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Product Hoppers

Fitted at key product interface areas, our range of product feed hoppers ensures careful handling and reduced spillage waste. They may not look much but the hopper provides a buffer and temporary storage of product material to allow the next process to draw from. This is especially crucial if there are controlling aspects of product flow to be managed to balance the production line flow.

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Introduction

As part of larger systems, product hoppers are a simple and effective means of increasing control of product flows as they move through production and conveying processes.

As well as being an effective means of channelling product, hoppers can also act as a temporary store and means for metering product flow rates through a process.

Either included as part of the original design or retrofitted to existing equipment, hoppers are able to address minor production line issues, as well as solve more fundamental production problems.

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Key advantages

Reduced waste

Hoppers are a simple and effective method of preventing product spillage and saving time on cleaning.

Cost effective

Product hoppers are often a low-cost addition to larger pieces of equipment that can greatly improve usability.

Flexible solution

Hoppers are simple to add to new designs and can be installed as a retrofit solution when production issues crop up.

Easy maintenance

No tools needed to strip down. Just release the clamps, disassemble, clean and replace parts within minutes.

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Hopper Options

  • Any shape can be designed and fabricated to fit into limiting spaces.
  • Volume and capacity calculated to determine optimum size.
  • Special angles of repose / inclination designs to allow correct product flow on discharging based on product friction and flow behaviour.
  • Additional sluice gates to control flow.
  • Additional pneumatic valves can be used to control product flow.
  • Full support structure design and fabrication.
  • Mild steel construction as well as stainless-steel options.
  • Top covers
  • Linings.
  • Dust extraction spigots/ports.

Reality Cases & Articles

From the history archives, we can refer to many different success stories of how our machines have helped industry.

For each of the core products, we provide a bit more insight on our designs and how the solution helped a company face production issues of quality, production throughputs, reliability and product flexibility.

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Whatever your needs are

Gough Engineering can provide the right way forward for your material handling and transfer management systems.