Tsubaki Traypacker Chain for the Food and Beverage Industry

For lube-free, clean operation

Tsubaki Traypacker Chain uses Lambda Chain and its special sintered bushes for its base chain. Like the latest generation of Tsubaki Lambda Chain, the Traypacker is impregnated with NSF-H1 food grade lubricant as standard.

Tray packing machinery is common in the food and beverage industry and is used to fit cardboard trays or boxes to items, often to create 'multi-packs,' before distribution. Naturally, hygiene is paramount and standard lubricated chain can cause contamination of the machine, floor and end product, possibly resulting in increased maintenance requirements, damaged products and reduced profit. Furthermore, any lubricated chain will get contaminated by dust, glue, and paper particles, preventing lubrication from reaching critical areas.

Some users minimize or completely eliminate lubrication to prevent such problems, but this often causes chain stiffness and uneven elongation of the chain strands, which may lead to production errors and early replacement of the chain.

With Tsubaki Traypacker Chain, the internal lubrication provided by the special oil-impregnated sintered bushes cannot transmit to products, which eliminates problems with contamination. Also, the consistent internal lubrication combats the risks of uneven wear and elongation, and does away with the need to apply expensive food grade lubricants.

Significantly, Tsubaki Traypacker Chain is slightly narrower than standard Lambda chain, a requirement for most tray packing machines. Further, the machines require pushers to be fitted to the transport chain; Tsubaki offers a bespoke solution in which the attachments are mounted by an engineered extended pin that allows flexible spacing so that different packing configurations can be accommodated.

Additionally, Traypacker Chain is supplied with Tsubaki's Match & Tag Service to guarantee a minimum length tolerance between chain strands that run parallel for conveyance purposes on packaging machinery and the like. Multiple case studies prove that even in the most demanding 24/7 production processes Tsubaki Traypacker Chain shows an absolute minimum in elongation, making its performance unsurpassed and offering unrivaled benefits year over year.