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 | Q&A: The Price Of Safety In Plant Sanitation
In this Q&A, Pick Heaters, Inc., Vice President Mark Brueggemann discusses some of the key safety issues facing the food industry today. In particular, he explores the safety hazards associated with the use of individual mixing tees for plant sanitation, and explains how his company's central heating systems can provide a safe and reliable alternative for hot water supply. Click here to read more. |
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Featured Articles
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What Is Viscosity?
By Brookfield Engineering Laboratories, Inc.
Viscosity is a principal parameter when any flow measurements of fluids, such as liquids, semisolids, gases, and even solids are made. Brookfield deals with liquids and semisolids. Viscosity measurements are made in conjunction with product quality and efficiency. Anyone involved with flow characterization, in research or development, quality control, or fluid transfer, at one time or another gets involved with some type of viscosity measurement.
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Sense Challenge: Designing A Total Branded Package
By Kelvin Pitman, Director of Open Innovation, Crown
Andy Warhol once said: "Good business is the best art." Considering the subject of one of his most famous paintings, a series of Campbell soup cans, we could deduce that good branding is also an art. Packaging has a critical role in that art by moving beyond the visual appeal of a label into making an emotional connection with consumers so that they connect with a brand.
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How To Choose The Right Connector
By Colder Products Company
With so many connection options, it can be difficult to determine which connector is best suited for a specific application. By understanding your application requirements and selecting the correct connection type, you can achieve better performance and sealing results.
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Loma Systems Chosen To Detect The Fastest-Selling Lunchtime Snack
By Loma Systems
Loma Systems advanced quality inspection technology is helping one of the UK's leading sandwich manufacturers, Buckingham Foods, ensure product quality and safety at its production site in Tamworth.
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Featured Products
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Rigid Container X-Ray Inspection
Smiths Detection's rigid container inspection systems, the Eagle Tall and the Eagle Quad View, make the difficult task of inspecting rigid containers for foreign contaminants — even glass in glass contaminants — possible. The Eagle Tall, our single-view system, has recently undergone a redesign to allow for installation over a customer's existing conveyor line, eliminating the need for costly line modifications formerly required to install the system. Download additional product information.
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Stainless Steel Tools
Steritool specializes in the manufacture of professional quality stainless steel hand tools designed for use in sterile, cleanroom, corrosive, radioactive, and other critical environments. Our hand tools are fully autoclaveable and offer an unsurpassed level of corrosion resistance. View the product datasheets for more information.
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Moisture/Solids Analyzer
The Computrac MAX-2000 is a moisture/solids analyzer that combines the precision of a laboratory instrument with the durability and speed required of a production-floor unit. Using digital balance technology, the system detects moisture levels from 50 ppm to 100%, and accommodates sample weights of 150 mg to 40 g. Request additional product information.
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Texture Analyzer Instrumentation
Food texture analysis: This new, low-cost texture analyzer instrumentation offers quality, value, and support — all from a name you can trust — Brookfield Engineering Laboratories, Inc. The Texture Division of Brookfield Engineering introduces both Compression and Tension Test modes in its third generation texture analyzer, the CT3. Download additional product information.
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Robocombi Robotized Feeding Application
Robocombi is Marchesini Group's first robotized product feeding application. The unit can handle a wide range of products, from blisters to strips, from trays to flowpacks, from squeezable tubes to rigid ones. It is an ideal solution for handling all kinds of product that are not easy to be accumulated. Request additional product information.
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Clean In Place (CIP)
At MORK, we offer food and beverage manufacturers the opportunity to achieve their goals of product integrity and purity. We provide automated CIP/SIP systems, stationary or portable Clean In Place (CIP) units, and related accessories, including cleaning devices and parts washers (clean-out-of-place cleaning cabinets). Download additional product information.
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Pivot Dumpers
Custom Powder Systems' pivot dumpers provide a quick and contained method of emptying open-top containers, such as drums, gaylords, open-top bins, and any other container that can be discharged by inverting. Download additional product information.
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SprayCheck TW Monitoring Device
SprayCheck TW is the first monitoring device to work from the exterior and to require no modification of the tank. It provides highly sensitive monitoring and complete reporting on tank washing nozzle performance. Download additional product information.
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Contained Repackaging System
The ventilation sleeve can be harnessed to the special packaging and broad-based cart drum manipulators to provide local dust control for dispensing operations in an integrated ventilation system. Download additional product information.
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NF — Fan Spray Nozzle
The NF fan spray nozzle by BETE Fog Nozzle features one-piece construction and no internal parts. Download additional product information.
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Featured Downloads
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Brochure: Sartorius ProControl
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Sartorius ProControl for Windows lets you plan, collect, and evaluate quality attributes, whether in incoming inspection, in production, or in final inspection, using a network-integrated Windows PC.
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Datasheet: WATERTRAK Reverse Osmosis
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Reverse Osmosis uses a semipermeable spiral wound element to remove up to 99% of dissolved solids and bacteria from the feed water source.
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Tumble Blenders
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Dry powder blending is simplified when you use bin blending that reduces blend times and requires no between batch cleanup. Since products contact only the bin, you benefit from total product containment, immediate product changeover, and zero blender cleaning.
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Datasheet: Drum Manipulators
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EHS developed its patented drum manipulator to address the ergonomic risk factors associated with manually lifting drums. Each unit is tailored from a base product design to meet the specific needs of the application. Several models and configurations are available.
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Datasheet: Cluster Breaker
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Cluster Breakers are designed to break up clusters of frozen food products in preparation for further processing. Cluster Breakers are typically welded to the bottom of a slope-sided infeed hopper and positioned over a second discharge hopper.
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Federal Equipment Complete Category List
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For more than 50 years, Federal Equipment Company has been a trusted name in the processing equipment industry. As one of the world's top suppliers, Federal Equipment is dedicated to providing quality used equipment, outstanding service, and competitive prices to meet the needs of the pharmaceutical and related process industries.
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Industry Events
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WEBINAR: Rheology as a Formulation Tool for Food and Feed Products
Combining traditional shear rheology, pressure rheology, interfacial rheology, and tribology
Date: Tuesday, October 27, 2009
Time: 11 AM to 11:30 AM EST
Click here to learn more and to register.
COMPLIMENTARY TECHNICAL SEMINAR: Innovations in Food Processing
Date: Wednesday, November 4, 2009
Time: 8 AM to 5 PM
Embassy Suites Hotel Dallas
4650 West Airport Freeway
Irving, TX 75062
Phone: (972) 790-0093
Click here to learn more and to register.
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