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“It was important for us to have
a partner like Festo to guide us
through the entire process of
developing a new machine.”
Erhard Karb, CEO of Karb Maschinenbau
Peppers in neat rows:
the vegetables stand on filling
nozzles waiting to be filled with cream cheese.
The EvoGuard valve
controls
the butterfly valves for feeding
the cream cheese.
20 peppers in one go
Two EvoGuard valves, 20 EPCO cylinders,
five valve terminals CPX/MPA, 20 cartridge
cylinders EGZ and an MS series service
unit keep the process running smoothly.
The hygienic EvoGuard valves, which are
tailored precisely to the requirements of
the food industry, control the infeed of the
cheese at process level, while the EPCO
electric cylinders take care of the actual
filling process. They draw cream cheese
into a type of syringe and inject it into the
vegetable. The combination of system
controller and sensors ensures the perfect
fill quantity. 20 vegetables can be filled at
a time in this way. Because the cavities of
peppers, chillies, etc., vary in size, the
system uses its sophisticated sensor
technology to detect the level of each
individual vegetable and waits until the
last is filled to the top with cream cheese
before placing all the vegetables onto a