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Introduction To Stainless Food Contact Surfaces (ebook)

Apache Stainless is a leading manufacturer of high purity equipment for various commercial industries including pharmaceutical, medical, water filtration and food processing. Leveraging our extensive expertise in stainless knowledge and best practices, we help our customers maintain the highest quality of product contact surfaces available. Our team has republished the ebook, “Compare Stainless Finishes” as … Introduction to Stainless Food Contact Surfaces (ebook)

Introducing Mepaco’s Food Processing Facility, The Validation Lab

Mepaco, part of Apache Stainless, is excited to announce the opening of its cutting-edge research and test facility, designed to support the food processing industry. The Validation Lab is equipped with the latest technology and staffed by a dual engineering and processing team dedicated to advancing food science and innovation. Key Features and Capabilities Advanced … Introducing Mepaco’s Food Processing Facility, the Validation Lab

Guide To Screw Conveyor Customization

Mepaco leverages food processing system experience to provide solutions that best meet the demands of the application for optimal performance. Versatile screw conveyors solve many bulk food handling objectives from reduced sanitation costs to enabling 24/7 continuous operation. Articulating / Pivoting Screw ConveyorsScrew Conveyors can be designed with pivoting capabilities with casters or track systems … Guide to Screw Conveyor Customization

Are Labor Shortages Driving Your Automation Needs?

A recent article, “It’s About Labor”, published in Food Engineering magazine, processors were interviewed about the ongoing difficulties finding and retaining workers, even beyond the post pandemic labor levels. Mepaco®’s customers, too, have been driving automation conversations, so we are developing resources to share our application expertise with solutions that are semi- or fully automated. … Are Labor Shortages Driving Your Automation Needs?

Overcoming The 5 Most Common Processing System Bottlenecks

Our service techs, engineers, and application experts have pinpointed the five most congested production areas in food manufacturing plants. Here are their tips for mitigating these delays, starting with the loading of a system: #1 Bottleneck: Inefficient and Ineffective Loaders A common bottleneck is slow loading times preventing the start of batch mixing or … Overcoming the 5 Most Common Processing System Bottlenecks

Doubling Cook Batches Without Doubling Footprint

This featured system doubled cooking batches within a minimal footprint used well-planned equipment selection, floor layout, and controls customization. Mepaco®’s cooking system featured side-by-side ThermaBlend® cookers, with a shared maintenance and sanitation platform. SYSTEM FLEXIBILITY The multi-recipe prepared foods processor benefited from flexibility in production scenarios. The system can run two batches at once, staggered, … Doubling Cook Batches without Doubling Footprint

When To Leverage Dual Zones In Thermal Jackets For Food Processing

There are various methods to heat and cool food product in cooking equipment. The application will dictate the best combination of methods and configurations ranging from stay-bolt or dimple jacket designs, to injected steam and thermal screw heating options. On equipment solutions that use a heating jacket, a dual zone design may add versatility to … When to Leverage Dual Zones in Thermal Jackets for Food Processing

10 Food Processing Equipment Designs That Drive Safety

Safety guarding is recommended on equipment like the dumper shown in the animation. Relays control the e-stop position and if personnel trips the switch, the equipment will cease operation. This PRS (Pallet Retention System) shown on a DP3000 Dumper, and allows the combo to complete the dump cycle by separating from the pallet, limiting the … 10 Food Processing Equipment Designs that Drive Safety

Lunch & Learn Customized To Your Business

If you would like to learn more about food safety and sanitation equipment innovations trending in food processing equipment and systems, we are offering a Lunch & Learn presentation. Discover: Food processing equipment that is customized to specific applications and to scale System examples with animation and video that solve processing throughput Sanitation design options … Lunch & Learn Customized to your Business

10 Solution Examples To Reduce Foreign Material Contamination

Every food processor has their own unique food safety challenges. Here is one process room scenario where attention to process layout, equipment modifications and training can significantly reduce foreign material contamination. Operator Training High-volume automation brings a high degree of risk for machinery fatigue and vibration. Over time, nuts and bolts will loosen and moving … 10 Solution Examples to Reduce Foreign Material Contamination

Quick Upgrades That Increase Production Right Now

1. Pull more out of your grinder Ask your grinder experts about an upgrade kit to address a different plate configuration to increase throughput. If you do not have a level sensor, contact your controls partner to add controls to turn off the grinder before it runs dry. A continuous flow of meat product will … Quick Upgrades that Increase Production Right Now

Horizontal Screw Conveyors Provide Bulk Handling For Many Industries

Mepaco’s screw conveyors are engineered to the requirements of the food processing application. In the photo, these screw conveyors transported pet food. The conveyor in the foreground was placed after the grinder and transported ground product. The conveyor in the background was utilized before the grinder. It featured a trough design that handled large meat … Horizontal Screw Conveyors Provide Bulk Handling for Many Industries

Accumulation Solutions Solves Bottleneck For Pet Food Processor

Problem A Pet Food Processor needed to increase throughput due to production delays in waiting for grinders feeding directly to blenders. Solution Mepaco engineered a solution that placed surge loaders between the grinder and the blender, allowing the processor to accumulate and stage a full batch of products to be fed into the blender. This … Accumulation Solutions Solves Bottleneck for Pet Food Processor

New White Paper: Comparing Agitator Solutions

Mepaco has recently published a new white paper, “Comparing Agitator Solutions for Food Processing Applications”. The paper, developed in collaboration with sales, engineering and applications teams, is a guide for agitation solutions in Cookers, Mixers, Blenders and Drop Tanks. In the white paper, there are many details about the technology of agitators, highlighting: ribbon, paddle, … New White Paper: Comparing Agitator Solutions

New Animation: Clean Sweep Surge Loader

Mepaco’s Clean Sweep Surge Loader offers a solution that mechanically clears food product between batches on surge loading applications. In the animation, paddles sweep the sides of the tub and continually push product into the feed screw. The spin ridge keeps product from barreling, maintaining positive conveyance until the food product is completely unloaded. This … New Animation: Clean Sweep Surge Loader

New Animation: Watch Mepaco’s Pre-Blend System For Formulating Ground Meats

Designed by the Mepaco group, this system (above video) was engineered to formulate ground meats. It addresses the customer’s production goals for speed, flexibility and accuracy with the utmost attention to a safe and sanitary design. In addition, the system provides efficient transfers that reduce transport time and eliminates transfer issues that result in … New Animation: Watch Mepaco’s Pre-Blend System for Formulating Ground Meats

Dual Cook System Solves Flexibility For Production Scenarios

DUAL COOK SYSTEM SOLVES PRODUCTION FLEXIBILITY & CAPACITY THE CHALLEGE A multi-recipe prepared foods manufacture required an increase in cooking production and the flexibility to add more varieties of soups and sauces to their product offerings. The application required cooking and blending of viscous food product with limitations in available floor space. THE SOLUTION The … Dual Cook System Solves Flexibility for Production Scenarios