Stainless Steel components enhance food safety
BMG’s team of fasteners specialists advises food and beverage plants to invest in components that are manufactured in food-compliant materials, like Stainless Steel, for highly-specialised and safety-critical applications in food manufacturing and preparation.
“The BMG team is committed to making sure industry operates safely and efficiently at all times. Care is taken by companies to maintain pristine hygiene standards during food and beverage manufacture, storage, packaging and transportation,” says Maryna Werner, BMG’s Fasteners Sales Manager. “Through BMG’s assistance with careful and accurate product selection, correct installation methods and appropriate care of equipment, substantial savings can be made in reduced maintenance costs and minimal downtime. Apart from the supply of necessary engineering consumables and components, industry requires ongoing maintenance and refurbishment services, to ensure efficient productivity in all industries, including food and beverage production.
“We work closely with our customers to ensure that each plant is well-prepared to maintain full production. BMG’s solutions for the food and beverage sector extend from processing, where raw ingredients are transformed, to packaging, where products are enclosed and protected for safe distribution. Advantages of using Stainless Steel components, like fasteners, include corrosion and thermal shock resistance, durability, resistance to powerful cleaning detergents and the ability to withstand a wide temperature range – from cooking to freezing. Added to this, food is untainted by non-toxic Stainless Steel components.”
Most manufacturing equipment is held together by critical bolted joints. According to BMG specialists, the reasons why bolted joints normally fail, are spontaneous bolt loosening and slackening. Bolted joints in food processing, are constantly subjected to external forces, which results in spontaneous loosening, due to vibration and dynamic loads.
The BMG team recommends the use of the Nord-Lock bolt-securing system which ensures a safe and reliable bolting solution that also saves time and money due to less maintenance and reduced downtime.
BMG’s Nord-Lock bolt securing system – which is also available in Stainless Steel – is based on advanced wedge-locking technology, designed to safely secure bolted joints that are exposed to severe vibration and dynamic loads in extreme conditions. This advanced system improves personal safety and reduces the risk of lost production or material damage due to bolt failure. Nord-Lock enables bolts to be easily removed during maintenance procedures, but resists the loosening effects of vibrations and dynamic loads.
The Nord-Lock range of securing washers is the only brand on the market that currently displays the CE quality mark of approval from leading global authorities. The prestigious CE marking is certification that these wedge-locking washers adhere to stringent safety and quality regulations required in many industries.
BMG’s engineering solutions ensure customers deliver on food safety and environmental and energy-efficient initiatives, through the supply and support of components for light materials handling, belting products, gearboxes, motors and variable speed drives (VSDs), bearings, seals and gaskets, power transmission components, valves, tools and equipment, as well as fasteners, food-grade lubricants and maintenance chemicals.
