Every piece of slab line equipment can be custom-designed to solve your efficiency blocks, based on our over thirty years of experience. This delivers excellent ROI, with these specs built into every barline and individual machine.
Whether you need a full production slab line or individual machines, our modular design gives you more flexibility now and in the future
Your new equipment will meet all regulations, delivering to industry best practices around cleaning, materials, and hygienic design.
Our high-performance slab forming machinery can, on average, produce over 2000 bars per minute, with impressive features that keep waste to a minimum.
Our slab line equipment’s exceptional flexibility minimizes the time and waste of swapping between SKUs.
To service PTL slab forming machinery, you’ll need only what you already have in your plant: power, air, and water.
Have us customize your slab line width or choose from three core slab line widths: 16”, 24”, and 36”.
The bar forming equipment is designed to make changeovers fast and simple, without needing tools.
Everything about your new PTL slab forming machinery makes your life easier, from the unique design of the lane spreaders to the easily-cleaned guillotines and tunnels.
Ensure the installation and start-up go without a hitch with the support of our expert team.
Our expert team makes it painless to plan and install your new equipment
Get fast answers to your questions from our responsive technical team – they know our machinery and they know bars.
Upskill your people and realize full ROI faster, with training and ongoing support from PTL.
Use the table below to estimate possible production outputs from our lines. We’ve used typical figures for belt speeds. A bars-per-minute rate is given for a bar size of 1.25 x 2.5 inches.
Bars per linear meter of belt
135.0
213.7
315.0
Belt speed ft/min
6.56
9.84
13.12
Bars per minute
270
641
1260
Cooling tunnel length (ft)-8 mins of cooling
52
79
105
Belt speed ft/min
9.8
13.1
23.0
Bars per minute
405
855
2205
Cooling tunnel length (ft)-5 mins of cooling
49
66
115
If you don’t find the information you need here, reach out to our team, any time.
All PTL equipment is designed for your particular factory to enable easy cleaning and lightning-fast changeovers. Each module comes with picture-mapped sanitation details.
Yes. We supply single (modular, integrated, or engineered) machines and can also collaborate with you to automate existing equipment.
All our equipment is designed to make it easy to use. From forming to packing, you’ll typically need only two or three operators, and some lines can be operated with just one person.
We can create machinery to suit any barline size, but our most common slab widths are 16”, 24”, and 36”.
Yes – our slab line machinery and full slab lines are modular and can be adapted to suit your existing space, lines, and workflows.
Your site will need electricity, chilled glycol, factory heating (depending on the forming-process requirement), compressed air, and hot potable water for belt washers.
You can make almost any bar type on PTL machinery including nut, protein, granola, and candy – with, or without chocolate coatings or bottoms. If you have a product in mind, we can help you create it.
Yes. We take pride in designing slab line machinery and full slab lines that are user-friendly and easy to operate, from the engineer to the operator.
We’re ready to take your call.
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