Sustainability Case Studies

  1. The DELUMPER®: A Sweet Success At ADM 11/29/2020

    ADM Cocoa Plant in Hazle Township, Pennsylvania needed help with their cocoa bean production. The plant processes two and a half million pounds of cocoa beans each day, turning them into cocoa powder, cocoa butter, and chocolate liquor. The company needed a machine to process sugar with over-sized lumps that could occur in transport or storage. Unless these agglomerated clumps were reduced to a granular form, the process could not work dependably. The machine also had to handle the large quantity of sugar processed daily and be sanitary.

  2. Drew's LLC Installs Eriez Liquid Metal Detectors To Detect Any Metal Contaminants During Processing 11/12/2020

    To remain competitive in the demanding and highly-scrutinized food industry, Drew’s achieved certification from the Safe Quality Food Institute in meeting the SQF 2000 Code of Food Safety. With the two Eriez Metal Detectors in place, Drew’s has double protection against any sort of metal particulate reaching customers.

  3. Calcium Hypochlorite Feeder Selected As Primary Solution For Municipal Water Treatment Plants 10/23/2020

    Long Beach Township is the largest town on Long Beach Island, New Jersey. With 18 miles of beaches, the town is a major tourist destination. Population exploded during the summer months from approximately 3,000 to over 100,000. This can be a challenge for the town's drinking water facilities, with demand increasing exponentially during the tourist season.

  4. Byers Gains Stable Chlorination And Reduced Maintenance With Constant Chlor® MC5 System 10/23/2020

    Byers is an unincorporated rural community in Arapahoe County, Colorado, approximately 50 miles east of Denver. Byers Water & Sanitation District provides drinking water to this area. The district operates five wells – each approximately 700 feet deep. Two wells are typically used in the winter and four in the summer. Annual water use averages 140,000 gallons per day for the district’s 500 active service connections.

  5. Milk Receiving And Cream Load Out Metering 6/22/2020

    Entrained micro bubbles in the milk cause measurement challenges. Discover a mass flowmeter solution which ensures accurate measurement of milk received or cream outload.

  6. Inline Weighing Technology Offers Additional Quality Check Features 6/10/2020

    Alongside weight monitoring, the checkweigher used at Protina Pharmazeutische GmbH offers other important functions that support the company's system of strict quality management.

  7. Nutritional Medicine Manufacturer Installs Two Line Checkweigher To Keep Up With Demand 6/10/2020

    Orthomol pharmazeutische Vertriebs GmbH develops and markets an extensive range of food supplements. Annually over 50 million pouches and 12 million drink bottles leave the premises. A new two-lane C35 AdvancedLine checkweigher excels in high weighing accuracy and throughput, and its versatile product handling features can be flexibly adapted to changing requirements in Orthomol's production lines.

  8. Nutraceutical Firm Maximizes Product Quality With X-Ray Inspection System 6/10/2020

    Health Specialties Manufacturing produces probiotics, enzymes, vitamins and joint-muscle blends including liquid and powder blends and a variety of packaging sizes and formats. They installed an x-ray inspection system that ensures they protect product quality.

  9. Food Sanitation Startup Uses Innovation And SMART Digital Dosing To Fight COVID-19 5/1/2020

    As a startup that has been recognized for its innovation in food safety, Clean Works quickly recognized its unique position to help fight COVID-19 by using its produce disinfection technology to disinfect critically needed masks and other personal protective equipment (PPE).

  10. Metal Detection System Helps Nuts 'N More Deliver Contaminant-Free High Protein Spreads 4/22/2020

    Nuts ‘N More has taken the initiative to install high level operational procedures and technologically innovative equipment specifically to comply with rigid food safety guidelines. An important part of the company’s quality push is the use of an Eriez Xtreme® Metal Detector Conveyor System, which inspects every jar produced at Nuts ‘N More for metal contamination.