Janet Heupel, Senior Account Executive, Advertising & Communications, Graco Industrial Products Division, Minneapolis

Dairy Foods: Discuss recent innovations from your company. These could be brand-new products or upgrades to existing products. Relate these innovations to dairy processing.

Heupel: Graco recently released new SaniForce piston pumps and unloaders to handle the most difficult dairy product additives like chocolate, fruit purees/paste and caramel with viscosities up to 1 million cps. These new piston pumps and unloaders are all designed with quick cleaning in mind. The pump lowers are quick knock down with sanitary flange clamp connections and have an easily removable, wash-down safe air motor shroud. Piston pumps alone can easily handle chocolates and purees while the unloaders can quickly evacuate drums and totes of pastes and caramels.