Food & Beverage Industry
Engineering Solutions to Ensure Safety, Efficiency and Sustainability
Engineering solutions for the food and beverage industry play a critical role in ensuring the safety, efficiency, and sustainability of food production and packaging processes. Among the most important aspects of those are sealing solutions, engineering plastics, fluid handling solutions and drive technology systems. Each of them is contributing to maintain product integrity, comply with strict hygiene standards, and optimize operational performance.
Angst+Pfister offers all this and more. With over 60 years of experience in serving the leading manufacturers and operators within the food & beverage industry, we at Angst+Pfister have a vast understanding of our customers’ needs.
Main Challenges in the Food & Beverage Industry
Avoiding contamination and maintain hygiene
All components that come into contact with food or beverages must be inert, free from contaminants such as phthalates, and easy to clean, ensuring no risk to product quality. However, strict hygiene measures like CIP (Cleaning in Place) and SIP (Sterilization in Place) can be harsh on materials used in production, such as seals, finished plastic parts or hoses, which must also withstand these processes while maintaining integrity and cleanliness.
Preventing carry-over of aroma
In the food and beverage industry, aroma carry-over or aroma diffusion poses a challenge, as flavors from one product can transfer to another during processing or packaging. This affects product quality and consistency. To prevent this, sealing, plastics and fluid handling equipment must be designed for easy cleaning, ensuring complete separation of products while using materials that resist aroma absorption and contamination.
Avoiding Prosecution Stand Still
Production standstills in the food and beverage industry are often caused by equipment failures, poor maintenance, or mechanical breakdowns. Other causes include supply chain disruptions, ingredient shortages, and manual errors. Hygiene issues or regulatory non-compliance can lead to temporary shutdowns, while inefficient process management and lack of automation also contribute to downtime, impacting overall productivity and product quality.
Ensuring a Smooth Packaging Process
In the food and beverage industry, smooth packaging demands precision, speed, and product integrity. Packaging lines must ensure accurate filling, sealing, and labeling at high speeds while handling various product viscosities and packaging materials. Equipment must prevent jams, maintain efficiency, and meet safety and quality regulations for seamless operations.
The Right Choice from the Start - Angst+Pfister's Solutions for the Food & Beverage Industry
How Angst+Pfister’s Solutions Are Being Applied:
- Hygienic Liquid Processing: Hygienic liquid processing technology designed to optimize production performance and minimize product losses.
- Durable Sealing and Fluid Handling Products: Long-lasting products for sealing, fluid handling, plastics, and mechanical drive applications, built to withstand demanding conditions and prevent production standstill
- Chemical-Resistant Seals: Compounded seals with superior chemical resistance to CIP agents, capable of withstanding high-efficiency SIP cycles at temperatures over 200°C, aligned with FDA guidelines.
- Torough Compliance Testing: Accurate testing of condition, compliance, and resistance for all materials and products, meeting the precise specifications required by our customers.
- O-Rings and Modeld Parts for Aroma Transfer Prevention: Effective prevention of aroma transfer through a range of specialized sealing materials, selected based on the type of food product in production.
- Engineering Plastic Finished Components: Finished plastic components such as PTFE, POM-C, and PEEK, produced under GMP-certified processes and validated with FEM simulation and laboratory testing to meet industry-specific demands.
- Drive Technology for Flexible Packaging Solutions: Unique solutions for the packaging process, allowing for easy changes between different product sizes with high precision and positioning accuracy, suited for complex movements.
Customer Benefits:
- Enhanced Product Quality: By using specialized elastomers like fluoropolymer FKM, VMQ, HNBR, or EPDM, Angst+Pfister’s solutions prevent aroma permeation, helping to preserve product quality and reduce spoilage risks.
- Extended Equipment Lifespan: Robust seals are designed to withstand high-temperature variations, aggressive cleaning agents, and pressure changes, lowering the frequency of maintenance and replacement.
- Efficient Custom Manufacturing: Angst+Pfister’s GMP-certified machining workshops and innovative co-design expertise allow for precision-engineered plastic parts, minimizing downtime and enhancing production flow.
- Extensive Certification Support: From initial design validation through accredited laboratory testing, Angst+Pfister provides full support to meet migration test compliance and other critical regulatory standards.
Proven Success in Motion - Our Customer Stories
We Solve the Complexity of the Food and Beverage Regulation Jungle
More and more global customers require the industry-specific approvals of all major markets to avoid proliferation of numerous country-specific solutions. Just to mention a few, Angst+Pfister covers all the most important approvals such as EC 1935/2004, EU 10/2011 and GMP 2023/2006 for Europe, FDA CFR 21 and NSF 51 for the USA, GB 9685-2016 for China, Food sanitation Art. no. 233 for Japan, as well GMC/Res no. 03/92 and GMC/Res no. 32/07 for the MERCORSUR area.
Explore Our Certified Product Range and Certifications
| 3-A Sanitary Standard Number 18-03 Class I | GB 9685-2016 |
| ADI free | GB 4806.11-2016 |
| BfR XV (Silicone) | GMC/RES. No 28/99 |
| D.M. 21/03/1973 | KIWA NSF/ANSI 51 formulation |
| DPR 777/82 | KTW Guideline cold water (23°C) and hot water (85°C) |
| DVGW EN 549 D2/H3 | LFGB § 30/31 |
| DVGW W 270 | PAH Category 1 (AfPS GS 2014:01) |
| EC 1935/2004 article 3 | PAHs requirements according Regulation (EU) No 1272/2013 |
| FDA - CFR 21 - 177.2600 food a) - f) | Phthalate free |
| French Arrete 17.12.92 No. 293 (migration test) | SR 817.023.21 |
| GB 4806.1-2016 | USP Class VI Chapter 87 and Chapter 88, 121°C |
Our Certifications and Compliance for the Food & Beverage Industry
Angst+Pfister is not only an expert when it comes to understanding the regulatory jungle and incorporating mechanical and chemical requirements into its components, but is also a member of the European Hygienic Engineering & Design Group (EHEDG), a non-governmental organization devoted to the advancement of hygienic design and food engineering.
Especially in the area of sealing solutions, we always strive to meet the highest hygienic design standards in order to enable safe food production, to minimize hygienic risks and to comply with the growing number of dietary constraints and changing consumption habits.
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