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Pet Food Processing

Technology update: advances in dry petfood production

Manufacturing the best-quality dry petfoods for dogs and cats not only relies on a nutritionally sound formula, a solid marketing campaign and eye-catching packaging, but it must be produced in a cost-efficient, time-saving and sanitary way. That's why choosing the right extrusion, drying and cooling equipment is so vital.

Baker-Rullman offers rotary dryer systems featuring the company's triple-pass technology. The mobile rotary dryer system can be mounted on a standard 53-foot trailer to accommodate transportation and ease of setup.

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Effects of rendering on meat and bone meal

This study evaluated the effect of two rendering processes applied to meat and bone meal (MBM) production, associated or not with extrusion, by measuring diet apparent total tract digestibility of dogs and cats and true digestibility of amino acids (AA) by cecectomized roosters. Four diets were evaluated: conventional and extruded MBM; high temperature and pressure (HPT; 135C, 3 bar, 20 minutes) and extruded MBM; conventional non-extruded MBM; and HPT non-extruded MBM.

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Axon LLC ThermoJet heat-shrink steam tunnel

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Roberts PolyPro Inc. single-station multipack bottle handle applicator

Pet Food Processing

Odor reduction solutions in petfood production

"Odor reduction is important to stakeholders, which includes people living in the community near your plant," said Tjitze Smit of GrainTec A/S in his 2011 Petfood Forum Europe presentation, "Energy Recovery and Odor Reduction in Petfood Production." An angry mob of townspeople showing up at your facility's door, complaining about how your business stinks, is no way to foster community spirit, much less garner popularity with local consumers.

Finding a smell-solution for your petfood or treat production plant is nothing to turn your nose up at! Dudarev Mikhail, Shutterstock.com

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Allpax Products Shaka 2402 multimode R&D retort