Overlapping loader for sliced food products
Achieve precise overlapping in high-speed slicing operations, ensuring consistent product presentation and optimized loading efficiency for sliced meats, cheese slices, and more.
The GEA OverLapper is a versatile slicing and loading solution from GEA, tailored for high-speed food processing lines. It excels in precise slicing and optimal overlapping of meats and cheeses, suitable for producing ham slices, cheese blocks, and ready-to-eat lasagnas. Integrated seamlessly with the GEA ShingleLoader, it operates continuously, ensuring high throughput and product consistency. The OverLapper features precise servo-driven lanes, allowing configurable overlapping patterns like 2-to-1 or 3-to-1, adapting to varied production needs. Its open design facilitates easy cleaning and maintenance, supporting hygienic operations without requiring tools. The equipment’s solid construction promises durability, while its integration capabilities and customizable configurations cater to unique production requirements across the food, beverage, and pharmaceutical sectors.
Benefits
- Enhances production efficiency by automating precise overlapping and slicing operations.
- Minimizes manual intervention with easy-to-operate integrated controls.
- Ensures consistent product quality with high overlapping accuracy through multi-lane servo drives.
- Reduces cleaning time and labor with tool-free, hygienic design.
- Adapts to diverse production line setups, offering flexible overlapping configurations.
- Applications
- Sliced meats,Cheese slices,Snack foods,Ready-to-eat meals,Sandwich toppings,Processed meats
- End products
- Pastrami sandwich fillings,Pre-packaged pepperoni,Mozzarella snack sticks,Cold cuts in trays,Bacon strips,Gouda cheese slices,Roast beef slices,Chicken breast strips,Snack cheese blocks,Turkey breast slices,Ham slices,Pre-cooked sausage links,Ready-to-eat lasagna,Cheddar cheese for sandwiches,Packaged salami
- Steps before
- Slicing,Shingling
- Steps after
- Loading,Packing
- Input ingredients
- Output ingredients
- Overlapping procedures
- 2 to 1,3 to 1,4 to 1,4 to 2
- High loading performance
- Yes
- Overlapping accuracy
- High due to individual detection and precise multi-lane servo drives
- Automation
- Display-operated
- Manual adjustment
- Overlapping degree manually adjustable
- Cleaning
- Fast preparation,no tools required
- Design
- Very open for accessibility
- Automation level
- Manual / PLC / Integrated with ShingleLoader
- Overlapping procedures
- 2 to 1,3 to 1,4 to 1,4 to 2
- Overlapping accuracy
- High,due to precise multi-lane servo drives
- Loading performance
- High
- Changeover time
- Fast,no tools required
- Hygiene and cleanability
- Perfect hygiene,fast cleaning preparation
- Adjustability
- Manually adjustable overlapping degree
- Density/particle size
- 0.5–2.5 g/cm³ / 50–1000 µm
- Control panel type
- Integrated/Stand-alone
- Discharge method
- Manual/Automatic
- Accessibility
- Very open design
- Control panel type
- Integrated with ShingleLoader / Stand-alone
- Integration possibilities
- Before/after any other equipment
- Machine configuration
- 2 to 1,3 to 1,4 to 1,4 to 2 overlapping
- Adjustability
- Manually adjustable overlapping degree
- 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.