May 2006
EDM

The fourth Anuga Food Tec held in Cologne from 4th to 7th April was a success. In contrary to other shows, Anuga Food Tec offered a cross category, cross technology and cross culture approach to food technology – which was highly appreciated by some 39,000 visitors (+13 per cent). 1,178 exhibitors showed the newest developments in their respective fields on a total of 100,000 m2 of exhibition floor space. Exhibitors highlighted the competence of visitors of whom the most had direct influende in procurement and technological decisions in their companies. 70 per cent of the visitors stated that their trip to Cologne was a good investment.
Procomac Industries have shown a Fillstar Fx volumetric electronic filling system for dairy products. It can be combined with different container treatment options in a modular way to produce fresh or ESL milk, drinkable yoghurt, low-acid milk-based products and UHT milk in PET containers. There is no contact between bottle neck and filling nozzle, the product flows linear from an external tank in overpressure of inert gas, no feeding pumps are used for a gentle product handling, variable filling speed avoids foaming and the filler can be sterilized by steam with an automatic dummy bottle insertion and extraction system that creates a closed-loop pipe for the sterilizing medium. A microbiological isolator or Procomac Proclean hygienic devices can be applied to the filler to obtain the required degree of control of the filling environment.