Advanced Pet Care of Australia, a Western Australian pet food manufacturer, uses five Floveyor aëromechanische transportbanden (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
| Klant | Advanced Pet Care of Australia (APC), Western Australia |
| Industrie | Pet food, snacks and treats; own brands and contract manufacturing |
| Equipment | 5 × Floveyor aero-mechanical conveyors |
| Materiaal | 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 Australië, 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 op de gezondheid van huisdieren is meer dan een goede zaak - het is persoonlijk. Het is een bedrijf vol dierenliefhebbers en ze doen nooit concessies aan de kwaliteit door materialen van ondermaatse kwaliteit te vervangen of kortere wegen te nemen in hun productieproces.
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.
“De belangrijkste reden waarom we voor Floveyors kozen, was hun grootte,” zei Ron.
“De machines zijn slank, wat helpt bij een ruimteprobleem.”
APC heeft in totaal vijf Floveyors. Eén machine, een F4, wordt intensief gebruikt om de poederbehandeling voor hondenvoer mixen.
Ron noemt de Floveyor-transportband een werkpaardmachine die helpt om het bedrijf draaiende te houden.
“Het is een snelle, onderhoudsarme transportband,” zei Ron.
“Op dit moment draaien we ongeveer vier ton per uur, verdeeld over twee ploegen.
“We draaien 16 uur per dag, dus dat is best veel.”
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.
“Ze gaan best lang mee. Sommige touwen gaan veel langer mee dan 12 maanden. Het hangt ervan af hoe vaak je het gebruikt,” zei Ron.
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.
Veelgestelde vragen (FAQ's)
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 landbouw, en graan, feed and dierenvoeding plants remain some of its longest-standing customers. To check whether an AMC suits your pet food ingredients, start with the Materialen Matcher of request a quote.
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