Pet owners increasingly demand high-quality food and care products for their pets, which has begun to blur the lines between food and supplements for humans and pets. This trend has put significant pressure on original equipment manufacturers (OEM) in the pet products sector to improve their processes and enhance the quality of the goods they produce.

At Readco Kurimoto, we specialize in designing and manufacturing advanced industrial mixing equipment. We can provide pet food and product OEMs with the means to consistently and efficiently mix high-viscosity doughs, pastes, and slurries. Along with our industrial controls partner, Melfi Technologies, Inc., we can enable superior quality control, track and trace production, and enhanced formula and recipe management for pet product manufacturing operations.

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Advanced Mixing Technology and Process Automation for Pet Food Production

Readco Kurimoto offers innovative cat and dog food processing equipment that we custom-design and manufacture to meet each customer’s unique needs and specifications. We focus on automated technologies that provide numerous advantages:

  • Improved product consistency: Implementing automation eliminates human error, ensures strict adherence to recipes, and maintains optimal manufacturing conditions. The result is consistent, uniform products that meet customer expectations.
  • Enhanced quality control: Our mixing equipment for the pet food industry provides maximum precision and real-time monitoring capabilities, adding substantial value to your quality control processes.
  • Increased operational efficiency: Automated mixing equipment can boost productivity by reducing manufacturing time and facilitating quick and dynamic formula changes, enhancing your operational capabilities.
  • Energy savings: We’ve designed our technologically advanced automated mixing machines to consume less energy, which can reduce operating expenses and boost your company’s bottom line.

 

Pet Food Applications, Key Standards, and Other Capabilities

All manufacturing operations that produce perishable products have a contamination risk, and the pet food supply chain is no different. Pet food OEMs and suppliers have a responsibility to take steps that will mitigate the risk of dangerous microbial contamination in their products. Failing to do so can result in injury or death for beloved customer pets and result in extensive brand damage and extensive recalls for the manufacturer. 

With fully enclosed industrial mixing equipment from Readco Kurimoto, pet sector OEMs can manufacture their products with no batch-to-batch variations and minimized contamination risk from external sources. We design and build our equipment in accordance with stringent standards set forth by:

  • American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)
  • U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA)
  • Association of American Feed Control Officials (AAFCO)

Before finalizing any sale, we ensure that our industrial mixing equipment will perform reliably in your operation. The Readco Kurimoto team will conduct extensive laboratory testing to determine that our machines can scale to any capacity you need and that they integrate seamlessly into your other processes. 

We Verify the Quality of Your Pet Food Processing Equipment

Our manufacturing process also includes comprehensive testing in our in-house laboratory to ensure your new mixing equipment will perform to your expectations. Our advanced testing capabilities have helped us achieve a 99% success rate in producing industrial mixing equipment that delivers the desired results. Our customers also experience significant efficiency improvements that minimize storage requirements.

Thanks to this testing capability, we have a 100% success rate for identifying and selling industrial mixing products that work as intended in their final application. The efficiency improvements provided by our mixing equipment help users to eliminate excess storage requirements and support Just-in-Time manufacturing processes. 

Support for a Wide Range of Pet Food Products

Readco takes all customer confidentiality agreements very seriously. If you haven’t heard of us, it’s because we don’t talk about our customers or the specific products our solutions have helped them produce. Generally speaking, however, we have supported manufacturing operations for a variety of pet products, including:

  • Biscuit treat doughs
  • Creme fillings
  • Meat emulsions
  • Encapsulation of medicine in veterinary pharmaceuticals
  • Textured vegetable protein pet food

With industrial mixing solutions from Readco, you can improve the traceability of your products. We integrate advanced controls to monitor each input, helping you to improve the precision of your track and trace efforts. If you’re still not convinced, here are 10 reasons that continuous processing is better than batch mixing.

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If you are looking to gain a competitive advantage, Readco Kurimoto, LLC is a perfect choice for your most challenging processing needs. Fill out the form to contact our team and discuss your needs. We’ll be in touch shortly.

 

Learn more about the products we’ve worked on by downloading our case studies.

 

Industrial Mixing Solutions From Readco Kurimoto

Because we focus on tailoring our pet treat food processing equipment and other offerings to our customers’ specific applications, Readco Kurimoto can provide a system that delivers multiple business benefits for pet food manufacturers and processors:

  • Increased throughput: Our equipment is compatible with continuous food processing for pet food by supporting fully automated 24/7 operations with minimal downtime.
  • Scalability: You can scale production up and down quickly as the demand changes.
  • Better service: You’ll be able to get high-quality products to market faster, improving customer satisfaction levels.
  • Lower labor costs: By integrating automation, your employees can focus on other areas of manufacturing.
  • Combines operations in one machine– in many applications the Readco Continuous Processor can accomplish multiple steps into one operation.  This could include mixing, emulsification, temperature control, and addition of flavors/colors.

 

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To see how our continuous petfood & care processing solutions can benefit your operation, please contact us today.

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