Food
Is you food processed or fresh? Are your handling loose product or packaged? Is your product wet, sticky, acidic, powdered, frozen or cold? Do you simply need to convey your product from point A to point B, or do you require the product to be cooked/ baked, frozen, processed, enrobed, packaged, labeled, boxed, palletised or stretch-wrapped? Is hygiene an imperative? Do you require wash-down capabilities? Whatever your requirement, Australis Engineering has the expertise and experience to solve your food production and packaging challenges.
Australis can design any materials handling solution to suit the specific requirements of your product. We specialise in designing and manufacturing specialist food production and packaging equipment. If you have a problem that other companies can't solve, ask us to help - dozens of major national food producers utilise Australis to help convey and handle their products.
Our specialist food solutions include:
- Food grade belt conveyors
- Food grade slat band conveyors
- Food grade modular belt conveyors
- Incline conveyors
- Bucket elevators
- Freezer conveyors
- Roller conveyors
- Special purpose conveyors
- Retort machines
- Palletisers
- Robotics, automation and controls
- Cooling tunnels
- Stretch wrappers
- Carton erectors
- Carton sealers
- Pallet conveyors
- Accumulation tables
- Automation, PLC and Controls
- Machine Guarding and Safety
- Compressed Air Systems
- Compressed Air Safety
- Electrical safety systems
- Design consultancy
- Service and maintenance
Hygienic design, stainless steel construction
Australis can provide can design and manufacture your solution using:
- 304 or 316 stainless steel construction
- Available with easy wash down features
- Wash-down systems including CIP and SIP
- Collating, accumulation, pick & place and packing systems
- Anti-bacterial belts
Experience with your product
With so many variables associated with food manufacture and packaging, it is important that you receive expert advice and local expertise to ensure the right solution for your business. Our team of engineers and qualified tradespeople have a wealth of experience in a variety of food production environments and food types including:
- Baked goods
- Baking flour
- Biscuits
- Bread
- Cakes and pastries
- Cereals
- Cheese
- Chewing Gum
- Chocolate
- Chicken (fresh)
- Chicken (processed)
- Chips (hot)
- Chips (crisps and corn chips)
- Coffee
- Ginger
- Grains
- Lollies/ candy
- Liquorice
- Mushrooms (fresh)
- Salt, herbs and spices
- Small goods including hams, sausages and salami
- Sausage skins
- Sauces and syrups
- Tacos and tortillas
- Tinned seafood
- Tinned fruit/ vegetables
- Pasta
- Pet food (canned)
- Pet food (dry/ pelletised)
- Pies
- Pizza
- Yoghurt
Specialist food equipment
In addition to our own products and equipment, Australis also holds the agency rights to several specialist food production suppliers such as:
- ChocoMa - specialist chocolate manufacturing equipment; cheese enrobing; ice/ ice cream enrobing
- Comarme - packaging equipment including Stretch Wrappers; Carton Erectors; Carton Sealers
- Gough-Econ - bucket elevators to transport loose food products including cereals, coffee, pasta, grains, lollies, pelletised pet food and more.
Palletising experts
Do you need to palletise your products? Australis are experts in designing, manufacturing and installing palletisers for the food manufacturing industry. Whether you require a high speed palletiser to suit your packaged cartons or bulk bags/ sacks, Australis can provide an "off-the-shelf" or fully customised solution. For more information go to our Palletiser page, or for low-cost solutions our Mini Palletiser page.
ISO Quality Assurance and Risk Management Certification

To ensure your solution receives the highest levels of quality assurance, Australis is certified to the ISO 9001:2008 Quality Management System and ISO 31000:2009 Risk Management Standard. Why is this important? As a result of these certifications, you can be assured that during quoting, design, manufacture, installation and servicing of your equipment, Australis will ensure the highest levels of quality assurance are implemented and maintained to ensure your equipment meets any or all standards associated with handling your product.

