Vacuum is used with great advantage in conveying dry powder products through dedicated pipe systems. Piab's vacuum conveying systems are built of high quality material. When producing food, pharmaceuticals and chemical products there are demands on the highest possible degree of safety as to hygiene and operation. Piab's piFLOW® conveyors have been developed as an answer to the severe requirements of operational safety and hygiene in the food, pharmaceutical and chemical industries. Piab conveyors are ATEX Dust certified. piFLOW®p and piFLOW®t are ATEX Gas certified. All conveyors are available with either an ejector driven vacuum pump or with a mechanical pump.

A. Two conveyors transporting material to a tablet press.

B. High speed conveying to a tablet press with a single conveyor. Splitting the feed into two hoppers.

Direct charging a V-blender from a screener. Unloading with a second conveyor.

Beans after roasting process into hopper with roasted, stabilized and dried beans. Conveying to portioning machine. Into packaging machine and bags. Reclaming back to packaging machine.

Beans after roasting process into hopper with roasted, stabilized and dried beans. Conveying to Milling process. Conveying to portioning machine. Into packaging machine and bags.

Reclaming back to packaging machine.

Instant coffee in big sacks/container with coffee and additives. Conveying to portioning machine. Into packaging machine and bags. Reclaming back to packaging machine.

Conveying seasoning/salt/sugar to a seasoning machine with piFLOW®p conveyor. Into sorting and packaging machine then out to transportation belt.

Bag dump station with conveying feed split to two blenders and dust collection.