Often, the factors that derail future expansions are the ones nobody’s talking about. These five overlooked details can make a facility more flexible — or more fragile than expected.
Dennis Group engineers and project managers discuss the lesser-known factors that can make or break a food manufacturing plant’s long-term expandability.
For food processors, removing suspended solids such as fats, grease, grit, contaminants and leftover process materials from liquids is necessary to comply with regulations like the EPA’s Clean Water Act.
For years, a Spanish ice cream producer had been using aluminum-based coagulants and caustic soda to control pH during the dissolved air flotation stage of wastewater treatment. It worked well enough but was unstable and challenging.
Automated wastewater treatment systems can help food processors remain in compliance with EPA and local standards, while significantly reducing the cost of treatment, labor and disposal.