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New sanitary auger fillers improve filling accuracy

Whole food supplement packager Standard Process Inc. reduces powdered product overfills, meets sanitary guidelines.

TWO FILLERS. Bottles on the conveyor line pass underneath the two Spee-Dee fillers. After the bottles are filled they are sealed and prepped for shipping.
TWO FILLERS. Bottles on the conveyor line pass underneath the two Spee-Dee fillers. After the bottles are filled they are sealed and prepped for shipping.

Standard Process Inc. takes sanitation very seriously. As a leading manufacturer of more than 300 whole food supplements, the Palmyra, WI-based company goes to great lengths to ensure its production facilities and equipment meet or exceed prescribed sanitary guidelines. So when the company looked to purchase a new sanitary filler system as part of an overall upgrade to one of its primary bulk packaging lines, it chose Spee-Dee.

“We’ve used Spee-Dee fillers for a number of years and we’re very satisfied with their equipment and performance,” says Fred Miller, Industrial Engineer, Standard Process. “One of the things we do an excellent job at is the cleaning and testing of our equipment and facilities. We follow good manufacturing practices for the dietary supplement industry. The Spee-Dee equipment was engineered to meet our high sanitary standards, and that’s one of the reasons we selected them because they met our needs.”

Standard Process and its more than 300 employees are devoted to improving the quality of life by providing the safest, most effective, highest quality dietary supplements through health care professionals. Founded in 1929, Standard Process produces and packages a variety of whole food supplements for men, women, children, and animals. 

The goal of the upgrade was to increase productivity of the bulk packaging line, while also better maximizing the capabilities of a case loader that feeds the line. The case loader outpaced the single filling unit, which prevented the line from reaching its full potential. The upgrade would help balance out capabilities of the entire line, while in the process increasing output.

The bulk packaging line involves packaging dietary powder into containers of varying size, depending on the production run. The process starts by removing powder out of 55-gal stainless-steel totes and delivering it directly into one of two Spee-Dee sanitary servo auger filler hoppers via a pneumatic vacuum system.

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