Food and Dairy Processing
Component reliability and corrosion resistance are critical for product safety in the food industry. From identifying the source of a foreign material found in a food packaging process to unexpected accelerated corrosion of milk processing equipment, the food and dairy industry has some of the most diverse and challenging materials-related problems. The practical experience of our staff and variety of analyses performed by MEE make us well prepared to help with concerns about component problems in the food and dairy applications.
Recent projects include:
- Evaluation of cracked lettuce cutter heads
- Evaluation of cracked cheese molds
- Evaluation of leaks in stainless steel brine tubes
- Corrosion evauation for a whey dryer
- Elemental analysis of foreign material on aluminum cans
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Featured Case Study
Leaking Chemical Storage Tank A chemical storage tank at a manufacturing facility began to leak trace quantities of the chemical from the tank into the chemical containment area surrounding the tank. The leaks were found to be due to numerous small cracks in the type 316 stainless steel shell (wall)….