September 2006
ITALIAN FOOD TECHNOLOGY
Procomac Industries has developed the Fillstar Fx, a 3A certificate volumetric electronic filling system for dairy products. It can be combined with different container treatment options in a modular fashion to produce fresh milk, ESL (extended shelf life) milk, drinkable yogurt, low-acid milk based products and UHT milk in PET containers.
The highlights of this filler are:
- no contact between bottle neck and filling nozzle;
- linear product path from an external tank in overpressure of inert gas, no feeding pumps are used, resulting in gentle product handling;
- variable filling speed to avoid foaming of the product at the beginning of the filling and to obtain a very precise product measurement;
- Fx filler can be sterilised by steam with an automatic dummy bottle insertion and extraction system that creates a closed-loop pipe for the sterilising medium.
According to the application, Procomac microbiological isolator or Procomac Proclean hygienic devices can be applied to the filler to obtain the required degree of control of the filling environment.