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PLANT PROFILE
" We do meat a little
bit different than
most other facilities. "
Tom Barrett
additional cook and case-hardening
of those really high-meat, soft kibble
that allows us to then convey it and
transport it to our main dryer. "
From the CVR, product goes to
a Wenger three-pass, four-section
sanitary dryer. The combination of
the convection roaster/pre-dryer and
the sanitary dryer more than doubles
BPI's overall drying capacity.
From the dryer, product travels to
an Extru-Tech vertical cooler then
to a Wenger coating system. From
the coating room, product is held
in bulk totes until it passes all quality checks. After that, product is released for packaging.
Of the total 170,000 square feet in
Little Falls, BPI devoted 60,000 square
feet to processing, 30,000 square feet
to packaging, 75,000 square feet to
warehousing and 5,000 square feet to
office and ancillary space.
On the packaging side, Tom said
BPI is more manual than most manufacturers with the goal of being a
flexible co-packer, able to efficiently
handle small runs with many different SKUs. All of the packaging systems in Little Falls were provided by
JEM International, Shawnee, Kan.
One of the packaging systems JEM
International designed is a first-ofits-kind, small package auto-bagger
that offers quick, 20-minute packaging changeovers. JEM International
also provided net-weight scales for
each line along with additional netweight scales and vibratory conveyors to blend added ingredient inclusions with kibble prior to packaging.
BPI designed its large-bag packaging lines to include more automation with FANUC end-of-line
palatizing robots also provided by
JEM International.
Left: Product leaves the CVR convection roaster by dense phase conveyance to finish
drying in the main three-pass dryer. Bottom: As part of BPI's management of air flow
and filtration throughout the plant, dust is collected in the cyclone room before hot
air from the production process is exhausted out of the building.
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