Screw pumps and their industrial applications

The Screw Pumps, for their versatility and variety of models can be applied to various industries:

Food industry

  • Beverage industry: juices, wines, soft drinks, beers, soluble coffee, sauces, purees, creams and gazpachos, syrups, concentrates, syrups.
  • Dairy industry: milk, yogurt, fresh cheeses, creams, puddings and mouses, butter and margarines, ice cream, smoothies, cream and concentrates, rice with milk.
  • General food industry: jam, salads, honey, butters.
  • Olive oil industry, oils and fats: vegetable oils, animal fats, olive pastes, orujos, pulas alpechines, table olives, washing water, filling pastes, olive mass, mayonnaise.
  • Confectionery and chocolate industry: chocolates, cocoa, liquid sugar, fillings and creams, liquid caramel, gelatinas, dulce de leche, concentrates, dough.
  • Semi-processed and processed food industry: minced meat, meal

Chemical and petrochemical industry

  • Cosmetics industry: dyes, moisturizers, gels and conditioners, lotions, cleansers and exfoliants, serums, make-up, essences, enamels, soaps and acetines and toothpaste.
  • Paper industry: pulp and paper pulp, cooked and pre-cooked starch, gluers and copolymers, flocculants, retentives and coagulants, dyes, enzymatic solutions, anti-foaming agents, waste water and sludge.

Waste water management

  • Pumping fluids with dry matter such as urban sludge, manure, digestate, liquid organic residues and glycerines.
  • Emptying silos, pumping dehydrated sludge.

Biogas

  • Liquid with vegetable substrates, and animals such as corn silage, manure, gallinaza, fruits, vegetables or grass.
  • Contained in hard decantable solids such as stones or metals.

Other industries and applications

Protech Continental offers pumping solutions for other industries and applications.
For more information, you can consult our equipment section.

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