together at the forefront. It's clear that the company sees a direct correlation between being the processor of choice to super-premium brands and being the employer of choice in the communities in which they are located. Safety is at the heart of all things they do from both a team member perspective and a food safety perspective. Going with the flow The larger, 135,000-sq.-ft. Pawnee City facility the company refers to as BP30 was built by C.J. Foods in 2011 and designed specifically around preventing microbial cross contamination by having three distinct areas of separation - raw material and meat handling, extrusion and packaging. The other locations, which were existing plants, have two areas of separation, processing is separate from packaging and finished goods storage. In all locations, C.J. Foods has a unique system for Air for the dense phase conveyance system is pulled in from the packaging room through HEPA filters and a burner to prevent microbial contamination. EXTRUDER FOR THE PRODUCTION OF PETFOOD A successful product of our client Nordic Petfood AMANDUS KAHL GmbH & Co. KG Dieselstrasse 5-9 · 21465 Reinbek Hamburg, Germany +49 (0) 40 72 77 10 info@akahl.de · akahl.de www.petfoodprocessing.net | September 2018 | PET FOOD PROCESSING 21http://www.akahl.de