Comparable to stainless steel when it comes to hygiene and corrosion resistance, more efficient
when it comes to space requirements and scalability: With the NXD tupH® surface treatment, NORD
DRIVESYSTEMS opens up new planning options for primary packaging. Aluminium drive solutions
are more compact and provide thermal benefits as well as – thanks to NXD tupH® – effective
protection against moisture and aggressive cleaning chemicals in intensive cleaning intervals.
With NXD tupH®, NORD DRIVESYSTEMS puts drive technology with aluminium housings into wet productcontact
areas. The combination of surface treatment and high-performance sealer provides a particularly
hard and non-porous surface that can be cleaned quickly and hygienically. Even after numerous cleaning
cycles, the sealer does not flake off and thus does not enter the products to be packaged. Thanks to the
surface treatment, the protective effect remains unchanged even with minor damages. A long-term test using
Ecolab cleaning agents has proven the resistance to cleaning chemicals. Decisive for use in wet productcontact
areas of primary packaging: NORD drive components with NXD tupH® surfaces are in accordance
with the requirements of the FDA, EU and Switzerland as well as the MER-COSUR states.
More compact and more scalable
With NXD tupH®, NORD refines the hygienically designed drive components of its wash-down modular
product system and reveals process advantages in some additional application are-as of primary packaging.
For example, drive solutions with aluminium housings can be de-signed more compactly than with stainless
steel, as aluminium is more lightweight and has a significantly higher thermal conductivity. The modular
product system furthermore allows the drives to perfectly fit into the machine. All these factors result in
reduced space requirements and enable flexible scalability of the system.
Decentralised and suitable for servo
With the NXD tupH®-capable NORDAC ON PURE, the solution provider will soon reveal the advantages of
decentralised drive electronics for wash-down areas. Ethernet on Board, hy-brid cables and daisy chain
technology enable efficient and hygienic topologies. This makes the inverter easier to clean and significantly
more streamlined than conventional decentralised wiring. Furthermore, its integrated POSICON software
allows for the creation of travel profiles for non-complex servo applications in packaging. This includes
control functions such as synchronism and flying saw that are used, for example, when separating and
sealing during flow wrapping.
Economic alternative to servo
Wherever servo gear units are oversized in the primary packaging line, NORD offers helical, helical bevel
and worm gear units as an economic alternative. With IEC, NEMA and servo adapters from the NORD
modular product system, they can be combined with servo motors from various manufacturers. And here
again: NXD tupH® makes the drive solutions resistant and durable.
