Sweet Returns For Renshaws With FOODLUBE^® Premier

A new multifunctional triple life food grade grease from ROCOL  has helped a leading baking ingredients manufacturer improve the performance of one of its most important and demanding production processes.

Liverpool based Renshaws, which produces caramel, marzipan and sugar paste for many leading retail brands both in the UK and USA, has switched to using FOODLUBE^® Premier grease on the bearings of its sugar hammer mills. These high capacity machines operate 14 hours per day, five days a week at temperatures of between 75 and 85 degrees so require a tough, high performance grease to ensure they keep running.

Since they started using FOODLUBE^® Premier on their hammer mill bearings, as part of the ROCOLcare^® lubrication management programme, Renshaws have carefully monitored the condition of the equipment and found that lubrication remains at a good level for longer periods. This extension of lubrication intervals has been a real benefit to Renshaws’ maintenance team and testing is already taking place on mixing equipment to find out if the success can be replicated.

Stuart Gaillie, engineering manager at Renshaws says, “Since we have been using the ROCOLcare^® package we have moved a step closer to first line maintenance for the line leaders on site. The latest trial with the high temperature FOODLUBE^® Premier grease has improved the running efficiency of our Hosokawa hammer mills by 10%.

“The extended lubrication intervals have helped us free up vital time to introduce our training plan for the handover of lubrication and first line maintenance, giving the line leaders greater ownership of their line.

The trial of the FOODLUBE^® Premier grease has given us some breathing space, confident in the knowledge that lubrication will be to the required standard if the engineering team is unable to complete any lubrication tasks as planned.

“Over the trial period I’ve been very pleased with the results and look forward to working closely with ROCOL on more projects/trials.”

FOODLUBE^® Premier is ideal for high speed, high temperature applications like Renshaws’ sugar hammer mills as well as linear bearings, slides, electric motors and fans. It contains performance enhancing ingredients which ensure maintenance managers can benefit from extended lubrication intervals and reduced production downtime. The grease also offers good EP performance and water resistance and has an operating range of between -30°C and +180°C.

As with other lubricants in the FOODLUBE^® range, FOODLUBE^® Premier is NSF H1 registered which means it is independently certified as safe for incidental food contact. It is manufactured only from FDA listed ingredients and free from animal derived materials, nut oils, soya, dairy and genetically modified ingredients.