Food production and packaging
Entrances where soles and boots need to be cleaned before the work area, with a routine quality and production teams can understand.
Partner brand for hygiene entrances
Controlled cleaning for soles, boots and hygiene entrances
In food production, changing rooms, laboratories or sensitive areas, dirt on footwear should not travel further inside. HEUTE mechanically cleans soles and footwear exactly where personnel crosses into the controlled area.
When hygiene starts with the steps entering the area
About HEUTE
HEUTE Maschinenfabrik GmbH & Co. KG is a German specialist in equipment for cleaning shoes, soles, wheels and special applications, with origins in 1905. The company developed the first fully automatic shoe shine machine in 1945 and expanded its expertise into industrial sole, boot, wheel and hygiene-sluice systems. Through SEVENSEAS, HEUTE is selected locally from personnel flow, footwear type, hygiene requirement, installation, cleaning and service.
At entrances between changing room and production, support areas and sensitive spaces, or before rooms with stricter requirements, footwear becomes part of route control. A good crossing needs enough cleaning, realistic throughput and practical maintenance.
HEUTE fits when the access point needs more than a mat or a wall instruction: mechanical cleaning, controlled liquid, drying, boot brushes, dosing, two-way access or a turnstile after hand disinfection.
Where HEUTE helps control the entrance
Changing rooms and personnel access
Points where people move daily into cleaner areas and the measure must be fast, clear and hard to bypass.
Wet cleaning or liquid-disinfectant hygiene
Stations where mechanical cleaning is assisted by cleaning liquid or disinfectant, with dosing, refill and service routine defined.
Boots, uppers and visible dirt
Areas where soles alone are not enough and side brushes or boot-cleaning equipment help reduce visible transfer.
Sluices with access control
Situations where sole cleaning, hand disinfection and access release need to work as one controlled crossing.
Special and automotive applications
Dedicated configurations where footwear, route, cleaning target and line integration require technical adaptation.
How to choose the right HEUTE direction
Selection is not only about model name. It depends on what needs to be cleaned, how long a person can stay in the crossing, whether liquid is used, whether footwear needs drying and who maintains the equipment.
Dry cleaning for dust and physical dirt
Dry cleaning fits when the aim is to remove dust, particles, sand or physical dirt from soles without liquid in the process.
Solamat and dry variants fit technical entrances, industrial office areas, support spaces or points where liquid-disinfectant hygiene is not required.
Wet cleaning when hygiene must be controlled at the crossing
StepGate and Neptun use mechanical cleaning assisted by liquid for entrances where soles or boots need more intensive cleaning. Liquid type, concentration, trough level, drainage, refill and cleaning routine matter.
Where hygiene requirements apply, selection needs to connect with the operator procedure: who checks the liquid, who cleans the equipment and how bypass is prevented.
Boots, hands and access in one crossing
In some entrances, sole cleaning is not enough. Neptun HCS1 combines sole cleaning with hand disinfection and can link access release to completing the crossing.
This direction should be checked when personnel flow, hygiene requirement, space, crossing direction and service ownership can be supported in daily use.
When the route also includes wheels or industrial traffic
HEUTE Sole Cleaners mainly cover footwear, soles, boots and personnel entrances. If the same point is crossed by wheels, carts, pallet trucks or AGVs, ProfilGate or route-level cleaning may be the better direction.
SEVENSEAS separates the mechanism early: footwear cleaning, wheel cleaning, a polymer contamination-control mat or a combination of points, so each area controls what actually passes through it.
Reference points for the right choice
Footwear type
Shoes, clogs, boots or deep-profile footwear need different brush contact, active length and access layout.
Dry or wet process
Dust and physical dirt may point to dry cleaning; liquid hygiene requires dosing, liquid, trough, drainage and routine.
Personnel flow
Passage count, accepted time at entry, traffic directions and bypass risk decide whether the point will be used consistently.
Cleaning and service
Brushes, trough, grates, liquid and maintenance access should be owned before installation.
HEUTE models in entrance applications
The gallery shows the difference between sole cleaning, boot cleaning, full footwear cleaning and sluices where hand disinfection or drying become part of the crossing.
HEUTE customer references
HEUTE models for sole and footwear cleaning
The HEUTE range in the CMS includes ProfilGate go, StepGate, StepGate dry, Solamat and Neptun. The right model is selected from footwear type, dry or wet cleaning, hand disinfection, personnel traffic, available space and service routine.
Neptun BC1 - HEUTE sole cleaning
Cleaning process
Wet cleaning of boot soles and sides
Persons per hour
< 50
Contamination
Mud, oil, grease and lubricants
Dimensions
770 x 870 x 1220 mm
Weight
140 kg
Neptun HCS1 - HEUTE sole cleaning
Cleaning process
Wet hygiene sluice with controlled access
Persons per hour
< 200
Contamination
Mud, oil, grease and lubricants
Dimensions
1620 x 935 x 1670 mm
Weight
213 kg
Neptun SC1 - HEUTE sole cleaning
Cleaning process
Wet cleaning of soles and footwear uppers
Persons per hour
< 50
Contamination
Mud, oil, grease and lubricants
Dimensions
760 x 640 x 1220 mm
Weight
50 kg
Neptun SCS1 - HEUTE sole cleaning
Cleaning process
Wet sole-cleaning hygiene sluice
Persons per hour
< 200
Contamination
Mud, oil, grease and lubricants
Dimensions
1420 x 885 x 1170 mm
Weight
180 kg
Neptun SCS1 dry - HEUTE sole cleaning
Cleaning process
Dry sole-cleaning hygiene sluice
Persons per hour
< 200
Contamination
Dry dirt
Weight
175 kg
Design
V2A 1.4301 / AISI 304
ProfilGate go - HEUTE sole cleaning
Cleaning process
Dry mechanical cleaning without electrical power
Persons per hour
∞
Contamination
Dust, sand and dry dirt
Installation mode
Floor-level or above-floor installation
Traffic fit
Personnel, trolleys and small wheels
Solamat 100 - HEUTE sole cleaning
Cleaning process
Dry cleaning of soles and footwear uppers
Persons per hour
< 20
Contamination
Dust, sand and dry dirt
Dimensions
460 x 600 x 1100 mm
Weight
60 kg
Solamat 150 Shine - HEUTE sole cleaning
Cleaning process
Dry cleaning and polishing
Persons per hour
< 20
Contamination
Dust, sand and dry dirt
Dimensions
460 x 600 x 1100 mm
Weight
60 kg
Solamat 200 - HEUTE sole cleaning
Cleaning process
Dry cleaning with extraction
Persons per hour
< 20
Contamination
Dust, sand and dry dirt
Dimensions
460 x 600 x 1100 mm
Weight
62 kg
Solamat 90 - HEUTE sole cleaning
Cleaning process
Dry mechanical cleaning
Persons per hour
< 20
Contamination
Dust, sand and dry dirt
Dimensions
460 x 560 x 1140 mm
Weight
47 kg
StepGate dry - wet sole cleaning with drying zone
Cleaning process
Wet mechanical cleaning and drying
Persons per hour
∞
Contamination
Mud, oil, grease and lubricants
Dimensions
820 x 1960 x 1180 mm
Weight
135 kg
StepGate I - mechanical wet sole-cleaning station
Cleaning process
Mechanical wet sole cleaning with cleaning solution or disinfectant
Recommended daily traffic
Up to 30 people per day
Contamination
Mud, oil, grease and lubricants
Dimensions
820 x 980 x 1180 mm
Weight
86 kg
Do you have an entrance where soles, boots or hands need to be controlled before production?
Discuss the HEUTE entrance
Send the area, personnel flow, footwear type and hygiene requirement. We will return with the right direction for the first review.
Frequently asked questions
Answers for teams comparing sole cleaning, hygiene sluices, boot-cleaning equipment and route-level contamination control.
HEUTE Sole Cleaners are equipment for footwear: soles, boots, upper shoe areas and, in some configurations, hand disinfection. ProfilGate is usually reviewed when the same route includes wheels, rollers, carts or mixed industrial traffic. A passive mat is a wiping surface without active mechanical cleaning.
- HEUTE: personnel entrances, changing rooms, hygiene sluices, boots and soles;
- ProfilGate: wheels, rollers, soles and industrial routes with moving traffic;
- textile or polymer mats: passive contact where the application fits that mechanism.
If the entry is used only by personnel, HEUTE is usually the first direction. If the point is mixed, we compare the mechanism before quotation.
Dry cleaning targets dust, particles and physical dirt without liquid in the equipment. Wet cleaning adds cleaning or disinfectant liquid and needs a clearer routine: level, refill, drainage, concentration and trough cleaning.
- dry: simpler for technical areas, support entries or physical dirt;
- wet: stronger for hygiene entrances where the process accepts liquid;
- wet with drying: useful when the next area should not receive excess moisture.
Selection should connect to the operator procedure, not only to the model name.
A sluice with hand disinfection and access control fits when the entrance needs to create repeatable behaviour, not only offer optional equipment. If personnel can pass without cleaning or disinfection, control becomes hard to maintain.
- food-production or hygiene-zone entrances;
- changing rooms before stricter areas;
- flows where quality or internal hygiene requires completion of the steps;
- areas where crossing time and capacity need to be balanced.
StepGate is the direction for stainless-steel crossings and mechanical sole cleaning, including wet cleaning and drying variants. Solamat is more compact and fits dry cleaning of soles or footwear. Neptun covers more hygiene-oriented applications, boots, wet cleaning and combinations with hands or access control.
- StepGate: personnel crossing, stainless steel, sole cleaning;
- Solamat: compact spaces, dry cleaning, point use;
- Neptun: boots, wet hygiene, sluices, hands and access.
Photos, access width, footwear type and liquid requirement quickly clarify the right family.
A full technical file is not needed to start. A few concrete details about the entrance and personnel flow are enough for the first direction.
- photos from both sides of the entrance;
- width, length and position of doors or turnstile;
- footwear type: shoes, clogs, boots, deep profiles;
- desired cleaning: dry, wet, disinfectant, drying;
- estimated passages and peak times;
- who can clean, refill and check the equipment.
The equipment should be treated as part of the area routine, not as an installed object that is forgotten. Brushes, liquid, trough, grates, drying and cleaning access decide how well the point stays in operation.
- assign the cleaning and checking owner;
- define frequency for liquid, trough and brushes;
- check whether personnel use the point without bypass;
- keep model documentation close to the internal procedure.
When these are clear, HEUTE can support a more predictable and easier-to-control entrance.