The New Name of Excellence:
New SIMILAGO II
” New Similago II is the proud result of our 71-year journey of innovation
— setting the standard in performance, durability, and efficiency.”
DESIGN
AWARDS
The NEW SIMILAGO II is a next-generation roller mill developed in collaboration with Alapala’s R&D team and ITALDESIGN, a globally recognized Italian design and engineering firm.
The NEW SIMILAGO II represents a new milestone in milling technology, integrating smart automation, energy efficiency, and cutting-edge industrial design. With its robust performance, digital adaptability, and commitment to food safety, it is engineered for the future.
SIMILAGO II has a durable, strong and sturdy mainframe, which has been shaped by high precision and the most modern CNC machines that are available. The grinding rolls and their bearings are directly mounted on to the frame. This robust construction gives SIMILAGO II the ability to perform high capacity grinding with the continuous operation without affecting its performance and reliability.
Robust Chassis
Design The main chassis is made up of thick special carbon steel especially highly resistant to machine vibration ensure smooth and consistent machine operation.
Special Transmission Drive
SIMILAGO II’s specially designed transmission drive mechanism including specially profiled belt, which stands the test of time, ensures clean and silent operation without the need for lubrication.
Ergonomic Profile
The aerodynamic profile of the roll mechanism allows perfect air circulation between grinding rolls to avoid overheating of the mechanism, thus efficient operation and minimized unscheduled downtime.
SIMILAGO II, bears various recent technologies to support operational practicality for the miller.
EZ Roll Pack Change System SIMILAGO II, with the EZ Roll Pack Change System ensures the change operation can be performed in just 20 minutes, which is a significant reduction in scheduled downtime.
The operation can be carried out with the standard toolset and no lifting devices required.
Central Lubrication System (optional) for bearings, offer reduced machinery downtime and labor cost compared to the manual lubrication.
A 7’’ LCD touch-panel screen is used to set the operational parameters, as well as monitoring the feed roll speed, hopper product level, electric motor amperage load and instantaneous power consumption.
The polycarbonate inspection glass enables the operator to inspect the status of the machine in feeding. It can also be easily removed from the outside without the need to dismantled the feed spouts and related parts, for cleaning.
Flexibility in Design SIMILAGO II comes with various variants for your tailor-made solutions including,
• Stainless Steel Product Contact Surfaces
• 1,000 mm or 1,250 mm roll length
• 250 mm (standard) or 300 mm roll diameter
• Double Deck option to save space
SIMILAGO II is equipped with high technology PLC controlled product feeding and grinding control systems in order to meet high performance standards.
Stock Level Control
The product level is controlled at the inlet bunker by load cells, which sends signals via PLC to adjust the feed roll speed for a uniform feed rate.
Slide Gate Mechanism
Pneumatically actuated slide gate mechanism adjusts feed amount to the feeding gap, thus ensures uniform flow to the feed rolls.
Roll Engagement System
This pneumatic system ensures the grinding rollers to be disengaged during the machine shutdown preventing any product blockage at the next start-up.
Dynamic Roll Pack
This mechanism protects grinding rolls against the damage by the oversized subjects and grains. Thus, ensure consistent and efficient grinding.
Gap Adjustment System
Precise and sensitive manual gap adjustment mechanism of grinding rolls ensures consistent and controlled milling process to comply with your product standards. The automatic gap adjustment option is also available with a servo motor application.
Roller Speed Monitoring System
This system (optional) electronically monitors the rotational speed of rear grinding rolls to ensure efficient and smooth system performance.
SIMILAGO II is built to comply with the high sanitation standards to ensure food safety and quality.
Isolated and Smooth Surfaces
SIMILAGO II’s frontal structure, including discharge hopper is double-walled and isolated against adhering and condensation. Moreover, internal surfaces are designed and built so that no product adhering or accumulation is possible contrasting with the food hygiene. Stainless steel product contact surfaces are also available as an option in conformity with the highest food safety standards.
Easy Cleaning
SIMILAGO II carefully designed to ensure maximum hygiene. In couple of minutes you can easily set lower chamber of feeding system rollers to fully open position with only a single movement. The doors and covers can also be quickly removed for easy access for thoroughly cleaning ensuring maximum hygiene.
• Stainless steel product contact surfaces
• Central Lubrication System
• Roller Speed Monitoring System
• Double deck option to save from space
• Direct pick-up version
• Main drive motor, incl. pulleys and belts *
• Motor mounting profile beams and fasteners *
• Electrical motor trays
• Floor mount metal chassis incl. anchor bolts *
• Roll disassembly trolley incl. toolbox *
• Pulley and bearings disassembly set *
(*) Supplied as standard in turnkey projects.
