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Introducing the new Russell Hygiene Filter™
FT4 Powder Rheometer
The Russell Hygiene Filter™ is a specifically designed self-cleaning liquid filter to meet the demands of the food and pharmaceutical industries, where product quality cannot be compromised. Utilising the latest manufacturing techniques and applying key industry standards makes it the highest specification filter on the market.
transforms powder testing capabilities
At AZO GmbH + Co. KG (Osterburken, Germany), the introduction of the FT4 Powder Rheometer has revolutionised the company’s approach to powder characterisation. Replacing older shear cell equipment and a basic powder tester, use of the FT4 has dramatically reduced the time taken to reliably characterise a new powder and enhanced AZO’s ability to design and specify optimised solutions uniquely tailored to individual customer needs.
By providing dynamic powder testing capability, the FT4 Powder Rheometer is giving AZO a new set of parameters with which to rationalise the in-process behaviour of powders. This additional information and extra insight is helping the company to develop new, more secure design protocols and to more efficiently identify optimal powder handling solutions for its clients.
The teams at AZO are finding that BFE data help to rationalise why certain powders behave well in certain types of equipment. This means that by testing just a small amount of material the company can now identify a suitable processing solution more confidently, ahead of plant trials, which require much larger quantities of material. Other powder properties are also proving highly relevant to performance in specific unit operations. The expectation is that over the long term the FT4 will enable the development of new design algorithms for key processes and significantly extend the company’s knowledge base.
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This filter has been designed in accordance with the hygienic machinery standard BS EN ISO 14159:2008 and food contact regulation EU1935/2004 to provide a high-clean, fully crevice free filter for uncompromised cleaning between batches. Every component has been carefully designed to eliminate all crevices and bug traps to allow for sanitary standard cleaning. In addition, all product contact parts are polished to less than 0.6Ra as standard (0.1Ra is available if required) providing a superior finish. The Russell Hygiene Filter™ requires no tools for cleaning or maintenance and dismantles completely enabling one operator
to disassemble the filter quickly. This increases productivity of your operators and your production process. The filter is also fully enclosed
preventing airborne contamination and safeguarding the health and safety of your operators.
In addition to its sanitary design, the Russell Hygiene Filter™ also incorporates the unique self-cleaning design of the Russell Eco Filter®. This enables continuous removal of oversize contamination as fine as 10 micron, achieved by continuously cleaning the apertures of the filter element. As a result this saves you money by successfully removing oversize product and ensuring minimal loss of good product. Also, unlike traditional bag or cartridge filters it uses a reusable, reduced crevice filter element which eliminates the cost and environmental implications associated with replacement filter media.
www.russellfinex.com
Rigid paper solution for packaging chemicals
Sonoco has enabled a supplier of vehicle oils and fluids to replace its costly metal container with a rigid paper-based can designed and manufactured by the Consumer Packaging division of Sonoco UK. “The result is a lower-cost, sustainable packaging solution that has all of the positive attributes and benefits of a metal container, but none of its downsides”, says Sean Cairns, general manager, Sonoco Rigid Paper and Closures, Europe.
The supplier had previously used steel containers for its vehicle oils and fluids, which are exported to a number of international destinations. Sonoco’s solution was a rigid paper container with metal ends that offers the same product appearance and protection for liquids, but at a lower cost and using far more sustainable materials.
Successful collaboration
Grotech Production and Safapac have hailed the mutual benefits of sharing exhibition space at CropWorld 2011.
The global conference and exhibition, was held for the second time at ExCel in London’s Docklands on 31 October-2 November. The event attracted over 1,000 visitors and focused on crop protection issues and the pesticides used to support global food production. The use, production and conversion of pesticides to forms for safe end-user application to the land and crops is of primary interest to contract manufacturers like Grotech Production and Safapac with expertise in a range of production technologies. Grotech Production and Safapac shared an exhibition stand and both companies say they benefited from the alliance.
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Martin Steele, MD of Safapac, says: “The joint arrangement established a significant UK contract
manufacturing presence at this global forum and we will definitely consider doing the same again.”
Martin Usher, MD of Grotech Production
adds: “Whereas we are clearly competitors in some areas, we also have production capabilities that complement one another. This is in line with Grotech’s strategy of seeking co- operative arrangements with customers and other contractors.”
Martin Usher says Grotech Production met a number of current and prospective customers at the exhibition, which enabled the forging of
stronger ties with its partners. At least two significant projects will be carried forward as a result.
The exhibition also allowed both companies to meet overseas customers more conveniently than by extensive travel and during the course of the three-day event, many prospective customers were able to find the UK sub- contractors required for the coming seasons. The companies also booked to do the same at Cropworld 2012, at the QE2 Conference Centre, Westminster, from 6-8 November.
www.grotechproduction.co.uk
The rigid
paper container demonstrates
significant economic and environmental improvements in its life cycle assessment when compared to the steel can that the customer had used. Not only does it result in a 27 percent
reduction in material weight inputs and reduce the customer’s shipping and handling costs, it also results in a 34 percent reduction in energy inputs, a 20 percent reduction in greenhouse gas emissions and a two percent reduction in chemical bad actors.
www.sonoco.com
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