Quantum Technical Services provides superior pizza equipment to help you automate your pizza topping line. If you consider automating your pizza production, you need a waterfall applicator. A waterfall applicator can help you optimize your pizza production by accurately and evenly applying toppings to your pizzas with less waste. Quantum Technical Services offers multiple quality waterfall applicators, so you can choose which is right for you and your production line. Choose between the TC5S and MLT2000 models, our top two waterfall applicators. We also offer waterfall pizza sauce application to make automating your pizza production as simple as possible. Learn more about our waterfall applicators, so you can determine which applicator is right for you.
What Is a Waterfall Applicator?
A waterfall applicator evenly and effectively applies toppings onto your pizzas. Often called cheese or topping applicators, these applicators top your pizzas with ingredients like shredded cheese, veggies, dry ingredients, and other IQF ingredients. Quantum has a waterfall topping applicator perfect for every use. A waterfall applicator is one of the best ways to automate your pizza production to keep up with demand effectively. There are several ways to automate your pizza-making process.
Waterfall Equipment from Quantum Technical Services
Whether you are topping your pizzas with just cheese, meats, veggies, seasonings, or a combination, Quantum has quality waterfall equipment ideal for your individual food processing needs. But which applicator is right for you?
Benefits of a Waterfall Applicator
There are several benefits to using Quantum’s waterfall equipment in your pizza production system, including:
Cut Costs
Our no-waste waterfall and recirculation systems can dramatically cut costs for your production facility.
Perfect Pizzas Every Time
A waterfall applicator evenly applies toppings, so you get a perfect pizza every time.
Reduce Waste
Waterfall applicators allow you to reuse and recycle toppings, eliminating food waste.
Which Applicator Is Right For You?
Now you know why you need to add a waterfall applicator to your automated pizza production line. Quantum Technical Services also has two waterfall applicators that are both great options.
TC-5S vs. MLT2000
Let’s break down the similarities and differences between the TC-5S and MLT2000 models.
TC-5S
Quantum’s TC-5 Waterfall Topping Applicator deposits a variety of toppings like cheese, meats, and veggies onto your pizzas at speeds up to 80 feet per minute. The portable and compact TC-5 reduces waste, increases productivity, and ensures consistent coverage of your pizzas. Also, the TR-5 Reclaim System returns the excess product to the hopper.
Some other features of the TC-5S include:
- Hand crank rake height adjustment with scale
- Gullwing safety guards with interlocks
- Reclaim conveyor catch trays
- Cantilevered, flat belt conveyor
- Solid round bar construction with minimal flat surfaces
- Simple flinger height and speed adjustment
- Blade-style UHMW belt scrapers
- Flip-style conveyor end for easy cleaning and belt removal
- Removable bottom conveyor belt for placement over an existing line
- Swing away the control box for easy access to motors and bearings
- Hopper level sensor
- Locking swivel casters with no exposed threads
- Washdown capability
- No tools required for sanitation
- Large, rugged stainless steel bearings
- Start/stop interconnectivity
- 7” color touchscreen
- Three-color signal tower
- 20 user-defined recipes
- UL 508A controls
MLT2000
On the other hand, Quantum’s MLT2000 Multi-Lane Target Waterfall Topping Applicator deposits a variety of toppings onto your products at a speed of up to 60 feet per minute per lane. The MLT2000’s no tray, no fill capability reduces waste, increases productivity, and ensures consistent coverage. The MLT2000 is portable, compact, and can cantilever over existing lines.
Some other features of the MLT 2000 include:
- Two independent products belts
- Cantilevered belt
- One (target) product funnel included per lane
- Hand crank rake height adjustment
- Simple flinger height and speed adjustment
- Gullwing safety guards with interlocks
- 20 user-defined recipes
- Large color touchscreen
- Swing away the control box for easy access to motors and bearings
- Adjustable height funnels
- Stainless steel frame
- Stack light to indicate machine status
- UL508A controls
- Independent hopper-level sensors
- Solid round bar construction with minimal flat surfaces
- Locking swivel casters with no exposed threats
- Wash down capability
- No tools required for sanitation
What About a Waterfall Pizza Sauce Applicator?
Quantum offers a waterfall pizza sauce applicator if you are also interested in automating your pizza sauce application. Our WS1000 Waterfall is a high-quality sauce applicator capable of highly even pizza sauce applications, applying sauce in a continuous curtain onto products as they pass below.
Our Waterfall Sauce Applicator is a simple, easy-to-use system ideal for depositing sauce where positioning products in lanes is impossible or targeted application is not required. Sauce is automatically applied over the entire product as it passes below. Then, the excess sauce is recirculated and reused, eliminating wasting precious products.
Here are some more details about our waterfall pizza sauce applicator:
- Product Dimensions: 4 in. (76mm) through 18 in. (457mm) diameter
- Production Rates: 5 to 100 units per minute, per lane, spending on size
- Hopper: 19-gallon stainless steel
About Quantum Technical Services
Though Quantum is known for innovations in food processing, our roots are in pizza. In addition to waterfall topping applicators, we also offer sauce applicators, meat and pepperoni slicers, drug and granular ingredient applicators, circle placers, and additional pizza equipment.
Get the Right Waterfall Applicator at Quantum Technical Services
Quantum Technical Services has the right waterfall applicator for your business. Whether you choose the TC-5 or MLT2000, Quantum has all the pizza-making resources you need to increase your output, improve your efficiency, and make the pizza process easier. If you are still trying to decide which waterfall applicator is right for you, contact Quantum today!