The Big Role of Stainless Steel in Meat Processing Plants in Australia

Blog | January 10th, 2017

Stainless steel surfaces have a major role to play in the meat processing industry. The alloy encases meat grinders, deboners, sausage stuffers, and all manner of powerful cutting tools with armored metal. It’s obviously a robust material choice, but that reason alone doesn’t explain the popularity of stainless steel here. Quite simply, this alloy is food neutral and food supportive. It’s easy to clean and easier to sanitize. It’s even used in the conveyor belts that dispatch the meat to its final destination.

Stainless Steel Conveyor Belts 

A segmented metal strip conveys slices of animal flesh between the automated stations. It’s exposed to animal oils and acid-laden blood, but that thin belt never corrodes. The food-grade metal is also imbued with a dense surface, so porosity is a non-issue. This latter feature makes the belt and its surrounding parts easy to wipe down and disinfect.

Automated Tools 

Non-stick conveyor belts are an important asset, but the heart of the plant is still defined by its tools. Again, it’s stainless steel that forms the housings around these commercial butchering tools. The rugged appliances incorporate cleaning benefits, plus there’s an impact resistance feature built into the gear. Maintenance chiefs tend to support this installation choice. Primarily, they know the alloy-coated tool blades won’t blunt prematurely. Additionally, it’s just nice to know that the equipment will endure within a meat processing facility, a place that many consider a hostile environment.

Time for a Perspective Check 

Let’s be honest, this is ground zero in our food chain. If a contaminating influence was to enter the food line here, it would spread all the way down to the refrigerated trucks, the meat packaging factories, and down until the packaged meat was deposited at the market. That’s why cleanliness is more than a virtue in here, it’s an absolute necessity. Stainless steel surfaces eliminate such risks at the source by providing a robust and easy to sanitize processing backbone at the source. Contamination events are eliminated, in this manner, as are the periods of downtime that would put a crimp in that all-important productivity margin.

Food-grade meat processing plants are hostile environments, places that cover everything in liberal coatings of blood and animal fat. Stainless steel surfaces remain unaffected by such toxic organic influences. It’s a sure-fire meat handling base, a reliable surface that satisfies all international food safety guidelines. The alloy is tough, unquestionably, but its true role in this industry is as a hygiene-assured processing base, one that’s as mechanically tough as it is easy to clean.

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