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Intense UV light
for the food industry
Microbiologically sensitive bulk products, such as foodstuffs, demand hygienic packaging materials. Practical applications include filling and sealing machines for dairy products and beverages. UV radiation reliably disinfects dairy product cups of various shapes, heat sealing or tubular films, lids and caps or the necks of bottles. This greatly extends a product's storage life, thus reducing
the number of returns of food that has gone bad. Manufacturers benefit by saving time, effort and money.
Heraeus Noblelight's innovative Premium system now even more intensively sterilises packaging materials for paste-like, dry or liquid fresh products stored in the cold chain, such as yogurt or milk, but also cans or bags for milk powder.
Compared to chemical and thermal methods, UV radiation treatment is a very reliable and economically efficient method and can be used in continuous operation on filling lines. Ultraviolet light at wavelengths around 254 nm destroys the DNA of all microorganisms. If used properly, it takes seconds to deactivate viruses and kill microorganisms such as bacteria, yeasts and fungi in
an environmentally friendly manner because no extra chemicals are needed. Heraeus Premium systems reduce the number of surface germs by up to 99.9%.
The UV lamp is the only consumable. Its service life is rated at 12,000 operating hours* or, assuming 24 hours of operation, 2 years of effective use. During that time,
86 million cups can be disinfected with only one Premium UV system. Breaking down the initial capital expenditure to a single cup would result a lot less per cup, as shown
in the sample calculation below.
Sample calculation:
Two Premium systems are required for an 8-row machine with a 36,000-hour running time (about 6 years).
One system is sterilizing the cups, the other is sterilizing the sealing film. Including the film, the sterilization costs of 100,000 cups amount to only 24 EUR.
* with a decline in its intensity of about max 20 %