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This system (see video link) was designed to increase capacity and flexibility for processing sauces and soups for a commercial food manufacturer.

The Column Dumper feeds the ThermaBlend^TM Cooker with recipe ingredients. The 200 gallon ThermaBlend^TM with heat transfer jacket, cooks the product while being gently agitated by dual ribbons.

After the batch is cooked, it is released into a drop tank which is jacketed for maintaining temperature and includes an agitator for continued dispersion of particulates. The batches are then pumped to downstream packaging operations. 

The sanitary design platform allows safe and easy access for maintenance and sanitation.

For maximum flexibility, the system allows for two different batch processes or doubling batches to accommodate production demands.

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With so many videos and animations added to the website, we have created a video channel just for Mepaco systems and equipment.  Among the new videos are:

• An animation of a New Mixing System for the Prepared Foods Industry
• An EZL Pallet Lift Demonstration
• A Plant Walk-Through of a Meat Processing Line
• An Articulating Screw Elevator Demonstration and Animation
  
  

Visit the channel and check out the new videos!

The night shift has completed their work and the sanitation team begins flooding the process room with cleaning chemicals, water and spray to soak and sanitize every nook and cranny.  And what often gets blasted away? The drain plug often goes missing.  Sometimes the cleaning crew doesn’t even know it went down the drain.  Sometimes the production staff starting up the next shift also doesn’t know it is missing.

Many food processing people have a similar story, so Mepaco invented a tool-less self-containing plug that is impossible to lose and easy to appreciate.

Mepaco’s plug ejects far enough to release the waste, but is restrained against a solid welded restrictive barrier that holds the plug in line, without limiting performance, or enabling escape.  

Other plug designs don’t hold up to rigorous cleaning and aren’t designed to prevent the harboring of bacteria.  While sanitation teams want easy to clean solutions that will pass inspection, production wants efficiency with no loss of product.  Losing plugs are no longer a concern with these self-containing plugs.