When you think about sanitary process equipment you just assume it will be constructed of stainless steel. Interestingly, if you [...]

The renaissance of plastic and single use products can be scary for stainless steel guys like us here at Holland [...]

“Tank cleaning is the number one culprit in water consumption/waste, as well as a major cause for lost production and [...]

Producers and consumers alike have a heightened awareness of the importance of sanitary processing conditions in the food industry. In [...]

Recently we ran into a problem where we had installed a Waukesha Universal Series Positive Displacement pump for transferring a [...]

We hear the complaints about clamps, spinning on ferrules even after they’re securely tightened. Even if you stay with one manufacturer on your fittings, there is infinite amount of manufacturers supplying to the tanks, filter, and valve manufacturers.

Holland Engineers developed a removable decking insert to accommodate any vessel diameter per position on each array. The Module Deck Showing the Inserts That Will Accommodate Multiple Vessel Sizes sections were designed to be easily and safely removed and reinstalled for reconfiguration

Many of our customers have an R&D division where they can test various food products.  A Multi-Purpose UHT Pilot Plant [...]

Sanitary Seat Valves have been used in the Food and Pharmaceutical Markets for many years. More recently however, this type of valve has undergone changes and upgrades to allow for even more types of applications amongst both Food and Pharma applications. Below are just a few of the various Seat Valve options available through Holland Applied Technologies.

A large international food processor and contract packager had been unloading large tote bins of tomato paste manually in their [...]

The newer design of the Universal 2 model allows customers to achieve proper cleaning in their system without the delays of disassembly and re-assembly of their PD pumps.

The two dissimilar materials; the elastomer and the stainless steel disc expand and contract at different rates during temperature changes causing deformation and separation.This area of separation is virtually impossible to clean.

While PTFE, FEP and other fluoropolymer based materials are not recommended for gamma irradiation, most other components can.

Now the bleach tank and all the smaller buckets are changed to Polypropylene. All the troublesome piping has been replaced with a single molded silicone tubing assembly. The flow is controlled with a "non-product contact" stainless steel pinch style valve.

He determined that the strainers were being damaged with an aggressive back flushing process. He proposed alternative Wedgewire strainers manufactured by Sani-Matic that could be aggressively back flushed.