Advanced Pet Care of Australia, a Western Australian pet food manufacturer, uses five Floveyor aero-mechanical conveyors (AMCs) in its grinding, batching and extrusion plant. Its busiest unit, an F4, moves dog food mix powders at about 4 tonnes per hour across two shifts, 16 hours a day, with quarterly maintenance checks and rope replacement roughly once a year.
Key facts
| Customer | Advanced Pet Care of Australia (APC), Western Australia |
| Industry | Pet food, snacks and treats; own brands and contract manufacturing |
| Equipment | 5 × Floveyor aero-mechanical conveyors |
| Material | Dog food mix powders |
| Throughput | About 4 tph |
| Duty | 2 shifts, 16 hours a day |
| Planned maintenance | Quarterly rope-tension and condition check |
| Rope replacement | About every 12 months; some ropes have lasted longer |
| In service | More than 25 years |
| Why chosen | Slimline footprint suited a space-constrained plant |
How Advanced Pet Care uses aero-mechanical conveyors in pet food production
Advanced Pet Care of Australia, a Western Australian manufacturing company, fulfils their conviction by using Australian-grown grains and ingredients to create a range of pet food, snacks, and treats.
APC’s focus on pet health is more than good business – it’s personal. It’s a company full of animal lovers and they never compromise on quality by substituting substandard materials or taking shortcuts in their production process.
Ron Conway, production manager at Advanced Pet Care (APC), oversees an operation that runs two production shifts a day. Fresh, whole Australian grains are received and stored in onsite silos which feed into a grinding, batching and extrusion plant. APC has used Floveyor aero-mechanical conveyors since 2001.
“The main reason we chose Floveyors was because of their size,” Ron said.
“The machines are slimline which helps with a space issue.”
APC has five Floveyors in all. One machine, an F4, is in heavy use to manage the powder handling for dog food mixes.
Ron credits the Floveyor conveyor for being workhorse machinery that helps keep the operation ticking along.
“It’s a fast, low-maintenance conveyor,” Ron said.
“We run about four tonne an hour, at the moment, over two shifts.
“We run 16 hours a day, so that’s quite a lot.”
Maintenance on a conveyor that runs 16 hours a day
Planned maintenance is a quarterly check of rope tension and general condition, and the rope assembly is replaced about every 12 months.
“They do last quite a while. Some ropes have gone for a lot longer than 12 months. It depends on how often you use it,” Ron said.
In addition to their four proprietary brands and product lines, APC also manufactures pet food for a number of major international, national and multinational companies. The company exports about 90% of their dry kibble pet food to overseas markets, mostly to Asia.
Frequently asked questions (FAQs)
Advanced Pet Care of Australia runs five Floveyor aero-mechanical conveyors at its Western Australian plant, where whole Australian grains move from onsite silos through grinding, batching and extrusion. The busiest unit, an F4, handles the powder mixes for dog food at about 4 tonnes per hour.
At Advanced Pet Care, planned maintenance on the Floveyor aero-mechanical conveyors is a quarterly check of rope tension and general condition. The F4 runs two shifts, 16 hours a day, at around 4 tonnes per hour, and its rope assembly is usually replaced about once a year. Intervals vary with duty, material and operating hours.
Rope life depends mainly on how many hours the conveyor runs. At Advanced Pet Care, where the F4 operates 16 hours a day, ropes are replaced roughly every 12 months, and some have lasted well beyond that. Plants running fewer hours can generally expect longer intervals between replacements.
Production manager Ron Conway says size was the main reason. Floveyor aero-mechanical conveyors are slimline, which helped Advanced Pet Care fit conveying into a plant with limited floor space. The company has used Floveyor conveyors for more than 25 years and describes its high-use F4 as fast and low-maintenance.
Yes. Advanced Pet Care’s F4 aero-mechanical conveyor runs across two production shifts, 16 hours a day, moving about 4 tonnes of dog food mix per hour. The plant has relied on Floveyor conveyors for more than two decades, with planned maintenance limited to quarterly inspections and roughly annual rope replacement.
At Advanced Pet Care, a Floveyor aero-mechanical conveyor handles powder mixes for dog food. Whether an AMC suits a given ingredient depends on bulk density, particle size, flowability and how fragile the product is, so Floveyor recommends checking the material in the Materials Matcher or arranging a test before specifying.
Advanced Pet Care of Australia is a Western Australian manufacturer of pet food, snacks and treats made with Australian ingredients. Alongside its own brands, it produces pet food for international, national and multinational companies, and exports about 90% of its dry kibble, mostly to markets in Asia.
Conveying for pet food and animal nutrition plants
Floveyor has designed and built aero-mechanical conveyors in Perth, Western Australia, since 1958, and its equipment now runs in more than 52 countries. The company started in agriculture, and grain, feed and pet food plants remain some of its longest-standing customers. To check whether an AMC suits your pet food ingredients, start with the Materials Matcher or request a quote.
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