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The best thing since sliced bread?
It’s around 95 years since the Chillicothe Baking Company’s bread slicing machine sliced its first loaf in Missouri, USA. Not too long after that, ERIKS began working with food processors and manufacturers, and food industry OEMs, to help make their products safer, their processes more efficient and their production more cost-effective. 80 years on, ERIKS – just like sliced bread – is still here, and still helping the food industry to be safe and productive.
From beer to biscuits, snacks to sausages, and breakfast cereals to bacon, the UK food and beverage industry is varied and vast. But whatever the product, the industry’s strict regulations mean that food safety is always the first consideration, for both food producers and process machinery manufacturers. At the same time, increasing legislation, rising costs and a challenging market make innovation essential for competitiveness.
So whatever foodstuff or beverage you are producing, it can always be improved by adding a pinch of ERIKS.
Food safety made simpler
When working with customers in the food industry, ERIKS has two aims: to simplify the customer’s business and processes, and to enhance and optimise food safety while the customer focusses on their core business.
It starts with identifying and assessing the operating conditions, and continues with delivery of a technically- and commercially-appropriate proposal. Our technical support is available from planning to implementation. We provide consultancy and engineering from experienced specialists.
And we offer specialist professional services from prototyping to maintenance, to optimise production processes.
To accelerate delivery while ensuring value, we work with leading suppliers of high-quality products, and implement innovative logistical solutions. But we always take care that all our products, services and solutions comply with all relevant laws and regulations and – of course – maximise safety at every stage.
Volunteering to be safer
Food manufacturers have no choice but to comply with the numerous food safety rules and regulations. Non-food companies are not so strictly regulated – but ERIKS believes in food safety just as much as food manufacturers do. So we are proud to be the only non-food company in the Netherlands (our home country) to hold the voluntary ISO 22000 certificate.
This is an industrial-specific risk management system for every type of food safety, and UK legislation in this area is identical to the EU. So it means our UK customers can work with us in the knowledge that food safety is our starting point, just like theirs.
We, our products and services also comply with a range of other legislation, so you can choose to partner with us in complete confidence that your food safety will never be compromised.
We are fully up-to-speed with EC1935/2004 and its traceability requirements for food contact materials. We comply with the Plastic Information Measure (PIM) regulations of EU 10/2011. We adhere to Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP) – working in a ‘clean’ way to ensure zero product contamination.
And the majority of products in our FOODLUBE® and PUROL food-safe lubrication ranges are covered by ROCOL Vegan Society Lubrication certification.
Our bread and butter
With 80 years’ food industry experience to call on, we can offer you a wide range of products and services to meet your needs, including:
- Food safety certified components and materials
- Rapid prototyping and co-engineering for precision parts
- Advice and support in achieving compliance with food industry rules and regulations
- Support in achieving certification of your products
- Standard parts ordering via our Webshop
- Rapid and flexible spare parts supply to minimise downtime
- Supply chain solutions for efficient procurement and supply
- Intelligent automated delivery systems
- Total Cost of Ownership optimisation
For more information about the vital ingredients of certified products, expert advice and support, please contact your local ERIKS Service Centre, who will be happy to discuss your options.
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