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uct is really expensive,” explained
Sophie Guermond, the facility’s Lean
Manager. “One kilo of product can
cost €30 to €40 (US $33 to $44), so if
in each batch we lose 50 kilos (110
pounds), the price adds up really fast.
It’s also really important that there is
very little shearing of the product
because the creams need to have a

specific texture. When the cream is
in the tank and passing through the
eccentric disc pump, we need the
least amount of loss as possible. Be-
cause of their operation and reliabil-
ity, we don’t have any daily worries
with the eccentric disc pumps.”

SOFT DRINKS
Optimizing product quality,
The SLS Series Eccentric Disc Pump from Mouvex® is able to overcome the challenges presented by operational sustainability and
higher-viscosity ice cream formulas, while also possessing the operational characteristics that make manufacturing costs are the driving
enhanced product recovery possible. forces at Coca-Cola’s Hellenic
Bottling Company (HBC) plant
designed our presses to handle the “The eccentric disc pump is idiot- in Dunaharaszti, Hungary. A key
grapes as gently as possible, we love proof, which is very important link in the facility’s production
the fact that eccentric disc pumps since we are running 24 hours chain involves the unloading of
feature no excessive shear that and everyone has to handle it,” tankers that are laden with the raw
puts friction on the wine. But the said Krist Levrouw, Engineering ingredients that will be transformed
best benefit for us is the higher rate Assistant at Ysco.“It has to be simple into popular drinks like Coke, Sprite,

of product recovery. These pumps to use, simple to clean and simple
can completely drain all of the juice to maintain. Every step in the The Shiseido facility in Ormes, France, has the
from the piping and from inside the process is important. Every step is ability to transfer up to four tons of products
tanks.” complicated, but the eccentric disc per day, and thanks to their Mouvex® Eccentric
pump makes life easier. No stress.” Disc Pumps, the facility can expect a product
ICE CREAM recovery rate of as much as 80% or more when
compared to competitive technologies.
The evolving combination of a strict COSMETICS
manufacturing process and a change Headquartered in Tokyo, Japan,
in the makeup and viscosity of cosmetics giant Shiseido has
finished ice cream products recently operations all over the world. Its

caused ice cream manufacturer Ysco, European operation located in
Langemark, Belgium, to question Ormes, France, transfers up to
the use of centrifugal pumps in its four tons a day of high-value raw
operations. The higher viscosities materials for the manufacture of
required stable, non-pulsating fl ow perfumes, face and body creams,
and high volumetric consistency shower oils and gels, and liquid
that centrifugal pumps just aren’t make-up removers. Ensuring gentle
able to deliver, with the result being handling while minimizing the loss
inefficient operation that would lead of these expensive components is a

to excessive product waste. The daily challenge for the site and one
solution was a seal-less eccentric that eccentric disc pumps have been
disc pump that would reduce the able to reliably meet.
risk of product contamination and
leaks while maximizing product- “In our process we need to have as lit-
recovery rates. tle loss as possible because the prod-

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