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"We have a lot of contact with our
independent retailers. We do a great deal of
training with them, which is our bread and butter."
Darren Fujii, Tuffy's Pet Products

process in its own dedicated room with some key processes in their own buildings. Completely removed from
the dry processing facility is the milling and dry ingredient blending as well as the meat processing facility.
Ingredients are blown and pumped to the dry pet food
processing facility through pipes from the milling facility and the meat facility. No employees working in the
mill or the meat building are allowed into the dry pet
food facility.
Also, for the food safety benefit, all products are
transferred with pneumatic conveying rather than
augers and bucket elevators. Horizon PSI, Lawrence,
Kansas, designed the dense-phase product transport
system used for every transfer from the extruder room
to the dryers to the coaters, coolers and then to the
packaging bins. To sanitize the lines used to transfer

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products, Tuffy's employs "pigging" and "burn outs."
Pigging systems work by sending a special projectile
called a pig through the pipe to clean and sanitize it.
Burn outs heat the piping for a specific amount of time
to prevent the growth of bacteria. In Tuffy's case, the
product transfer pipes are heated to a kill temperature
for four hours.

Hard decisions
With several decades of experience producing dry
pet food, Tuffy's had the steps of the process defined,
but the opportunity to purchase new equipment for
Tuffy's formulations presented some hard decisions.
Prior to building the new dry pet food processing facility in 2015, Tuffy's manufactured dry pet food on
three Wenger extruders and then added an Extru-



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PET Food Processing - December 2019
CONTENTS
OFF THE LEASH - Telling stories
TRENDS - Cold is HOT
PLANT PROFILE - AGGRESSIVELY GROWING
FOOD SAFETY - TEST and verify
INGREDIENTS - FOCUSED ON THE FACTS
FORMULATION - Balanced for BIOEFFICACY
EQUIPMENT - HANDLE with care
Harnessing HEAT
OPERATIONS - Starting Fresh
PACKAGING - Can do WITHOUT?
BEST IN SHOW
PATENTS TO PONDER
FEATURE EVENT - LUCKY 13th
EVENTS
AD INDEX
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PET Food Processing - December 2019 - CONTENTS
PET Food Processing - December 2019 - OFF THE LEASH - Telling stories
PET Food Processing - December 2019 - 7
PET Food Processing - December 2019 - 8
PET Food Processing - December 2019 - TRENDS - Cold is HOT
PET Food Processing - December 2019 - 10
PET Food Processing - December 2019 - 11
PET Food Processing - December 2019 - 12
PET Food Processing - December 2019 - 13
PET Food Processing - December 2019 - PLANT PROFILE - AGGRESSIVELY GROWING
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PET Food Processing - December 2019 - 21
PET Food Processing - December 2019 - 22
PET Food Processing - December 2019 - FOOD SAFETY - TEST and verify
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PET Food Processing - December 2019 - 28
PET Food Processing - December 2019 - INGREDIENTS - FOCUSED ON THE FACTS
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PET Food Processing - December 2019 - 35
PET Food Processing - December 2019 - 36
PET Food Processing - December 2019 - FORMULATION - Balanced for BIOEFFICACY
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PET Food Processing - December 2019 - 39
PET Food Processing - December 2019 - 40
PET Food Processing - December 2019 - 41
PET Food Processing - December 2019 - 42
PET Food Processing - December 2019 - EQUIPMENT - HANDLE with care
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PET Food Processing - December 2019 - 47
PET Food Processing - December 2019 - 48
PET Food Processing - December 2019 - Harnessing HEAT
PET Food Processing - December 2019 - 50
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PET Food Processing - December 2019 - 52
PET Food Processing - December 2019 - 53
PET Food Processing - December 2019 - 54
PET Food Processing - December 2019 - OPERATIONS - Starting Fresh
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PET Food Processing - December 2019 - PACKAGING - Can do WITHOUT?
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PET Food Processing - December 2019 - 65
PET Food Processing - December 2019 - BEST IN SHOW
PET Food Processing - December 2019 - 67
PET Food Processing - December 2019 - PATENTS TO PONDER
PET Food Processing - December 2019 - 69
PET Food Processing - December 2019 - 70
PET Food Processing - December 2019 - FEATURE EVENT - LUCKY 13th
PET Food Processing - December 2019 - EVENTS
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PET Food Processing - December 2019 - AD INDEX
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