Interroll says its asynchronous drum motor (models 113i, 138i, 165i and 217i) has recently gained approval from the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) for compliance with the guidelines for sanitary design and fabrication of dairy processing equipment.
The certification is based on equipment review and an examination of engineering drawings, with the participation of design engineers.
The adoption of certain hygienic standards at dairy plants helps the operators to manufacture safer dairy products.
The company says dairy products manufactured, processed and packaged in a USDA approved plant may be graded or inspected and identified with official USDA identification.
Typically, conventional gear motors are bulky, difficult to install, unhygienic and unable to be cleaned.
The Interroll Drum Motor is designed to be compact, easy to install and can be cleaned and disinfected regularly using high pressure water, steam and chemicals, thereby provides for the lowest possible levels of Salmonella, Listeria, E. coli and other harmful microorganisms in the production environment.
Turkey provider Butterball for example uses Interroll drum motors in food production.
The company exports more than 100 million pounds of products annually to 50 countries.
