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Project “Peanut Butter”
Major food brands sponsoring Project Peanut Butter for reducing malnutrition in children globally needed modular system design and manufacturing to build self-sustaining “ready to work” food production skids for rapid delivery in remote areas of the world.
- Manufacturing platforms with blenders, small mixers, and grinders
- Design of reliable systems for harsh environments and limited maintenance
- Design-Build of simple operating controls for minimum training
- Low maintenance, yet affordable component selection
- Superior stainless steel craftsmanship
- Modular cheese blender; small mixer, grinder, and blender
Cannabis Extraction Machinery Design-Build Manufacturing
Several customers need full design-build equipment projects to produce oils and other products to serve the rapidly expanding market. These companies have limited processing expertise and no manufacturing capability.
- Design Build engineering and Manufacturing
- Building hermetically sealed augers and conveyors
- ASME-rated solvent/collection tanks
- Design for dangerous solvents, temperatures, and pressures
- Rapid response with over 250,000 sq ft of manufacturing space and over 300 employees
Skidded Systems and Systems Engineering
Customers in Food, Dairy, Beverage, and Pharmaceutical manufacturing have called on Anderson Dahlen for years to manufacture more advanced modular systems as they outsource their engineering and manufacturing to focus on their core competency of food production.
- Modular process systems manufacturing
- System end-to-end testing
- Systems engineering for food processing
- Designing easy to operate systems
- Better graphics and MMI controls
- Simpler alarm management
- In-plant installation and final testing
Custom Manufactured “Lowerator” for Baked Goods
Space constraints prohibited using a standard machine to lower baked goods 8 ft in a 10 ft span.
- Innovative custom mechanical design
- Build of a one-off unique machine
- Solved a difficult belt routing challenge
- Sanitary and CIP capable
- Stainless steel sanitary manufacturing
- Systems engineering approach
Stainless Steel Fabrication
Multiple food customers bring unique requirements for sanitary-level stainless components including pressure vessels, mixing equipment, ovens, piping systems, modular or skidded systems.
- Mechanical, electrical and systems engineering
- ASME, NQA-1, ISO-9001, AWS quality controls
- Stainless welding and inspection
- CNC and multi-axis machining
- Laser and waterjet cutting, press brake and roll forming
- Material handling and testing
Critical Parts and Services to Food Processors
Responding to COVID 19, food processing companies needed help re-purposing and improving their production processes quickly to respond to the nation’s needs for different foods.
- Engineering and fabrication of custom components
- Distribution of industrial sanitary components
- Inventory of sanitary pumps, valves, and heat exchangers
- Repair services for sanitary components
- SPXFlow, Graco, and Alfa Laval distribution
- Fully stocked repair and rebuild operation