Projects past

Sunkist raisin line #5 was revised to clean field raisins while reducing water consumption by adding a Cyclonic Filtration Skid coupled with all the wet processes. The water savings was substantial in the drought-stricken plant in California. Other modifications to the line were researched for efficiencies. Improvements on the visual inspection ladder to produce better quality in the 'little red box' were costly but did not impede production volumes.

Breakfast cereal starts from the raw wheat berry, milled to a flour and air conveyed to recipe blends of water, sugar, and spice. The dough is extruded and cut into the bite-size cereal we see in the bowl before being roasted. After roasting, the cereal is passed through an enrober that coats the cereal with spices and sugar before it is transferred to packaging. Our responsibility was to add a second line to an already cramped production floor.