Sonic Air Systems Drying Systems for the Food, Beverage and Packaging Industries The demand for increased production rates combined with more stringent quality objectives has resulted in a desire to reduce production costs and bring products to market quicker. One factor to be dealt with is the phase out of solvent based inks for labeling food items, bottles and packaging. Label adhesion, inkjet encoding, inspection, testing and packaging systems are all adversely affected by moisture left on the product surface. |
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Bottle, Can and Container DryingThis is the industry that drove air knife drying to an engineered science. Prior to Sonic Air Systems, customers purchased high capacity blowers and fabricated their own "knives" or used industrial spray nozzles - often with mixed results. Sonic Air Knife Drying Systems provide a uniform high velocity and high impact curtain of air that actually heats-up about 20Fdegrees above ambient due to the friction associated with 30,000+ exit air velocities. Sonics air knives and adjustable mounting brackets enable precise control over the air travel, enabling a degree of moisture containment. The systems below are not within an enclosure, although this is not uncommon. Sonic also provides an enclosure for the blower system itself to protect it from high pressure wash down procedures. | ||
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| Self-Adjusting Air Knife Drying System for the Meat Packing Industry A few years ago a meat packaging company approached Sonic Air Systems with a challenging drying application. They needed a way to dry packaged meat products prior to shipment. removing water for the package surface was relatively easy, but the key challenge here was the package sizes. Each cut of meat was a different shape and length - how can the efficiency of an air knife drying system be maximized? Rather than install the knife at a height that would allow the largest package to pass-by (inefficient for smaller packages) OR requiring continual adjustment based upon the packages being processed (time consuming), this air knife system automatically maintains the optimal spray height no matter what the package shape is. This enables using the least horsepower possible and ensures a dry product. This self-adjusting air knife system can be applied to any application where the target size varies. |
| Sonic uses their global expertise to provide you with a system that is guaranteed to get the job done - and with the added bonus of a short ROI, energy savings and product flexibility. If you make things wet, we can make them dry ... please fill-out our online inquiry form for a detailed proposal in just a few days. Related Links: | Examples of other food related applications include:
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