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↖ Young Living sells 5 and 15 mL bottle sizes with screw caps. Credit: Young Living
Hitting Essential Filling Speeds for Essential Oils AARON HAND, EDITOR AT LARGE TOP THREE TAKEAWAYS 1. Young Living chose a pharma-grade filler for speed and reliability.
2. Time savings also come through automatic recipe functions.
3. The system was customized for screw caps instead of standard vial stoppers.
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utraceutical companies might be getting called out by pharmaceutical companies these days to follow the same sorts of guidelines that they’re held to, but the key reasons a leading essential oil maker went with a pharma-grade filler had a lot more to do with speed and reliability. “I’d recommend Bosch if they were filling 5 and 15 mL bottles of anything,” says Trent Davies, facilities and maintenance manager for Young Living. What the FLC 3080 TR-EO filling machine from Syntegon Technology (formerly Bosch Packaging Technology) provides for Young Living is stainless steel construction that’s easy to clean, won’t corrode from the essential oils or cleaning agents, and is easy to access. It also offers a throughput that’s three times as fast as what Young Living was getting from its previous fillers. Young Living’s four monoblock filling/capping machines can each output 90-100 bottles/min. In contrast, the Syntegon filler runs at a speed of 300 bottles/minute for both the 5 and 15 mL bottle sizes that Young Living sells. The Syntegon system starts with its standard pharma-grade FLC 3080 but is modified for screw caps rather than the usual rubber stopper finish.
↑ The FLC 3080 TR-EO filling machine is an eight-head piston pumping system. Credit: Syntegon Technology
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