MATERIAL ACTIVATION SYSTEMS AIRSWEEP HELPS WITH 62% REDUCTION IN FLOUR FLUSH AND SAVES COMPANY $200,000 A large U.S. manufacturer of food, food ingredients and flavor products uses ribbon blenders for custom blending of ingredient batches. Each batch must contain specific amounts of ingredients such as spices and other seasonings to comply with the customer’s proprietary recipes. To clean the blenders between batches, they used a flushing routine which involved manually loading flour into the blenders, running the equipment for a set amount of time, and then emptying the equipment of all the flour and stray ingredients. THE PROBLEM With manufacturing facilities in 25 different countries across the globe, the company was interested in improving the flushing process between the custom

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