Application Note: Sifting Technology Comparison For Food Ingredients

The Huijbregts Group BV (Huijbregts) is a European food processor who does work with powdered food ingredients such as additives, savoury, bouillons, dehydrated vegetables and herbs and spices. At Huijbregts these ingredients are inspected, stored, blended according to a recipe and packaged into a batch-pack. These pre-blends are then distributed to leading food industries around Europe. With business increasing, Huijbregts needed to find ways to improve operational efficiencies through better control of impurities and maximize flexibility in its production stream.

To this point in time, Huijbregts was utilizing different sifting technologies such as Vibratory and Horizontal Centrifugal Sifters with varying sieve size diameters based on the particle size of the starting product material. To ensure that it was using the best technology available on the market Huijbregts consulted with Prosysta B.V., a company which specializes in system integration. A study was commissioned by Huijbregts comparing the different sifting options available. The key areas under consideration were capacity, final product quality and cleanability of the equipment.