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Featured Articles
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Blending For Consistency: What's The Magic?
By Brookfield Engineering Laboratories, Inc.
Many food processing operations blend various ingredients to make the finished product. The order in which ingredients are mixed, the length of time, the type of mixer, the temperature — all these factors play a role in the final outcome.
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Pouch Seal Inspection: Airborne Ultrasound Technology For Better Process And Quality Control
By PTI Inspection Systems
A pouch seal is a structural element that joins flat film material and a component designed to close a pouch airtight. Traditional test methods (e.g. peel strength or burst) can measure the joint strength of the pouch seal, but use destructive methods that are often unreliable.
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Measuring The Brix Concentration In Foods
By Endress + Hauser, Inc.
The measurement of degrees Brix is required in many industries as a means to grade product concentration, quality, or in blending operations. The Brix scale can vary by industry, either by scale or reference temperature. Coriolis mass flow meters are being used in process applications to measure degrees Brix as it correlates to density.
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Premium Ice Cream Starts With Good Mixing
By Quadro Engineering
In ice cream production, conventional mixing methods often result in long processing times, poor yield of raw materials, excessive air incorporation, and the possibility of lumps of partially hydrated material that can build up on vessel walls and heat exchanger surfaces. This can impair heat transfer, make cleaning difficult, and impact the performance of the downstream homogenizer. A solution to this is an inline mixing and dispersion unit designed to incorporate and disperse large quantities of powders into liquids in a single pass.
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Featured Products
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DryTec® Granular
Versatile and effective, DryTec Granular provides sanitizing and disinfecting solutions in the food and beverage and water treatment industries, as well as in other applications, such as tanneries and industrial cyanide waste. Download additional product information.
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Moisture/Solids Analyzer: Computrac® MAX® 1000
The Computrac MAX 1000, by Arizona Instrument, features speed, reliability, accuracy, consistency, and ease of use. This moisture and solids analyzer also has an easy-to-read, large LCD display, a syringe test for solvent-based samples, and automatic operation.
Download additional product information.
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Liquid Line Metal Detectors
The E-Z Tec Narrow Profile Liquid Line Metal Detectors are used for viscous products such as liquids, slurries, syrups, pastes, and many other pumped products. Download a guide to metal detector use.
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Metal Detectors: Gravity (Bulk Freefalling Product)
Phantom Gravity Metal Detector systems are designed to detect metal contamination in dry, powdery, or granular free-flowing products that can be gravity fed through a pipe. Download additional product information.
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FP Series Centrifugal Pumps
The FP Series is the original Fristam pump, which established the standard for high performance centrifugals. The newly expanded FP Series now offers flow rates from 5 to 1,600 gallons/minute. Download additional product information.
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Steam Blancher/Cooker
This steam blancher/cooker reduces energy consumption and waste, improves product quality, and requires less floor space than conventional water blanching equipment. Request additional product information.
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Pick Custom Designed Indirect Heating Systems
The total flexibility of Pick Custom Design saves you time and money with safe, reliable packaged heating. We design, package, and service a system that arrives ready to connect at your plant. Request additional product information.
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Stainless Steel Clamps
Steritool provides various different sizes and types of clamps, including "C" clamps, locking clamps, and bench vises. All clamps are made with stainless steel and can be conformed to fit your needs. Download additional product information.
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Food-Grade Sanitary Mixers
This food-grade mixer was designed for custom blending batters, breaders, marinades, seasoning blends, dry formulas, and other specialty mixes. It features a paddle-style agitator with welded arms on a solid shaft that provides maximum transfer of torque. Bolted blades on the agitator can be modified in the field to increase or decrease agitation points to accommodate changes in product processing. Download additional product information.
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Wilden Diaphragm Pumps
FDA series Wilden pumps meet basic FDA CFR 21.177 elastomer material compliance and feature 316 stainless steel construction. These pumps are an economical choice for high acid, high sugar, high fat, and alcohol-based products where high polish surface finishes are not required. Request additional product information.
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Featured Downloads
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Brochure: K-Tron Smart Weigh Belt Feeder (SWB)
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This belt feeder features automatic and continuous online taring of the belt, which reduces costly maintenance, line shutdowns, laborious manual calibration, and improves long term accuracy.
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Product Overview: XE3 Checkweigher
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The XE3 color touch screen user interface and the Mettler-Toledo Electro Magnetic Force Restoration (EMFR) weighing technology are combined to deliver superior dynamic weighing performance and unsurpassed ease of use.
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Product Sheet: Vacuum Conveying In The Food Industries
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Make all powder handling in production processes secure and reliable, make the work of your production staff easier, and improve the conditions at the workplace using proven vacuum conveyor solutions.
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Brochure: SealTester - Inline Leak Testing Of Protective Gas-Flushed Food Bags
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Consumers frequently do not decide until the very last minute which product they are going to buy. Flawless packaging can sway their decision to leave the product on the shelf or put it in their shopping cart.
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Case Study: Power Plant Installs ZLD Plant For Wastewater Treatment
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Wastewaters from this treatment plant could no longer be discharged into the sea due to tough environmental regulations. To overcome this major problem, the plant decided to feed the prescrubbers with fresh and recirculated waters and install a Zero Liquid Discharge (ZLD) plant.
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Datasheet: GlassChek X-Ray Inspection
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This device uses a horizontal dual beam with two detectors for inspection of jars and other glass containers for contaminants. It can check product mass, overfill/underfill, and for missing or damaged products.
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Featured Multimedia
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Video: How To Measure Color Difference Between Samples
The human eye can actually see almost 10 million shades of color. However, we have difficulty communicating the color to others, and our color perception changes depending on fatigue, mood, age, and many other factors. HunterLab instruments simulate the process of our eyes seeing color and our brain perceiving it.
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Bulletin Board
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Recent advances in technology for measuring flow properties of powders enable process-relevant characteristics to be quantified, and a database of flow properties to be established, leading to an understanding of which flow properties best suit a specific process step, providing the information required for the implementation of Quality by Design. Register here.
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Featured Event
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EtQ Webcast: Audits And Surveys Application
May 19: 1:00 PM until 2:30 PM EDT
This event will provide a basic overview of the EtQ's Audits and Surveys application, and how it links to the EtQ Risk Assessment and Corrective Preventive Action (CAPA) applications. Register here.
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