Verlinde offers electric belt hoist for brining process – Food Marketing Technology

A cheese dairy plant in Mayen was experiencing various maintenance problems with its chain hoist for a cheese brining process. Bretagne Manutention, partner of Verlinde and supplier of handling for 30 years
Equipment for this manufacturer, was able to provide them with a tailor-made solution.
Bretagne Maintenance, part of the Fenwick Group, specializes in the sale and maintenance of handling equipment such as forklift trucks, electric pallet trucks and aerial platforms. They have 200 people with their head office located in Rennes and 8 branches spread across Brittany and Mayenne. Some branches employ lifting equipment specialists, preserved from the time Fenwick offered hoists, and work in partnership with Verlinde. This is the case of the Laval branch, which has been working for 30 years in a cheese dairy plant for maintenance and products handling equipment, which has about fifty items.
The Mayonnaise Cheese Plant, which produces several varieties of cheese, is equipped with a brining room.
The process involves soaking the paneer in a brine bath so that it absorbs the salt.
There are 7 dipping tanks in the room, each equipped with a hoist that handles trays filled with cheese. These are soaked in a brine bath in several stages, then sent to a maturing cellar.
The cheese plant used a chain hoist from a rival manufacturer, but had problems with rust on the lifting chain, despite regular lubrication. This oxidation was causing several production stoppages. During a customer visit, Dominique Denau, sales manager at Bretagne Maintenance Laval, with his long experience
Food industry recommended Verlinde EUROLIFT BH electric belt hoists to replace those using traditional chain hoist technology
hoists for food industry environments offering the perfect cleanliness of operations to meet the most
strict hygiene requirements
Verlinde EUROLIFT BH electric belt hoists meet the strictest hygiene standards in the food industry. The specialty of these hoists is that they are equipped with a high-strength, rot-proof lifting belt and a dirt-free guide system for use in all types of environments. The mechanically variable 2-speed lift motor and 2-speed steering motor, combined with the fully sealed gearbox, provide precise and silent movement of loads from 500 to 5000 kg. A customized customization industrialist asked Bretagne Maintenance for a complete study, as he wanted to optimize a complete hoisting solution to increase the load capacity of his hoist from 1000kg to 1200kg. Verlinde assisted Bretagne Manutention with these proposals.
In addition to optimizing the lifting part, the project also included specific structural constraints: as a general rule, a EUROLIFT BH hoist runs on an IPN rail, but the configuration of the brine room allowed the hoist to be fitted with this type of rail. Not allowed enough travel. , The existing structure had to be changed and the loads of the suspended structure recalculated, which was costly, or the hoist had to be adapted. Verlinde proposed
To gain height, move the hoist motor to a different location and thus re-use the existing galvanized hollow section rail.
Increase in production efficiency and cleanliness
The first EUROLIFT BH hoist was installed in 2020. Within three months, the trial proved successful:
Maintenance and lubrication operations are reduced and corrosion problems are eliminated. The other six hoists were then replaced, reducing breakdowns and production downtime. The installation is maintained by Britain Maintenance. Monitoring is routine with one visit every six months.
Dominique Denau says: “Since the installation of the first EUROLIFT BH hoist, our customer has expressed satisfaction at the improvement in cleanability and reduction in downtime due to corrosion. We have continued to assist them, especially in the adjustment of the belt and according to the different settings
Sanctions. Providing solutions is the strength of the installer. It makes all the difference with a supplier like Verlinde who provides premium solutions and is able to provide end-to-end support. That way, everyone acts with confidence.