As a food processing professional, you're faced with dozens of daily decisions that can make or break your operation. Get advice from our engineers on some of the key challenges you may be facing, by downloading any or all of the guides provided below.
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What Processing Challenges are You Facing?
Download one or all of these practical guides for help addressing your unique challenges:
Challenge: Scaling Up Your Food Operation
Download now for advice on choosing the right vessel when you're ready to expand your food company.
Challenge: Finding & Fixing Production Bottlenecks
Download now for how to identify and solve processing bottlenecks, plus suggested efficiency improvements.
Challenge: Deciding Between New or Used Equipment
Download now to learn the pros and cons of buying used vs. new custom food processing equipment.
Challenge:
Future-Proofing Your Plant
Download now for insights on making equipment and other decisions that need to hold up over time.
Challenge: Choosing the Right Mixing Style for Your Operation
Download now to determine the right mixing style for products with delicate or solid ingredients where integrity matters.
Challenge: Choosing In-House or Contract Manufacturing
Download now to explore pros and cons of in-house vs. contract manufacturing, including what to know when choosing a contract partner.
Our Process Starts With Your Process
Lee has over 100 years of experience custom-engineering vessels to fit your product and process.
Our applications engineers will work with you to evaluate vessel design, agitation style, heat transfer requirements, controls, accessories, and system integration needs, all centered around your poducts.
The resulting stainless steel and alloy processing equipment will provide you with decades of unmatched, dependable performance.
Lee is the source for complete service, from initial process design and evaluation to final start-up, along with in-process maintenance and service.
Our Factory Acceptance Testing (F.A.T.) facility and full quality control department is available for the inspection, documentation and testing of your equipment before it ever leaves our plant. And with our exclusive two-year limited warranty, your equipment is backed up after shipment.
Ready to Talk Through Your Process?
If your team is evaluating a new vessel, processing line expansion or something else, Lee can help you think through the equipment decisions that affect performance in the plant. Connect with an engineer now to get the advice you need.
FAQs:
Q: Can Lee help evaluate an existing process?
A: Yes. Lee applications engineers can review your product, process, production goals, and equipment constraints to help identify equipment and process options.
Q: Should agitator design or vessel design come first?
A: They should be evaluated together. Vessel geometry affects product movement, heating and cooling, discharge, and cleanability. Agitator design affects mixing action, scrape coverage, ingredient suspension, and batch consistency. The best equipment decision usually comes from looking at the vessel and agitator as one processing system.
Q: When should a food processor consider replacing a vessel?
A: Replacement may be worth evaluating when repair frequency increases, cleaning takes too long, parts become difficult to source, capacity is constrained, product quality varies, or the vessel no longer supports current sanitation, safety, or production requirements.
Q: What information should I have ready before contacting Lee?
A: Helpful starting points include product type, viscosity range, batch size, heating and cooling requirements, ingredient characteristics, cleaning process, available utilities, floor space constraints, current pain points, and future production goals.
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