Machine parts for bacon presses

Customer-specific machine parts for Danfotech

Danfotech Denmark develops and manufactures customised machines and systems for meat processing.

Among the company's machines are bacon presses and equipment for thawing food products.

The food processing specialist, which is part of the American food processing group The Middleby Corporation, has its headquarters and production facilities in Aalborg and supplies machines to slaughterhouses and meat processing companies worldwide.

At Induflex, we are proud to supply the plastic component used in Danfotech's machines. All plastic parts are custom-made according to Danfotech's designs, which are created specifically for each customer's tailored machines.

A rendering of a bacon press from the company Danfotech

Milled machine parts in FCM-approved PEHD

At Induflex, we manufacture the customised machine parts used in Danfotech's bacon presses.

The machine parts for the bacon presses from part of the piston that presses the meat inside the presses. We produce these plastic components from the technical plastic PEHD 500, which is food-approved and therefore suitable for direct contact with food.

In addition to being food-approved, PEHD 500 is ideal for Danfotech's machine parts because it offers excellent durability within the temperature ranges in which the machines operate.

Furthermore, it has strong chemical resistance and withstands the cleaning processes that keep food processing machines hygienically clean.

A white plastic part of PEHD is being milled on a 5-axis CNC-milling cutter

Danfotech says

"We have worked with Induflex for several years, and we are very satisfied with the collaboration.

It is important to us that our subcontractors are reliable and fixable, as the plastic components are part of the ongoing production of our customised machines.

Although all the machine parts we order from Induflex are unique, we can always expect delivery of the right quality at the right time, with parts that meet our requirements for surfaces and tolerances."

Bettina Elbro, Purchasing Assistant at Danfotech Middleby Denmark.

Marking with

engraving

Some of the plastic parts are engraved with type numbers, names and dates to make it easier to order spare parts later on. The engraving is done on a CNC milling machine.

Smooth surfaces

for hygienic

cleaning

We mill the plastic parts from sheets using a 5-axis CNC milling machine. To maintain high hygiene standards, we machine the plastic components with a fine surface finish, ensuring they can be cleaned thoroughly.

A white plastic part of PEHD with engraved numbers

Asymmetric plastic components in stress-relieved material

Several of the machine parts for Danfotech are asymmetric.

Asymmetric components can be challenging to manufacture because they tend to warp due to internal stresses in the material, which are released when material is removed.

To prevent warping and meet Danfotech's tolerance requirements, we produce components from stress-relieved plastic.

Stress-relieving removes internal stresses in the plastic, ensuring it does not warp even when material is milled away to create the asymmetric shape.