Conveying apples, cleaning eggs, dusting cookies, polishing tomatoes, peeling vegetables and countless other tasks in modern food processing and handling are among the process stages whose automation is no longer conceivable without the direct or indirect use of technical brushes. No other tool makes it possible to treat sensitive foodstuffs as quickly and gently as the machine element brush in its many different versions.

It is not always a matter of gently transporting, guiding and sorting fruit or confectionery, for example, or cleaning and refining their sensitive surfaces; at least as often, it is tasks in packaging, plant and maintenance technology that are carried out precisely and economically with the help of brushes. For example, technical brushes from the Kullen-Koti portfolio are used for folding cardboard packaging, labeling cans and bottles or cleaning ovens, baking trays and conveyor belts.

Fast but gentle

The range of brushes and brushing systems recently exhibited by Kullen-Koti at Anuga Foodtec covered a wide range of the company's current overall program. For example, the manufacturer presented its round and roller brushes, which are used for peeling, washing and polishing vegetables, and its Quick Chain belt brush system, which ensures that particularly sensitive types of fruit are transported gently in automated processing lines.

Also on display were different versions of spiral brushes, which prove their worth when continuously conveying, distributing and sorting small foodstuffs, as well as numerous versions of strip brushes, which are used for sealing, separating and wiping. Even when excess flour needs to be removed from baked goods, when potatoes or truffles need to be freed from soil residues and pasta needs to be shaped, Kullen-Koti brush solutions are often at work here, gently and reliably.

Correct design and dimensioning

As in all areas of application for technical brushes, everything revolves around their correct design and dimensioning in the processing and treatment of food. Many parameters need to be taken into account when selecting the optimum brush: The factors of fill material, fill density or fill geometry are just as decisive as, in the case of rotating brushes, their rotational speed or peripheral speed.

The company's brushes are also at work in the very early stages of food processing and handling. For example, strip, roller and belt brushes from the Kullen-Koti portfolio are often part of the basic equipment of many machines and systems in agriculture. Immediately during harvesting, they take on tasks relating to the conveying, cleaning and pre-sorting of fruit and vegetables. as