Authentic homestyle breading
Benefit from GEA’s advanced coating technology for the food industry. GEA MultiDrum is a patented, state-of-the-art homestyle flour breader. It offers the perfect marriage between productivity and authenticity, without compromise. Our homestyle coater helps use ingredients efficiently, requires very little manual labor and promotes dust-free working conditions.
Re-creating delicious homestyle breading on an industrial scale used to be a compromise. You had to choose between an authentic look but with low production efficiency, or a non-authentic appearance with better efficiency. No more! GEA has perfected its homestyle breader to overcome all of the automated homestyle breading drawbacks and help you produce authentic natural products with a crunchy golden coating. Just like mom used to make it!

GEA MultiDrum homestyle breader is typically suitable for applications such as for bone-in and boneless chicken tenders, cuts, shrimps, fish and onion rings.
Best in class performance
Reliability you can count on
High efficiency in a smart design

With the GEA MultiDrum your benefits start at the beginning: the infeed. There’s no need for converging machines: they just add cost and footprint. As the products rise on the chain belt, they are naturally divided into separate channels: one for each drum. The correct level of flour is maintained so your products are breaded perfectly every time.

This technology is unique to GEA MultiDrum coating machines. The homestyle appearance is created by tumbling your products in a drum. There are no augers, so there’s little chance of blockage. After tumbling, excess flour falls through the slits and is constantly cycled back to the machine. At the outfeed of the homestyle breader, products are spread evenly across the belt, so you don’t need spreading machines or manual workers.
| MultiDrum 600 | MultiDrum 1000 | |
| Belt width | 600 | 1000 |
| Belt speed min/max | 2,5 - 25 m/min | 2,5 - 25 m/min |
| Dimensions L x W x H | 365x160x185 cm | 365x200x185 cm |
| Machine weight | 1350 kg | 1350 kg |

GEA OptiAir sets the world standard for a dust-free environment for coating applications. It was developed with the innovative GEA OptiFlour pre-duster to achieve a cleaner, safer and more pleasant working environment. It’s fully compatible with the GEA MultiDrum. The risk of cross-contamination in your factory is reduced.

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