Bellows expansion joints
for food & beverage

Expertise in food and beverage processing

We draw on 50 years of experience to provide our customers in the food and beverage industry with best-in-class expansion joints/expansion bellows. A wide range of materials ensures that our portfolio offers bellows expansion joints for every application. With innovative technologies, like the Plug & Run quick lock system, we help our customers increase productivity, while our comprehensive services make us a trusted partner for food and beverage companies around the world.

Our major areas of focus are:

• Value engineering to decrease operational downtime
• Lean manufacturing to reduce costs
• 3D smart design to maximize overall service life

Rules and regulations

The food and beverage industry is strongly reg­u­lated and has high stan­dards for sup­pli­ers of fabric, metal and rubber based products. National as well as regional au­thor­i­ties control reg­u­la­tions on Food Contact Ma­te­ri­als (FCM) and require all ma­te­ri­als and articles, which come into contact with foods, to comply with specific and strict rules. These rules cover direct and indirect food contact, Good Man­u­fac­tur­ing Practice (GMP), trace­abil­ity as well as de­c­la­ra­tion of com­pli­ance for plastic and rubber ma­te­ri­als.

The ex­pan­sion joints product port­fo­lio of EagleBurgmann is approved for the food and beverage industry ac­cord­ing to the fol­low­ing stan­dards:

• PED 2014/68/EC
• ISO 3834-2
• ISO 9001
• ISO 14001
• OHSAS 18001

Other ap­provals are avail­able upon customer request.

Our bellows expansion joints portfolio
for food and beverage processing machinery

Areas of application

Our port­fo­lio includes a wide range of FCM bellows ex­pan­sion joints in single- and multi-lay­ered designs for dif­fer­ent ap­pli­ca­tions within the food and beverage industry:

• Dairy, ingredients, oils & fats
• Starch & sweeteners
• Bakery & confectionery
• Sugar
• Beverage
• Milk powder

Fabric expansion joints

Our KE-Flex ex­pan­sion joints (fabric ex­pan­sion bellows) safely absorb thermal ex­pan­sions, vi­bra­tions and mis­align­ments in pipe and duct systems in low tem­per­a­ture areas. They com­pen­sate for move­ments in multiple di­rec­tions si­mul­ta­ne­ously.

KE-flex Nitrile 235/600

• equipment with large vibrations/fluctuations
• ventilation
• aqueous food contact
• process plants

KE-flex Nitrile 300

• equipment with large vibrations/fluctuations
• ventilation
• aqueous food contact
• applications which require white material

Plug & Run fabric bellows expansion joints

Plug & Run rep­re­sents the next gen­er­a­tion of fabric ex­pan­sion joints (ex­pan­sion bellows) in­clud­ing reduced downtime, easy in­stal­la­tion and hy­gienic-friendly design. The new fas­ten­ing mech­a­nism no longer requires loos­en­ing and tight­en­ing of fas­ten­ers. Instead, in­stalling and unin­stalling these ex­pan­sions joints is per­formed in less than a minute: simply plug, twist and run.

Rubber bellows expansion joints & metal bellows expansion joints

Further ma­te­ri­als used in our bellows ex­pan­sion joints for the food and beverage industry include rubbers like silicon and EPDM and metals such as 316L stain­less steel. 

Services

Whenever and wherever a problem occurs – we support you to keep downtime of your food and beverage pro­cess­ing equip­ment to a minimum. Our com­pre­hen­sive services include:

• Evaluation and troubleshooting
• Initial dimensional measurement
• Installation and refurbishment
• Supervision and training
• Plant surveys
• Emergency services
• Final inspection by experienced service engineers