Application

Food Industry

Bearings are core transmission components in the food industry's production and processing. They are compatible with equipment across the entire supply chain, including baking, beverages, dairy products, meat products, fruit and vegetable processing, and grain and oil processing. Bearings must meet the stringent requirements of food production, such as hygiene, corrosion prevention, and temperature resistance. They are primarily used in various automated production, conveying, and processing equipment, mainly in food-grade stainless steel and self-lubricating plastic bearings, suitable for production environments with varying humidity, temperature, and dust levels.


Specific applications are concentrated in three core equipment categories:


Conveying equipment: Rollers/idlers of belt conveyors, chain conveyors, and elevators, ensuring stable material transport during sorting, filling, and packaging.


Processing equipment: Shafts/transmission parts of mixers, dough mixers, choppers, homogenizers, and slicers, bearing high-speed, heavy-load operation, adapting to the process requirements of food mixing, grinding, and cutting.


Filling and packaging equipment: Precision transmission parts of filling machines, capping machines, labeling machines, and carton sealing machines, requiring low noise and high precision to ensure automated and efficient operation in the packaging process.


Meanwhile, bearings used in the food industry must comply with food contact material standards such as FDA and EU 10/2011, have no risk of lubricating oil leakage (or use food-grade grease), be easy to clean, corrosion-resistant, and able to withstand high-temperature cleaning, acid and alkali disinfection, etc., to avoid contaminating food, and take into account both the operational stability of the equipment and the hygiene and safety of food production.