Daemar’s washdown linear bearings: Safeguarding food with sanitary, safety compliance

Washdown linear bearings from Daemar

Daemar Inc. offers myriad great solutions in its inventory of essential industrial components. For instance, washdown linear bearings for food processing are available in four designs and serve as powerful options for linear motion needs, particularly when compliance with the standards of the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is mandatory. Designed and made with consumer safety as the highest priority, these bearings help customers meet the safety requirements of the FDA and similar organizations.

Appropriate cleaning, sanitizing procedures

The top priority of food-processing operations is customer health and safety. These companies cannot compromise manufacturing procedures in any way when it comes to hygiene, and they have to pass stringent FDA regulations. In food assembly lines, Caustic Foaming Agents are corrosive and can severely damage balls, rollers, plastics, seals, and lubricants, which contaminates products substantially. Therefore, plants must use necessary cleaning and sanitizing procedures consistently to produce safe, high-quality food.

The baking industry often employs soap and warm water in washdown, while meat, poultry, and dairy products require sodium hydroxide, self-foaming cleaners, foaming acids, self-foaming chlorinated caustic cleaners, and other aggressive chemicals to sanitize bearings, shafting, and direct food-contact areas. Washdown linear bearings are recommended for these applications, including linear ball bearings, NP pillow blocks, and ETX scraper seal cartridges for linear motion.

NP pillow blocks help retain lubrication during high-pressure washing, while the cartridges keep caustics and debris from entering and fouling ball circuits. The system enables self-alignment when shaft parallelism or pillow-block-to-pillow-block centre lines are out of alignment, and it works especially well with Daemar’s own Marvalloy-coated 440C stainless shafting. Daemar supplies four distinct styles of FDA-compliant washdown linear bearings:

• FDA/USDA-compliant linear motion bearings, with a 304 stainless steel shell line with a self-lubricating liner
• FDA Lite linear motion bearings, made with ceramic-coated aluminum shell, with a lower weigh and lower costs
• Fluidline linear bearings, with self-lubricating, low-friction low-wear material
• WDX slide rail linear bearings, which represent the latest in sliding friction (low-profile rail-guide) technology. The unique 45-degree load place ensures moderate load/speed capacity that is coupled with easy, quiet linear motion

For more information, contact Daemar.

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