“Home and Personal Care” at ACHEMA 2018: Prevent product losses with GEA pigging technology

'Pigging systems for product recovery are at the heart of modern process systems for personal care products and have become simply indispensable,' adds GEA sales engineer Falko Fliessbach. 'Using this technology, we can recover up to 99 percent of the valuable end product from the pipelines.' GEA will therefore present its VARICOVER® system at the ACHEMA trade fair. GEA engineers recently incorporated this system into the design for a major cosmetics manufacturing project in Thailand - with GEA as technical partner. GEA product recovery solutions are fully compatible with various cleaning-in-place / sterilizing-in-place (CIP / SIP) systems. As a result, pigging systems increase yield, reduce emissions and improve cleaning.

'Many representatives of the home and personal care industry now view production and investment in the context of social responsibility and environmental protection. Fortunately, this is a win-win situation, because environmentally friendly manufacturing processes are generally more economical as well. This, and nothing less, is what consumers want these days,' says Fliessbach. GEA's process technology and engineering contribute to this, as they lead to efficient, resource-saving and highly flexible solutions for processing valuable viscous products.