Article: New roller coating cuts downtime.

Byline: UK

UK-based United Biscuits (UB) has recently specified a new coating to significantly reduce the downtime required for the re-coating of a compression roller and a doctor blade that are both deployed in its cake manufacturing facility.

The compression roller is used for pressing biscuit crumbs, a somewhat abrasive and sticky food compound. The doctor blade scrapes the excess compound off the roller. Traditionally, both the roller and the blade were coated with a stainless steel reinforced fluoropolymer based coating.

The new coating, Vicote F810Blk is part of a relatively new range of coatings from Victrex Polymer Solutions, a division ...

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