Allpax

Retort Accessories Overview

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Allpax also fabricates baskets and wagons for all makes and models of retorts, including Stock, FMC, LaGarde and Busse (Loaders). Our baskets are designed to accommodate automated basket loaders and feature a "floating" aluminum bottom plate for hydraulic layer indexing. Our baskets can be ordered from laser-cut stainless steel materials, or from carbon steel, with, or without, a hot-dip galvanized coating. The wagons are made of galvanized carbon steel and use heavy-duty rollers for extended wear. Call us for a quote.

Divider Sheets

Because we manufacture both the retorts and the automated material handling machines, we know the design criteria that must be considered with a divider sheet. Automated pick and place operations at the can loader requires areas for automation repeatability. However, these pneumatic suction pick zones on the sheet can not create temperature distribution problems in the retort. Our divider sheets are designed to meet the processing requirements of both machines.

We supply our customers with precision-fabricated sheets manufactured from three material types: polypropylene plastic, aluminum, and stainless steel.

Trays for Flexible Pouches

When it comes to breaking the code on how to efficiently process pouches in a retort room, the design doesn't start with the retort, it starts with the tray. If you think about it, the tray is the one system module that is staged in a loading machine, houses the product, gets stacked into a basket-size cube, rides on a cart or conveyor, resides in the retort for processing, then rides on another conveyor or cart to be put into a de-stacker, then run through an unloading machine. In addition to all of this, the tray must be designed to handle the weight load of the product as well as that of the other trays. The design must also provide for adequate temperature distribution in the retort. Our tray designs look at all of the factors - your product and how it must be integrated with your retort room. That's the kind of technical service that you get when you get us involved in designing or adapting your retort room for pouch processing.

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