Reducing Maintenance Time To Repair Discharge Station

A spice and flavorings manufacturer uses IBCs at their facilities in Holland, Germany, the UK and Canada. The raw spices are ground, blended, and packaged into various sized containers from Bulk Bags to small packets.

OBJECTIVE
The client currently uses batch processing with conventional stainless steel IBCs and a competitor's cone valve to handle the ground spices between process points. The major problem is that the vegetable oils extracted from the spices during milling are extremely aggressive to the elastomers, the photograph shows the degradation to the competitor's discharge station.