Design for cleanliness and efficiency – thumbs up from the industry
Hygiene and product safety is a big issue in the food industry and is getting increased attention day by day. The reasons behind are primarily consumer safety, brand protection and production efficiency – this was the main topic at a customer day at FlexLink in Gothenburg, Sweden
The event which hosted guests from the Swedish food industry started with a presentation how to manage bacterial growth, by Birgitta Bergström, a Microbiologist for Process hygiene from SIK, the Swedish Institute for Food and Biotechnology. In her presentation, she demonstrated the state of the art methods for cleaning and preventing the contamination of bacteria and pathogens.
Birgitta Bergström presented the results of tests made at SIK on the cleaning of the new wide modular belt conveyor, WLX, which proved excellent, both with regards to the cleaning results and short cleaning time.
The design of equipment for cleanliness in production processes is a driver for both consumer safety and production efficiency. It is an area where FlexLink’s most recent developments offers drastic and profitable change to industry.
In addition, FlexLink’s latest development in high capacity balancing and grouping of products of different types of packaging, including flexible, was demonstrated. The new DMT™ continuous-motion technology create seamless production flows and release capacity of machines. It is ideal for high-speed balancing solutions even for sensitive and flexible packaging, at 1,000 products per minute, or more.
“The feedback from customers on what we showed has been very strong and is good evidence that FlexLink is providing genuine value to industry” concludes Fredrik Boberg, Sales Manager at FlexLink’s sales unit for the Nordic countries, and responsible for the event.
FlexLink AB
Klas Ålander
Communications Manager
+46 31 337 2499
Klas.alander@flexlink.com
FlexLink is a leading provider of automated production flow solutions – giving improved production efficiency to industry. Headquartered in Göteborg, Sweden, FlexLink has operating units in 30 countries and is represented in more than 60. In 2013, FlexLink had 840 employees and a turnover of SEK 1,664 million.
FlexLink is part of Coesia, an innovation based Group consisting of 14 companies specialized in automated machinery and industrial process solutions. For 2013, the Coesia Group had a turnover of Euro 1,370 million (forecast) and 5,800 employees.
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