Pumping Fruit with Peristaltic Pump Even innocuous fruit seeds can damage the workings of certain pump types. Indeed they were the downfall of a rotary lobe pump installed at food processor in Finland a producer of fruit sorbets and purees. All products are made from fresh ingredients but the seeds in the fruit pulp constantly wore the pump’s lobes, ultimately causing its failure. Its replacement by a British made peristaltic hose pump not only restored productivity but also provided greater production flexibility. The Verderflex VF32 peristaltic hose pump was ideal for this application from a number of standpoints: It can pump liquids including hard or abrasive solids in suspension by passing a rotating shoe along a specially designed hose, compressing it completely until on recovery, a s

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