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Dedicated Material Handling for Snack Foods

The snack food industry thrives on speed and precision. Flexicon bulk material handling equipment supports efficient ingredient transfer and blending, helping you meet high production demands without compromising quality.

Snack Food Material Characteristics

Bulk ingredients for snack food products range from dry to oily, free-flowing to non-free-flowing and powders to large pieces. We can move them all.

Contamination-
Sensitive

Dusty

Hydrophobic

Moist and Sticky

Perishable

Snack Food Materials & End Products

Ensure safe snack food material handling for even the most challenging applications.

Bulk materials we handle

Rely on our tailored equipment to handle all your snack food bulk materials.

Baking Soda
Caustic Beads
Cheese Powder
Cinnamon Sugar
Cocoa Powder
Corn Flour
Corn Grits
Corn Meal
Granular Sugar
Ground Pretzels
Guar Gum
Milled Corn Flakes
Multigrain Flour
Oats
Pea Powder
Popcorn Kernels
Potato Pellets
Rice
Salt
Starch
Wheat Flour
White Corn
White Flour
Yellow Corn

Products made from materials

Snack food materials can be used to manufacture a wide range of end products.

Cheese Curls
Cookies
Corn Chips
Crackers
Kettle Corn
Lentil Bean Crisps
Mixed Nuts
Multigrain Snacks
Oatmeal Snacks
Pita Chips
Popcorn
Popped Chips
Pork Rinds
Potato Chips
Potato Sticks
Pretzels
Puffs
Pumpkin Seeds
Rice Crisps
Salsa
Saltines
Shrimp Chips
Snack Mix
Snow Pea Crisps
Sunflower Seeds
Tortilla Chips
Trail Mix
Veggie Chips

Enhance your bulk handling process

Flexicon’s bulk handling equipment offers various advantages that help streamline your process from start to finish.

Reduce wash-down and product changeover times
Eliminate cross-contamination between changeovers
Prevent plant and product contamination
Contain dust
Verify cleanliness
Source material from bulk bags, silos, trucks or railcars
Integrate with other manufacturers’ equipment
Unload, weigh batch, convey or fill large volumes of materials
Eliminate clogging
Enhance productivity and reduce cleaning time
Prevent product degradation

The World’s Top Companies Trust Flexicon

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Smith’s Snackfoods Installs Large-Scale Bulk Handling System for New Chip Line

Smith's installed a process line to manufacture Smith's® Oven Baked potato chips. For the powder handling and blending portion of the new line, Smith's worked with Flexicon Corporation Australia.

"The equipment design is efficient, hygienic, simple, and meets all EHS requirements and food safety standards."

- Nayantha Abeysiri, Project Manager at PepsiCo

Flexicon Sanitary Equipment for Bulk Snack Food Materials

When you have unique bulk material challenges, get specialized equipment from Flexicon for optimal results. Here are examples of sanitary equipment we configured specifically for snack food materials.