Built for hygiene and performance: Meet the toughest food industry standards
In food and beverage production, packaging, and delivery, reliable gearheads keep your equipment running efficiently. Neugart’s are built to deliver exceptional performance while standing up to the toughest washdowns and cleaning routines.
Whether implemented in a wet or dry manufacturing environment, they maintain consistently reliable output, remain easy to clean, and show no signs of corrosion or rust.
Here’s what makes our food industry gearboxes ideal for their purpose:
Hygienic design, no radial bolts
Engineered specifically with safety in mind, our food industry gearboxes contain no crevices or radial bolts. This makes cleaning simple and helps avoid any trapped product or bacteria buildup.
Made with stainless steel
Featuring electro-polished 316L stainless steel surfaces, Neugart’s hygienic gearboxes for the food industry have a smooth, rounded, and easily sanitized surface that is resistant to corrosion. They’re designed by our expert engineers to withstand the high-pressure, high-temperature washdowns common in food plants.
Food-safe lubricants
All our sensitive industry gearboxes use food-grade NSF H1 lubricant to avoid contamination while keeping your machinery running smoothly and reliably.
High performance and efficiency
Alongside meeting the highest food-safety standards, Neugart gearboxes are engineered for high performance. In hygienic configurations such as the HLAE series, efficiencies of up to 97–98% are achieved, combined with minimal backlash and high torque for precise, reliable operation in food-processing applications.
Comply with strict hygiene standards
Neugart gearboxes are designed to support FDA-acceptable materials and hygienic cleaning processes commonly required in food manufacturing. We’re also the first to design a gearbox certified to 3-A RPSCQC standards, giving you peace of mind that your equipment aligns with the regulations governing food and beverage manufacturing.
Gearbox solutions for every food processing application
Neugart gearboxes are built for hygiene, reliability, and performance, and so are ready to handle any challenge the food industry machinery demands.
Mixing and processing
Ideal for high-torque applications like mixers, kneaders, or blenders.
- Hygienic design gearbox with no crevices or radial bolts for easy cleaning
- Corrosion-resistant, electro-polished stainless steel
- High torque and minimal backlash for consistent, precise operation
Conveying and packaging
Engineered for continuous operation on filling lines and packaging machines.
- IP69K-rated for protection against high-pressure washdowns
- Food-safe lubricants keep machinery running smoothly without contamination risk
- Durable and reliable for long production runs, wet or dry environments
Filling and dosing
- Minimal backlash ensures precision and repeatability
- High-efficiency gearboxes (>97%) maintain smooth, consistent output
- Supports strict food industry standards for peace of mind
Which of our gear lines is right for you?
We have a wide range of food-industry suitable gearboxes to choose from, so how can you select which one will be best for you?
We’ve sorted our products into the following lines to help you select the right product based on your priorities, whether you’re searching for a budget-friendly option, precise control, or something that’ll work with a very specific use case.
Economy gearboxes
These planetary and right-angle gearboxes are our most attractively priced products, while still offering powerful performance. They’re lightweight and compact, to fit in tight food production machinery, but still maintain high torque and low backlash.
Browse our economy gearboxes
Precision gearboxes
These are our most highly accurate gearboxes, ideal for food industry applications such as filling or labeling that require consistency and exactitude. They offer very low torsional backlash and rigidity to perform exact actions time and time again, while also maintaining an impressive load capacity.
Many of our gearboxes are also configured as gear reducers, helping to increase precision even more.
Browse our precision gearboxes
Application-specific gearboxes
For gearboxes tailored precisely to food and beverage use cases, look no further than our application-specific line.
Our HLAE is the world’s first fully hygienic planetary gearbox developed specifically for applications in sensitive areas, including food. Available with a freely positionable sealing kit, it provides maximum protection against contamination and is universally suitable for different machine wall thicknesses. Connecting it to any machine while satisfying the strictest industry requirements.
Browse our application-specific gearboxes
Custom gearboxes
Not every use case can be covered with a standard catalog option. For such situations, we offer customized gearbox development. Our engineers can tailor bevel gear stages—straight, spiral, or hypoid—into unique configurations to exactly match your torque, space, and integration challenges.
Find out more
Simplify gearbox selection for food and beverage manufacturing
There are so many parameters to consider when selecting the right gearbox for a food and beverage industry application. Not only do you need the right performance standards, such as torque and backlash, but you can’t forget the hygiene and safety qualities affecting the product, either.
We make selecting your ideal solution simple with two easy-to-use tools:
Tec Data Finder (TDF)
TDF is our quick search and comparison tool, which allows you to filter by the specifications that matter most to you for your food production needs.
For example, narrow down your gearbox selection to only those that have a stainless steel housing, or display only those that have the torque capacity, efficiency, frame size, and mounting options that your machinery demands.
The tool instantly generates a list of matching gearboxes, along with their technical data sheets so you can thoroughly compare your best options.
Neugart Calculation Program (NCP)
For complete drive-train simulation, the Neugart Calculation Program gives you a deeper engineering view. Model the interaction between motor, gearbox, and load to ensure your bevel gearbox selection will perform reliably under real operating conditions.
Frequently asked questions
A stainless steel gearbox is a type of mechanical gear system enclosed in a housing made from corrosion-resistant stainless steel. Unlike standard gearboxes, these are specifically designed for applications where hygiene and resistance to harsh substances are critical, such as in the food and beverage or pharmaceutical industries. Stainless-steel gearboxes prevent rust, withstand washdowns, and maintain reliable performance in demanding environments.
Our gearboxes are designed specifically for applications in the food industry. They are stainless steel gearboxes, featuring sanitary surfaces and food-safe lubricants to prevent contamination during contact with edible items. They also withstand cleaning cycles, caustic chemicals, and sterilization, ensuring reliable handling of food items.
Absolutely. We provide economy, precision, application-specific, and custom gearboxes to meet specific needs. Whether you need a bevel, or shaft configuration, our solutions can be integrated into your food processing equipment and other manufacturing equipment for optimal performance.
Our custom gearboxes can be designed for your precise application requirements, including extreme temperatures, sterilization, and stringent sanitation standards. We collaborate closely with clients to ensure products and services are tailored for the consistent and safe handling of food items.
While suitable for food and beverage manufacturing, our hygienic and high-performance gearboxes are also ideal for any industry requiring precise, contamination-free operations, such as pharmaceuticals or cosmetics. Our gearboxes also work well in AGVs and AMRs, as well as Delta robots. Whatever you need a gearbox for, we can develop one to fit your requirements.
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