Customer Profiles
Generations in the Mixing
Over the last few years, smaller family owned, U.S.-based processing companies have experienced a jolt of growth brought on by the pandemic and global supply chain disruptions. Spending on consumer goods surged against a backdrop of trade restrictions, rising freight rates, and persistent logistics challenges. Local production lines and manufacturing plants have to effectively keep pace with the widening demand.
Enabling Versatile Adhesive Solutions for the Automotive Industry
A Parker LORD expansion project includes mixers, blenders, and dispersers across sealant, adhesive, and emulsions manufacturing lines. Parker Hannifin Corp. is investing in a 75,000-sq-ft expansion and modernization of its Parker LORD chemical manufacturing plant in Saegertown, Pa. This expansion to the existing 250,000-sqft facility will help enable Parker LORD to increase its share of the growing adhesives market.
Paddle Blenders Mix Powders on a Bulk Scale
In these unprecedented times, the growing need for companies in the manufacturing space to have the ability to produce products in the US and have greater control of the supply chain has never been more important. When Intermountain Blending & Filling (IBF), a full-service contract manufacturer based in Idaho’s Treasure Valley, was looking for new processing equipment to compound a complex product, they turned to NY-based Charles Ross and Son Co., a leader in mixing and blending technology.
Dietary supplement manufacturer strengthens blending capacity
Stratum Nutrition is a bulk dietary supplement and ingredient manufacturer based in Carthage, Missouri, and has been steadily increasing its manufacturing capacity in recent years to meet growing demand. In the fall of 2020, the company decided to add a new blender at its food-grade, GMP-certified facility. Stratum had already been using multiple ribbon blenders from Charles Ross and Son Company for many years with excellent results, so the supplier was the logical choice for the new blender. Ross is a specialty mixing and blending equipment supplier headquartered in Hauppauge, New York.
A Mixer Makes a Better Sunscreen
Changing from a conventional mixer to an ultra-high-shear mixer led to improved dispersions, increased production capacities, and reduced electricity and labor costs.
Reliable ribbon blenders help to spice up batch processing
With the tagline “custom creation specialists,” St. Louis-based McCarthy Spice and Blends Company works with a range of clients, including meat processors, other food manufacturers, entrepreneurs looking to get their family’s secret BBQ rub on a store shelf, com- petition BBQ teams, small and medium chain restaurants, commissaries, and any other business seeking quality spices for consistency in their recipes.
Ribbon Blender Helps Granola Maker Quadruple Production
Viki Gutsko embodies some of the best characteristics of the modern-day mom. She loves cooking, she is committed to making heathy, homemade meals for her three daughters, and, today, she’s leading her own food manufacturing business. New equipment installation provides faster mixing and repeatable results while enhancing overall plant efficiency.
Going All In
Ask Bruce Barger, director of contract manufacturing at SDC Nutrition in Pittsburgh, how the company has managed to double in size every year since 2009, make headlines in Forbes and Fast Company, triple its staff, and quadruple the size of its flagship brand over the last three years, and he will answer with two words: “It’s simple.”
Novel Approach to Offshore Manufacturing Pays Off
When Rust Bullet was ready to begin manufacturing overseas, we already were veterans at marketing an unconventional product. Swimming upstream against traditional attitudes about anticorrosion coatings, we had learned that progress in product innovation always will be slow if it’s limited to “the way we’ve always done it.” Yet, our experience had shown that fresh, unconventional thinking can lead to big advances in technology, so we were well prepared to consider a novel approach to offshore manufacturing as well.
Ribbon blender improves consistency in foodservice products
Say “Heinz,” and everyone thinks of ketchup. After all, the company that began delivering Heinz Ketchup to local grocers with a horse-drawn wagon in 1876 is now the world’s foremost producer of ketchup. Each year, Heinz uses about 2.5 million tons of tomatoes to produce ketchup, pasta sauces, soups and other grocery staples.
For Bactolac Pharmaceutical, planning ahead for fast growth means strategic equipment purchasing
Since the day contract manufacturer Bactolac Pharmaceutical opened for business in 1996, the company has run on a fast track. Double-digit annual growth has propelled Bactolac from three employees to more than 400. Its manufacturing facilities — which doubled in size just three years ago — expanded again in 2012 to occupy a total 150,000 sq ft dedicated to production, biological and analytical laboratories, and storage for thousands of ingredients.
Lessons in Feedstock Change
These days, there seem to be more reasons than ever to change feedstocks throughout the chemical process industries (CPI). Whether environmental, or more directly based on financial and market drivers, big benefits usually require big changes. This is especially true in switching to many renewable feedstocks, which either add or compound challenges related to processing solids.
Nalco Stays Cool Against the Heat of Biofouling
As the economy recovers and business heats-up, cooling towers across the country will remain a prime target for cutting costs and improving efficiency. Facility managers and plant engineers in commercial and industrial facilities captured a welcomed savings during the recession with automated systems that manage cooling water quality.
Steer for the Fast Track
Even for those operating in already lucrative markets, assessing the details of an operation and overall production methods can reveal more cost-effective methods that translate to clear market gains. A contract manufacturer of natural and organic soaps considered its development and production capabilities to realize improved gains.
The right mix for blended cheese
As demand for Cheese Tortas surged last year, Southern Oregon was in the throes of a labor shortage. Unable to boost production by adding staff in her 20,000-sq.- ft. facility, Fujas decided to increase capacity by switching to a more efficient processing method. She contacted several equipment manufacturers, including Charles Ross & Son Company in New York, which manufactures sanitary mixers.
Maximizing Comax’s Sweetness
Fast-growing flavor houses like Comax Flavors of Melville, New York provide the essential ingredient that every food brand needs to become a hit on retail shelves. In every category from beverages to dairy, baked goods and snack foods, new flavors with great taste and satisfying mouthfeel drive market success.
Liquid Glucosamine Goes Mainstream
The recent Glucosamine/ Glucosamine Arthritis Intervention Trial (GAIT) has surely interested many Americans with ordinary joint pain who have become wary of conventional pharmaceutical pain relievers. Awareness is rising. Further increases in sales will certainly follow. But for executives at Botanical Laboratories (Ferndale, WA), a manufacturer of liquid glucosamine, the trend under way is much more profound than just another upward step in sales.
Removable Agitator Ribbon Ensures Pure Additive Blends
Chemtura Corp., Middlebury, Conn., manufactures preblended polymer additives that are widely used in the plastics industry in PVCs, polyolefins, and rubber compounds. These additives prevent plastic degradation caused by high heat or UV radiation exposure, protecting such end products as plastics bags, floor coverings, vinyl siding, automobile dashboards, and disposable diapers. To make the additives, the company blends several powder ingredients together with a very tight composition specification. After blending, the additives, also known as processing aids or polymer stabilizers, are further processed into a pellet or other compacted product and are ready to be shipped to a customer.
Sense and sensibility - Mixing system injects speed into flavor emulsion manufacturing
Look good, taste good and be good. Flavor Emulsions must appeal to a variety of consumer senses. Yet, to be effective, they must also perform well during manufacturing. “Flavors are usually tweaked many times before they deliver the perfect combination of visual appeal, taste and physical performance,” says Ron Dinetmann, vice president operations for Technology Flavor & Fragrances (TFF). “Each step has to be precise and fast in order to control costs and meet dead- lines for market testing and launch. Speed to market is critical.”
One Sweet Blend - Choosing the right blender for a natural Blend foods manufacturer
Twenty-nine years ago, a beekeeper in Eugene, Oregon, posted a road sign that declared, “Honey for Sale.” A year later he found himself heading up a family business that sold bee- keeping supplies, packaged bees and honey to local customers. Based on the notion that natural foods are essential for a healthy and happy lifestyle, beekeeper-turned-CEO Richard Turanski soon incorporated GloryBee Foods and began manufacturing and distributing a large number of honey-related products. Seeking even more product diversity, in 1983, he added the Aunt Patty’s line of non-honey-related sweeteners, natural oils, herbs, and spices.
Hot sauce maker says no sweat to mixing challenge
The challenge of preparing an authentic African hot sauce for the US market was an easy assignment for Green Garden Foods of Kent, Washington. This custom dressing and sauce manufacturer is known for its ability to source exotic ingredients and replicate complex recipes.
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