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PRODUCTS & PROCESSES
Specialist food processing company
gains from Lanemark process gas
heating expertise
Process gas burner specialist, Lanemark
Combustion Engineering Ltd. has a long
history of successful installations in the
food and beverage sector – and a recent
facility installed in South Wales highlights
the performance and benefi ts behind the
company’s equipment. Express Contract
Drying Ltd. (ECD) is gaining from Lanemark
technology on a series of drying facilities
that need to achieve results which not
only meet accepted industry standards,
but that also help to maintain ECD’s leading
reputation in the industry – the company
is the largest toll sprayer in the UK. Nick
Ball, Operations Director at ECD’s Ebbw
Vale facility, one of two operated by the
company in the area, explains the key role
played by the Lanemark installations –
“We have built a leading reputation over 35 years for the supply
of dried food flavourings and colourings, mostly for the UK snack
sector,” he says. “This is centred on five process lines which handle
a combination of water, a carrier such as potato starch and the added
flavour, all of which are blended into an
emulsion that is then transferred to one
of the processing vessels. Here, the action of
the heat created by the Lanemark burner
evaporates the water from the mixture to
leave a powdered flavour that is then moved
forward for packaging and despatch.”
Nick Ball points out that typically a moisture
level of just 3% is achieved in this way. This
is well within the industry standard of 5% and
ideal for onward shelf life of up to a year.
“The installations at the ECD site feature
our duct burner – or DB – design,” explains
Adrian Cadman, Process Burners Sales
Manager at Lanemark Combustion
Engineering. “Each is fitted to a mounting
plate that is bolted into the process air duct,
acting as a transition box, with a fan then
driving the heated air through connected
ducting to the point where the emulsion is
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