Development and Application of Kangmeibao Aseptic Packaging System

At the recently held "Seminar on Food Science Research and Development on Both Sides of the Taiwan Strait", Li Jiancai, Manager of Taiwanese Comtech Pty Ltd, introduced the latest development and application of Combibloc aseptic packaging system.

The third generation of Combibloc aseptic packaging machine is now the third generation. The third generation Combibloc filling machine is an aseptic filling machine with high productivity, low running cost, safe and reliable health, easy operation and maintenance. Its production capacity varies from model to model, with 12,000, 10,000, and 9,000 packs per hour. Its exciting innovations include: 1. High productivity. Multi-track operation results in high machine capacity. New filling technology greatly reduces filling foam and filling frequency. The newly designed filling head eliminates the defoamer, so the continuous production time can be up to 42-72 hours depending on the type of product. 2. Short preparation time before production, shortened boot time by 20%. In addition to reducing the manual cleaning of mechanical parts and eliminating the "manual CIP connecting pipe", the automatic and simultaneous sterile zone (hydrogen peroxide) and filling stations (steam) reduction procedures, shorten the boot time. 3, shorter cleaning time, cleaning time reduced by 40%. At the same time cleaning the filling machine and filling system, you can easily enter and exit the filling machine (convenient door and window design), fully automatic CIP communication pipe, and more particularly: reduce and facilitate the need to manually disassemble and clean the mechanical parts. 4, shorten downtime maintenance time to improve the machine availability. Reduce the number of moving components and the number of lubrication points, low wear component design and modular component design, shorten the time of downtime maintenance, only 12 hours of downtime maintenance per 1000 hours of production, reduce maintenance costs, machine availability The rate has increased relatively. 5, reduce the demand for manpower. Reduced people's work, fewer manual cleaning accessories and automatic CIP transport linking, optimized quality control (the product's QC drop from 0.2% to 0.15%), a filling machine only 1 operator is required. 6, simple machine operation and control. On the touchscreen, the HMI in the Windows environment is computer-assisted. The machine can be easily operated. The additional electric control panel next to the carton store can be directly operated. The main operation controls on the monitor are in each case. The side of the main function area (filling, sealing, and pushing out); visualized error finding and production operations, etc., improved and simplified the operation and control of the machine, and promptly detected the cause of the machine failure. 7, rapid machine installation and start (test run). The filling machine can be transported as a whole. If two large pieces are to be transported, due to the design of the electrical plug connection, the installation cost is not much; the central utility water connection design can reduce installation and assembly costs, and achieve rapid assembly and commissioning. Adjust and save time. In addition, there are also low maintenance requirements.

Mr. Li pointed out that it is worth mentioning that the efficiency of carton reduction and the establishment and maintenance of the filling machine's asepsis status are worth mentioning. The cartons are sterilized completely and there is no hydrogen peroxide residue. The cartons are preheated with secondary hot air and then subjected to secondary high temperature hydrogen peroxide mixed steam shower, followed by multiple hot air drying; the efficiency of sterilization is low (about 5D), and the reduction The residual carbohydroxide content of the cartons complies with FDA regulations. In an aseptic filling system, the product and the packaging material are each subjected to a sterilization reduction procedure, and then filled and sealed in a sterile space. Before starting the aseptic operation, from the HUT through the product conveying pipe to the filling machine, in order to avoid secondary contamination of the aseptic milk, all equipment must be subjected to a pre-emphasis procedure. The route through the filling machine product is to use 121 °C, 30min steam for pre-sterilization; aseptic zone, hydrogen peroxide gas is used for pre-microemulsification, to establish the commercial sterile state of the filling machine, ie, the positive pressure layer. The sterile air flow maintains the sterility of the filling machine. Sterile filling can be performed continuously for 20 hours.