Stainless steel gearboxes with ATEX certificate for Tanis Confectionery

Engineering and producing a high-quality, safe production line for gummy candies.
That probably seems like a tasty question, but in practice it certainly has a lot of technical difficulties. The food industry has the strictest safety requirements and this application was also in an explosion-hazardous environment.
Which gearboxes are best suited for this? Some Apex Dynamics gearbox series are made of stainless steel as standard but what other requirements are there? Together with the engineers of Tanis Confectionery, Apex Dynamics came up with the best solution.

The engineers at Tanis Confectionery, a world leader in providing total solutions for the confectionery industry, contacted Apex Dynamics with a very special request: a number of low-backlash drives were required for a new Tanis Moulding line to be developed. This production line makes a gummy candy from a liquid candy mass, which is poured into a recess in the starch and eventually cools down to the final product. (for example the gummy bear) Why is this request special? Because there is a whole list of tough requirements underlying it.

Read the full article about our gearboxes with ATEX in the food industry…