Lubrication keeps wheels turning in flash freezing applications
For the meat packing industry, lubrication for conveyors must maintain adequate lubricity in freezing cold areas, provide corrosion resistance and be safe to use.
Pork processing, like any live protein processing, is not a nice environment for humans or machines. Humans, however, can dress properly or take breaks, but that isn’t the case for machinery, especially gambrels and rail surfaces on overhead conveyor systems. This machinery must run in hostile, cold environments—and keep on running.
Unfortunately, finding lubrication that survives a pork processing environment, especially blast freezers, hasn’t been easy. But now, Birko Corporation is offering a product line for pork processing applications including hog scalding, defoamer agents, pathogen reduction treatments and chemistries for gambrel cleaning and oiling.