Food and beverage processing

Guaranteed to be environmentally friendly and food safe

For the food and beverage processing industry, we exclusively offer a portfolio of approved cemented carbide and ceramic grades:

• The American Food and Drug Administration (FDA) attests to the suitability of our carbide grades in the food industry.
• Our grade products meet the regulations (EC) No. 1935/2004¹ and (EC) No. 2023/2006².
  
  ¹ On materials and articles intended to come into contact with food.
  ² On good manufacturing practice for materials and articles intended to come into contact with food.

Economic and efficient work guaranteed

The long service life of our products dramatically improves cost savings: by reducing downtime, the utilisation rate is greatly increased, which also means an equal reduction in production and storage costs for critical spare parts. In addition, the tools’ resistance to corrosion makes the cleaning of machine parts with aggressive solvents possible – similar to stainless steel.

Together with our business partners, we develop new products and applications for various markets within the food and beverage processing industry. Just contact us and we will help you find the best solution for your challenge!

• Cocoa industry
  For cocoa processing, we manufacture a variety of styles and types of cocoa crusher blades, mixing arms, or rotor pins made from our corrosion-resistant cemented carbide grades.
• Coffee industry
  Our carbide solutions are also suitable for use in coffee production: we supply coffee milling disks for industrial espresso machines as well as spray nozzles, swirl chambers, and orifice inserts to improve the performance of the spray drying and agglomeration process.
• Dairy products
  Where liquids are homogenised, milk for example, carbide and steel-carbide composite components in pump and valve systems are never far away. Our abrasion- and corrosion-resistant products such as pistons and valve seats withstand the highest pressures and temperatures.
  
  The hyperbaric pasteurisation process (HPP) to increase the shelf life of different kinds of food also requires very precise and wear-resistant parts, such as sealing rings and plungers.
• Frozen products
  As the freezing methods used to preserve foods become more sophisticated, so do their manufacturing processes. We offer tough carbide products which are up to the challenge of processing frozen goods with marginal wear.
• Meat industry
  When cutting or skinning meat, thin carbide blades are used – for instance, as tips in circular saws or as perforated dies in meat grinders; carbide guiderails for band saws used to divide large pieces and bones also fall in this category.
• Beverage and liquid foods industry
  Extruders, decanters, and separators are used in many application fields and also play a major role within the food processing industry. Used for mixing and phase separation, the processing systems require different parts with high abrasive and corrosive resistance: this is where CERATIZIT comes into play with bushings, wear liners, nozzles, and tiles.
• Pet food industry
  When we consider food as a whole, we also take pet food into account. For instance, producers of pet food need wear-resistant mixing elements. For the further production of pellets, similar to pasta processing, we provide perforated dies and high-precision knives, for example.