Pet Foods

Pet Food Products Industry

TYPICAL END PRODUCTS

Typical Pet Food products manufactured using powder and bulk ingredients include:

Bird Food
Cattle Feed
Corn Gluten Feed
Dry Cat Food
Dry Dog Food
Equine Food
Fish Food
Fodder
Forage
Oral Care
Palatability Enhancers

Peanut Hulls
Pig Food
Pill Pouches
Poultry Feed
Reptile Food
Soybean Hulls
Treats
Wet Cat Food
Wet Dog Food
Wheat Middlings
Whole Cottonseed

BULK MATERIAL CHARACTERISTICS

Bulk ingredients for Pet Food products run the gamut from dry to oily, free-flowing to non-free-flowing and powders to large pieces. Typical material characteristics include:

Abrasive
Blends of disparate material
Cohesive and Adhesive
Contains large particles
Contamination-sensitive

Dusty
Materials that pack, cake or smear
Moist and sticky
Perishable

TYPICAL BULK MATERIALS HANDLED:

Apples
Calcium Carbonate
Calcium Propionate
Chick Pea Flour
Chicken Meal
Coatings
Corn Flour
Corn Meal
Cranberries
Dehydrated Vegetables
Dry Digest
Flavorings
Flax Meal
Flour
Grains

Lysine
Oat Flour
Potassium Chloride
Potato Flour
Rice
Rice Bran
Rice Flour
Rolled Oats
Rye Flour
Salt
Sorbic Acid
Soy Protein
Starch
Tapioca Flour
Vitamins
Wheat Flour

Don't see your material? With over 25,000 installations worldwide and thousands of years of combined experience, Flexicon has most likely handled your material successfully many times over.

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FLEXICON EQUIPMENT FOR BULK PET FOOD MATERIALS

Stand-alone units to engineered systems, Flexicon sanitary equipment can source material from bulk bags, silos, trucks or rail cars, integrate with other manufacturers' equipment, unload, weigh batch, convey or fill large volumes of materials, eliminate clogging, enhance productivity and reduce cleaning time, contain product, suppress and collect dust and improve worker safety.

Examples include:

Flexible Screw Conveyors