High-Speed Bakery Box Sorting
Customer: A well-known bakery food company
Food-grade IP65 electric grippers sort and case-pack mooncake and cookie boxes at high speed; washable directly and compliant with food-safety requirements.
Customer Challenges
Food production demands high equipment hygiene with regular wash-down. Traditional pneumatic grippers are complex, have hard-to-clean crevices, cannot be washed down and breed bacteria; they also require air supplies and complex workshop piping. The customer needed a high-IP, washable, food-grade electric gripper for high-speed sorting and case-packing of bakery boxes such as mooncakes and cookies.
Hygiene Requirements
Food production requires equipment that is easy to clean, washable and free of hard-to-clean crevices, meeting food-contact standards.
Wet Environment
Wash-down exposes equipment to water and detergents, requiring IP65 or higher protection.
Fragile Products
Food boxes demand a flawless appearance; grip damage or deformation would hurt sales.
High-Speed Packaging
Food packaging lines run fast, requiring sorting speeds above 100 cycles/minute.
Jodell Solution
Jodell supplied the food-grade IP65 version of the EPG electric gripper: 1) IP65 protection allows direct low-pressure water rinse and resistance to food-grade detergents; 2) Optional food-grade silicone fingertips meeting FDA food-contact standards for safety; 3) Smooth, rounded design with no hard-to-clean crevices; 4) Precise force control gently holds boxes without damaging appearance; 5) Fully electric — no air compressor or piping, for a cleaner workshop; 6) Fast open/close enables 120 cycles/minute sorting with high-speed robots.
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Customer Value
"The Jodell food-grade gripper solved our wash-down headache. With the old pneumatic grippers we had to shield them before every wash for fear of water ingress; now we just rinse them directly, and hygiene inspections pass. With no air pump, the workshop is cleaner and quieter, and workers are very happy."
Production Supervisor, a Food Company
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