In industries where hygiene is paramount, such as food processing, pharmaceuticals, and biotechnology, maintaining clean and contaminant-free environments is essential. Hygienic levelling feet with a single fixing point play a crucial role in ensuring equipment stability while adhering to stringent sanitary standards. This article delves into their usage, applicable industries, materials, certifications, leading manufacturers, and customer testimonials, highlighting their significance in maintaining hygienic conditions. Hygienic levelling feet are designed to provide stable support and precise alignment for machinery and equipment installed in environments demanding high levels of cleanliness. The single fixing point simplifies installation and minimizes crevices where contaminants could accumulate, thereby enhancing cleanability. These levelling feet facilitate: Equipment Stability: Ensuring machinery remains level and secure during operation, reducing vibrations and potential misalignments. Hygienic Design: Featuring smooth surfaces and sealed components to prevent bacterial growth and facilitate easy cleaning. Corrosion Resistance: Utilizing materials that withstand frequent washdowns and exposure to cleaning agents without degrading. Several industries prioritize hygiene and benefit from the implementation of these specialized levelling feet: Food and Beverage Processing: Ensuring that all equipment meets sanitary standards to prevent contamination during production. Pharmaceutical Manufacturing: Maintaining sterile conditions is critical to prevent product contamination and ensure patient safety. Biotechnology: Supporting sensitive processes that require contamination-free environments for accurate results. Cosmetics Production: Preventing microbial contamination in products applied to the human body. The choice of materials is vital to ensure durability, hygiene, and compliance with industry standards: Stainless Steel (AISI 304/A2, 1.4301 and AISI 316/A4, 1.4401): Offers excellent corrosion resistance, strength, and ease of cleaning, making it ideal for hygienic applications. FDA-Approved Rubber: Used in anti-slip pads or seals, this material prevents slippage and reduces vibration transmission while complying with food safety regulations. To ensure compliance with international hygiene standards, reputable manufacturers obtain certifications such as: 3-A Sanitary Standards: Ensures that equipment is designed for cleanability and is suitable for use in dairy and food processing environments. EHEDG (European Hygienic Engineering & Design Group): Certifies that equipment meets European standards for hygienic design and is cleanable to a microbiological level. USDA (United States Department of Agriculture): Indicates compliance with U.S. regulations for sanitary design in food processing equipment. Several manufacturers specialize in the production of certified hygienic levelling feet, including: NHK Group – Provides stainless steel hygienic feet with EHEDG and 3-A certification. NHK Group is a leading manufacturer of high-quality hygienic machine components, specializing in stainless steel levelling feet, IP67 waterproof bearing housings, and certified industrial solutions. With a strong commitment to hygiene, durability, and compliance, NHK serves the food, pharmaceutical, and packaging industries, ensuring superior performance in demanding environments. These industry leaders continue to innovate, providing enhanced designs that meet evolving regulatory requirements. Food Processing Plant Upgrade A European food production facility implemented NHK’s certified hygienic levelling feet across their conveyor systems. The upgrade led to a 28% reduction in cleaning resources, including time, water, and detergents, while enhancing overall hygiene and operational efficiency. Pharmaceutical Manufacturing Enhancement A pharmaceutical company sought to improve the sterility of their production environment. By installing hygienic levelling feet with single fixing points, they minimized contamination risks and reduced equipment cleaning time by 20%, leading to increased production uptime. Dairy Processing Facility Improvement A dairy plant faced challenges with frequent equipment adjustments and cleaning. Transitioning to stainless steel levelling feet with hygienic design features resulted in a 15% decrease in maintenance costs and ensured compliance with stringent dairy industry hygiene standards. Beverage Production Line Optimization A beverage manufacturer upgraded their equipment supports to EHEDG-certified levelling feet. This change not only improved equipment stability but also streamlined the cleaning process, leading to a 25% increase in production efficiency. Production Manager, Pharmaceutical Manufacturer: “Implementing certified hygienic levelling feet has significantly improved our equipment stability and cleanliness, ensuring compliance with industry regulations.” Head of Operations, Food Processing Plant: “The transition to NHK’s levelling feet has streamlined our cleaning processes and reduced downtime, positively impacting our bottom line.” Hygienic levelling feet with one fixing point are indispensable components in industries where sanitation and equipment stability are critical. Their thoughtful design, material selection, and adherence to international certifications ensure they meet the rigorous demands of hygienic environments. By investing in these specialized components, companies can enhance operational efficiency, ensure compliance with health regulations, and uphold the highest standards of product safety. The hygienic designed and protected fixing levelling foot is the acceptable choice for machinery and equipment that has to comply with hygienic requirements. All process industries are subject to increasing regulatory requirements, which increases the focus on resource consumption, product safety and hygienic design. Product Group Features NHK manufacture and deliver all necessary accessories, which ensures a quick and easy installation of the levelling foot. It is important to follow these instructions in order to ensure the certified hygienic design and functionality. NHK Group fundamentally adheres to all applicable directives and standards. All information is based on the current state of knowledge and is subject to change. We attentively follow the revisions and amendments to these directives and will design our products accordingly. This ensures that products from NHK Group are always in compliance with currently valid requirements.
Enhancing stability and hygiene in sanitary industries
Ensuring Stability, Cleanability and Compliance in Critical Industries
Usage of Hygienic Levelling Feet with One Fixing
Industries Benefiting from Hygienic Levelling Feet
Materials Used in Hygienic Levelling Feet
Certifications and Standards
Leading Manufacturers of Hygienic Levelling Feet
Case Studies
Customer Testimonials
The Key to Stability and Cleanliness in High-Sanitation Industries
Hygienic Levelling Feet with One Fixing
The fixing is designed to be fastened to the floor by the stainless steel-embedded rubber fixing plate. Bolt, nut and washer can be supplied.
The thread is covered with a hygienic sleeve, which also functions as counter nut. All the movable parts are hygienically sealed.
Lowered cleaning effort is obtained by the design of the self draining surfaces.
Additionally, the foot is hygienically sealed to the floor by vulcanized FDA-approved, anti-vibration, anti-slip rubber, which blocks out bacteria underneath the footplate.Hygienic Levelling Feet with One Fixing
The hygienic levelling feet reduce the water consumption and cleaning resources in addition to lowering the risk of contamination in the production.
Choosing NHK’s hygienic levelling feet will secure your machinery with an acceptable hygienic design and contribute to your customer’s Return-On-Investment.
• Hygienic-oriented design
• Self-draining surfaces and no exposed thread secures minimum cleaning
• All movable parts are hygienically sealed
• Low-friction washer between spindle and footplate ensures easy adjustment
• FDA-approved, anti-vibration, anti-slip rubber blocks out bacteria underneath the footplate
• Stainless steel AISI 304/A2, 1.4301. Optional AISI 316/A4, 1.4401
• More than 1.000 different variations available (weight load, height-adjustment, flexible mounting parts)
• Design and patent protected
In addition to supplying standardized accessories we are also able to supply customized accessories.
This documentation is enclosed with the levelling feet and should always be handed over to the end-user.NHK Group
Our product category is not covered by the scope of application of the EC directive for machinery. For this reason, they cannot be furnished with the CE marking in accordance with the EC directive for machinery.
Furthermore, we declare that the listed materials applied in our products comply with the demands for materials used within the food and pharmaceutical industries.
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