Extracting more profit from inventory, waste recovery and increased throughput may well hinge on your powder and bulk handling equipment.
HOT TOPICS COME AND GO IN THE FOOD INDUSTRY, but two that never go out of style are safety and profit. Year in and year out, safety remains high on the priority list of most food manufacturers, particularly when it comes to purchasing process equipment and training personnel to use it.
A lapse in safety during the handling of powders and bulk solids can be catastrophic. The proof rests in incidents of spontaneous combustion of grain-dust, the consequences of which have captured national headlines and motivated the industry to examine its safety standards. On-going problems of contamination—the kind that expose workers to dusty products, expose bulk foods to the plant atmosphere, and allow cross-contamination of multiple materials running through the same equipment—may attract less attention but are nonetheless equally significant.