TNA, a leading supplier of turn-key, integrated packaging and processing solutions for food production companies worldwide, launches Roflo® 3, the first servo driven, totally reversible, gateless and truly modular food transfer and distribution system, at Interpack 2008.
TNA has designed a system that combines ‘sophisticated simplicity’ engineering, high performance innovation and complete flexibly through a gentle reversible servo-driven, linear motion, gateless transfer and distribution system. TNA has coined the device that makes this reversibility possible the ‘switcheroo’ (a mechanism that separates the roflo® pans, tilts them to inverse the way they connect and then moves the product in the opposite direction). To understand ‘switcheroo’ it is important to briefly explain the unique motion of Roflo®.
Product gently slides along Roflo® 3 pans with a linear motion technique – slowly forward and fast backwards, with each pan overlapping the next by a few millimetres.
When the product reaches the desired location the pans simply open to discharge the product.TNA has essentially created a ‘virtual gate’ and removed a ‘bulky’, difficult to clean and unnecessary mechanical part.
The ‘switcheroo’ functionality of Roflo® 3 offers automatic finger touch factory reconfiguration of an entire line or a section of line. Roflo® 3 can be in-fed from multiple locations, whilst handling multiple products on one line, with zero risk of cross contamination and a significantly reduced or eliminated need for accumulation.
TNA's Roflo® 3 dramatically reduces the ‘cost of ownership’ for its users as the exact same transfer and distribution volume can be achieved with much fewer modules, reduced product breakage and fewer down-stream systems;this all leads to a dramatic footprint, product and capital saving compared to anything currently on the market. With common parts and software, the Roflo 3 also integrates seamlessly with TNA’s Robag® vertical form, fill, and seal (VFFS) baggers, as well as most other packaging systems.
TNA has designed a system that combines ‘sophisticated simplicity’ engineering, high performance innovation and complete flexibly through a gentle reversible servo-driven, linear motion, gateless transfer and distribution system. TNA has coined the device that makes this reversibility possible the ‘switcheroo’ (a mechanism that separates the roflo® pans, tilts them to inverse the way they connect and then moves the product in the opposite direction). To understand ‘switcheroo’ it is important to briefly explain the unique motion of Roflo®.
Product gently slides along Roflo® 3 pans with a linear motion technique – slowly forward and fast backwards, with each pan overlapping the next by a few millimetres.
When the product reaches the desired location the pans simply open to discharge the product.TNA has essentially created a ‘virtual gate’ and removed a ‘bulky’, difficult to clean and unnecessary mechanical part.
The ‘switcheroo’ functionality of Roflo® 3 offers automatic finger touch factory reconfiguration of an entire line or a section of line. Roflo® 3 can be in-fed from multiple locations, whilst handling multiple products on one line, with zero risk of cross contamination and a significantly reduced or eliminated need for accumulation.
TNA's Roflo® 3 dramatically reduces the ‘cost of ownership’ for its users as the exact same transfer and distribution volume can be achieved with much fewer modules, reduced product breakage and fewer down-stream systems;this all leads to a dramatic footprint, product and capital saving compared to anything currently on the market. With common parts and software, the Roflo 3 also integrates seamlessly with TNA’s Robag® vertical form, fill, and seal (VFFS) baggers, as well as most other packaging systems.
