In 2025, the snack food manufacturing sector in North America is valued at over $72 billion.  Steady consumer demand, stable retail networks and continuous, innovative products continue to drive rapid growth from regional to national and international exposure.

 In our interconnected world, exposure to new flavors, regional and international has created an environment where rapid transition between offerings is a key to remaining competitive in a densely populated and continuously growing market space.

Amongst the various challenges in snack food production; regardless of baked, fried, roasted or confectionary, remains a combination of: product consistency, consumer satisfaction and cost control.   As most flavored snacks are seasoned by an enrobing process, there is a technology available to improve these challenges and that provides a cost effective, dramatic process improvement leap and does so with existing capital equipment. 

The ARBO-SAS electrostatic retrofit system is a plug and play add on to existing steel enrobers that is a cart mounted system that delivers the following:

              Optimized product coating at the outlet of the enrober

              Reduced seasoning consumption

              Reduced seasoning drop-off and loss (in and after the enrober)

              Dramatically improved coating consistency

              Shorter and easier sanitation cycles

              Faster product change over time

              Attractive ROI schedules.

The system consists of a heavy duty cart, with a flexible wall food grade feeder that meters seasoning onto a vibratory tray.  The tray has an air knife at its outlet which gently aerates  the seasoning into the drum.  The assembly includes an electrostatic generating rod which creates an ionized cloud into which the individual seasonings pass and pick up a negative charge.  The enrober is ground by way of a simple contact which positively charges same. 

The product in the enrober picks up the positive charge by contact with the enrober and as one may recall from high school physics, the negatively charged seasoning will seek to ground and deposit itself onto the positively charged product in the drum.

Savings are dramatic and immediate.  Data is readily available for a wide variety of applications – and it is dramatic – the purpose of this article is to spread the word on a technology that can quickly, affordably and easily improve quality and consistency, which is affordable and that provides a tremendous competitive advantage by working with and optimizing existing equipment.

We welcome your inquiries and will be delighted to discuss your applications with you at your convenience.

Please contact Dave Gicza, Sales Manager, Americas at

561-331-9114

416-722-3616

Or dgicza@arbo-feedrs.com