Professional

Preventive Maintenance for Laundry Equipment

Adjusting work schedule, plugging leaks and having optimum operations are all part of preventive maintenance. Laundry managers of five-star hotels share their expertise on how preventive maintenance programme go a long way in enhancing the equipment life and efficiency.

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Resurfacing of the Bug Boom

Bedbugs have an inseparable connection with humans. Even though extensive use of pesticides like DDT eliminated the bugs from human life in the 1940s, they managed to resurface again. But, why? Have they gone immune to pesticides?

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Filtration

From simple gravity filtration through sand to the membrane technologies of micro-filtration and ultra-filtration, filtration has remained the lynchpin of basic water treatment

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Cowsheds to consumers

Ice-creams, flavoured yoghurt/milk, lassi, cheese, paneer, curd… are our favourite dairy products and of course, the packed milk. Today in India milk processing distribution is carried out by multiple agencies, both from private and public sectors. Processing rooms are fitted with a long stretch of stainless steel machines, pumps, silos, unending pipelines… which are handled by just a handful of uniformed workers. While the ambience gives the feel of a hospital clean room or a pharma factory, it is interesting to know how these large silos and pipes are cleaned without dismantling or pulling them down. Mohana M reports on the various Cleaning In Place processes and industrial cleaning practices at some of the leading dairy processing units in India.

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Industrial Vacs in food industries

A range of cleaning equipment, products, services and machineries is required to maintain clean and hygienic workplace environment right from the raw material entry area to the final finished product / packaging areas in the food processing and beverage industry.

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Sterilization

Insects like mosquitoes, screwworms and fruit flies have short lifecycle of 60-90 days, during which time they mature, reproduce and die. Early pest management is essential to curb their rapid population expansion. Sterilization is one such green technique to control pest infestation

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