2021 Supplier Spotlights
2021 Supplier Spotlights
Each January, Dairy Foods offers the leading suppliers to the dairy industry the opportunity to tell their story and showcase their capabilities to our readers. These suppliers represent a variety of disciplines, from ingredients to engineering and packaging, to food science and laboratory expertise. We invite you to take a moment to learn a little bit about their solutions and how they can impact your business.
Chr. Hansen
414-607-5700
Keep fermented plant bases great and meet consumer demand for healthy and sustainable plant-based foods with FreshQ® DA natural culture solutions.
The market for fermented plant-based options is growing rapidly. Our latest consumer research shows that flexitarians are increasingly interested in healthy and sustainable food options, while general awareness of the impact of food waste on the planet is soaring, driving change in consumers’ choices. Flexitarians, who are the core plant-based consumers, are also interested in all-natural food products.
“What I like about FreshQ® DA is that it is a culture enabled for multiple fermented plant-based foods. The feedback we have received from the industry is very positive.” says Erika Gayhart, associate marketing manager for food cultures and enzymes at Chr. Hansen, North America. “It opens the door for bioprotection in an underserved market and helps our customers’ products maintain quality throughout the shelf life.”
Fermenting with FreshQ® DA helps protect against yeast and mold spoilage naturally, enabling brands to deliver a more consistent and enjoyable experience. FreshQ® DA allows the industry to meet consumer demand for real food without making unwanted additions to the ingredients list while positioning brands as more sustainable.
Multi-Conveyor is a leading standard and custom conveyor manufacturer specializing in cheese, dairy and dairy by-products. Our technologies are multiple and solutions unique. Our job is to provide a more functional, affordable conveyor while maximizing productivity or saving essential floor space in the process. Multi-Conveyor’s sanitary constructed, stainless steel conveyor designs are used by leading dairy producers because they know we have a keen understanding of effective, easy-clean (CIP), wash down designs. We build 3A Dairy, USDA Dairy, USDA, WDA, and FDA compliant machinery on a regular basis. We stay up to date with ever-changing mandates and checkpoints as each agency dictates for processing and packaging. Using technology-driven operator-to-controls communications and functional engineering designs, Multi-Conveyor can provide faster, more efficient changeovers to feed various container shapes or sizes, which equals increased throughput to you. Give us a shot. What have you got to lose? Call today: 1-800-236-7960.
Best Sanitizers, Inc.
888-225-3267
Together, We Can Help Keep Our Employees & Food Supply Safe
Best Sanitizers, Inc. is a leader in pathogen reduction and manufactures the highest quality hand soaps, hand sanitizers, surface sanitizers, and dispensing options available. During the coronavirus pandemic, Best Sanitizers has been working to provide our nation’s food manufacturers with the cleaning and sanitizing products they need to keep our food supply safe.
Surface Sanitization
Alpet® D2 and Alpet® D2 Quat-Free Surface Sanitizer are both ready-to-use, alcohol-based surface sanitizers, and cleaners. As a food contact surface sanitizer, both have the fastest kill times available. They kill 99.999% of pathogens in 60 seconds on precleaned surfaces, including rubber gloves. On precleaned, non-food contact surfaces they kill 99.9% of pathogens in 10 seconds, including rubber footwear. Alpet® D2 Surface Sanitizer’s 58% IPA/quaternary ammonia formula is widely known within the food processing industry. In response to the need for approved chemicals against the coronavirus, Best Sanitizers attained the “emerging pathogen” wording for the SARS-CoV-2 on Alpet D2’s product label. Alpet® D2 Quat-Free Surface Sanitizer (62.5% Ethanol / 7.5% isopropanol) is approved under the WSDA Organic Food Program. Both are NSF listed, Kosher, Pareve and Halal certified.
Footwear Hygiene
Best Sanitizers’ BSX Boot Scrubber Series offers custom footwear cleaning solutions for all facilities. Once cleaned, employees can sanitize footwear with the HACCP SmartStep™ and HACCP SmartStep2™ Footwear Sanitizing Systems. Both units use compressed air to deliver an atomized spray of Alpet D2 or Alpet D2 Quat- Free to footwear soles for consistent, measurable results every time.
Hand Hygiene
The goal of hand hygiene is to reduce pathogens on the hands to the smallest number possible. Alpet® Q E2 Sanitizing Foam Soap is pH balanced and formulated with emollients to help keep hands healthy, even with repeated use. For maximum pathogen reduction, Alpet® E3 Plus Hand Sanitizer Spray is 99.9999% effective in killing tested pathogens. Additionally, Best Sanitizers, Inc. offers trainings, demonstrations, and educational webinars.
Fruitcrown
800-441-3210
The Fruit Specialists in the Dairy Industry
For over 70 years, Fruitcrown has been a custom formulator and manufacturer of fruits and flavoring systems for the Dairy Industry. Fruitcrown offers a wide range of fruit preparations and creative flavor systems for cultured yogurt, frozen desserts and other fruit containing products in the Dairy, Beverage and Baking Industries.
When you think of Fruitcrown, think of us as the Fruit Specialists offering solutions for the following products:
• Yogurt
• Ice Cream
• Cottage Cheese
• Cream Cheese
• Flavored Milk
• Flavored Beverage & Smoothie Bases
• Bakery Toppings &
Fillings Fruitcrown has many existing fruit and flavor products or we can custom formulate a flavor ingredient system to meet your specific requirements. Our products are formulated to consider all technical characteristics for your product such as choice of flavor, sweetener, sweetness level, usage rate, color, fruit content/ integrity and stabilization. Our customers have come to rely on our experienced product development team and creative applications lab to meet their ever demanding new product development needs. The Fruitcrown motto is “Praestantia Valet” which means “Quality Prevails.” Our efforts, under the full control of our internal field supervisors, begin in the fields where the fruit is grown and harvested, continuing through to the packing facilities, field canneries and freezing plants. When the fruit arrives in our processing facilities, our QC Department takes charge, monitoring the hand inspection of every pound of fruit going into our products in addition to obsessive scrutinizing of all phases of processing. Fruitcrown Products meets all food safety and regulatory guidelines. We are GFSI (Global Food Safety Initiative) certified. We are registered as meeting the requirements of the SQF 2000 code, Level 2, through Silliker Global Certification Services. We are also inspected annually by Siliker and the American Institute of Baking (A.I.B.) and are certified as an Organic and Kosher facility by NSF/QAI and KOF-K Kosher Supervisory Services. Our state-of-the-art cool fill (85°F) aseptic processing systems are specifically designed to provide high quality, pathogen free product with phenomenal fruit show and integrity, including soft textured fruits such as strawberries, peaches, blueberries and raspberries. Our systems are engineered specifically for Fruitcrown and therefore are unique in their design and their ability to protect fruit integrity while meeting the increasing quality and sanitary demands of our customers. With processing facilities in Wisconsin and New York, we are well positioned to meet the needs of our national customer base in a diverse industry.
We also have multiple packaging options to give our customers flexibility in their plant. These include:
• 1 gallon plastic jug (4 per case)
• 5 gallon aseptic Bag in a Box
• 50 gallon aseptic Bag in a Drum (top unloading)
• 50 gallon aseptic Bag in a MINITOTE™ (bottom unloading)
• 220 gallon aseptic Bag in a Tote (bottom unloading)
With all these resources available to service our customers we look forward to becoming your partner in the Dairy Industry!
Since 1974, the Brown family has grown their family-owned business from a sugar supplier to a full-service ingredient manufacturer and distributor. IFPC partners with brands across dairies, food and beverage manufacturers, and foodservice industries, supplying quality ingredients, creating custom solutions, and providing expert advice.
Located in the heart of the U.S. in St. Louis, MO is our 230,000 sq.ft. world-class manufacturing facility, and just one of our 14 distribution centers. Whether you are developing a new product, changing your recipe, or simplifying your process, we can supply expertly formulated ingredient blends.
From sweetener to stabilizer blends, our in-house R&D experts work closely with you to create the solutions you need. Utilizing our custom ingredient blends saves you valuable time in the purchasing and production process. Our goal is to create the best products for our customers to ensure their business is successful. For more information, visit www.ifpc.com.
Big-D Construction
801-415-6030
Heart, Soul, Muscle, Mind We have an appetite to build and a zeal for success. Since our first project for Western General Dairies in 1967, our annual volume growth has grown to more than $1.5 billion, with Cold Storage, Distribution Centers and Food Processing facilities making up a significant portion of this revenue. And we are hungry for more.
A Language All its Own Food and Beverage facilities are built on a language of their own – where critical control means systematically identifying, assessing, and controlling health hazards – from construction to production.
We speak it. Without a hint of an accent. In fact, we are fluent in Food Processing Plant language, not just Construction language. Besides the value of understanding your product requirements, we have purchasing power with national vendors/subcontractors in dairy brick, specialty flooring, insulated metal panels, refrigeration systems, sanitary drains, low temp doors, dock equipment, and numerous other specialty construction products/trades.
Whether it’s a renovation/addition at an existing facility, a cold storage distribution facility, or a processing plant, the focus of our company has never wavered from its roots in this specialized industry.
Koss Industrial has been serving the dairy industry since 1978. We manufacturer custom, stainless steel processing equipment.
From pasteurizers to PMO tanks, mixers to molders, cookers to conveyors, and more, we understand your equipment needs to:
• Keep your people and your products safe
• Reduce waste, energy use and costs
• Effectively use your space and staff
We are also a preferred provider of quality products, components, spares and service kits. From pumps to plate packs, chart recorders to cheese hoops, strainers to sight glass, and more, if you need it, we’ve got it.
Our services include engineering and design, electrical engineering and automation, custom fabrication and finishing, plus precision machining and waterjet cutting. We also have more than four decades of experience installing, servicing, maintaining, reconditioning and repairing equipment and components. From start ups to shut downs, training to troubleshooting, process piping to pump repair, we’re here when you need us.
Lubriplate’s Complimentary ESP Extra
Services Package helps maximize your
lubrication maintenance program.
Complimentary Value Added Services
Offered Include...
A Toll-Free Technical Support
Hotline and E-mail
You can call Lubriplate’s technical service center toll-free at 800-347- 5343 for quick answers to tough lubrication questions by phone, or you can e-mail questions to LubeXpert@ lubriplate.com seven days a week.
Complete Plant Surveys and
Lubricant Inventory Consolidation
Complete plant surveys by Lubriplate’s professional staff of lubrication engineers are also available to determine your exact lubricant requirements and identify opportunities for lubricant inventory consolidation.
Customized, Color Coded, Lubrication
Charts, and Machinery Tags
Lubriplate offers color-coded lubrication charts and machinery tags to help prevent lubricant misapplication and ensure that the proper lubricant is used when servicing a particular piece of equipment. Based on a complete plant survey, tags can be provided for each piece of equipment in your plant.
Lubrication Maintenance Software
Lubriplate offers a PC-based computer software program that puts your entire lubrication and maintenance schedules at your fingertips. This service is based on a complete survey of your entire plant. Contact Dan Moroses (Newark office) for details at 973-589-9150.
No-Charge Follow-up Oil / Fluid and
Grease Analysis
Lubriplate’s Oil/Fluid and Grease Analysis Program is offered at no charge on all Lubriplate products. Tests include Viscosity, Acidity, Contamination (% sediment and % moisture,) Spectrochemical (PPM of wear metals and additives) ISO Cleanliness (optional). An interpretation of the results is included along with suggested actions to take.
In-Plant User Lubrication
Training Programs
We offer training programs tailored to fit your needs. These educational training sessions focus on all facets of machinery lubrication and are not a sales presentation. Seminars are graphically presented with PowerPoints and other support material. Available on-site at your facility or in a local conference room. Contact us at 800- 733-4755 for more information.
RELCO is now a part of Koch Separation Solutions. RELCO is a well-established engineering and manufacturing company with office headquarters in Willmar, Minnesota. We offer more than equipment, we offer complete process solutions across the dairy, food, beverage, and life sciences markets.
Since 1982, RELCO has been providing process technologies to more than 500 cheese and dairy plants across the globe, including:
· Cheese Systems & Equipment
· Evaporators
· Drying Systems & Components
· Powder Handling Systems & Equipment
· Membrane Filtration
· Aftermarket Solutions
We are committed to delivering projects on schedule and within budget to create long-term customer relationships. We focus on alternative thinking to ensure our customers experience superior results.
NEW AFFINITY® INTEGRA-D CHEESE DICER: U.S.D.A.,
DAIRY DIVISION ACCEPTED
“Following the success of our large Affinity® cheese dicer, the new Integra-D offers processors all of the advantages in a scaleddown footprint. The Integra-D provides the latest in precision cutting, and a turn-key upgrade for processors with Urschel RA series machines. Updating a line could not be simpler, and the benefits derived from higher yields is a bonus,” noted Tim O’Brien, Executive Vice President of Sales and Marketing.
The Integra-D is Urschel’s newest addition to the Affinity line. The high-performance dicer features operation at the push of a button. The machine is designed with the cutting zone completely separate from the mechanical zone. Hinged access panels ease maintenance and part changeovers. The dicer is powered by a 10 horsepower (7.5 kW) motor.
“Superior sanitation, quick part changeovers, and heavy-duty are terms customers use to describe the new Integra-D cheese dicer,” according to Scott Klockow, Mechanical Design Manager. “Customers replacing an RA machine with the Integra-D have experienced 20 to even 50 percent higher capacities due to the larger infeed and increased horsepower.”
The new three-dimensional dicer accepts products up to 4.75 inches (120 mm). Product is delivered to a feed hopper and enters a rotating impeller. Centrifugal force holds the product against the inside of the case. Impeller paddles carry the product past the slicing knife. An adjustable slice gate at the top of the case determines the slice thickness.
As the Global Leader in Food Cutting Technology, Urschel is the #1 best-selling provider of industrial food cutting equipment in the world. Urschel designs, manufactures, markets, and sells precision, high-capacity cutting equipment for the food processing and related processing industries.
Contact Urschel to learn more or to set up a free test cut on the new Affinity Integra-D Dicer. Customers may witness test cutting of their product in-person, via video, or live remotely.
Full line of gable top packaging solutions from
Evergreen Packaging
Evergreen Packaging starts with the needs of your specific product and designs a packaging solution from paperboard to custom barrier formulation to filling equipment all tailored to keep your products fresh from source to table. In addition to freshness, fiber-based carton packaging delivers compelling, creative and high-impact branding opportunities for your product. Evergreen Packaging Equipment manufactures a full line of filling equipment for refrigerated dairy, juice and liquid food products. Gable top packaging equipment, which forms, fills and seals paper gable top cartons is ideal for pasteurized, ESL (Extended Shelf Life), and ELL® (Extended Long Life) applications. Individual machine models fill cartons from 4 oz. up to half-gallon (120 ml up to two liter) at speeds from 50 up to 340 cartons per minute. SPOUT-PAK® twist-off closures are also available for most gable top cartons. Preserve maximum shelf life for your ESL/ELL products with Evergreen’s long life quart and half-gallon packaging machines. The EQ-70 forms, fills and seals quart/liter cartons at speeds up to 7,000 cartons per hour (cph), and fractional sized cartons up to 9,000cph. Evergreen’s NEW servo driven EH-84 (up to 8,400cph) and the EH-210 (up to 12,600cph) handle half-gallon/two liter cartons. These machines utilize proven ELL features. Run Time®, Evergreen’s comprehensive parts and service program, includes a large inventory of OEM parts, knowledgeable support staff, and a strategically located certified technical service team available 24/7. Evergreen’s number one goal is to keep processors up and running.
Employees Are Your Greatest Asset.
Protect them with 3M™ 8511 Disposable
Respirators
Fitted with a 3M Cool Flow™ Exhalation Valve, this respirator releases hot, humid exhaled breath quickly, helping to prevent an unpleasant buildup of heat inside the facepiece—a significant cause of discomfort to respirator wearers. Features a braided headband, an adjustable M-noseclip designed to help enhance user comfort and increase wearability, and incorporates 3M’s proprietary technology with advanced electrostatically charged microfiber filter media designed for ease of breathing. Provides reliable respiratory protection of at least 95% filtration efficiency against certain non-oil-based particles when tested using the U.S. National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) criteria.
Nelson-Jameson has essential items available to help move your business forward including a variety of protective eyewear and hearing protection that are compatible with the 3M 8511 Respirator.
BUILT TO PERFORM AND LAST IN THE REAL WORLD
In 1849, Kusel Equipment Co. was founded on the principles of high quality, hard work, and true partnership. Nearly two centuries later, those principles still guide us as we manufacture high-quality cheesemaking equipment that’s built to perform and last in real-world settings. We build each piece of equipment according to your specific order, ensuring the product meets your exacting standards. So no matter which industry-leading solution you choose, know that we, literally, built it just for you. That’s why large-scale industry leaders, small artisanal cheesemakers, and everyone in between trust us time and again. With a complete line of equipment and the ingenuity and know-how to create specific solutions to meet your precise expectations, you can always count on Kusel.
Since 1964, Harco has been a supplier of equipment and supply items to the processing industries. With efficient and experienced employees, we’re able to turn your orders and inquiries into positive results expeditiously. Carrying a large inventory of spare parts to support new equipment and items for many brands.
Coupled with our fully equipped machine shop, specializing in stainless steel machining, welding, and polishing as well as general machining in all materials. We are a stocking distributor of sanitary pumps, valves, fittings, hose, lubricants, gaskets, brushes, thermometers, plate heat exchangers, separation and pasteurization equipment, and more. Key capabilities include pump and valve assemblies, washdown stations, pipeline gaskets, and color-coded items.
Harco delivers exceptional personal customer service, our commitment to you as our valued customer. Call today to speak to us personally or visit our website for our product offerings.
Fortress Technology is proud to introduce their first fully integrated checkweigher, the RAPTOR. It is designed to take on the most demanding of checkweighing applications in a variety of production environments. Manufactured with ease of maintenance in mind, conveyor belts can be easily lifted and removed for sanitizing within seconds and without the use of tools.
The sleek, modular design allows for a variety of reject systems to be installed, such as air blast, pneumatic pusher, and more. RAPTOR Checkweighers accurately remove non-compliant products while minimizing product waste, preventing costly recalls that may harm your brand identity. The RAPTOR promises precise inspection weighing packs up to 8kg while rejecting non-compliant products.
The RAPTOR is available in a range of equipment including standalone checkweighers, caseweighers for heavy bags and cases, and combination metal detection systems.
Connect with us today to learn more about RAPTOR checkweighing solutions.
Fogg was one of the pioneers in the dairy industry. Throughout our experience, we have heard the diary industry’s concerns of foaming, possible flavor change, splashing and spillage, and extended shelf life. Fogg has created filling systems to overcome these issues with ease. Fogg has created a special dairy valve to extract the foam while filling. Our small transfer ratio ensures smooth transfer to avoid spilling and splashing to increase sanitation and improve efficiencies. As always, shelf life is a concern. The dairy industry is pushing for longer shelf life than ever thought possible. Fogg has responded to these requests by offering an Extended shelf Life (ESL) package that includes a CIP trough, Class 100 HEPA enclosure, Microb- Blaster® UV cap sanitizers, and a Sanibar® cleaning system. Fogg’s long-term commitment to quality equipment and service will certainly attribute to your success! Call us today to talk about your specific application.
At Unibloc-Pump, we are proud to live up to our reputation of providing exceptional craftsmanship and an uncompromising commitment to customer service. Since 1984, Unibloc has provided the food, dairy, and more industries with precision-engineered sanitary pumps, strainers, and valves to take on the toughest jobs. We are the premier designers of simple, easy-to-clean in place (CIP) or clean out-of-place (COP) pumps that fight downtime, achieve a lower cost of operation, and meet deadlines with confidence.
Originally designing and manufacturing various valves, such as butterfly and check valves to market before developing the positive displacement rotary lobe pump. We further expanded the Unibloc brand with integrated pump units. Our design and engineer teams developed several industry-first features and incorporated them as standard to the Unibloc-Pump line. Features include fully machined stainless pump gearbox, machined pump housing ports, multiple seal options without pump modification.
Unibloc-Pump relocated its headquarters this year. This new facility offers three times more space to serve customer needs, including an innovative research and development lab, state-of-the-art service center, exhibition room, and more.
“With the move to Kennesaw, Unibloc is well-positioned for future growth,” said Eric Soderstrom, Sales Engineer at Unibloc-Pump. “This facility gives us the space needed to increase and improve our manufacturing capabilities and provide our customers with the fast, reliable service they expect. Our new facility will create an economic opportunity for the Kennesaw area, while also being conducive to long-term growth for our employee base and acquiring new talent,” said Soderstrom. “This is our next step to becoming one of the biggest and best pump companies in the U.S.”
Protect Your Brand Against Recalls and Consumer Complaints
Manufacturers worldwide rely on Anritsu’s contaminant detection and quality inspection equipment. With over 50 years of experience and 150,000 installations globally, Anritsu’s technology is trusted for performance and reliability. We provide a superior return on investment and ensure compliance with stringent quality control programs. Our equipment is engineered to detect the smallest anomalies and provide the best operational efficiencies and lowest cost of ownership. Simply, we deliver a level of precision, reliability, and support that truly advances the quality of your products and the efficiency of your operations.
How much of your products do consumers inspect?
100%
Reduce consumer complaints and product recalls with the world’s most installed food X-ray. Anritsu X-ray systems provide performance, reliability, and low cost of ownership.
The Anritsu X-ray Advantage
Anritsu X-rays come standard with HD imaging that outperforms competitors in finding metal, bone, glass, and stone contaminants. The seventh-generation fully-featured XR75 series offers long component life and easy operation & maintenance.
Why do the world’s largest food companies choose Anritsu X-ray systems?
• #1 food x-ray supplier worldwide
• Industry-leading performance for metal and low-density contaminants
• Low TCO – Up to 300% longer component life
• Reliability – Lowest warranty rate in the industry
• U.S. assembly of popular models
• Solutions include packaged products, cased, bulk, pipeline, side view, and dual-energy
Performance 360- Customer Service &
Technical Support provides everything you need to keep your Anritsu equipment running at peak performance. Customers receive phone support, assistance for startup, optimal operation, and equipment issues at no additional cost.
Performance 360 includes:
• Annual HACCP Safety Validation
• Equipment Start-up &
Training
• Remote Support
• Data Management & Networking
Free Phone Support
Technicians are available in all areas of North and South America. If a problem can’t be resolved over the phone or with Anritsu Remote Support, you can typically expect a technician at your facility in under 24 hours.
Parts Critical parts are stocked at Anritsu’s U.S. headquarters, with available next-day delivery. You can also order spare parts kits to minimize downtime.
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