Food and Beverage Packaging May 2012 : Page-36

Machinery Technology PLANT FOCUS FOCUS ON FILLER OPTIONS Five machinery builders share the most popular options that customers select for their ﬁ lling machinery. / by RICK LINGLE , Editor in Chief F&BP: What’s the most popular ﬁ ller option that customers have been selecting recently? Ben Fogg, director of sales , Fogg Filler (www.fog-gﬁ ller.com): Safety & Sanitation Guarding with HEPA ﬁ ltration is a very popular option. Fogg guarantees and certiﬁ es Class 100 air, or better, in the ﬁ lling environ-ment. With this feature, the shelf life is often greatly improved. Another popular option is Fogg’s Semi-Auto-matic One-Way Recovery Trough. By touching a button, customers can clean the valves in place without adding or removing any hardware. This enables them to de-crease the amount of cleaning time and operator contact with the ﬁ lling environment, which increases sanitation. Brian Barr, sales manager for packaging systems , Heat Automatic clean-in-place provides an exacting, repeatable procedure that cuts CIP time dramatically to increase uptime for ﬁ lling machines. and Control (www.heatandcontrol.com): Our Vertical Raceway, which can continuously ﬁ ll up to 320 contain-ers per minute, deposits a wide variety of products into two lanes of preformed trays or into existing tray lines. Nestled beneath an Ishida weigher, the Vertical Raceway is more compact than a horizontal ﬁ ller so it takes up less ﬂ oor space and allows closer spacing of weighers. It easily slides away from the tray conveyor and weigher to provide unrestricted access for sanitation. Jan Sundberg , applications development manager -ﬁ lling & closing, JBT FoodTech (www.jbtfoodtech. com): One of the most popular options and features on our Uniﬁ ller installed base is the automatic Clean-In-Place (CIP). The ﬁ ller is cleaned completely auto-matic inside and out by the push of a button. The beneﬁ ts include: Removal of the “human factor” pro-viding exact, repeatable cleaning every time. Manual handling of loose parts during disassembly, manual cleaning, and re-assembly is completely eliminated, removing all risk of damaging internal parts or hav-ing the ﬁ ller reassembled incorrectly. JBT has con-ducted thousands of CIP installations over 30+ years and have continuously improved the CIP process by: Upgrading hardware such as spray patterns, improv-ing general sanitary design, and optimizing software to clean the ﬁ llers more efﬁ ciently. A cleaning cycle that may have taken 75 minutes a few years ago can now be done in 45 minutes. Christine Marchadour , VP int’l. sales/mar-keting, Multi-Fill Inc. (www.multi-ﬁ ll.com): One of the more popular options is our patented distribu-tion system. As multilane conveyors are increasing-ly used, one ﬁ ller equipped with a distribution sys-tem can transfer the doses from one discharge point of the ﬁ ller to multiple containers on the line. This is a cheaper solution for the food manufacturer, but still accomplishes the job. ‹‹ PHOTO COURTESY JBT FOODTECH Timothy L. Kent, P.E ., research & marketing di-rector , Raque Food Systems (www.raque.com): Our improved Travelling Carriage system has been a great success. Although it was developed to synchronize our Piston Fillers with packages on a conveying line, our customers have used this option to augment their own combination weighers. The system increases the amount of time available for a system to make a deposit and allows the product deposit to be made along the length of the package. The systems can be provided as stand-alone, mobile devices or they can be built into the conveying system. F&BP MA Y 36 FOOD & BEVERA GE P A CKA GING 2012 WWW . FOOD ANDBEVERA GEP A CKA GING . COM

Focus On Filler Options

Rick Lingle

PLANT FOCUS Five machinery builders share the most popular options that customers select for their filling machinery. F&BP: What's the most popular filler option that customers have been selecting recently? Ben Fogg, director of sales, Fogg Filler (www.foggfiller.com): Safety & Sanitation Guarding with HEPA filtration is a very popular option. Fogg guarantees and certifies Class 100 air, or better, in the filling environment. With this feature, the shelf life is often greatly improved. Another popular option is Fogg's Semi-Automatic One-Way Recovery Trough. By touching a button, customers can clean the valves in place without adding or removing any hardware. This enables them to decrease the amount of cleaning time and operator contact with the filling environment, which increases sanitation. Brian Barr, sales manager for packaging systems, Heat and Control (www.heatandcontrol.com): Our Vertical Raceway, which can continuously fill up to 320 containers per minute, deposits a wide variety of products into two lanes of preformed trays or into existing tray lines. Nestled beneath an Ishida weigher, the Vertical Raceway is more compact than a horizontal filler so it takes up less floor space and allows closer spacing of weighers. It easily slides away from the tray conveyor and weigher to provide unrestricted access for sanitation. Jan Sundberg, applications development manager- filling & closing, JBT FoodTech (www.jbtfoodtech. com): One of the most popular options and features on our Unifiller installed base is the automatic Clean- In-Place (CIP). The filler is cleaned completely automatic inside and out by the push of a button. The benefits include: Removal of the "human factor" providing exact, repeatable cleaning every time. Manual handling of loose parts during disassembly, manual cleaning, and re-assembly is completely eliminated, removing all risk of damaging internal parts or having the filler reassembled incorrectly. JBT has conducted thousands of CIP installations over 30+ years and have continuously improved the CIP process by: Upgrading hardware such as spray patterns, improving general sanitary design, and optimizing software to clean the fillers more efficiently. A cleaning cycle that may have taken 75 minutes a few years ago can now be done in 45 minutes. Christine Marchadour, VP int'l. Sales/marketing, Multi-Fill Inc. (www.multi-fill.com): One of the more popular options is our patented distribution system. As multilane conveyors are increasingly used, one filler equipped with a distribution system can transfer the doses from one discharge point of the filler to multiple containers on the line. This is a cheaper solution for the food manufacturer, but still accomplishes the job. Timothy L. Kent, P.E., research & marketing director, Raque Food Systems (www.raque.com): Our improved Travelling Carriage system has been a great success. Although it was developed to synchronize our Piston Fillers with packages on a conveying line, our customers have used this option to augment their own combination weighers. The system increases the amount of time available for a system to make a deposit and allows the product deposit to be made along the length of the package. The systems can be provided as stand-alone, mobile devices or they can be built into the conveying system. Automatic clean-inplace provides an exacting, repeatable procedure that cuts CIP time dramatically to increase uptime for filling machines.

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