BAKIRKOY, ISTANBUL — Depart, Alapala Group’s spare part business, has partnered with Italy-based Sarp to offer spiral conveyor belts and food processing systems.

Sarp designs and manufactures customized machinery for industrial food production and thermal treatment of bulk or packed foods.

With the partnership, Depart said it will be able to respond to different needs such as drying, sterilizing, pasteurizing, cooling, freezing or leavening in all food products. Sarp has accepted Depart as a representative in 30 countries.

“We have prepared our sales and marketing infrastructure of the food processing machines that will provide various advantages to many food manufacturers such as spiral coolers, spiral freezers, spiral pasteurizer and proofers,” said Cengiz Tiryakioğlu, general manager of Depart. “This month, our sales team started to work in the countries we took over for Sarp machines, which provide many advantages, especially energy savings and waste-free production. We will continue to offer innovative solutions to manufacturers by continuing to move forward with a one stop shop approach in all fields we operate.”

Depart, which started out with the sales of milling machine spare parts, today plays an active role in milling industry  innovative solutions, optical sorters, rice and grain process machines, pasta spare parts, packaging technologies, logistic solutions and food process systems.