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Heat Exchangers
Why Reducing Pressure Drop Is a Strategic Advantage in Meat and Pet Food Processing

Discover how larger ports, smaller shafts and retrofit-ready Votator II upgrades help reduce pressure drop, ease pump strain and improve throughput in high-viscosity meat and pet food processing.

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How Valve Actuator Design Drives Long-Term Value

Learn how valve actuator design improves reliability, lowers maintenance costs, and drives long-term performance in industrial fluid processing systems.

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The Processing Decisions Behind Today's Dairy Products

Discover how milk processing decisions influence taste, shelf life, sustainability and profitability for today's dairy producers.

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Pumps
Why Dubai Chocolate Is Taking the World by Storm — And How SPX FLOW Supports the Process Behind It

Dubai chocolate production demands precision. Discover how SPX FLOW pump solutions support reliable chocolate and filling processing at scale.

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Mixproof Valves
Real World Support When It Matters Most

From valve delivery to system optimization, SPX FLOW, An ITT Company, provides trusted engineering support that keeps projects on schedule and performing long-term.

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Microparticulation Systems
Turning Whey Into Value with Microparticulation

Discover how APV microparticulation systems transform surplus whey into high-functionality microparticulated whey protein (MWP), supporting clean-label dairy innovation, improved texture, and sustainability.

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Pumps
From P&ID’s to Project Execution—and Beyond

Discover how engineering support, equipment expertise, project execution, and lifecycle services help process systems perform reliably from design through long-term operation.

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Recreational Marine Products
Smarter Materials, Fewer Failures: Meet MC97

Discover how Johnson Pump Marine’s proprietary MC97 impeller material delivers greater durability, reduced water absorption, improved reliability, and longer service life compared to standard neoprene impellers in demanding marine applications.

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Rethinking Energy Use in Dairy Plants

Discover how dairy producers can improve efficiency and reduce emissions with heat recovery systems, APV plate heat exchangers, SteamRecycle™, recuperators and integrated hot and cold water loops. Learn how SPX FLOW end-to-end turnkey solutions support smarter, more sustainable dairy operations.

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Mixers & Agitators
Not All Drywells Are Created Equal: True Protection

Learn why true drywell technology is critical in industrial mixing applications. Discover how drywell-equipped mixer gearboxes help prevent contamination, improve safety, reduce maintenance, and protect process reliability.

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Pumps
The Smart Way to Choose Seals for Waukesha Cherry-Burrell Positive Displacement Pumps

Learn how to select the best seal for Waukesha Cherry-Burrell® positive displacement pumps. Explore mechanical, lip, and O-ring seal options to improve reliability, maintenance efficiency, and process performance across sanitary and industrial applications.

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Evaporators
5 Signs It’s Time to Replace Your Plate Evaporator Gaskets

Learn the warning signs of plate evaporator gasket failure, including leaks, pressure loss, and reduced performance. Discover how proactive maintenance and genuine OEM replacements help prevent downtime and protect product quality.

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Heat Exchangers
Is a Scraped Surface Heat Exchanger Your Missing Ingredient?

Discover when a scraped surface heat exchanger is the best choice for viscous, shear-sensitive, and phase-changing products. Learn how SSHE technology improves heat transfer, product quality, and process efficiency.

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Pumps
Enabling Carbon Capture: The Critical Role of Pumps in the Energy Transition

Learn how advanced pump technologies support carbon capture utilization and storage systems through accurate dosing reliable fluid transfer and efficient CO₂ process managementt

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UHT Systems
Avoiding Formulation Pitfalls in Shelf-Stable Beverages: Insights for UHT Producers

Discover common formulation pitfalls in shelf-stable dairy, plant-based and nutritional beverages. Learn how SPX FLOW UHT solutions and innovation centers help R&D teams improve protein performance, stability and clean label success.

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Pumps
Engineered for Demanding Conditions: Bran+Luebbe Chemical Injection Systems for Oil and Gas

Discover how Bran+Luebbe chemical injection systems support oil and gas operations with reliable performance, precise dosing, compact designs, and engineered solutions built for demanding offshore and onshore environments.

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Pumps
Key Advantages of External Circumferential Piston Rotors

Discover the advantages of Waukesha Cherry-Burrell ECP rotors—precision flow, Alloy 88 durability, and longer pump life with lower maintenance costs.

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Pumps
5 Advantages of Genuine WCB Rotors Over Non-OEM Rebuilds

Discover why genuine Waukesha Cherry-Burrell® rotors outperform non-OEM rebuilds. Learn how OEM rotor design, Alloy 88 metallurgy, certified repair standards, and recycling programs help maximize pump efficiency, uptime, and process reliability.

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Evaporators
How Evaporators Help You Achieve Vibrant Natural Colors in Food Processing

Discover how APV evaporators help food manufacturers preserve natural color intensity, improve product consistency, and support clean-label formulations through gentle, efficient concentration processes.

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Pumps
Precision, Protection, and Performance: Understanding Bran+Luebbe Metering Pumps

Learn how Bran+Luebbe metering pumps deliver precise dosing, process protection, and reliable performance across oil and gas, chemical, pharmaceutical, water treatment, and industrial applications. Explore plunger, diaphragm, and double-diaphragm metering pump technologies.

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Positive Displacement Pumps
The U2 ND – An Industrial Problem Solver

The U2 ND Positive Displacement Pump is disrupting the industrial sector. Discover why in our latest post.

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Cavitators
5 Tips for Creating Healthier Ice Cream That Still Feels Like a Treat

Five tips for making clean-label, high-protein ice cream with indulgent texture supported by SPX FLOW technologies and Innovation Centers for healthier product development.

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Top Entry Mixers
The Real Cost of Using the Wrong Gearbox in Mixing Applications

Learn why commercial gearboxes often fail in demanding mixing applications and how mixer-specific gearbox designs help reduce downtime, improve reliability, lower maintenance costs, and extend equipment life.

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Positive Displacement Pumps
Demystifying Universal Series Pumps

Explore our powerful Universal Series pumps from Waukesha Cherry-Burrell. Learn their differences, top applications, and how to choose the best pump for your process.

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Mixers & Agitators
A Smarter, Steam-Free Solution: How Cavitation Is Transforming Spray Dryer Feed Heating and Centrifugal Atomizer Performance

Discover how the APV Cavitator uses controlled cavitation to heat spray dryer feed without steam, reducing scaling, lowering energy costs, improving product quality, and increasing drying capacity for powder processing operations.

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Manufacturing Closer to You—For a World That Moves Faster.

SPX FLOW delivers localized manufacturing, innovation and support across key regions to keep global food, beverage and industrial operations moving.

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Heat Exchangers
Five Reasons Why ASME-Certified Scraped Surface Heat Exchanger Tubes Matter

Learn why ASME-certified scraped surface heat exchanger tubes are critical for safety, compliance, product quality, equipment longevity, and reliable processing performance.

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SPX FLOW First Year Care Program

Maximize equipment performance with the SPX FLOW First Year Care Program. Gain expert support operator training proactive maintenance and operational guidance to improve uptime and long-term success.

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Condition Monitoring in Action: A Data-Driven Look at Fault Detection

Effective condition monitoring isn’t a nice-to-have—it’s a necessity when performance and uptime matter. When systems fail without warning, operations can come to a halt, safety can be compromised, and costs can spike fast.

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Heat Exchangers
Why Genuine OEM Replacement Scraper Blades Are Essential

Invest in OEM replacement scraper blades. Non-OEM blades may risk process integrity, causing costly downtime, inconsistent quality, and potential equipment damage.

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UHT Systems
5 Reasons Why Infusion UHT Leads Dairy Processing Innovation

Discover why Infusion UHT is becoming the go-to choice for premium dairy products worldwide.

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Scraped Surface Heat Exchangers
Innovation was on Full Display in 2024

2024 was chock full of innovation here at SPX FLOW. Here are a few of our most prominent new launches.

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Homogenizers
Unlocking Growth for Food and Beverage Manufacturers

SPX FLOW empowers food and beverage manufacturers with Innovation Centers, offering risk-free testing, optimized production and faster time-to-market without disrupting operations.

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Solutions That Matter: Highlights from the 2024 Impact Report

Every day, we think hard about how to improve the world through innovative and sustainable solutions. It’s why our sustainability mantra is, ‘Earth Day, Every Day.’

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Positive Displacement Pumps
Sweet Holiday Treats Mean a Sticky Mess for Manufacturers

Discover how proper equipment design and configuration helps prevent premature equipment failure in valves and pumps with the right seal and o-ring selections.

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Plate Heat Exchangers
Simplifying Plate Heat Exchanger Selection for Fish Farms

Learn how SPX FLOW's plate heat exchangers can simplify your job by delivering performance-driven solutions tailored to your customers' needs.

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Fat Crystallization Equipment
Plant-Based Spreads: A Delicious and Sustainable Alternative to Dairy Butter

Explore the benefits of plant-based spreads and how SPX FLOW helps producers create high-quality, sustainable, and flavorful alternatives to dairy butter.

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Mixproof Valves
Top 5 Tips to Improve Dairy Processing Amid Industry Challenges

Gain insights from five expert tips to help dairy processors streamline operations, tackle industry challenges, and enhance product quality through the use of advanced components and sustainable practices.

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Membrane Filtration Systems
Top 5 Reasons to Insource Milk Ingredients

Insourcing milk ingredients boosts dairy quality, efficiency, and sustainability while cutting costs and enhancing innovation. Explore SPX FLOW's advanced milk fractionation solutions today.

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Positive Displacement Pumps
Is Twin Screw Pump Right for You?

Discover the benefits and challenges of twin screw pumps, including efficiency, solids handling, and the importance of proper sizing for optimal application performance.

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Top 5 Tips for Maximizing Your Last Days of Summer on the Water

Our Johnson Pump Marine experts put together the top five tips to help you maintain your boat and enjoy every moment of the season.

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Plate Heat Exchangers
Benefits of Plate Heat Exchangers for Fish Farmers

Efficiently manage water temperatures to promote responsible fish farming practices with plate heat exchangers, offering precise temperature control, integration with renewable energy systems, space and cost efficiency, a controlled environment for optimal fish growth, and proven performance.

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Scraped Surface Heat Exchangers
Importance of Replacing Chilling Tubess in Margarine, Shortening Production

Chilling tubes in scraped surface heat exchangers are essential to maintaining product consistency, process efficiency and food safety in margarine and shortening production. Learn why regular replacement is a critical part of preventative maintenance and how it helps reduce downtime, extend equipment life and support high-quality output.

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Maximizing Efficiency: A Guide to Spare Management in Food and Beverage Manufacturing

One key aspect of maintaining operational efficiency is the effective management of spare and replacement parts.

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Spray Dryers
Sustainable and Cost-Effective Lactose Whitening

Lactose powder requires whitening to meet standards. Traditional methods include carbon cartridges and lactose washing, but we provide a new, sustainable alternative.

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How to Make Great Ice Cream

In this blog post, we will explore the role of innovative ice cream equipment, ingredients and techniques in keeping ice cream at the forefront of innovation.

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Since the last ESG Report...

Much can happen in the span of a few years, and we can’t wait to share what we’ve been up to since publishing our last sustainability report.

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Evaporators
Anhydro Celebrates 75 Years of Spraying Magic

Discover how Anhydro has advanced spray drying and evaporation technology for 75 years, supporting dairy, food, pharmaceutical, and industrial manufacturers with innovative solutions that improve product quality, efficiency, and sustainability.

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Seital Separation's 40 Years of Innovation

Seital Separation celebrates 40 years of delivering high-performance separation and clarification solutions tailored to customer needs.

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Pumps
Demystifying Positive Displacement Pumps: Types, Functions and Benefits

Explore the world of Positive Displacement Pumps, their types, and applications. Let our experts guide you in selecting the ideal pump for your needs.

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Pumps
Unleashing Double the Power: Meet the NOVADOS DADD Pump

Bran+Luebbe pump experts have embarked on a mission to redefine the possibilities with their compact industrial pump designs aboard these floating vessels.

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Seven Ways OEMs Supercharge EPCs in Manufacturing

Discover seven ways OEM partnerships help EPCs streamline procurement, reduce risk, improve quality control, and deliver successful manufacturing projects from design through commissioning.

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Heat Exchangers
100 Years of APV: Engineering the Future with Plate Heat Exchangers

APV plate heat exchangers are celebrating 100 years of engineering brilliance, having set a standard in the early 21st century and that still stands today.

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Enhancing Efficiency in Margarine and Shortening Production

In a world of digital connection, it’s critical for manufacturing machinery and production systems to speak to one another across production plants.

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Pumps
Waste: A More Sustainable Supply Chain

We go beyond helping customers reduce their energy and water use; we also properly dispose, compost and recycle as many residuals across our global plants too.

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Five Reasons why using Genuine Spare Parts is Best for your Business

Discover why genuine OEM spare parts help reduce downtime, improve equipment reliability, maintain compliance, and maximize performance in food, beverage, dairy, and industrial processing operations.

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Butter Equipment
Gerstenberg Schröder Packing Innovation finds a Better Way to Butter

Food safety is paramount to producers and consumers everywhere. But what if you could make your plant's butter packaging safer and cleaner specifically? Ask us.

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Commercial Mixer Brand Lightnin Celebrates 100 Years

Mixing Things Up for a Century Happy Anniversary to us! We’ve been mixing things up for 100 years. See how our Lightnin mixers impact your daily life

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Power Up with Innovations That Save

Our commitment to energy conservation is evident in the solutions we design, manufacture and service for customers. We help them save energy and precious time

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The Top Four Reasons to Upgrade Your Spray Dryer

When's the last time you upgraded your spray dryer system? We found producers spend 20% of their time cleaning plants, and time is money. Let us help.

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Pumps
New Pune Design Center Slashes Time to Market in Southeast Asia

A 27,000 sq ft facility, the center is expanding verification and validation capabilities in not only India, but neighboring countries across southeast Asia.

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Save Water. Save Money. Save the Planet.

Fresh water is a precious natural resource, some use more than their fair share. We respond by designing revolutionary processes and products that save water.

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Pumps
Four Things to Consider When Selecting a Sanitary Food Grade Pump

Picking the correct pump is only part the equation, there's elastomers, seals, and rotors to consider too. Read to select the best sanitary pump by application.

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Valves
The Aseptic Revolution: Three Hygienic Benefits to Rapid Recovery

Raise your expectations of what an aseptic pigging system can be. Safety, value and sustainability on a new level.

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Valves
An APV Mixproof Brewery Valve Case Study

A customer case study, this brewery learned firsthand how the APV Mixproof Valve eases process line pressure, from water hammering to ease of maintenance.

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Mixers & Agitators
Mixer Sustainability or Efficiency

Discover how modern industrial mixers can improve sustainability and process efficiency simultaneously. Learn the key questions to ask mixing equipment suppliers to reduce energy consumption, lower operating costs, and optimize production performance.

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Taking Pride in Pride

Throughout the month of June, we celebrate what it means to identify as a member of the LGBTQ+ community by hearing from these solution makers themselves.

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Celebrating Our Culture: Asian American & Pacific Islander Month

Diversity unites our team with our differences highlighting our strengths globally. For AAPI Month, solution makers share what it means to be Asian American.

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Valves
IO-Link Technology Extends Valve Actuation in the Digital Age

Every producer seeks its competitive advantage. In response, manufacturers design solutions to match them. IO-Link valve technology is helping us do just that.

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Owning Our Narrative

This Women’s History Month, we’re excited to highlight the female solution makers that make us the global process provider that we are.

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Shaping Our Future

Every February, we recognize Black History Month and what it means to our global solution makers. This dialogue explores how our ABLE leaders are celebrating.

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Homogenizers
2 Million Gallons of Water

Our ground-breaking Homogenizer Water Recycling System technology is designed to reuse up to 97% of the runoff water used in homogenizers. Click to learn more.

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Mixers & Agitators
Welcome to Solution City

From aerospace to personal care and medicine, our innovative solutions make life better for people everywhere. Every day. Click this interactive map to see how.

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Mixers & Agitators
Spicing Things Up

Recently, a prominent seasoning company approached our mixing team, ordering several portable mixers to create new spice blends within their flavor tank.

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UHT Innovation Center Opens in the Middle East

We’ve been collaborating with the SIG Combibloc Group, which delivers safe, sustainable and affordable packaging. Together, we’ve opened an Innovation Center that helps our nutrition and health customers manufacture products and get them to market faster.

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Managing the Microbes

You see it all the time, food recalls on produce like lettuce and cantaloupe or even proteins like chicken and beef.

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Mixers & Agitators
Yours, Mine and Ours

Let’s be honest, no one likes a one-tier cake. It’s lacks depth, volume and it’s difficult to share. That’s why bakers decorate two, three, even five tier-cakes. Your cake should make a statement.

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Mixers & Agitators
Lost in Translation

Every day we consume foods and beverages engineered with ingredients not all of us understand. Fortunately, there’s hope with “clean label” products.

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Honoring Our Heritage

In honor of National Hispanic Heritage Month, I recently sat down with Lydia Zepeda, who leads our growth strategy and key account engagement in the Western Region.

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Valves
Pigging for Gold

Driving high value and low life cycle costs, our solution makers recommend the D4 piggable valve for process line recovery.

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Pumps
Pump Practicalities

As the COVID-19 pandemic rages on and people are forced to quarantine, there’s been a growing need for groceries and cleaning products.

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Channels of Success

We work with thousands of teams worldwide who help us help you. They’re called our channel partners, and they’re critical to our customers, our global sales force and our operational success.

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Homogenizers
Pioneering Progress

How’s the flavor? Is it too sweet? Too sour? Not enough texture? Customer’s tastes always change, but with rapid and consistent testing, producers can perfect their flavor profiles until they find that right balance.

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Our Path to Sustainability

We’re proud that today, we published “Solutions That Matter," our first environmental, social and governance (ESG) report.

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Mixers & Agitators
Ultra High Temp, Ultra High Taste

Around the world, all roads lead to dairy. In Southeast Asia, increased urbanization is expected to result in healthier, higher quality food consumption, requiring producers to diversify their product portfolios.

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What it Means to be Essential

Throughout the stages of the COVID-19 pandemic, we remained open to support our customers while never compromising the safety of our teams.

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Mixers & Agitators
Rooted in Innovation: Our Take on Plant-based

Across the world, people want plant-based alternatives for nearly any food product you can imagine. Products like meat, grain, and definitely dairy.

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Valves
A Viscous Cycle: Six Takeaways from Rapid Recovery

There’s a common problem shared by many customers who produce a range of items, from oil to cosmetics, soup and honey: Viscous product sticks to the sides of process piping.

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Mining for Answers

We take pride in providing innovative solutions to meet our customer’s needs. Take the metal purifying process as an example.

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Innovation to Spark Change

Across our five state-of-the-art Innovation Centers, are a team of industry experts passionate about solving our customer’s most complex challenges. These global experts are dedicated to researching continuous improvements in our product and system design.

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Welcome to our new blog, “Stories in the Making.”

We’re excited to tell you about our products, our people and our work. We love solving complex challenges for customers, helping them create their own success stories.