NEWS

Federal Mfg. Co. has been supplying fillers and cappers arranged for extended shelf life in the rage of 45-60 days since 1998. Federal has supplied seven extended life lines that are packaging UHT process ultra-pasteurized dairy products and six extended life juice lines for refrigerated code life of 60-70 days.

In the summer of 2007, Federal provided a filling line for one-gallon plastic bottles for filling HTST processed dairy products for extended life.

A sealed sterile gallon bottle was delivered to the filling line by Uniloy. The bottle was opened inside of a Class 100 enclosure and filled and capped in this environment. A compression-lined screw cap was sanitized using H₂O₂ and UV light treatment.

This filler featured the Federal E-Series filling valve, and automated CIP/SIP circulating system, and exterior sanitizing system and a sealed filler bowl with a sterile air supply blanketing the headspace in the filler bowl.

The line was able to achieve a 29-day refrigerated code life for standard gallons of fresh milk.

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A NEW GENERATION OF FILLERS
FOR HIGHER FILLING STANDARDS
Today’s new generation of food and beverage products require filling standards that will assure the consumer the highest level of freshness, flavor and quality.
Federal has the system to help meet these new standards.

Federal has been designing and manufacturing fillers for glass and plastic bottles for dairy, food and pharmaceutical products for 60 years. The goal has been improved sanitary standards to produce higher quality products.

Federal has a wide range of rotary gravity fillers and net-weight fillers with capping systems to suit most applications.

Printable brochure of the above information (PDF).

Flavor injection system: This system is built as a turret assembly to mount on a free-standing base or may be incorporated as a component of a filler or monoblock filler/capper. The system may be steam sterilized for ESL operations.

Federal designed and built a unique monoblock filler/flavor injector/capper machine to fill small plastic bottles of fruit flavored drinks at speeds to 600 bpm. The unit can inject up to 24 different flavors at the same time. An ink jet coding system printed the flavor on each bottle as it exited the filler.

The capping system was equipped to apply a press-on plastic cap or a heat-sealed foil closure produced with a filler mounted cap-making press.

HEAT SEAL-2000: A pneumatic actuated conduction head with PLC control system has been developed for existing capper turrets to improve heat seal and handling efficiency. This system was used to build a free-standing heat sealing system. This system has been further developed to use Induction sealing heads. Induction sealing has reduced seal time and improved sealing reliability.