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The new F720i high-speed fiber laser has
been designed for coding cans at speeds
up to 90,000 beverage cans per hour and
is suitable for demanding production environments
thanks to its high IP rating.
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Flottweg: Small separator,
immense potential
Flottweg will present its brand-new AC1200
separator. It is starting a new product line
of high-performance separators for small
and midsized companies. This separator is
characterized by its excellent clarification
performance, outstanding product yield,
and a compact, user-friendly design. Its
core applications are in the juice, beer, and
olive oil industries. The system is specifically
configured and adapted for each of
these applications.
The skid solution makes the AC1200 extremely
flexible, with very little space required.
The separator is also equipped with
the patented Flottweg Soft Shot discharge
system for product-friendly, quiet discharge.
Flottweg is also starting a new era in terms
of product design. The design of the AC1200
communicates the Flottweg core competences
of robustness, quality, and maintenance
friendliness. The goal of the product
designer is to direct the focus more specifically
onto the point of know-how, the separator
bowl. flottweg.com
8 · 8 2017 | international-dairy.com
GEA: The widest capacity homogeniser
GEA’s new Ariete Homogenizer 5400 offers
the widest capacity ever achieved (80.000
l/h@120 bar) and the greatest versatility;
from dairy to beverage, but also in pharmaceutical
and chemical sectors while maximum
efficiency and safe operations are guaranteed.
The growing demand for high efficiency and
safe operations in the dairy industry has prompted
GEA to develop the only homogenizer in the
world able to ensure increasing quality standards
for continuous production, using less power and
fewer resources compared to the other 5 pistons
homogenizers on the market. The high pressure
Ariete pump means 7% higher efficiency in its
class, this coupled with the possibility to install
GEA high efficiency options such as NiSoPURE,
NanoVALVE and OPS allows further savings in
production costs (power, water, oil).
The new strengthened design confers
greater steadiness and stability to the machine
in any working condition prevented
vibrations and allowing smooth operation
and reduced pulsation also for viscous and
difficult products. Thanks to GEA`s expert
aseptic capabilities in the pharma sector:
• Inside and outside design allows extreme
hygiene and safety
• Straight pipes for inlet and outlet connection
to manifold
• Easy cleaning due to no water stagnation areas
• Slope on external case for discharging
• Motor position allows safe and easy access
for the operator.
Entirely built around customer’s needs, Ariete
Homogenizer 5400 allows easy and safe accessibility
to the inside minimizing service time.
The motor position allows safe access to the
operator and easy belt tensioning. gea.com
GEA: Aseptic Blow Fill
GEA’s Aseptic Blow Fill (ABF) is the world’s
first rotary aseptic blow moulding machine
with an integrated aseptic filler and
capper. The principle is to sterilize the
preform with hydrogen peroxide at the
exit of the oven, then blow the preforms
with sterile air in a sterile environment and
maintain this sterility throughout the filling
and capping process.
The system reduces the use of chemicals
and doesn’t need any water in production.
Energy usage is kept to a minimum by the
elimination of air conveyors, sterilization
and rinsing carrousels, and water UHT sterilization.
The whole system is more compact
than traditional technology and requires
fewer operators.
ABF is an extremely flexible system that can
blow and fill up to 48,000 bottles per hour
on 500 ml bottles, and can operate for up to
165 hours without any need for intermediate
SOP during production. It operates at different
levels of decontamination appropriate for
each product: this allows products with different
shelf lives – low acid and high acid aseptic
beverages – to be filled on the same system.
GEA’s revolutionary ABF technology,
that uniquely sterilizes preforms before
they are blown into their final shape, has
enabled a reduction in the weight of the
bottle to be filled. As the preform is made
of thicker material than the bottle itself,
it’s possible to work with higher temperatures
during sterilization without any risk
of shrinkage that would affect the shape
of the bottle.
This allows the weight of the bottle to be
reduced compared with traditional aseptic
systems. For example GEA designed a new
type of lightweight PET bottle that was 25%
lighter than previously used: just 12 g compared
with 16 g for a standard 500 ml bottle
for aseptic filling. Further innovation to the
bottle shape was possible, thanks to the cooperation
with Bericap, by the 33/15 neck,
double-thread finish.
The AC1200 offers optimum product yield
due to quiet, high-precision Soft Shot discharge
system, has a user-friendly handling
and simple maintenance, incorporates individual
process integration and parameterization
for customer needs or requirements
on site, offers high flexibility with minimal
space requirements (floor area of the skid
is about 2 m²) (photo: Flottweg)
The GEA Homogenizer Ariete 5400 offers
the greatest versatility achieved so far in
the industry (photo: GEA)
GEA’s Aseptic Blow Fill (ABF) is the world’s
first rotary aseptic blow moulding machine
with an integrated aseptic filler and
capper (photo: GEA)