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Kellogg’s Eggo Plant Drain Replacement Design
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Millennium Mechanical served as lead in designing new process waste main headers at the Kellogg’s Eggo Plant in San Jose, California. The plant operates 24/7 with only routine cleaning cycle shutdowns and a few extended maintenance shutdowns a year. The length of these shutdowns was not long enough to replace 1000 ft of 6” to […]
Post Tagged with Article Compressed Air Energy Reduction
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Millennium Mechanical advised Kellogg’s following a compressed air retrofit project implemented at the company’s Eggo factory in San Jose, California, one of only two factories in the country currently producing the frozen breakfast treat. Kellogg’s continues to realize both annual energy savings and quality improvements because of the upgrade. As the project manager for Kellogg’s […]
Post Tagged with Article Senba – Horizontal Form/Fill/Seal Packing Line
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The newest packaging operation at Senba is a Model IM/S 7-14 horizontal form/fill/seal machine from KHS-Bartelt, Inc. that produces flexible pouches of dry products from rollstock. The machine, which was installed last May, features Indramat servo drives from Bosch Rexroth Corp. and Allen-Bradley controls from Rockwell Automation. Film is mounted on the advanced web-handling system, […]
Post Tagged with Article Senba – Vertical Form/Fill/Seal Packing Line
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Senba USA, Inc., Hayward, CA, specializes in private-label operations. Opened in 2001, the U.S. plant of Japanese food giant Senba Foods Co., Ltd., specializes in manufacturing Asian food products for retail, wholesale, foodservice and industrial users. The facility is QAI Organic and kosher-certified. One of the primary packaging lines at the plant utilizes a Model […]
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