innovative solutions for seamless integration into high-speed food production lines. Designed to transport and buffer portions between slicing and thermoforming, these belt loaders minimize machine stoppages and maintain high product quality. Specializing in cheese, ham, and sausage slicing, they ensure precise portioning. The OptiLoader 6000 integrates seamlessly with GEA thermoformers, while the 5000 model fits conventional setups. With a modular design, they allow for easy customization and cost-effective maintenance, featuring optional GEA SmartControl for enhanced automation. The equipment offers multiple stacking and multi-layer loading options, maximizes operational efficiency with a compact footprint, and includes new safety cover concepts for operator safety and machine protection. Ideal for applications in food and meat processing, these loaders accommodate continuous, high-speed operations, supporting solid product types for vacuum-sealed and pre-packaged food items.
Benefits
- Minimizes operational downtime with smart buffering to prevent production line stoppages.
- Ensures high portion accuracy and quality, protecting product integrity during transport.
- Offers flexible integration with both GEA and conventional thermoformers, enhancing production versatility.
- Reduces maintenance costs through a modular design that allows easy customization and access.
- Enhances operator safety and machine longevity with innovative safety cover concepts.
- Applications
- Calibrated sausage,Cheese,Ham,Food packaging,Cooked ham,Salami,Raw ham
- End products
- Pre-packaged cooked ham portions,Cheddar cheese slices,Vacuum-sealed food packs,Pepperoni slices,Deli ham slices,Prosciutto,Italian salami
- Steps before
- Slicing,Portioning
- Steps after
- Thermoforming,Packaging,Sealing
- Input ingredients
- sliced portions,meat,cheese,sausage,salami,raw ham,cooked ham
- Output ingredients
- packaged portions,sealed packs
- Machine Frame
- Includes adaption for buffer and loading belt
- Index Length
- Up to 1,000 mm
- Spreading Conveyor
- 1 – 4 lanes with manual adjustment
- Line Diverger
- Optional with 2 mandrels or 2 to 3 diverging
- Aligning Conveyor
- 1 – 4 lanes
- Buffer Belt Lengths
- 500 / 750 / 1,000 mm
- Max Film Widths
- Up to 590 mm
- Correction Belt
- Optional short or with second belt for extended version
- Automation
- GEA SmartControl HMI
- Seamless integration
- Thermoformer
- Automation level
- Fully automated loading
- Changeover time
- Minimized with modular design
- Portion handling
- Gentle and accurate
- Buffering system
- Smart buffering to avoid stoppages
- Footprint
- Minimal,compact design
- Machine footprint
- Minimal footprint
- Frame type
- Conventional / Seamless for OptiLoader 5000
- Buffer belt length
- 500 / 750 / 1,000 mm
- Max. film width
- Up to 590 mm
- Spreading conveyor lanes
- 1 – 4 lanes with manual adjustment
- Aligning conveyor lanes
- 1 – 4 lanes
- Modular design
- Easy customization
- Integration possibilities
- Seamless with GEA Thermoformer
- Frame design
- Conventional / Customized
- Buffer belt length
- 500 / 750 / 1,000 mm
- Conveyor lanes
- 1 – 4 lanes
- Manual adjustment
- Control System
- GEA SmartControl HMI (optional)
- Line diverger
- Optional 2 mandrels or 2 to 3 diverging
- Market info
- GEA is known for its expertise in engineering innovative and sustainable equipment and solutions, focusing on sectors such as food, beverages, pharmaceuticals, and energy, with a reputation for quality, efficiency, and advanced technological applications in industrial processing.