The Product Journey - Lan Handling Technologies

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At Lan Handling Technologies, we have a story to share.

With more than 50 years of experience in the automation of food sterilisation processes, our colleagues can tell like no other what we are good at. But, wouldn’t that be too easy?!

Your products take the stage!
Those millions of pouches, cans, jars and tubs that you produce every year; what do they actually think of our Lan solutions? To find out, for a change, we let the most iconic products we handle, take the stage. We follow Peter, Colonel, Jenny and Tina on their journey across your handling systems.

Join the ride

Peter Pouch

Food type: Wet Pet Food, Baby Food, Ready Meals, Soups, Sauces

Shapes:
Pillow, stand-up, spouted pouches

What I appreciate:

Flattening for optimum handling
Adjusted robot tools
Expertise in specific product behavior based on liquid or solid content
In-line drying without extra handling or additional space

Colonel Can

Food type: Energy Coffee Drinks, Vegetables,Seafood, Beans, Wet Pet Food, Soups

Shapes:
Aluminium, steel, seamed and easy-open cans

Important handling topics I tell my men:

Fast and easy product size change-over
Product sampling solution
Dewatering to ensure reliable labeling and packaging

Jenny Jar

Food type: Vegetables, Baby Food, Dairy products, Sauces, Soups

Shapes:
Both round and square jars

My favorites:

Gentle basket loading to avoid glass breakage
Sweep, magnetic and vacuum handling solutions
Dewatering to get rid of residual water after sterilisation

Tina Tub

Food type: Wet Pet Food, Ready meals, Baby Food, Rice, Pasta

Shapes:
Pots, cups, alu tray, split-tubs

Things I can’t live without:

Minimum handling to avoid product damage
In-line drying to ensure immediate packaging
Multi-flavor packaging solutions

Automated handling systems

Lan Handling Technologies specialises in automated handling systems for the loading and unloading of retorts, also known as autoclaves.

More specific, we design automated systems for batch retorts. In such a batch retort process, several product carriers (baskets or a stack of trays) with large quantities of food product are loaded into a retort. At Lan, we define several levels of automation. We can consult you with regard to fully automated handling systems, this is called an Automated Batch Retort System (ABRS). But also semi-automatic variants in which only the loading and unloading of retorts takes place manually, are possible.

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