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Cavity Pump for Longer Lifecycles Enters North America

February 7, 2024

Vogelsang’s HiCone pump was designed to maintain consistent conveying capacity and pressure resistance while being energy efficient.

Company News

World Water Works Upgrades Existing Treatment System

October 3, 2023

The company upgraded a pet food manufacturing facility’s dissolved air flotation system to improve the plant’s wastewater treatment capacity.

Elevating TOC Testing to Top of To-Do List

Companies need to establish that their water system is adequately designed, controlled, maintained and monitored to ensure that it is consistently producing water for its intended use.

Sandra Lee

October 7, 2022

A flood of warning letters from the FDA on water system suitability could pull the plug on the production of food, beverage, cosmetic, nutraceutical and over-the-counter (OTC) or pharmaceutical products if companies are not conducting total organic carbon (TOC) water testing analysis on a regular basis.

How two industry leaders invest to save the water supply as scarcity grows

Kraft Heinz and Nestlé Waters North America sustainability leaders say protection of the lifeblood resource will require looking outside the factory walls

Rose Shilling

October 28, 2020

With water stress a growing concern, food and beverage companies invest to cut usage, increasingly looking outside their factory walls to conserve a lifeblood resource for the industry.

Wastewater Treatment

Why you may want to think seriously about wastewater treatment

With services and capabilities from POTWs decreasing, food and beverage processors will have to pick up the slack, but at what cost?

Wayne Labs

July 24, 2020

A combination of funding cuts, aging infrastructure, and new pollutants has pushed the responsibility for water treatment back upstream to the facilities that produce the wastewater. This means food and beverage processors and other manufacturers that generate copious amounts of wastewater.

Engineering R&D

Separate fats, oils and grease at your facility

Device generates saleable biofuel and water clean enough to go to the local POTW

Wayne Labs

July 17, 2020

Downey Ridge Environmental Co., developer of Greasezilla, has come up with a FOG separation system that can be implemented at food plants. I asked Ron Crosier, president of Downey Ridge, to fill us in on who might use Greasezilla and how it works.

New Plant Products

BioViper wastewater treatment system

December 18, 2019

The BioViper system removes 90% or more biochemical oxygen demand (BODs), cleaning water before it’s sent back to the municipality or reused in a manufacturer’s plant.

Fabulous Food Plants

Hispanic Cheese Makers' fabulous food plant sets the bar for reducing waste

Hispanic Cheese Makers’ wastewater lagoons are a big project, but a small part of the company’s overall sustainability goal

Casey Laughman

December 12, 2018

What Hispanic Cheese Makers is doing with its wastewater and with its sustainability efforts overall makes it a model for producers looking for ways to be sustainable and good neighbors, and it’s why Hispanic Cheese Makers is being featured as a Fabulous Food Plant.

Sustainability

Bush Brothers wins Design-Build Institute of America National Merit Award

Company’s rural Tennessee process water reclamation facility handles 2.1 million gallons per day

Wayne Labs

November 19, 2018

Bush Brothers and Company’s new $55 million Process Water Reclamation Facility (PWRF) has won a Design-Build Institute of America National Merit Award.

Field Reports

Brewery saves 5,000 gallons of water per day with new pump

Water costs go down and so do extra-strength charges in sewage costs

Wayne Labs

October 12, 2018

When a food or beverage processor begins breaking down costs, sometimes startling facts are revealed. Here’s a case in point: Widmer Brothers Brewery (Portland, Ore.), founded in 1984 and part of the Craft Brew Alliance (CBA), had been using a liquid ring vacuum pump to bottle its beers, but realized the technology was consuming roughly 5,000 gallons of water per day.