Applications of Pneumofore Technology
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Material handling
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Plastic/rubber
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Polymers production
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Printing
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Pulp and Paper
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Electrical windings
Pneumofore is strongly committed to develop new processes used in insulating electrical windings and capacitors for medium and high-voltage devices (motors, transformers, generators etc.)
Vacuum Pressure Impregnation (VPI) is the only process that can guarantee the perfect electrical insulation for high-voltage applications and besides several benefits coming from dielectric materials and special resins or oils, constant vacuum level is important to keep good surface treatment all year long.
Depending on reactor size it is important to achieve high pumping speed and low pressure levels in order to optimize the productivity. Pneumofore has already successful references in this field and is involved in projects for vacuum centralization of several autoclaves.
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Surface Coating
Surface coating applications are mostly related to different pumping stages required to reach very high vacuum levels. The vacuum chain does not admit weak rings and the trouble-free primary evacuation step is crucial to guarantee constant and high ultimate pressures. Pneumofore Rotary Vane technology avoids efficiency loss and minimizes maintenance operation for stable performances also after years of operation. Vacuum coating processes ranging from paper, polymeric and glass substrate metallization to surface and heat treatment of metal tools require very reliable vacuum pumps. Our aim is to combine current features of UV series vacuum pumps with on-going product developments in order to meet all customer needs.
Glass coating systems count many vacuum chambers that can be connected to the same rough vacuum system by reducing operational costs and time of evacuation. Additional vacuum pumps of smaller size for higher vacuum levels are near the single chambers.
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Glass containers
The industrialization of food distribution was based on glass, as hygienic reusable container material. Hollow glass is being replaced lately by new, mostly synthetic materials but keeps its key position in prestigious liquids packaging like wine, beer, juice, jam etc. The moulding process of glass containers is the core application of Pneumofore UV vacuum pumps. In this tough round-the-clock heavy-duty application, Pneumofore managed to collect experiences over more than 50 years. This positions our company on top as worldwide leader of vacuum pump systems for IS machines.
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Bottling
In the industry of food processing, strict food production regulations can potentially halt the entire production or, in the very least, cause enormous fines and possibly high costs for treating cooling liquid waste. New laws requiring lower tolerance for bacteriological contamination can easily create problems for beer bottling plants using liquid ring pumps, often seen in this sector. This means that environmental and bacteriological problems have to be taken under control. Pneumofore tackles such problems with a special design based on the advantages of its existing vacuum pump technology. With vacuum, the bottling of beer allows increased productivity but exposes the vacuum pumps to suction of bioactive liquids, such as beer. In the beer bottling process UV pumps are operating to avoid the contamination of the cooling water used for liquid ring vacuum pumps. Pneumofore was a hot candidate for the 'Danish engineers Products Price 2005' because of the results of halving the installed power and elimination of troubles with cooling water at a Danish brewery.
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EPS
Besides tubs of fine thickness, commonly named thermoforming, another synthetic material application is the moulding of EPS or polystyrene. These materials also allow thermal insulation, e.g. for fresh fish boxes: another use of vacuum for industrial big series production of food containers, which have to respect all civil food regulations and perform as environmental friendly as possible. The relevant presence of vapour during the EPS moulding process represents a difficult task for every vacuum pump manufacturer. In this production vacuum is needed in order to mould the EPS into the desired shape. The vacuum pump system has to be designed to satisfy all manufacturing needs like high material density, low relative humidity and fast moulding speed.
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Pasta
The challenge varies for each pasta factory and that is where Pneumofore as solution provider succeeds, due to the tailored design of the entire vacuum pump system instead of the simple supply of standard vacuum pumps. Pasta requires the perfect amount of vacuum to improve the quality of the final product. With a 100 mbar(a) vacuum level the humidity in the mixture is sucked out but this needs to be done with a perfect balance of mixture amount and vacuum amount. The vacuum pump system must operate 24 hours a day 365 days a year, which makes durability and reliability of the vacuum pump system very critical due to the losses of an eventual stop of the machines. The filtration system, the constant vacuum requirements and the variable capacity requests as well as, above all, the perfect taste and perception of pasta make Pneumofore a very important player in the field of industrial vacuum pump systems for Italian pasta factories.
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Food packaging
In the field of food packaging different vacuum levels for higher packaging speed are needed and certain humidity and specific vacuum values have to be maintained constant with air as only cooling medium. Small on-board vacuum pumps are often used in the food packaging industry. However, as soon as the size of production is large enough to allow the centralization of vacuum, Pneumofore can offer the experience to increase the vacuum level using multiple stages, allowing longer shelf life of the products and sensibly improve the cold room operators' working ambient. Many on-board vacuum pumps mean running noise, oil mist and low performance that can be solved with the centralization of the vacuum pump system. Also, reduced power consumption and increased packaging speed are important features of UV installations on this field. All these are requirements for operation, during four seasons 24 hours for 365 days a year.
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Pneumatic conveying
Particular applications like the moving of sugar from one container to another as dosing step within a sweets manufacturing process can be quite challenging. By changing liquid ring pumps, with UV units a Pneumofore customer can now tell that counters indicate several 10.000 of operation hours, without having ever overhauled the pump body, that was previously covered by sugar. This has also resulted in higher production speed meaning more output in less time. The LCC is here being put in focus due to very low maintenance costs. Another statement of durability and reliability. Also noise levels have been reduced significantly with the new UV vacuum pump system, which has soundproof cabinets with a soundlevel of only 68 - 78 dB. This results in improved working conditions.
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Pick and place
An italian chocolate producer with plants in Italy, Belgium and Argentina chose Pneumofore to provide vacuum solutions for multiple applications, from drying to transportation or pick and place during the box packaging phase. With a centralized vacuum solution, a higher production speed can be achieved. Several UV vacuum pumps provide 24/7 vacuum supply.
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