So, you’re upgrading your food production equipment or adding to your line. Good for you. And you purchased everything you needed from Eaglestone. Smart move. Now all you have to do is wait for our installers to arrive and get you up and running in no time. Well, maybe. Many times, when we’ve pulled up […]
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CleanLockers™ Solve an Often-Overlooked Sanitation Problem
Having spent over 20 years manufacturing equipment for the food processing industry, we’ve been inside a lot of facilities. What did many of them have in common? Locker rooms at risk for sanitation issues. While manufacturers usually maintain their focus on keeping their main processing area clean, they tend to forget that locker rooms need […]
Large Volume Sorting Conveyors: Pick and Pack Made Fast and Easy
You’ve got thousands of individual products coming off the line or stored in the warehouse. It’s time to pack them all up in different boxes and ship them off to your customers. What’s the best way to prepare them for shipment? Basically, you have three choices: 1) set up a pack line with workers to […]
Jim Proce: Entrepreneur, Engineer and Artist
Sales Engineer Jim Proce owned his own company (Procon Systems) for over 30 years. He specialized in supplying conveyors and conveying systems for the food, pharmaceutical and other related industries. Thinking to retire, he sold the company to us, but found he missed the interaction with clients. Over lunch one afternoon, Eaglestone President, Carmen Sammauro, […]
Industrial Catwalks: Eaglestone Crosses the Line
Whether you call it a catwalk, walkover, elevated walkway or crossover, these structures literally bridge the gap from one side of a production line to the other. Raised walkways allow pedestrian traffic to avoid time-consuming detours or the temptation to take unsafe shortcuts. They add value by enabling workers to safely and swiftly get where […]
Newest Sanitary Trends: Making It Easier to Do It Right
In the food production business, there is no such thing as “good enough.” Sanitation has to be done correctly. Every. Single. Time. That’s one of the reasons we’ve gotten a lot of requests lately for incorporating two of our conveyor features that make cleaning conveyor belts and around side rails a whole lot easier. And […]
Keeping Up with Mark Russ
Before joining the Eaglestone team in 2013, Mark Russ learned to problem solve by working in assembly, construction and remodeling. When a friend told him about an opening in our assembly department, Mark was eager to give it a try. He liked the idea of having steady work in a smaller organization. It wasn’t long […]
See the Eaglestone Difference for Yourself at Pack Expo 2018
Are you as excited about PACK EXPO 2018 as everyone here at Eaglestone? We can’t wait to get to Chicago this October 14-17 to see what’s new and exciting in our industry. Since the last show in Chicago back in 2016, we’ve paid attention when our customers spoke about their unique food packaging applications and challenges. […]
Don’t Let Contamination Send Food Safety Down the Tube
In the Sanitation Wars, the best strategy is to deny the battlefield to the enemy. Bacteria will take every opportunity to hide in any nook and cranny available to them in a food packaging system. This includes places that are supposedly sealed off. That is why many food packaging organizations are moving away from tubular […]
New Flow Mach 2 Waterjet Cuts Through Steel Like Butter
Water is usually recognized as a universal solvent. Given enough time, drops of water will cut through mountains of solid rock. Imagine what happens when you crank up the pressure to 60,000 psi! A stream with that kind of force behind it will cut with ease through glass, plastic, aluminum and even steel. In fact, […]