NORD DRIVESYSTEMS is positioning its food-safe drives as a lightweight alternative to stainless steel for hygiene-sensitive applications, with its NXD tupH surface treatment designed to deliver enhanced corrosion and chemical resistance. The solution is aimed at manufacturers in the food and beverage and primary packaging industries, where drive components must withstand demanding wash-down and cleaning processes while meeting stringent hygiene requirements.
The NXD tupH treatment gives aluminium housings a durable, non-porous surface that combines the material’s inherent advantages with enhanced protection against aggressive cleaning environments. NORD says the technology enables its gear units, smooth motors and decentralized frequency inverters to withstand extensive cleaning cycles over the long term, offering a compact and lightweight solution for applications where hygiene, durability and corrosion resistance are critical.
Test Prove Chemical Resistance
NXD tupH combines a specialized surface treatment with a high-performance sealer to create a non-porous protective layer designed for demanding hygiene environments. The surface can be cleaned thoroughly without flaking or corroding, even after repeated cleaning cycles. Its chemical resistance has also been demonstrated through long-term testing involving Ecolab cleaning agents. According to NORD DRIVESYSTEMS, drive components featuring NXD tupH surfaces meet food-safety requirements in the FDA, EU and Switzerland, as well as MERCOSUR states, making them suitable for food-contact applications across the food & beverage and primary packaging industries.
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Economical Alternative to Stainless Steel Drives
With this, NORD provides users with an economical and powerful alternative to stainless steel drives. Drive solutions with aluminium housings are more lightweight and allow for compact design. Since aluminium dissipates heat well, a higher power density and lower surface temperatures can be achieved. With NXD tupH, aluminium housings now also become chemical-resistant, making the drive solutions durable and increasing the system availability in wash-down applications.
The surface protection from NORD does not require any special design and thus no separate warehousing and installation costs. The manufacturer applies its surface treatment to existing components. This way, it can use the options of its modular products for the drive system design, and supply tailor-made NXD tupH drive systems completely from a single source.
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NXD tupH-treated Complete Solutions From A Single Source
NXD tupH is available for all NORD aluminium products with a smooth surface, including the integrated DuoDrive gear unit / motor system, the energy-efficient IE5+ smooth motors as well as NORDBLOC.1 helical in-line gear units and NORDBLOC.1 helical bevel gear units. Furthermore, with NORDAC ON PURE, a decentralized frequency inverter with NXD tupH surface will be available soon. Solution provider NORD can thus supply complete drive systems with food-safe surface treatment from a single source.
