“Pumps for the food, pharmaceutical and cosmetic industries have some pretty special properties.” A separate requirement for pumps used in this industry is the materials used for producing them out have to be clean in order to they don’t generate any toxic mixtures. The material of the pump does not change the properties of the fluid. Manufacturing of pumps used in these industries must be inert materials, free of chemical reactions or oxidized upon contact with some high oxidising substances, pumps may resistant to the mixture of strong oxidizers and cold-hot temperature change.

In addition to choosing the pump not only met the flow criteria, the pressure column, a critical criterion given is that the pumped liquid should be carefully treated and after the pump must be cleaned easily.

Technical requirements of food and pharmaceutical pump:

The fabrication materials are completely smooth and do not have holes for food to cling to affect the quality of food.

The requirement for food pumps must have a surface roughness of between 3.2 and 0.4 μm.

The materials used in the pump must be stainless steel (316L stainless steel) is made by the monolithic molding technology

Standard of the food and pharmaceuticals pumps :

FDA: Foodstuffs and pharmaceuticals by US standards

EHEDG – Clean Equipment Design Group of Europe

QHD – Quality design

3-A – Sanitary standards

3A0 / 3A1: Sanitary / Industrial Standards (Ra ≤ 3.2 μm)

3A2: Sterile standard (Ra ≤ 0.8 μm)

3A3: Sterile standard (Ra ≤ 0.4 μm)

Products of the food pump designed optimally is easy to use in many areas such as:

Water industry: wine, juice, beer, beverage

Food industry: milk, oil, vegetable oil, olive oil, soy sauce, fish sauce, vinegar

Chemical industry: Acids, detergents

Pharmaceutical industry: emulsion, soap

Cosmetics industry: toothpaste, shampoo, shower gel, etc.

Typical pumps used for the food industry – pharmaceuticals – cosmetics:

Single-stage centrifugal monoblock pumps  KPA: Model KN – Series

Seft-priming centrifugal monoblock pumps KPA : Model KM – Series

KPA Horizontal Centrifugal Pumps: Model: S – Series

Lobe Pump : Wright Flow UK

Pneumatic diaphragm pumps achieving FDA – Sanitary standards : “Versa Matic – USA ”