Hygienic Tray Filling System
Ultra-Hygienic Tray Filling for Leafy Greens & Fresh Produce
The Spee-Dee® Hygienic Tray Filling System is purpose-built for fresh produce growers and processors where sanitation, uptime, and labor efficiency are critical. Featuring an open machine design, compact footprint, and all-electric architecture, it helps simplify cleaning, improve accessibility, reduce operator intervention, and reduce maintenance requirements without sacrificing performance.
The system can integrate with any brand of sanitary multi-head weighers with a dual discharge.
Common applications include leafy greens, lettuce blends, spring mix, herbs, and microgreens, while also supporting cut vegetables, berries, and other sanitation-sensitive food applications. By removing unnecessary complexity from the machine design, the hygienic tray filling system helps simplify sanitation, maintenance, operation, and ownership.
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Designed for Sanitation
In fresh produce packaging, cleanability directly impacts food safety and production uptime.
Hygienic design is the backbone of Spee-Dee’s hygienic tray filling system. It’s engineered to minimize harborage points and improve access to machine surfaces, making cleaning, inspection, and washdown procedures faster and more effective. The open design helps sanitation teams reach critical areas while reducing areas where product, moisture, and debris can accumulate.
Sanitary design features include:
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Open cable management
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Sanitary hardware and food-grade materials
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Standoffs and sloped surfaces
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All stainless-steel construction
Stop Designing Around Labor.
Start Filling with Confidence.
Watch how the Spee-Dee® Hygienic Tray Filling System helps fresh produce processors, hydroponic growers, and CEA operations reduce labor, simplify sanitation, and improve package consistency. In this video, you'll see how its all-electric, washdown-ready design, automated product tamping, recipe-driven adjustments, and tool-less changeovers help maximize uptime while creating a more efficient and repeatable tray filling process for leafy greens, lettuce blends, herbs, microgreens, berries, and other sanitation-sensitive food applications.
Reduce Labor While Improving Package Quality
Many tray filling operations rely on operators to manually reposition or style product, clear off seal areas, and improve package presentation before sealing.
That process is now automated via three electrical linear motors that lower product tampers that gently compress the product into the tray. By helping ensure product remains inside the package and away from critical sealing surfaces, the system improves consistency while reducing manual intervention.
Built for Accessibility and Faster Changeovers
The open architecture of the Spee-Dee hygienic tray filling system improves visibility and access throughout the machine, simplifying maintenance, inspections, cleaning, and daily operation. Tool-less, changeovers of patented magnetic product funnels, tamper heads and rotary turret all help reduce setup time and streamline changeovers between production runs.
All-Electric Design.
More Control.
Traditional packaging equipment often relies heavily on pneumatic components that require regular maintenance, adjustments and ongoing support, especially in wet environments.
Spee-Dee has eliminated pneumatic components in this hygienic tray filling system through an all-electric design philosophy. The result is a cleaner, more reliable and controllable system with fewer wear items, lower utility requirements, and reduced maintenance demands. By reducing pneumatic complexity and simplifying machine architecture, the system can also help lower total cost of ownership over the life of the equipment.
All electrical features include:
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Linear servo motors for tray tamping and ejection process
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Servo driven rotary turret
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Servo driven rotary turret height adjustments
Ideal for CEA Operations
Controlled Environment Agriculture (CEA) and hydroponic growers face strict food safety requirements while managing labor and production efficiency.
The hygienic tray filling system's open design, simplified washdown procedures, and all-electric operation support the sanitation protocols common in fresh produce packaging.
Ready for a Simpler Approach to Tray Filling?
Fewer components. Easier access. A cleaner machine designed to simplify operation while supporting food safety and production goals.
Talk with a Spee-Dee packaging specialist to learn more.
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
What makes the hygienic tray filling system different from conventional tray filling systems?
The system is engineered, down to the hardware, around sanitary design principles that improve cleanability, accessibility, inspection, and maintenance while minimizing harborage points.
How does the system help reduce labor requirements?
Three servo driven product tampers automatically guide and settle product within the tray, reducing the need for manual product styling and seal-area verification.
Why does the machine use an all-electric design?
Eliminating pneumatic components helps improve reliability, lower compressed air consumption, simplify maintenance, and reduce operating costs.
How does the system improve package quality and seal integrity?
By consistently positioning product away from critical sealing surfaces, the system helps improve seal integrity, reduce rework, and create more consistent packages.
What products are commonly packaged on the hygienic tray filling system?
The system is primarily used for leafy greens, lettuce blends, spring mix, herbs, and microgreens, while also supporting cut vegetables, berries, and other fresh food applications.