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Meat
and Food Processing
Hormel Announces Intent to Sell
Equipment Business
AUSTIN, Minn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July
20, 2001--Hormel Foods Corporation (NYSE:HRL) has announced that a
letter of intent has been signed to sell its subsidiary Algona
Fabrication and Equipment Co. (AFECO), Algona, Iowa.
The
company plans to sell AFECO, a food processing equipment
manufacturer, to Cozzini Inc., Chicago, Ill., which manufactures a
complete line of meat and food processing equipment. Cozzini intends
to hire all 45 current employees and has tentative plans to expand
the AFECO plant in Algona.
"The impending sale of AFECO
will enable us to concentrate on our core business," said
Michael J. McCoy, senior vice president and chief financial officer
with Hormel Foods.
About Hormel Foods Corporation:
Hormel Foods, based in Austin, Minn., is a multinational
manufacturer and marketer of consumer-branded food and meat
products, many of which are among the best known and trusted in the
food industry. The company enjoys a strong reputation among
consumers, retail grocers, foodservice and industrial customers for
products regarded for quality, taste, nutrition, convenience and
value.
About Cozzini Inc.: Cozzini of
Chicago, Ill., supplies a full line of meat and food processing
equipment, including the design and manufacture of stainless steel
equipment, such as blenders, mixers, silos and conveyors, emulsion
systems and meat and food reduction systems.
For more information contact: Cozzini Incorporated
4300 West Bryn Mawr Ave.
Chicago, IL, USA 60646
Telephone: 773-478-9700
Web site: http://www.cozzini.com/ Email: sales@cozzini.com
"Quickly
Load 20' & 40' Containers"
Rapidly
Fill Containers with the "Bulk Thrower"
The "Container Loading"
Bulk Thrower is the latest addition to the Redler range of
products. It is designed specifically to load 20' and 40'
containers quickly, safely and easily. Redler Bulk Throwers
are heavy-duty machines designed for capacities of up to 100t/h.
Redler
Bulk Throwers are designed to throw granular material on to a pile
or to spread it over floors. They are used widely in maltings for
loading kilns with green malt and for spreading barley over growing
floors. Other uses include piling grain, china clay, granite
chippings and similar materials into bays and flat bottomed stores,
together with ISO container loading and filling ships' holds with
sand and gravel.
One recent application for the new
"Container Loading" Bulk Thrower has been in the loading
of plastic pellets from bulk storage into containers for transport
from Europe to the rest of the world. The equipment could of course
be used in other industries that need the ability to rapidly load
bulk materials into containers for shipment.
Optional features include contact
parts manufactured in stainless steel, variable speed drive and
white, food quality belting. The support structure can be
supplied as a mobile freestanding unit or container mounted which is
lifted into place by a forklift truck. The integrated fan has
a flexible connection to the thrower and is used to inflate the
plastic container liner at approximately 400 cubic feet per minute.
Redler is one of Europe's leading
suppliers of plant for handling dry bulk materials. Through
extensive knowledge of the many technologies involved in different
materials handling installations, they provide complete systems
solutions. Redler is an integral part of the international
Buhler organisation, based in Switzerland, with strong roots in many
industrial, engineering and food processing activities.
For more information contact: Redler Limited
Redler House
Stroud Glos
GL5 3EY
ENGLAND
Telephone: ++ 44 (0) 1453 763 611
Fax: ++ 44 (0) 1453 763 582
Web site: http://www.redler.com/
Email: sales@redler.com
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Cleveland Cascade Chute Installed at
Cemex/Kosmosdale
PEBCO was selected for the design and
manufacture of a Mark III design Cleveland Cascade Chute with a
moveable trolley system for Cemex/Kosmosdale Cement facility in
Louisville, Kentucky. This chute was designed for loading 1,000 tons
per hour of cement into barges. This chute features lightweight
fiberglass cones with abrasion resistant steel liners, a heavy duty
shroud, a cement adapter with material probes and a special dust
enclosure attached to the bottom. The Cleveland Cascade Chute
requires minimum maintenance and operates free of product spillage
and dust leakage.
Two
of the most difficult products to handle are alumina and finished
cement. The solution to loading these products is the Cleveland
Cascade Chute. This design chute has successfully handled a diverse
range of dry bulk solids from finished cement and alumina to
calcined petroleum coke, calcined lime, wheat, soda ash, potash,
phosphate, lead oxide, etc.
The truncated, oppositely-inclined
cones, supported by straps and covered by a wind shroud, enable
material to be loaded in mass flow at low velocity. In this way, the
bulk particles remain tightly packed together; thereby minimizing
the release of small dust particles. Operating on the principle of
mass flow at low velocity, dust emission is minimized without
recourse to secondary extraction systems, while degradation and
segregation are considerably reduced. This patented chute has
applications in ship, barge, truck, railcar, and silo loading as
well as conveyor-to-conveyor transfer.
PEBCO Incorporated of Paducah,
Kentucky has entered into an agreement with Cleveland Potash of
England to manufacture and sell the Cleveland Cascade Chute in North
and South America. As part of this agreement, PEBCO has purchased
all the patent rights to the Cleveland Cascade Chute in these
territories.
For further information, please
contact:
Mr. Edward Barker PEBCO, Inc.
225 North 4th Street
P.O. Box 7506
Paducah, KY 42002-7506
Telephone: 270-442-1996 Ext. 211
Fax: 270-442-5214
Web site: http://www.pebco.com/
E-mail: barker@pebco.com
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For
Heat or Shear Sensitive Materials
PCS Offers New Toll Drying Service
Pulse Combustion Systems (PCS) has
announced the introduction of its new toll drying service at its
Arizona facility. The contract drying service is offered in response
to customer demand for cost-effective drying of smaller production
runs. PCS President Jim Rehkopf explains, "Many of our
customers are testing new product introductions or evaluating the
size of new markets. It's much more cost-effective for them to use
our toll drying service until they are ready to purchase their own
dryer to handle established product demand."
PCS
has two pulse combustion dryers available for toll drying, with
water evaporation rates of 40 and 400 lbs per hour. Pulse drying
uses gas dynamic atomization, which instantly atomizes and dries the
feed material without mechanical shear, resulting in higher quality
powders. Different configurations are available to optimize powder
characteristics such as nutrient viability, particle size, texture
and flavor.
"Our PCS spray dryer has been
successfully tested with all kinds of food and dairy products,
nutraceuticals, pharmaceuticals, minerals and chemicals,"
reports Ken Price, VP Sales and Marketing. "Pulse combustion is
ideally suited for drying heat/shear sensitive or abrasive
materials. Plus, we've had remarkable success with nutraceuticals
such as concentrated fruit byproducts, botanical extracts, and
biotech products containing delicate protein molecules. In some
cases, we've been able to produce freeze-dried quality powders at
one fifth the cost."
The new toll drying service is
offered at the company's state-of-the-art facility in Payson,
Arizona, a 90-minute drive from Phoenix. Readers can schedule a test
by visiting http://www.pulsedry.com/
, or may contact Ken Price at 415.435.4225 for a toll drying
proposal.
Help
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Hot Messages from the Help
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People post their requests for help and offer their
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Mr. Villegas needs bulk cooler:
We have made some changes in our
process resulting in hotter pigment in the pneumatic conveying
systems, I am interested in installing a equipment that cool the
stream air-pigment before packing.
Looking to find information to
supplement the CEMA formulas for material trajectories (of belt
conveyors) when the product contains two or more dissimilar
materials.
This week's homepage
photo is Nerak "Double-Z" continuous bucket conveyor.
Nerak bucket conveyors offer gentle handling of delicate products
such as food, chemicals and pharmaceuticals as well as highly
abrasive and impacting materials ranging from sand and gravel to
ores and crushed rock.
Photo courtesy of Mr.
John Hellier of Nerak Systems
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Two
of the most difficult products to handle are alumina and finished
cement. The solution to loading these products is the Cleveland
Cascade Chute. This design chute has successfully handled a diverse
range of dry bulk solids from finished cement and alumina to
calcined petroleum coke, calcined lime, wheat, soda ash, potash,
phosphate, lead oxide, etc.