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News Release from: Ingredient Handling Solutions | Subject: Azo Dosibox
Edited by the Engineeringtalk Editorial
Team on 10 February 2004
Cost-effective dosing for minor
ingredients
Azo has developed the revolutionary Dosibox system which enables fully automated, cost-effective dosing of additives and minor ingredients.
Azo has developed the revolutionary Dosibox system which enables fully automated, cost-effective dosing of additives and minor ingredients The Dosibox system allows customers in food, pharmaceutical, chemical and plastics industries to integrate all minor ingredients in a fully automated process that is highly cost-effective per-ingredient
Automated handling systems have many advantages, including: applicability to all minor ingredients can be automated; cleaner storage; easier stock control; improved product and operator protection; compatibility with just-in-time production; enclosed accessing; flexible formula changes; production transparency; consistency and documentation of formula; and permanent tracking of ingredients and batches.
As part of the integrated system, Dosinenter provides locations for a number of Dosiboxes arranged in a line.
Transfer is necessary from external vessels, ie bags, drums, (F)IBCs into internal bundles (Dosibox) because product in the external vessels cannot be automated.
Transfer is carried out with operator guidance and barcode monitoring - ie the product from the outer vessel is transferred with hardly any dusting into the Dosibox.
This is done by means of feeding hoppers with vacuum extraction, while the raw materials are safety-screened, weighed and correctly dosed into the Dosibox.
This way, the content of each Dosibox can be clearly specified with regard to grade and weight.
Each Dosibox comprises a form-stable hopper made out PE, fully conforming with the hygiene requirements of food, pharmaceutical, chemical and plastics industries.
The integrated dosing screw makes it possible to dose bulk ingredients precisely as required.
For larger quantities, supplied for example in FIBCs, there are bulk bag discharge systems which allow for dust-tight docking.
Here the material is also safety screened, using a cyclone screener type DA, as it is transferred into the Dosibox located on a scale.
The DosiBox system is also well suited for contamination-free formula composition.
For this type of application, it can be used in conjunction with Batchtainer.
A driverless transport system (Dosishuttle) moves the Batchtainer to the individual DosiDock stations, where the container is lifted and connected dust-tight to the Dosidock system.
For more than 50 years, Azo has been a trendsetter in the development of automatic bulk material handling systems, considerably influencing this technology with innovations such as vacuum weighing systems for automatic mixer feeding and the Azo Componenter for micro ingredient automation.
Phil Plummer, Sales Director at Ingredient Handling Solutions, UK agent for Azo, says: "The automation of a minor ingredient used to be almost as expensive as automation of a major ingredient, with difficultly in demonstrating its return on investment.
The arrival of Dosibox succeeds in providing a system which is cost effective per ingredient".
He continues: "Many companies handle a large number of minor ingredients, a process which may only be partly automated so far.
In this area, Azo offers ManDos, a micro ingredient weighing system with operator guidance.
It also contributes to formula consistency, but is manually operated".
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