Year 2015 - Unused Aseptic Bag In Box Filler Alfa Laval CAF 2H/1'' + 2 ABF

This unused dual head Alfa Laval Astepo Compact Aseptic Filler (CAF) with dual Automatic Bag Feeder (ABF) system is an extremely versatile and robust filling system designed for filling of a wide range of food and beverage products into appropriate containers / bags under aseptic conditions. Such units are particularly well suited for the filling of liquids (such as ready-to-drink juices), dense, low-acid food and beverage products (such as milk, flavoured milk, milk shakes and sundaes, vegetable and meat extracts). Its basic simplicity makes it easy and straight forward to use with a wide variety of different filler caps from different suppliers. The hygienic performance of the dosing valve has the appropriate certification, and the moving parts are protected by hot or cold aseptic barriers.This CAF filler is designed for filling 3–20 litre (1–6 gallons) bags. With its 1 inch filling head the CAF filler is ideal for the filling of liquid, dense and viscous products, and even low-acid products. Before the filler is used, it is automatically washed and sterilized. This procedure is fully automatic, consisting of a CIP phase followed by a sterilization phase, both featuring cyclic action of the valves in contact with the product, the circuit valves and jets of steam. In both phases, the time counter is automatically set to zero if any alarm is set off and does not restart until the condition that triggered off the alarm has been reset. The automatic cycle of opening, filling and closing begins once the bag neck has been manually inserted into the filling head. During this filling cycle, the temperatures of the jets of steam and of the filling valve are carefully monitored and controlled. By using the automatic bag feeder (ABF) to load 3–20 litre (1–6 gallons) bags, the automatic loading, opening, filling and closing of the full bag and loading of the next bag begin after the “START CYCLE” button is pressed. The Automatic Bag Feeder for web-type bags from 3–20 litre (1–6 gallons) is a mobile accessory that can be inserted under one or two filling heads for automatic filling of web-type bags with the 1-inch head. It is possible to reach filling speeds of up to 350 bags per hour (CPH) (3-litre bags) or 200 CPH (20-litre bags) without an operator. Power: 480 V - 60 Hz - 3 Ph + GND - 8 kW. Steam pressure: 6 Bar. Air pressure: 8 Bar. Production order: 21R60.BA0125

The machine exist out of:

• Strong AISI 304 stainless steel supporting mono-block frame, fitted with an operator platform.
• AISI 304 stainless steel filling heads.
• Aseptic-type valves mounted on the product pipe.
• Parts in contact with the product made of AISI 316 stainless steel.
• CIP circuit, sterilization circuit and product circuit made of AISI 304/316 stainless steel.
• Steam treatment and distribution group.
• Electrical panel made of IP66 stainless steel. This contains the PLC control (Allen-Bradley) and running system, operator panel (Allen Bradley Panelview Plus), electrical and electro-pneumatic automation systems.
• Alarm signals, which are numbered and described, are provided in visual form on the operator’s screen.
• Temperature monitoring and controls are carried out by a PT 100 unit connected to the PLC, and the results are displayed on the operator’s screen.
• Flow meter (Endress+Hauser).
• Control of the filling batch is carried out by the volumetric or ponderal measuring of the flow. This allows a final accuracy of less than ± 0.5% when filling liquid, dense and viscous products.
• Automatic Bag Feeder for web-type bags from 3–20 litre (1–6 gallons).
• Mobile roller conveyor for 3–20 litre (1–6 gallons) bags. This is installed on the supporting framework for the filling head. In the case of manual filling of 3–20 litre (1–6 gallons) bags, use of this conveyor is recommended to ensure better distribution of the product in the bag.

Additional features:

An aseptic tank (excluded) is recommended to have between the UHT and the filler, to allow the sterilizer to operate continuously. This then makes it possible to avoid recycling the product while the full bag is being removed and a new, empty bag is being inserted.