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IN-BRIEF
Bollé safety eyewear from BOC
BOC sharpens eye-safety focus with new prescription safety eyewear
BOC has launched a range of new safety eyewear in response to figures
showing 36% of the people working in manufacturing and industry
required visual correction.
The vast majority of eye injuries can be avoided by taking a common
sense approach to hazardous activities and ensuring that the correct
eye protection is worn during all potential hazardous tasks around the
home and in the work place. The main types of protective eyewear are
general purpose safety spectacles and general purpose positive seal
safety spectacles. These products are now available as Safety Prescription
Eyewear from BOC.
BOC’s Certified Safety Prescription Eyewear is a cost effective and diverse
range built to the highest level of compliance with Australian and
New Zealand standards.
Available with a certified Bollé prescription safety frame range, features
include unique polyurethane lens material which is chemically inert,
strong and lightweight.
The range is supported by an onsite service by BOC including unique
product selection performed by certified opticians; education and
training to OHS personnel and committees and workplace assessments
providing best solutions for all types of work conditions and
environments.
Tecpro’s ingenious Breconcherry CW75 conical wash head
system.
Effective cleaning for
agitator tanks
At Foodpro, Tecpro Australia presented the Breconcherry
CW75, an ingenious conical wash head system for targeted
cleaning of difficult to reach areas.
The Breconcherry CW75 features a specially modified Turbodisc
wash head for use in agitator tanks and ribbon mixers,
where it is undesirable or impossible to use fixed or retracting
spray heads.
“Until now it has often been necessary to waste large
amounts of time and water by completely filling mixing tanks
to clean hard to reach areas such as the undersides of agitator
blades,” said Tecpro’s Managing Director Graeme Cooper.
“The CW75, can however, be installed to spray the undersides
of blades and other difficult to reach areas directly. This
dramatically reduces water wastage and cleaning downtime,
without interfering with the processing area or product path.”
Welded into appropriate positions on the outside of vessels,
the recessed CW75 wash heads remain clear of rotating
blades and scrapers while generating a powerful cone of fast
moving, high impact droplets focused on target areas.
The CW75 is entirely self-cleaning and complies with the
highest standards of hygiene for the food industry. Its surface
finish is mechanically polished to 0.8 microns and the unit is
available in 316/316L stainless steel, pure PTFE or Carbonfilled
PTFE. Requiring a minimum flow of 100 L/min at 4 bar
pressure, it has a throw length of 1 m and a wash circle 1 m in
diameter at 1 m from the wash head. It connects with a 1inch
clamp ferrule at the CIP inlet and requires a 3inch weld end
where the cone housing meets the vessel.
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