First to get ehedg certification

Conveyor belting specialist, Habasit Rossi, has become the first belting manufacturer to receive European Hygienic Engineering & Design Group (EHEDG) certification for one of its solutions.

EHEDG awarded the Certificate of Compliance to Habasit's HyCLEAN plastic modular belts M5060 and M5065 with sprocket and Clean in Place (CIP) system. The belts were evaluated by the Research Centre Weihenstephan for Brewing and Food Quality at the Technical University of Munich, Germany. This EHEDG authorised organisation awarded and published the Certificate of Compliance.

The company says: "We're pleased to have independent verification that the Habasit HyCLEAN CIP is a proven system."