Nutrient production with SSB bagging machines

Bag­ging, weigh­ing, dos­ing and pack­ag­ing mate­ri­als that are processed in their pro­duc­tion process­es – this is a joint project between SSB Wägetech­nik and Cetotec.

Cetotec was found­ed in 1996 and has estab­lished itself as a dri­ving force for devel­op­ment and process opti­mi­sa­tion in vine­gar and kom­bucha tech­nol­o­gy. The cus­tomised plants from lab­o­ra­to­ry to indus­tri­al scale, nutri­ents, mea­sure­ment and con­trol tech­nol­o­gy as well as fil­tra­tion sys­tems are used on all continents.

Today, Cetotec is an impor­tant pro­duc­er in the vine­gar indus­try and a dri­ving force for inno­va­tion in the sec­tor. A fam­i­ly busi­ness: com­mit­ted and ambi­tious when it comes to prod­uct qual­i­ty and devel­op­ment; with expe­ri­ence that cus­tomers can trust and knowl­edge of how to help effec­tive­ly and in a solu­tion-ori­ent­ed way. At the loca­tion in Bad Hon­nef in Ger­many, the focus is on pro­duc­tion, research and development. 

SSB Wägetech­nik has been a spe­cial­ist for bag­ging, weigh­ing and con­trol tech­nol­o­gy for over 30 years. The com­pa­ny for large-scale indus­tri­al weigh­ing tech­nol­o­gy offers a range of weigh­ing machines for fill­ing in pack­ag­ing units of dif­fer­ent weights.

Using the installed machines and the equip­ment from SSB Wägetech­nik, the nutri­ent sub­strate for the acetic acid bac­te­ria is filled into 20 kilo­gram bags and into 800 kilo­gram BigBags.

Bag­ging, weigh­ing and dosing

The BE 25 Mul­ti­fill gross bag­ging scale and the Big­Bag bag­ging sys­tem guar­an­tee the desired results for Cetotec prod­ucts with max­i­mum per­for­mance and precision. 

The installed trough screw:

Through bet­ter clean­ing abil­i­ty, easy access to the com­po­nents and thus com­plete, exten­sive clean­ing is pos­si­ble. The screw is locat­ed in a trough that can be eas­i­ly opened at the top by means of flaps, so that it is very easy to access the inside of the screw for clean­ing. The deci­sion was made to install this high-qual­i­ty and some­what more cost-inten­sive screw in order to obtain a com­plete­ly clean prod­uct at all times. Due to the high demands and require­ments for food hygiene, the parts that come into con­tact with the prod­uct are made of stain­less steel.

Seal­ing the bags:

Anoth­er step for­ward with the instal­la­tion of the SSB equipment:

The bags are no longer sewn shut as before, but now weld­ed. This ensures an air- and mois­ture-tight seal and clo­sure of the bags and the end product.

Anoth­er require­ment of the project: a high­er degree of automa­tion in the indi­vid­ual pro­duc­tion steps and thus the relief of the employ­ees in some process­es. Fur­ther­more, the SSB machines at Cetotec are cal­i­brat­ed by SSB Wägetech­nik in accor­dance with legal requirements.

In addi­tion, SSB Wägetech­nik offers fur­ther ser­vices such as repair, spare parts sup­ply and main­te­nance. Thus, a con­stant con­trol of the equip­ment and a com­pre­hen­sive ser­vice before, dur­ing and after each project is offered to each indi­vid­ual cus­tomer for the high­est pos­si­ble satisfaction.