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Spiral conveyors applications

Spiral conveyor technology designed for continuous vertical product flow, featuring a small footprint, high throughout, low maintenance and long operational life is guaranteed by Apollo VTS.

Spiral conveyors can handle most conveyable product, including bags, bundles, totes, trays, pales, cans, bottles, containers, wrapped and unwrapped items.

APOLLO has a modern test facility in Coevorden and many of our customers take advantage of this service to make sure their particular products will convey properly on our spiral conveyor.

The spiral conveyors are frequently used as elevators or lowerators in packaging lines. Many of these lines run 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. The spirals can be delivered in stainless steel or wash down versions, suitable for food handling. Spiral conveyors are also very attractive as continuous lifts between floors in multilevel order picking systems or any other vertical conveying application with limited space and a need for high reliability.

Applications in cold storage and freezer operations are also standard solutions for Apollo VTS.

Applications within different industries

Spiral conveyors are utilized in a wide range of different industries where vertical transport is required for specific reasons due tot building limitations, high infeed palletisers or ensuring maximum availability of floor space by routing products through factory at mezzanine levels. Please find below some specific examples of spiral conveyor applications.

Food industries

Special application within the food industry can be as divers as from transporting packed meals out of freezer tunnels to allow for packaging downstream as to overcome heights between two levels in the production process or to feed packed items at high level to allow for palletising.

Boxes with meat are elevated by a stainless steel wash down spiral

Boxes (600 x 400 x 400) filled and closed on floor

level are elevated by means of our spiral conveyor

type 1300-400-B1 to mezzanine level where boxes

are conveyed to the downstream robot area

Small bags of flour varying between 0,5 kg and 2 kg are being elevated to mezzanine level by spiral conveyor

Beverage industries

Spirals are used downstream de-palletisers to transport single empty bottles to the filling lines at the next level or the opposite, transporting full bottles downstream of the filling line to the packing level if required. Furthermore transport of six packs and/or crates/cartons of product is a standard application in locations where production/palletising areas are at different levels.

Transport of fridge packs at 60 mtr/min,

long side leading

Newspaper industries

News paper bundles are transported from the

bundling and strapping area to the palletising

area elevating bundles to the high-level infeed palletisers

Lowerator spiral for the UK Newspaper Industry, during installation process. The spiral lowerates the newspaper bundles 10 meter to the palletiser area at floor level

Pet Food industries

Pet food, after being packed in either bags or boxes are transported to high level with the Spiral conveyors. This either to create free floor space and conveying product through the factory at high level or to convey goods to a high infeed palletiser.

Boxes "spiralled" to mezzanine level

Humancare industries

Apollo Spirals are placed in several factories of the famous names within the human care industries. Boxes, for example hairspray, shampoos of refresher, are transported to other production area's at different heights.

A model spiral, type 1300-400 elevating boxes to ceiling level to save free valuable floor space