Gently handles toffee sauce

At the Tenbury Wells plant of Kerry Ingredients & Flavours a MasoSine SPS 2.5 sine pump from Watson-Marlow Pumps Group has demonstrated its capabilities for handling the demanding viscosity and flow properties of condensed milk. The pump's sinusoidal rotor overcame the limitations of a previouslyconsidered rotary lobe pump to produce powerful suction with low shear, low pulsation and gentle handling and proved just right for the company's new toffee sauce.

When the plant wanted to introduce the sauce to its 10 production lines, it was faced with the challenge of pumping condensed milk. Initially, volumes were small, typically 1-2 batches at a time, and so Kerry could use manual labour for the task.

However, demand grew and a more automated solution was required.

A MasoSine SPS 2, on trial for another application, was tested to see whether it could handle condensed milk. It made light work of the task.

Process manager, Charles Bishop- Miller, says: "We estimate the sine pump offers 20% faster pumping times than the lobe pump. It has also allowed us to redeploy the labour resource to a more value-added role.

Greater versatility, self-priming ability and ease-of-cleaning also stack in favour of the MasoSine pump."