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We pride ourselves in providing innovative and reliable solutions for vacuum and low pressure applications in the food industry over many decades. Our expert vacuum engineers, not only provide market leading equipment, but unique application know-how. They focus on providing the best solution for your technical, economic and environmental requirements to ensure you get the optimum solution.
We will provide you with support and advice without bias or limitation from an unmatched range of vacuum and low pressure technologies. When you need solutions to support your vacuum and low pressure applications, you’ll want expert partners that will give you all the benefit of their experience and knowledge. Here’s what we offer:
Food Processing consultation services with our expert Vacuum and Low Pressure Engineers
Experience and know-how of food Vacuum and Low Pressure application
High quality products renowned for reliability and performance
A Global service network with on-site support
We offer a wide range of energy-efficient technologies for vacuum and pressure applications in the food processing industry. We have an industry leading range of oil lubricated technologies, offering reliable food processing pumps installed all over the world. Dry running vacuum pumps are at the heart of our next generation product portfolio. This comprises of side channel blowers, liquid ring, rotary vane, claw and screw vacuum and low pressure technologies. Rotary vanes come in oil-free and oil-lubricated versions.
Depending on the machine type these food industry vacuum pumps and compressors offer:
• Minimum maintenance
• Low noise levels
• Energy efficiency
• Variable speed drive
• Worldwide use (UL/CSA)
• Industrial vacuum of 0.1 mbar (IV models)
• Protective coating for humid applications (XD models)
HIGH VOLUMETRIC EFFICIENCY AT LOW POWER CONSUMPTION
Our oil-lubricated pumps have been the favourite choice for food packaging vacuum applications for many years now. Listening to our customers we have tailored this already successful pump to suit your exact needs.
Our oil-free vacuum pumps are specifically developed for environments where the highest air purity standards are required. As well as eliminating the risks of oil contamination, they have many other advantages. They don’t require the same level of maintenance as oil-lubricated models as there is no need to replace oil or filters, and the pump doesn’t need to be removed to carry out maintenance. This dramatically reduces equipment downtime and the associated costs of oil, waste oil disposal and labour, and means lower costs over a pump’s lifetime. With the focus on air quality likely to increase, our oil-free vacuum pumps can be a major asset.
Centralised vacuum systems are commonplace in the food industry offering many advantages over localised pumps in the packing hall. Our wealth of knowledge and experience has helped many of our customers to realise the advantages of such systems.
We work with some of the biggest names in the industry to provide world leading vacuum solutions that help maintain performance, increase productivity and product quality whilst reducing energy consumption. Below are just a few examples of vacuum applications we have provided solutions for.
To produce sausages a meat mixture is chopped into small pieces and mixed with spices and other additives. Extracting air during the chopping and mixing processes can help prevent the mixture from oxidizing, which would have a negative effect on the sausage's flavour and appearance. The air is evacuated by means of a vacuum of about 100 mbar. The pump used must be insensitive to the meat particles and liquids that are also extracted.
L-Series - Liquid Ring Vacuum Pumps
V-Series – Rotary Vane Pumps
C-Series – Claw
During the production of chocolate eggs, vacuum is used in several production sections to hold the eggs in place and lift them up. The vacuum system is installed in a separate room and sucks the air-conditioned air from the production line. The vacuum at the machine is maintained at a constant pressure.
G-Series – Side Channel
Liquid Ring vacuum pumps
V-Series – Rotary Vane Pumps
Vegetables are air-dried after washing. Sensitive vegetables are cleaned with compressed air only.
G-Series – Side Channel
The coffee beans are whirled around while being roasted to achieve a constant roasting result.
G-Series – Side Channel
Fruits, vegetables and their subsequent products, such as mash and purée, are preserved through cooking. This involves heating a small amount of water to generate steam which removes the air. To obtain a high product quality and energy efficiency, the preservation process is carried out under vacuum.
Liquid Ring vacuum pumps
Today you will rarely find ham that has been dried and smoked in a genuine fireplace. Instead, ham is soaked in a curing solution, which penetrates the meat more quickly and directly after the air is extracted from the pores.
G-Series – Side Channel
L-Series - Liquid Ring vacuum pumps
C-Series – Claw
Even the weighing and portioning of foods produces waste products that must be disposed of quickly and automatically. A weighing station for chicken breast fillets, in which individual portions are transported by belt weighs and sorted into weight groups, produces liquid waste as well as fat and small fibers. A vacuum pump extracts this waste and passes it on for proper disposal.
Liquid Ring vacuum pumps
V-Series – Rotary Vane Pumps
C-Series – Claw
In addition to transporting the milk, the vacuum used in milking systems performs other tasks as well, such as attaching onto the udder and holding the weight of the milking claw assembly to the teat. Liquid ring pumps and side channel blowers offer significant advantages over traditional oil-lubricated pumps because they use no oil. The side channel technology has the additional advantage of requiring no water connection - and it is optionally available with frequency converters.
G-Series – Side Channel
Liquid Ring vacuum pumps
V-Series – Rotary Vane Pumps
C-Series – Claw
The food industry employs processes similar to those described above to automatically extract the entrails from fish. Operating at a rate of only 3 seconds per fish, the quantity of material to be processed is enormous. The resulting waste products consisting of saltwater, fats, proteins and fish remains are extracted by means of a side channel blower located beside the fish cleaning machine.
G-Series - Side Channel Blower
We are so confident in the quality, reliability and performance of our products that we provide an industry leading warranty on all of our vacuum pumps.
No unexpected bills
Free of charge with no premiums to pay
Planned schedules for maintenance
Simple to join with no administration, fuss or complications
Expert Consultancy and free vacuum survey assessment
Global network of authorised
Elmo Rietschle service engineers
Maintenance and servicing contracts
Service Kits Available for quick and easy maintenance
Full overhaul services in factory based repair centre
Rental pumps available if your machine needs to be removed from the site to be serviced
High quality genuine spares and parts Installation and commissioning via our fully trained Elmo Rietschle distribution partners
CAREFREE VACUUM SOLUTIONS for engineering piece of mind as part of our Care3 warranty scheme. Extended warranty available on all V-VC (VC50 to VC1300) and V-VCS (VCS200 to VCS 300) Rotary Vane Pumps.
Designed to perform factory-recommended maintenance on Elmo Rietschle Vacuum and Low Pressure Equipment. Genuine OEM parts meet exact equipment specifications and are backed by rigorous testing. Genuine parts helps your Elmo Rietschle equipment to:
