Field Reports: Marzetti ‘steam-lines’ its hot water needs
Once compelled to ration hot water, dressings and sauce maker has all the steam it needs.
“We had outgrown our old fire-tube boiler, which produced 3,000 pounds of steam per hour,” recalls Jerry Hoffer, maintenance manager at the Columbus, Ohio-based processing plant. “With everything in the plant running, we needed 5,000 to 6,000 pounds per hour. We started to stagger our operation to get by with the hot water we had. Once we installed the Clayton, however, we could produce 10,000 pounds of steam per hour – way more than enough for our plant needs.”