Clean-design valves ensure sanitation

Clean-design pneumatic valve terminals and actuators offer a high level of hygiene, as well as low maintenance.

Pneumatic cylinders feature clean-design principles that enhance hygiene and simplify maintenance.
Pneumatic cylinders feature clean-design principles that enhance hygiene and simplify maintenance.

Two Festo components help make Elopak’s container loading system both hygienic and easy-to-maintain. Lauri Nurminen, sales manager materials handling with Elopak, outlined the benefits of the Festo CDVI Clean Design Valve Terminals and CDN Clean-Design Cylinders at a speech to editors from around the world who attended a press briefing at Festo’s German headquarters this past December.

The materials handling division of Elopak, located in Finland and Norway, manufacturers its container loaders mostly for high-volume or quick-turnover products such as fresh milk. Mounted on rollers, containers carry 160 liters and have a capacity varying from 5ꯠ to 13ꯠ units/hour.

A complex series of actions unfolds as the Elopak system does its thing. First, a group of bottles is pushed forward on to a slotted table of the container loader. A loading plate is pushed into the trolley. A group pusher front plate moves the group onto the roll container shelf. The full trolley elevator moves the trolley downward to the next shelf level for loading. This is repeated four times to fully load one trolley.

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