FOOD AND BEVERAGE CLEANING: HOW TO REMOVE HOTMELT GLUE?

Among the many dry ice blasting services, dry ice blasting in the food industry offers a very wide range of applications. Find out in this video how to remove glue from surfaces with complex geometries

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Why use dry ice blasting in the food industry sector?

    • Sector : Food-grade adhesive manufacturing
    • Object of treatment: Production machine covered with adhesive
    • Equipment used : ATX25-E

    Keeping food surfaces clean is the main concern of the production manager. The elimination of food residues, fats, and other residues related to the use of production equipment is essential to prevent the development of bacteria and to ensure safe and high-quality food products.

    As sanitation regulations become stricter, labor costs rise, and the industry becomes more environmentally conscious, food companies are looking for new cleaning processes and solutions.

    Unfortunately, traditional cleaning processes, such as steam, water and manual washing with detergents, are slow, time-consuming and sometimes inefficient.

    How to remove glue on production processes in this case? The answer is: through the dry ice blasting process.

    The cleaning solution using the dry ice blasting process is similar in operation to sandblasting, but the comparison ends there.

    Safe for food processing environments, less expensive, dry ice blasting cleans more effectively and in an environmentally friendly way!

    How does dry ice cleaning work?

    FOOD AND BEVERAGE CLEANING: HOW TO REMOVE HOTMELT GLUE?

    Cryogenic cleaning service for hotmelt glue removal...

    Dry ice blasting process units, or Cryoblaster, are fully mobile, self-contained systems. Dry ice pellets, or 3 mm diameter mini-cylinders comparable in size to a grain of rice, are conveyed from the blaster’s hopper into a stream of compressed air.

    The dry ice pellets travel along a flexible hose and are propelled through a nozzle at very high speed, close to the speed of sound.

    The operator directs the pressurized dry ice stream onto the surface to be cleaned.

    The treatment is gentle, as the hardness of dry ice is comparable to that of chalk.

    3 phenomena in action:

    • The first action of this process is the creation of microcracks in the dirt: dry ice loaded with kinetic energy, weakens pollution. In some cases, such as abduction sticker or adhesive,the glue process is instantaneous.

    • The second action is the thermal differential generated by the low temperature of the carboglace -80 °C, which facilitates the detachment of the pollution and in the case of the glue its hardening.
    • The third action is the sublimation of dry ice, in other words, the transition of dry ice from a solid state to a gaseous state.

    The answer to the question"how to remove the glue?" is simple: with cryogenics.

    • You can remove adhesives without damaging surfaces on glass, plastic, stainless steel, PVC...
    • No solvent or thinner—only dry ice.
    • Walls, machine tools, tiles can be cleaned to remove food glue, neoprene glue, cyanoacrylate, scotch, etc.

    Examples of applications to remove glue in food processing

    Thanks to Cryoblaster material® you can clean

    • labellers and packers,
    • production and processingequipment,
    • The adhesive nozzles,
    • ancillary equipment: forklift, pallet truck, electric motors, control panels...

    Discover our dry ice blasting solutions: equipment, services, and training by contacting us at +33 (0) 4 81 61 02 75 or by filling out the form below

    Equipment used

    machine cryogenique atx25 e 1

    ATX25-E: Electropneumatic dry ice -blaster

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