New valve for Europa WM – RFE fillers (no more membrane) [SF036]

SF036 - New valve for Europa WM – RFE fillers (no more membrane)
  • Machine type Filler
  • O&U Themes Efficiency
    Product quality
  • Complexity3/3
  • Machine Sub-assemblyFilling valve
Description

One of the current filling valve membrane functionalities is to close the valve, so the wear and tear level of this membrane impacts on filling level reliability

The new solution proposes:

-Filling valves with external spring

-Vent tube with ball (1)Manual or semi-automatic dummy bottle

-Plug & play solution

-Maintenance cost reduction

Key message
Filling process improvement (membrane removed) and decreased maintenance cost
Machine application

Europa WM – RFE fillers

Benefits

-Filling valve lifetime increased from 4,000 to 6,000 hours

-No more membrane product contact

-No metal-to-metal parts

-Significant reduction of product loss

-Product savings thanks to better filling reliability