Food & Beverages
In food and drink the vessel is judged on how fast it can be turned around. The process itself is rarely the difficulty — cleaning between flavours, proving it is clean and getting back into production is.
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SR-TEK transparent vessels have become increasingly popular in the food and drink industry due to their unique properties that provide numerous benefits for processing and packaging…
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Food & beverages
How often the line switches product usually decides more about the vessel than the product itself does.
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The bodies are built from 304 and 316 stainless steel, the grades normally specified for food contact, and the transparent range uses clear acrylic or toughened glass in a stainless frame. Which grade and which seals your application requires depends on the product and your own approval regime, so tell us what it is and we will confirm the specification in writing before quoting.
A vessel that opens fully and has no dead legs is what makes this quick, which is why the lid, the port positions and the dip tube arrangement are worth specifying carefully. Where a product is difficult to remove, a PTFE liner cuts the cleaning time — there is an article about exactly that in our news.
Yes, and the reason is practical: the operator sees the level and the condition of the product without opening anything or trusting a gauge. There are delivered installations in beverage packaging and bottle feeding among the case studies on this page.