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Case studies, education, and news on MPE technology so that industry professionals can better understand our systems, grinders, and conveyors.
A Flexible and Automated MPE-Designed Coffee Process System
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When our friends at Philz Coffee told us their amazing new MPE-designed processing system—with its shiny new green coffee silos, classification system, Chain-Vey tube conveyors, roasters, and packa
Chain-Vey’s New Testing Lab
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MPE’s Chain-Vey and Systems Group Divisions opened a new Testing Lab located in Chicago, USA. This “state of the art” testing facility houses 7 full-size Chain-Vey systems and a fully functional loss in weight unload, batching, and mixing system. Seeing is believing and what better way to validate a new conveyance solution than to run
Fully Automated Coffee Roasting Plant
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A large North American roaster needed to build a new coffee roasting plant. MPE Systems Group engineers managed the project from conception to commissioning. From pre-design to commissioning, the project spanned roughly one year. The project was completed on-time, despite the Coronavirus pandemic. MPE’s commitment to the project is perhaps best exemplified by one systems
MPE Announces Virtual Support
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BY Edmund Sinnott | September 11, 2020 |
News , Process System Coffee Chain-Vey Culture Food, Chemical, & Mineral
Keeping complex equipment running is important, but not easy. So when travel or timelines don’t allow you to bring a technician on-site, you can bring in an MPE virtual technician instead. It is a fast, organized, and effective way to make your local team trained experts. With MPE’s Virtual Support, your personnel can interface live
The Pursuit of a Low Energy Drag Conveyor System
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The conveying of ingredients, foods, and bulk solids all require energy. However, the loss of energy through excess motion of air, noise, and heat varies greatly among conveying options. Usually, plant engineers have a litany of requirements that, when taken into consideration collectively, tilt the scales toward one type of conveyor over another. But when
Gentleness of Tubular Drag Conveyors in Food Production
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The topic of gentle conveyance in the production of finished foods, and any application where degradation is a high-value loss for plant managers, is fraught with misinformation and unsubstantiated claims. Tubular drag conveyors are a type of enclosed, dust-tight, space-saving and fully customizable conveyor system popular among many of the world’s leading finished food processors.
Coffee Processing Plant Build of the Year
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A large coffee import and processing company, wanted to grow its green coffee cleaning, processing, and handling capacity. The company relied on MPE’s Systems Engineering Group to design the majority of its process system with key features such as tubular drag conveyance, custom-designed mezzanine funnels, automated batching, and dust collection, among others. “We wanted to provide the customer with
Interpack 2021 Cancelled
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BY Edmund Sinnott | March 9, 2020 |
Tradeshows , Process System Coffee Chain-Vey Food, Chemical, & Mineral
Update December 8, 2020: Interpack 2021 is cancelled. We look forward to being a part of future Interpack shows when they occur. Interpack 2021 (Originally planned for 2020, but rescheduled) February 25 – March 3, 2021 Messe Düsseldorf D-40474 Düsseldorf, Am Staad (Stockumer Höfe) Düsseldorf, Germany Booth located in Hall 4, B29
December 20, 2019
Precision Manufacturing is Essential to Capsule Success
Portion packs are the new normal for high-volume roasters. Revenue from capsule coffee exceeded sales of traditionally packaged ground roast in the U.S. for the first time last year. In 2015 Americans will consume more than 1.8 billion cups of single-serve a month. European roasters will produce nearly as many espresso capsules and tea blenders