Fine Ham Perfectly Packaged
The perfect solution for Basedahl for packaging: the new R5 RD 0360 A rotary vane vacuum pump(firmenpresse) - Henning Basedahl's business card identifies him simply as a "Schinkenhöker" – which, in the Low German dialect, means simple merchant. Mr. Basedahl is the owner of Basedahl Schinkenmanufaktur (ham factory) in Hollenstedt – a small town between Hamburg and Bremen. He is the second generation of his family to produce a very special delicacy: an exceptionally mild yet flavorsome ham accentuated by a light smoky flavor. When it comes to packaging, Basedahl makes as few compromises as he does in the production of his ham. To make sure he achieved the best packaging results, he was one of the first ever to have a new R5 RD 0360 A rotary vane vacuum pump from Busch Vacuum Solutions installed for his chamber vacuum machine.
The Basedahl ham factory produces around 20,000 hams each year. And as the "Manu-" aspect of its German name Manufaktur suggests, at Basedahl everything really is still made by hand. The company sells its ham in its own little shop directly in Hollenstedt. In the greater Hamburg area, Basedahl sells its speciality to selected retail and delicatessen shops, making the deliveries using its own vehicle. However, customers also include retail and delicatessen shops throughout Germany. For example, Basedahl has been supplying Käfer Feinkost in Munich since 1990. Strict quality control is a guarantee for the high standard of Basedahl ham. As a matter of principle, only hams from sows selected by two slaughterhouses in the region from farms in Lower Saxony, North Rhine-Westphalia or Denmark are used. Each ham is personally inspected by the boss. The selection criteria are stringent. It can sometimes happen that a quarter of a raw ham delivery is returned to the slaughterhouse due to its failure to meet the quality requirements. The recipe, according to the ham specialists from Hollenstedt, is simple: take the ingredients of salt, smoke, love and time and mix them with stringent quality control and careful handcraft.
Packaging takes place three days a week, for seven hours on each day. Shrink bags are used for packaging units from 50 grams to eight kilograms. The chamber volume is dimensioned in such a way that four eight-kilogram bags can be stored together.
The vacuum pump previously installed in the packaging machine had a pumping speed of 300 cubic meters per hour and reached a theoretical ultimate pressure of 0.5 millibar. Felix Engel, plant manager at Basedahl and also responsible for technology, noticed that this vacuum pump no longer reached the specified ultimate pressure with increasing running time and was losing a lot of oil. The vacuum pump was also very loud and its heat radiation had to be dissipated via the air conditioning system. It was therefore removed from the packaging machine and placed one floor above it. This at least solved the problem with the oil and noise emissions. However, the vacuum level in the packaging chamber was not improved, even by extending the pump-down times. That is why Mr. Engel tried to find an alternative in 2017. He found it in the R5 RD 0360 A rotary vane vacuum pump from Busch Vacuum Solutions, which was new to the market at the time. The newly developed vacuum pump was not officially presented by Busch at the IFFA in Frankfurt until the year after. In August 2017, one of the first of these vacuum pumps worldwide was installed at Basedahl. This vacuum pump has a pumping speed of 300 cubic meters per hour and is driven by a 5.1-kilowatt motor. The previously used vacuum pump had a slightly higher motorization with a 5.5-kilowatt motor. At 0.1 millibar, the new vacuum pump achieves a lower vacuum than the previous vacuum pump. In the packaging itself, a vacuum level of 5 to 7 millibar is perfectly adequate, but the pumping speed and the ultimate pressure (vacuum) of a vacuum pump are interdependent. The lower the ultimate pressure reached by a vacuum pump, the higher the pumping speed at the pressure at which packaging is performed, i.e. at 5 to 7 millibars. This is a technical reality that has the advantage in practice of reducing evacuation time at a lower ultimate pressure, thus making the packaging cycle faster – a fact that Felix Engel was pleased to notice immediately upon installing the new vacuum pump.
Noise emissions had also been reduced, too. While the previous vacuum pump had a noise level of 76 dB(A), the R5 RD 0360 A runs at 70 dB(A). With the new development of the R5 RD series, Busch has also developed a new oil separation concept and optimized the filtration technology. The filtration system was adapted to Busch's synthetic oil VSL. This polyalphaolefin-based oil (PAO) is specially designed for rotary vane vacuum pumps used in the vacuum packaging of food products. It is certified according to NSF standard H1 and has a service life four times longer than comparable mineral oils.
Felix Engel leaves the maintenance of the vacuum pump to a Busch service technician. This is done once a year as a precautionary measure. Otherwise, he relies on Busch quality because downtime is totally unacceptable – the gourmets out there don't want to wait to get their hands on his hams.
Unternehmensinformation / Kurzprofil:
Busch Vacuum Solutions is one of the world’s largest producers of vacuum pumps, vacuum systems, blowers and compressors.
Its extensive product portfolio comprises solutions for vacuum and overpressure applications in all industries, including the chemical, semiconductor, medical technology, plastics, and food sectors. It also covers the design and construction of customized vacuum systems, as well as a global service network.
The Busch group is a family-owned company and is still managed by the Busch family. Busch Vacuum Solutions has 3,500 employees in more than 60 companies in over 40 countries worldwide. Busch is headquartered in Maulburg, in southwest Germany. This is the location of Busch SE headquarters, as well as the German production facility and German sales company. In addition to Maulburg, Busch also has its own production plants in Switzerland, the UK, Czech Republic, Korea and the USA.
Busch Vacuum Solutions was founded by Dr.-Ing. Karl Busch and his wife Ayhan Busch in 1963. Dr.-Ing. Karl Busch developed the “HUCKEPACK”, which was the first vacuum pump that could be used for vacuum packaging of foodstuffs. The follow-up product, the compact “R5” rotary vane vacuum pump, revolutionized food packaging. A further milestone represented the development of the “COBRA” screw vacuum pump. In 1971 the international expansion of the Busch group started with the founding of a sales company in the UK. The first production plant outside Germany was established in the USA in 1979.
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Datum: 22.04.2020 - 07:16 Uhr
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