EDITORIAL FOCUS ON SANITATION AND PLANT MAINTENANCE

Nearly all food plants that process fluid products or slurries use valves.

Do they have problems? Leakage? Sanitation? Maintenance? Usually all 3.

The greatest number of manually operated valves are plug valves. The rubber or neoprene coated plugs split or peel off the base metal inviting bacteria to harbor in the cracks and making it difficult to sanitize properly. The metal plugs gall and score. They can be lapped but this does not stop the leakage permanently. Replacement is the answer, but this is costly.

Now, for only half the price of new valves, you can have them modernized (rebuilt) with plastic plugs that don’t gall or stick, are precision ground with a guaranteed seal, are FDA approved and not affected by steam, acids or alkalize.

We will furnish loan valves at no charge so operations are not interrupted.

Maintenance people are able to double the life of their valves.