HC Powders Technology Course

Cali, February 2014

Welcome & Rules

 Agenda – “subject to change” Very full !
SALSA POWDERS TRAINING (PROCESS & PACK)
DAY 1 DAY 2 DAY 3 DAY 4 DAY 5 DAY 6
PROCESS PACKAGING
8 00
Syndicate Feedback Syndicate Feedback
Acronyms Name
30 Introduction & CG Christos Gkosdis
PC Test Review Test Review Test Review Test Review Test Review
Objectives PC Paul Chadwick
9 00 Agenda & Intro to VK Vinod Kothari
Powders Packing EOL- Case Packing HG Henry Giordano
30 Liquid LM Ligia Macedo
Post-tower Equipment
Raw material
Formulation LM VK (FA adition, zeolite VK CG CG Specification & CG QA Regional Quality
handling Part I
10 00 layering & airlift) Acceptance Tests ES Esteban Sarmiento
Packing Tech - VFFS EOL - Palletisation

30
Break Break
11 00
Transport to site & Early
30 Solid Lunch
Powders Quality Raw material Conti & Batch post-
Part II Bosc Rau
Process FF handling VK dosing control & VK EOL - Bundling
12 00 Packing Tech - VFFS h mak
Pack (Diffi cult materials mixing
including enzymes) Overview
ES
30 Salsa

13 00

Lunch Lunch
30

14 00
Line Integration
Process & Packaging
Finished powder Factory tour
30 Core design
distribution to CG/P Pack Material New Tech Suppliers &
Spray-drying VK Slurry making PC YR CG
packing lines C specification Strategy
15 00 including PC
(segregation)
calculator
Packing LCC Analysis
30
Break Break
16 00 Break Packing Tech - Carton
Spray-drying plus PTC - Sharepoint PC
Packing
H&MB
30 PC Specifying Safe
Key safety aspects Burner CG
PC HG Machinery
Spray drying Cyclones Sustaintability CG
17 00 Tower cleaning PC
including heat Powder Feeding
HG
recovering
30 Syndicates Syndicates Syndicates
PC PC CG
Session Session Session
18 00
Overview – What We Hope to Cover

 Develop at least Working Knowledge in Spray Dried Powders Manufacturing

 Process and Pack
 hopefully address your ‘expectations’ and ‘key topics to cover’

 We’ll get into quite some detail, and we aim to give you tools to help you do your job

 Training via lectures, demos, syndicate work (incl prizes), factory visit and daily tests

 Network with colleagues across the Cluster

 Access the Unilever global and regional experts in powders processing

 We’ll learn from you too !

Workshop Rules

 No mobile phones or emails in sessions please !

 Promptness – please be on time for all sessions (or –ve

points for your syndicate)

 Your participation in all activities

 Don’t be afraid to ask questions – in any language !

 Do take the opportunity of networking

 One full week commitment, no skipping sessions

 Please complete Feedback Questionnaire

 HAVE FUN – Rules from a previous course in Thailand !

 A Quick Test (1)
 Out of Fabric Wash Dilute Liquids and Powders
globally which has the highest Gross Margin ? Powders

 With which powder process does Unilever make Spray-drying

>70% of all its detergent powders ?

 Which detergent powder process produces

powder with the best appearance and fastest Spray-drying
rate of dissolution ?

 Which detergent powder process produces base Spray-drying

powder with bulk density in the range 300-500 kg/m 3

 Which detergent powder process has the biggest

Spray-drying
challenges (eg energy consumption, emissions)
but is also the most interesting to work on ?
 A Quick Test (2)
 Where are these towers ?
Thank you