Extended Interview: Food-safe, surface enhancement process extends component life
This recently developed surface enhancement technology can extend the lifetime of grinders and other critical wear components from two shifts to many months with no peeling or flaking.
FE: Can this coating technology be applied to work surfaces to improve their resistance to bacteria buildup? Cost-wise, is it practical to treat work surfaces?
Bell: Phygen has done research on surfaces never treated before in food manufacturing. Sometimes I’m told by customers, “We have been doing something the same way for 30, 40, or 50 years.” To me that is not right. We need to explore these new frontiers of materials technology. See in the laser scans we have taken what a grinding plate looks like after it was freshly sharpened. Now see what the same surface looks like on a FortiPhy coated plate after six months in operation with no sharpening.