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Behn + Bates aiming at safety

The engineering industry is faced especially with the challenge developing the right solution to suit individual customer-specific requirements â?? a field where the company BEHN + BATES, M??nster/Gemany, has gained experience for more than 70 years. BEHN + BATES develops sophisticated filling machines for the filling of free-flowing bulk food products into valve and open mouth bags with filled weights of 1.5 up to 50 kg and big bags of up to 1,800 kg. Depending on the characteristics of the product to be filled, the technology that best suits the individual project requirements is chosen.

Valve Bag Filling Technology
The filling of dusty products with a large variety of different grain sizes is a special challenge in the food industry. BEHN + BATES relies on its pneumatic and impeller filling systems that are used especially in the food industry to optimally fill all fine and coarse grain sizes. The pneumatic packer works according to the air filling principle, while the impeller packer fills the product via a product-specifically constructed impeller wheel. The BEHN + BATES packers can be operated either manually or fully automatically in combination with the FRONTLINE automatic valve bag applicator.

More and more food producers request the dusttight sealing of the filled valve bags to meet modern food safety standards. BEHN + BATES uses the world-wide proven ultrasound sealing technology that is integrated in the filling machine frame and seals the valve bag directly after the filling at the filling spout. This system guarantees a clean and dust-free filling environment in combination with highest filling capacities.

The INTEGRA packaging system manufactured by BEHN + BATES best suits the high requirements with regard to quality and hygienic standards, as it unifies the filling, applicator and valve bag sealing technology as well as the control system, operator unit and discharge belt conveyor in one compact cabinet. The dust and noise emissions are reduced considerably. The product dust pollution is minimized what is of utmost importance due to the harmful effect on the operation personnel.

Open-Mouth Bag Filling Technology

In April 2005 BEHN + BATES presented its new openmouth bag packing system TOPLINE. The TOPLINE is a modern fully automatic system that has been developed especially for the filling of free-flowing powdery products into open-mouth bags with filling weights from 5 to 25 kg.

Dependant on the customer needs the TOPLINE can be designed for gross or net weigh filling. Moreover the type and material of the bag to be filled as well as the type of the bag feed system and bag closure can be chosen flexibly.

The complete working process â?? from the open-mouth bag feed via the filling up to the closure â?? is carried out in one compact housing guaranteeing a maximum of cleanliness.

The bag transport is effected at the same height during the complete empty and full bag transport and therefore leads to a very good bag sealing quality. As the bag is fixed securely during the whole process the result are high quality bags with an optimum bag filling level which enables an easy palletizing.

BEHN + BATES takes into account the high hygiene standards in the food processing industry by special machine design characteristics, such as special food filling spout with integrated bag deaeration, even machine bottom for easy cleaning, energy cables arranged outside the dust area, safety-glass access doors, minimized dust deposit spaces, etc.

Conclusion

Due to accurate and detailed planning of projects as well as the optimum cooperation with its customers, BEHN + BATES is able to integrate new filling lines into existing production processes to the full satisfaction of the customers.

BEHN + BATES technology daily proves its high efficiency in continuous industrial operation processes. Thanks to the gentle, hygienic and weight-accurate product filling the high requirements of the food industries are successfully fulfilled.