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Pressurex® is a thin sensor film that reveals pressure distribution and magnitude between any two contacting or impacting surfaces by instantaneously and permanently capturing and  recording a pressure profile by changing color.

Bringing together training, hr, maintenance and engineering professionals from the key food and drink organisations has led to a determined commitment  to work together to find a united way of progressing skills and training to maximise plant efficiency.

Based in Helsingborg, Sweden, Nederman is a global player in working environment products and systems. Over 60 years of experience have helped the Group develop a modern and extensive product range.

Nederman is a world leader in dust and smoke extraction, exhaust fume extraction, hose and cable reels and workplace partitioning.
With sales in more than 50 countries and its own distribution network, Nederman is the best-known brand in the industry on a global basis.

Introducing the F30 Thermo Shot, the latest Thermal Imager from NEC AVIO, with a difference. Size! This latest camera is pocket sized and ultra light weight, meaning you can take it anywhere and not only does this camera look and feel like a standard compact digital camera, its user operation is very much the same.

Making it very user friendly. No need to read the user guide for this camera! Running on rechargeable AA batteries and saving analysable Visual / Thermal data in JPEG format to SD Card, makes this camera an ideal choice for any Thermographer's equipment case and for those who do not like the orange colour, there is also a choice of Blue or Black.

Even "oil-free" components and compressors are no guarantor for "oil-free" compressed air due to impurities in the ambient air / intake air.  In most cases, a certain residual oil content cannot be entirely avoided.

Therefore precise monitoring of the oil vapour content on a constant and reliable basis is important.  In particular in critical production processes such as those found in chemical and pharmaceutical industries, food production and surface engineering. The analysis and control of compressed-air quality is a crucial factor in avoiding costly lost production and product recall. 

Alfred Ritter GmbH & Co. KG, Waldenbuch, Germany, is family-owned in the third generation, and every family has its traditions... For almost 100 years, the Ritter family has kept a sweet secret- The recipe for success is to produce good chocolate: "square, practical, good". Their chocolate range, Ritter Sport, is now sold in about 90 different countries.

Optimisation of the production processes  in the  Alfred Ritter GmbH & Co.KG required an improvement in compressed air quality. The problem was clearly defined: Com-pressed air for the pneumatic handling of cereals, cocoa powder and other primary matters in the production of chocolate had to be in accordance with the strict  requirements of the HACCP concept. This concept is a preventive system which ensures the safety of food for consumers. Developed in 1959 in the USA for NASA. Under German law, HACCP became a constituent part of the Food Hygiene Ordinance in 1998.  In the EU, it came into effect in 2006, together with the new hygiene regula-tions package.

Innovative solutions and a competent implementation were in demand.
The safest way to prevent clumping in the conveyor pipes, and microbial growth in the product is compressed air which is processed to a pressure dew point of -40 °C. Therefore, an adsorption dryer was the central component of the system. The BEKO processing and system experts convinced the customer with a system solution of fully aligned quality products. The central module being a heat-regenerated adsorption dryer of the EVERDRY© FRA-V 3400 C type. The function of the FRA-V series require no compressed air, either for the desorption process nor for subsequent cooling of the heated desiccant (ZERO PURGE). Therefore, 100% of the compressed-air volume flow at the inlet of the system is available for the application

EVERDRY – the concept
Aligned system components form a clear compact unit: a CLEARPOINT© pre-filter with a BEKOMAT© 14 condensate drain. A heat-regenerated adsorption dryer of the EVER-DRY© FRA-V 3400 C type. A water-cooled heat exchanger for the pre-reduction of the compressed-air temperature. An EVERSORP© EC 2600 oil vapour adsorber  to ensure the required freedom from oil contamination. A CLEARPOINT© after filter for the separation of particles. Finally, sterile filtration prior to introduction into the com-pressed-air system. Permanent monitoring of the residual oil content in the com-pressed air is implemented with measurement technology made by BEKO.

The contribution of maintenance to an organisation is unfortunately too often not fully understood until something goes wrong e.g. a failure of a significant plant item or asset.This will inevitably result in a consequential loss through the inability to produce or provide a service or the occurrence of an environmental health, safety or quality incident.

The contribution of maintenance to an organisation is unfortunately too often not fully understood until something goes wrong e.g. a failure of a significant plant item or asset.This will inevitably result in a consequential loss through the inability to produce or provide a service or the occurrence of an environmental health, safety or quality incident.

It is common knowledge that a range of Condition Monitoring (CM) techniques are available such as Vibration Analysis, Oil & Wear Debris Analysis, Thermography and Acoustic Emission. Each of these techniques has its own particular areas of strength and in this regard the Acoustic Emission (AE) technique has the noted advantage of giving real time information with early sensitivity to faults and applicability to a wide range of rotational speeds including slowly rotating (source : ISO 22096).