Engineering Hygienic Ingredient Handling Since 1996

Celebrating its 30th anniversary this year, Trantec Solids Handling has spent three decades helping food manufacturers meter and dose dry ingredients more efficiently. Throughout that time, the company has continually refined its equipment to meet evolving food manufacturing requirements, including higher hygiene standards, greater traceability and changing food safety regulations.

Innovation Driven By Industry Challenges

As food manufacturing has evolved, the priorities of manufacturers have extended beyond reliable powder handling to include faster product changeovers, enhanced hygiene and increasingly precise ingredient control. Trantec’s product development has been driven by these changing requirements.

This customer-led approach has shaped Trantec’s screw feeders, including the QR-TEC quick-release range and Micro Dosing Feeders for ultra-low feed rates, alongside hygienic sack tip stations and flexible screw conveyor systems. Together, these solutions help food manufacturers reduce downtime, simplify cleaning and improve ingredient handling across applications ranging from flour and dairy powders to spices, flavourings and nutritional blends.

From Material Behaviour To Equipment Design

Successful powder delivery begins with understanding how materials behave. Flowability, bulk density and particle characteristics all influence equipment performance, making application knowledge just as important as mechanical design. To support this process, Trantec offers FREE material testing to assess material behaviour and identify the optimum equipment configuration before production.

With material testing, equipment design and manufacturing carried out in-house, customers benefit from faster project turnaround, shorter lead times and equipment tailored to their individual process requirements. Close collaboration between design, machining and fabrication teams allows design refinements to be made quickly, helping ensure equipment performs reliably once installed.

Engineering With Purpose

For Managing Director Gareth Harrison, innovation has always started with understanding customer requirements:

“Every improvement we’ve made over the past 30 years has started with understanding the challenges our customers face. By listening to their requirements, we’ve been able to develop practical solutions that solve real production problems.”

Thirty years of working alongside food manufacturers has shown that lasting innovation comes from continually responding to changing industry requirements. By refining its equipment, strengthening its manufacturing capability and applying decades of engineering expertise, Trantec continues to develop hygienic metering and dosing equipment that helps manufacturers improve efficiency, protect product quality and meet the evolving demands of food production.

To find out more about Trantec’s powder handling solutions, visit www.trantec.net or contact their engineering team at sales@trantec.net.