ICL Performance Products Completes Plant Upgrades, Improves Food Safety

St. Louis, MO - Demonstrating its commitment to providing its customers with the highest quality products, ICL Performance Products LP recently upgraded its powder handling, milling and packaging system for food grade phosphates at its Lawrence, Kan. plant.

ICL Performance Products capitalized on the opportunity to improve the food safety standards of the equipment during the upgrade. Several state-of-the-art metal detectors were installed at multiple points of contact in the sodium acid pyrophosphate (SAPP) packaging system to meet the most stringent food safety and customer requirements. Self-cleaning rare earth magnets were installed to reduce the chance for contamination during magnet cleaning. ICL also expanded the product offering of food grade SAPPs to include the production of 2,500-pound supersacks in addition to 50-pound bags.

"With all of the upgrades, the Lawrence facility has become the Center of Excellence for the production of ICL's entire line of baking grade SAPPs. ICL now provides the best-in-industry metal detection so our customers receive the highest quality food grade phosphates," says Cindy Brewer, food business director. "This, in return, helps our customers to ensure they are doing all they can to produce safe food products for consumers."

The custom-designed system also features two robots to assist with bagging and palletizing, a unique square roller bag flattener conveyor and all surfaces in contact with ICL products are stainless steel. The new system complies with Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP) Regulations and AIB requirements in the revised, consolidated standard released Jan. 2009.

For more information, visit www.iclperfproductslp.com.

SOURCE: ICL Performance Products LP