Processing technology manufacturer GEA TDS has launched a new aseptic dosing station that enables users to dose aseptic liquids in quantities of 0.2g and 0.3g/l directly into the main aseptic product flow.
The Vari-Dos-Asept technology ensures total accuracy at a favourable cost, offering significant added value for the beverage industry, the German company said. It was particularly useful in the development of lactose-free milk, where the dosing must be completely safe in aseptic terms, highly accurated, automated as much as possible and such that no contaminants are introduced into the production process.
The stimulus to develop the dosing station came directly from the experience of dairy customers of food packaging manufacturer SIG Combibloc.
Norman Gierow, head of the global product management market for SIG Combibloc, claimed that technology had a number of imaginable applications: “Numerous areas of application can be imagined here, particularly if we think about added value products,” he said.
“[With] ingredients such as lactoferrin, vitamins, various flavours and extracts or colourants… our customers need to ensure that their routine production operation works with the utmost precision, and is absolutely clean and aseptically safe, in order to maintain outstanding product quality at favourable costs. And in this process, the Vari-Dos-Asept is a real improvement. We’re very proud to have had a hand in initiating this project, and with Vari-Dos-Asept GEA TDS has developed an innovative dosing station that really is one-of-a-kind. We’re certain that with this solution, beverage customers all over the world will benefit considerably when it comes to product quality and cost-effectiveness.”
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