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Custom Engineered Container Dumping Solutions

From Material Transfer & Storage, Inc.

A leading contract packager and manufacturer of food ingredients contacted Material Transfer, requiring container dumpers to empty containers of brownie and cake mixes into hoppers which fed existing packaging equipment. The new dumpers needed to accept containers loaded via pallet jack at floor level, and provide a "sealed discharge" of the containers under a 10' ceiling height. The dumpers also needed to be moveable, to allow for regular wash down of the equipment and process area.

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