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Technology News
50 November 2013
New food grade range meets
EC and FDA requirements
THE new Food Grade range from Jacob
Pipework Systems is claimed to be the
first product range in the market segment
that meets the stringent requirements of
the European EC 1935/2004 standard
as well as the American FDA food
regulations.
The range is a modular, stainless
steel pipework system with more than
3,000 products. More than 1,000 of
the components – from the steel parts
to adhesives and sealing materials –
were replaced or redesigned where
necessary. This ensured that all of the
parts of the Food Grade products that
come into contact with food satisfy
the stringent EU requirements of the
EC 1935/2004 directive as well as the
American FDA regulations regarding
contact with food.
The “adhesive-free” vulcanised
U-shaped seals not only ensure food
grade conformity in compliance with EC
1953/2004 and the FDA requirements,
but also have better temperature and
tear resistance than conventional
adhesive-bonded U-shaped seals. All
components that come into contact with
food are made exclusively of stainless
steel that meets the quality standard of
V2A/1.4301. The use of adhesives is
avoided as far as possible in the seals
that are incorporated in some of the
steel fittings. In situations where their
use is unavoidable, only food-grade
adhesives are used.
Jacob manufactures pipe systems
based on the modular concept in Europe
with a worldwide market presence. Pipe
systems for bulk material handling as
well as dust extraction and exhaust air
units for environmental engineering
(cooling air/exhaust air) are the largest
application areas for Jacob pipe systems
(diameters 60 to 800mm or larger for
customised production, 1-3mm pipe
wall thickness). Steel pipes are primed,
galvanised or stainless steel.
The company’s main customers are
in the chemistry, pharmaceutical and
plastics industries, the food industry
(eg coffee, cacao, chocolate, sugar or
grain processing), feed plants, tobacco
industry, automotive industry, chip
industry, machine construction, and the
paper and building materials industries.
Jacob Pipework Systems – Germany
Fax: +49 571 9558 160
Email:
Website:
The new Jacob Food Grade
range offers compliance with
both EC 1935/2004 and
FDA requirements
Electric robot gripper
ROBOTIQ has unveiled the 2-Finger
Adaptive Robot Gripper – 200, an
electric gripper with 200mm of stroke
and expanded capabilities.
The gripper has been designed
using feedback from automation
engineers, who were challenged with
the processing of a wide variety of large
parts and high changeover rates, in
industries such as automotive, metal
fabrication, construction equipment
(heavy machinery), and foundries.
“As with all RobotiqAdaptive Grippers,
the goal remains the same: use a single,
mechanically intelligent robot gripper to
handle all your parts to reduce tooling
costs, eliminate changeovers, and
maximise ROI,” commented Samuel
Bouchard, president of Robotiq.
The new servo-electric gripper can
be installed on any industrial robot.
It provides a programmable 200mm
stroke to pick various part sizes, and its
three distinct gripping modes – parallel,
encompassing and internal – enable the
handling of different part geometries.
Its high grip force can handle heavy
parts. Additional features include grip
detection and real-time finger position
feedback.
Robotiq – Canada
Fax: +1 418 800 0046
Website:
Robtiq’s adaptive robot
gripper in encompassing grip mode