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Buying guides, material guides, process guides and comparisons written for the engineer or buyer who has to specify the equipment, not for a search engine.
How To Choose A Milk Pasteuriser For A Small Or Mid Size Dairy
Batch, plate or tubular — the choice follows your throughput, your product mix and what happens downstream, not the price list.
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Tubular UHT Steriliser Versus Plate Pasteuriser
Two heat exchangers that look interchangeable on a quotation and are not.
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Sizing An Overhead Crane For Your Workshop
Tonnage is the easy part. Span, hook height and duty class are where orders go wrong.
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Choosing O-Ring Material NBR HNBR EPDM FKM Or FFKM
The compound is chosen by what the seal touches and how hot it gets, in that order.
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SUS304 Versus SUS316L For Processing Tanks
When the cheaper grade is the right answer and when it quietly is not.
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CIP Basics For Dairy And Juice Plants
What a clean-in-place circuit actually has to achieve, and why it should be designed with the line rather than after it.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Who writes these guides?
The people who quote this equipment. Each guide is built around the questions that come up most often before an order is placed.
Can you advise on a specification before we buy?
Yes, and we would rather do that than quote against a specification that will not work. Send the figures you have and the ones you are unsure about.
Will you tell us if we do not need a particular machine?
Yes. Selling a UHT steriliser to a plant with no aseptic filling behind it helps nobody.
A Question These Guides Do Not Answer
Send it over. If it is a common one we will add it to a guide, and either way you get an answer.