Food Industry Leader Takes Bite Out of Tradition

Nestlé USA is part of Nestlé S.A. in Vevey, Switzerland, which is the world‘s largest food company with a focus on nutrition, health and wellness. The Nestlé Prepared Foods Company located in Jonesboro, Arkansas produces the Lean Cuisine and Stouffer‘s line of frozen foods. During the construction of the Nestlé Prepared Foods facility in 2002, many challenges were faced. The...

Spice Mixing in ISO 6 Classified Production Cells

The Huijbregts Group provides powder ingredients stock management for leading food industries around Europe. They execute their processes according to the highest quality standards and strictest food safety legislation. The Huijbregts group was looking for a reliable, sustainable, easy maintenance and low “life-cycle cost” dust collection system for their newly built production site in Helmond, NL. Kuijpers Installaties BV was...

Farr Gold Series® Collecting Food Dust is Food for Thought

A high-quality, Canada-based wholesale manufacturer of French-Oriental style cake and pastry desserts that are shipped all across North America to restaurants and stores needed a dust collector. This dust collector needed to collect flour, sugar, baking and dry mix dust from ingredients being dropped in mixers, augers and bin dumpers. This airborne dust is light, fine and has explosive properties....

Farr Gold Series® Convinces Supplement Maker to Bag Baghouses

Midwest PMS is a manufacturer of liquid supplements for livestock that are custom blended per order and shipped to customers in Colorado, Kansas, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Texas. Their fully automated batching system combines an order’s various ingredients by weight. Other dry ingredients are added manually and agitated. The combination is then moved to a holding tank and delivered to...

Farr Gold Series® Clear Choice for Glass Fabricator

Viracon, Inc. is an architectural glass fabrication company with locations in the US and Brazil. “We’re using a dry seaming system. We use silicon carbide or aluminum carbide belts at high speed to take the sharp edges off the glass that’s just been cut,” explained Chuck Wencl, process engineer at Viracon. As a result, glass, silicon carbide, and aluminum carbide...

Camfil APC Farr Gold Series Torques Torit

Briggs & Stratton, the world’s largest producer of air-cooled gasoline engines for outdoor products, is committed to passing on superior value to customers. Exceptional value and product quality start in the manufacturing process, but the dust collection system was troubling. The company had experienced years of difficulties related to their Torit collectors, ranging from a smoky 200,000 square foot building...