This leading global pet food processor faced a food safety and cross contamination issue with their five mixing stations, and EAD provided a turn-key solution using hygienic design that resolved the issue.
The addition of hand-added ingredients to four of their product mixers and their gravy mixer was creating an airborne dust contamination within the mixing room and adjacent areas and creating unsatisfactory working conditions for the plant’s personnel.
EAD worked to fully understand the existing mixing system and conditions of normal operation. A sanitary design was created that met the expectations of the plant sanitation and operation requirements. EAD then installed the dust collection system, used a Roto-Clone suspended above the ceiling of the mixing room. The mixers were connected to the Roto-Clone using a sanitary ducting system that could be easily disassembled and entirely sanitized at scheduled preventative maintenance periods.
During normal operation, our design used automated rinse-in-place components and programming that provided a rinse cycle after each batch of product was mixed. Automated slide gates controlled which leg of the system was being used and a barometric damper balanced the airflow through the varying duct sizes.