Meat processing

Rotomoulded trolleys and containers have a decisive advantage over welded stainless or riveted aluminium constructions: they are seamless. No welds, no voids, no capillary gaps for fat, protein or blood residue to settle in. Under EHEDG criteria these are exactly the areas that cause microbial niches in meat processing.

Our trolleys are manufactured from MD-PE or HD-PE compliant with EU 1935/2004 and EU 10/2011 — food-grade, low-migration, and resistant to cleaning temperatures up to 85 °C. For direct meat contact we provide migration certificates and, on request, FDA 21 CFR 177.1520 compliance for export to North America.

All corners are executed with a minimum radius of 6 mm; the internal geometry is fully drained. Combined with polished surfaces (Ra ≤ 0.8 µm on request) the trolleys reach the cleanability class that HACCP and IFS audits in meat processing demand.

Noise is a measurable problem in every meat cutting operation: stainless trolleys on grid floors produce peaks of 88–92 dB(A) under normal handling, plus impulse peaks when tipped. That is well above the 85 dB(A) trigger of EU 2003/10/EC and mandates mandatory hearing protection.

PE cutter wagons cut sustained noise by about 17 dB(A) and damp impulse peaks by up to 25 dB — the workplace stays below the trigger, team communication remains possible, and sickness absence caused by noise stress drops measurably. Rotogal customers also report 30–40 % less downtime from back complaints because PE wagons weigh only a third of conventional stainless trolleys.

For temperature-critical areas (blast freezer at −30 °C, maturing chamber at +18 °C / 80 % RH) we select a PE grade with adjusted notched impact strength. That keeps the wagons fracture-safe under thermal cycling — unlike stainless constructions where weld-seam fatigue fails early under blast-freeze cycles.

The real time gain in production comes at cleaning. Where stainless cutter wagons need 8–12 minutes on average (foam, dwell, high-pressure, rinse, disinfection, drying), our PE trolleys clean reliably in 3–5 minutes — smooth surfaces, no welds, no external ribbing.

In multi-stage CIP systems the trolleys withstand caustic up to 4 % NaOH and acid up to 2 % HNO₃ at 60 °C. Peracetic or chlorine-based disinfectants do not attack the PE — unlike aluminium, which corrodes under chlorine cleaners within weeks.

Typical service life in three-shift operation is 10–15 years. That means 3× the life of aluminium, comparable to stainless — with half the purchase cost and half the weight.