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• [Infographic] Why Processors like Mepaco's Dumping Equipment Posted 5 months ago
  Mepaco’s Meat Processors opt for dumping equipment features that provide the highest level of personnel and food safety, including: Personnel guarding designed for the entire dump-zone footprint and safety relays that control the e-stop position; and optional pocket door designs that allow for safe fork truck access for loading and unloading. A Pallet Retention System (PRS) that allows the combo to complete the dump cycle while separating from the pallet, limiting the potential for contamination in the food stream. A liner hold-down that prevents the liner from separating from the combo and falling into the hopper. An optional electropolished finish on the chute solves for sanitation efficiency and effectiveness. Visit Dumper Equipment!
• Column Dumpers - Featuring 60 degree dump angle Posted 5 months ago
  Processors should be able to focus on critical operations and not have to worry about auxiliary equipment. That's what Mepaco's CD1000 Column Dumper delivers; a Column Dumper that is heavily built, engineered for easy maintenance, built to strict sanitary design standards, and like our processing equipment solutions, modifiable to meet specific production requirements. The animation features a new option in Mepaco's Column Dumper, a 60 degree dump angle for applications where every particulate must be added to the batch. For more information, download our Column Dumper Flyer.
• Sanitation and Safety Checklist: Time for a Review? Posted 9 months ago
  An equipment safety and sanitation audit can provide direction for implementing improvement procedures and specifying equipment updates that mitigate risk and solve for safety and production goals.  Here’s an excerpt from our audit checklist: Are all parts of the equipment readily accessible for inspection, maintenance, sanitation? Is there any evidence of premature wear on parts? Does the equipment properly self-drain to assure food product, water or sanitizing fluids do not accumulate? Are all hollow areas removed where possible or permanently sealed to eliminate any harborage areas? During operation, does the equipment perform properly as not to contribute to unsanitary conditions? Is the equipment free of niches, pits, cracks, corrosion, recessed, open seams, gaps inside threads, bolt rivets, protruding ledges, rusting and dead ends? Are the enclosures and HMIs designed, constructed, and maintained to ensure food product, water or other liquids do not penetrate or accumulate on the enclosure or interface? Is there adequate space between ...
• Ask the Experts - At Process Expo - DP3000 Dumper Posted last year
  Mepaco is exhibiting this week at Process Expo at McCormick Place in Chicago - booth S2024!   To promote our event, we are hosting a daily series on Ask the Experts and highlighting the equipment in our booth.   Our first video is in the DP3000 Dumper with a tour given by Cory Buchholz.        
• Proper Operational Procedures Improves Dumper Performance Posted 3 years ago
  Depending on the complexity of the equipment and controls, there are a few options for production personnel to learn how to operate the equipment. The manual explains the operation of the equipment and its components. The customer can visit Apache for training and testing or contract with Mepaco Field Services for on-site training. In one example, the production staff did not understand how to operate the HD3000 Dumper, causing the carriage to bind-up where cylinders weren't lifting in tandem. The issue was caused by incorrect operation. Due to the operational configuration of the hydraulic cylinders, the HD300 dumper must be fully cycled (complete cylinder extension and retraction) each time it is used. The production staff was not fully retracting the dumper leaving the carriage 12 - 18" off the ground. This allowed the cylinders to start up unevenly and compounded if the staff did not fully extend the dumper. This caused the dumper carriage to misalign and bind against the dumper frame. Once the carriage binds against the frame the only way to safely correct the situation is to lock out the ...