Client: TECNOALIMENTA – COMPANY MANUFACTURING EQUIPMENT FOR SLAUGHTERING AND PROCESSED MEAT PRODUCTION SECTOR
Location: REGGIO EMILIA - ITALY
Application sector: SLAUGHTERY AND MEAT PRUCTION PLANT
Objectives
The Customer, a leading player in the design and construction of machinery and items for the food industry, especially in the butchery and meat-processing sector, is looking for a solution for the realization of the walking surface of platforms dedicated to several operations of meat-processing (production of meat cuts and cold cuts). For the production of meat-processing lines in full compliance with CEE sanitary standards, the Customer needs a hygienic material that ensures the absence of migration of hazardous materials – incompatible with the food industry – a proper mechanical resistance in relation with the design loads on the platform, being at the same time: • easy to clean • easy to install on a stainless-steel supporting structure • cost-effective • cut to size in accordance with the specific customer’s needs.
Solution
The “IFR” gratings type, produced with polyester resin, glassfiber and inorganic filling without halogens – that provides the fire-retardant behaviour, feature of the Standard Line of M.M. – has been adopted as technical solution. Such gratings are certified to be durable along time, without any decrease of the mechanical properties, even when exposed to cyclic heat/ cold exposure and humidity in accordance with UNI EN ISO 9142 Standard. Moreover, no substances incompatible with the meat-processing activities are released. This solution allows to obtain an optimal value for money in relation with the resistance of the material, both under the mechanical and the chemical point of view (especially during cleaning, which may require aggressive cleaning products). The installation is easy, thanks to the cut-to-size service provided by M.M.
