Ready-to-eat bacon thanks to innovative stainless steel hygienic drives

For Sleegers Technique, a manufacturer of special machines for processing meat, fish, cheese and possibly other food products, supplied SigmaControl the server motor-gearbox combination. The impressive machine that will produce 'ready-to-eat' bacon counts 118 units and each gearbox is one from Apex Dynamics. Specifically, there are two versions of stainless steel gearboxes from the AES series. The story of this unique machine is on the cover of this month's AT Drive Technology and we are proud of our contribution to this unique solution.

Apex Dynamics Stainless Steel Gearbox

Special motors require special gearboxes. The servo reducers coupled to IP69K Kollmorgen motors are also special, yet Apex Dynamics supplies them as standard. Thom van Oss of Apex Dynamics explains. “The gearbox may be a small component, but it is an important component.

Apex Dynamics has chosen to make the existing AE series completely from stainless steel. They already have the round housing and are easy to keep clean. In the beginning they were still customer-specific solutions, but the demand worldwide was so great that we AES and angle AERS series have been released, with the 'S' for stainless steelFor SigmaControl it was now a great opportunity to come to Sleegers with a standard product in the machine.

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