Allpax Retort Room Audits Help Lower Energy Costs, Improve Business & Environmental Sustainability
Covington, LA - Allpax Products, a division of Pro Mach and a market leader in retort technology and retort room automation, announced today that the company is expanding its energy and sustainability retort room audits from a pilot endeavor to a full fledged national program.
For the past 18 months, Allpax worked with a small number of canneries, each of which utilizes vertical retorts. These audits identified improvements for lowering energy costs, minimizing waste water, and enhancing quality, productivity, and assured conformance to FDA guidelines.
"The audits demonstrated that there are techniques and technology available today that unquestionably improve the economic and environmental sustainability of canneries that employ vertical retorts," said Greg Jacob, general manager, Allpax. "We are expanding the program nationally because of the overwhelmingly positive response from plant managers, maintenance personnel, and operators."
The Allpax audit examines the overall consumption of steam, the process for venting of steam, the amount of water consumed in cooling, and the overall effectiveness of manual and automated controls. Auditors also evaluate wear on hard to replace parts such as hinges, handles, and baskets, and the potential safety hazards from corrosion.
In other developments
Allpax now offers a product for condensing steam once it leaves a retort. The condensate provides the facility with a new source of hot water. The new heat recovery product is in line with FDA regulations and ensures "come-up-and-value-open" schedules are not affected. Allpax also expanded its manufacture of hard to find components for older vertical retorts. The company now buys used vertical retorts for refurbishment and resale.
For information on Allpax's comprehensive line of products and services for older canneries relying on vertical retorts, call 888-893-9277 and visit www.allpax.com.
About Allpax
Allpax Products, the market leader in retort technology and retort room automation, designs, manufactures, and delivers turnkey sterilization solutions for the food, beverage, pet food, and pharmaceutical industries. The company is recognized for helping customers become more successful by decreasing time to market with laboratory retort equipment, lowering overall labor costs through automation, and increasing the overall throughput of the sterilization process. The company is headquartered in Covington, LA, and is the sole U.S. licensee of the Shaka® retort process.
Allpax is powered by Pro Mach, a Cincinnati, Ohio based provider of integrated packaging products and solutions for food, beverage, household goods, pharmaceutical, and other diverse consumer and industrial companies. Through three business units and related divisions, Pro Mach provides equipment, training, installation, and parts in primary packaging, end-of-line packaging, and identification and tracking.
For more information about Pro Mach visit www.ProMachInc.com.
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Allpax provides processing and sterilization machinery with industry leading controls to fully automate the retort process for any container.
