The choice to use a black natural graphite on bakery and other oven chain applications is typically supported by antiquated schools of thought. Just about all Maintenance, Engineering, Quality Assurance, and Plant Management personnel know that black graphite lubricant is a hazardous product and should not be used in any food processing facilities. So why are so many food corporations knowingly using black graphite lubricant?
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In an industrial or wholesale bakery, the oven is one of the most important pieces of equipment in the facility. It must run smoothly, efficiently, and consistently to ensure high-quality baked goods. One key factor in maintaining your oven’s performance is proper lubrication. In this article, we discuss how often an industrial bakery maintenance department should lubricate a bakery oven chain system, and why it is so important.
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Understanding and valuing the importance of food safety is easy for managers of food processing facilities. The hard part? Getting employees in food processing facilities to adopt those same values. It is important to educate your team on how to maintain food safety standards. However, educating them is typically the easiest part. Getting employees to truly care about food safety can sometimes be tricky. One of the most successful ways for getting your team to understand and value food safety is by implementing a positive food safety culture.
Food processing facilities that are focusing on creating positive food safety cultures within their teams find that their employees are happier and value food safety more than ever before. Which leads us to ask ourselves...what is the real meaning of food safety culture and why it is so incredibly important? In this blog you'll learn what food safety culture is and 5 tips for implementation from experts in food safety culture.
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Formula 600 is great for custodians to have on hand. Especially the ones in the school system. Not only can Formula 600 help with many day to day custodial duties, but because Formula 600 is H1 food grade, it is a safer product to use to lubricate wheels or surfaces that children might end up touching. Read this blog to learn 8 ways custodians can use Formula 600 Aerosol Spray Lubricant to maintain school facilities.
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Formula 600 aerosol spray lubricant is commonly used in food processing facilities. There are a a variety of different uses for Formula 600. Continue reading to learn 12 uses for Formula 600 Aerosol Spray Lubricant you didn't know...until now!
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How much do you know about chain drive systems? Do you know the difference between a sprocket and a gear? Learn everything you should know about chain drives, including their major killers in our latest blog!
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How much do you know about chain drives & automatic lubrication methods? Learn how automatic lubrication systems can eliminate downtime & keep your machines consistently running, making your operation even more efficient. Find out all about chain drives, how they fail and all about how to keep them properly lubricated in our latest blog!
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The world of industrial lubricants can be a complex one. With so many types of lubricants, all with different functions, it can be hard to determine which industrial lubricant to use. We have created this blog with the purpose of helping you choose which lubricant will work best for your food processing facility. Click to learn everything you should know about food grade lubricants.
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So many food processing companies are neglecting to consider the safety of their consumers. Do they not value efficiency over the satisfaction and safety of the end-users?! Many other industrial lubricant suppliers still sell graphite lubricants, which are NOT food grade. Graphite lubricants can potentially be harmful to the families around the globe. These families are the one's who are actually consuming these food products, such as bread, everyday! At ChainGuard's everyday people, with everyday families and strong ethical values, we refuse to supply a product that could potentially harm other families as well as our own. Read our blog post to learn why we care about food grade lubricants and you should too...
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Typically tortilla factories produce either corn or flour tortilla. There is a growing market segment for facilities to produce tortilla made from other ingredients such beets, nopal cactus, and more. Regardless what type of tortilla is produced, some things remain constant in industrial production settings, tortillas are made in high speed ovens, baked on steel "slat" oven plate chain belting systems that travel over a series of ribbon burners, with a relatively short bake time and a high throughput rate. To maintain such high production rates, the oven chains must be lubricated consistently using the right oil for the oven slat belt chain system.
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Wholesale food manufacturers operate equipment that requires lubrication maintenance procedures for continued safe and reliable operation. Understanding best practices for storage, application and disposal of food grade lubricants used in your workplace enables maintenance technicians, health and safety officials, engineering personnel and operations management to ensure that lubricants are handled and used properly to ensure that your facility meets BRC and other site audits.
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