The leader in injection technology and equipment in the poultry and red meat industry
MEPSCO (Meat Equipment Parts and Service Company) was founded in January 1984 by David Michelfelder, Robert Benton and Gregory McMillion, with up to 15 years each in the meat processing industry. Just prior to this all three had been with a Dutch manufacturer of similar equipment, specializing in brine injectors for ham and bacon. When the foreign manufacturer closed the US operation, the three principals started MEPSCO based on common experience and industry contacts established over the years.
In 2004, MEPSCO was purchased by Cooling and Applied Technology (C.A.T.), which became part of the JBT family in 2016.
Over 40 years of development, engineering and field proven expertise have led to today’s Northfield brand of structure supported spiral freezers. The Northfield SuperTRAK design, material selection and rugged construction provide lower maintenance requirements and reduced downtime. The Northfield LST (Large Spiral Technology) is the largest industrial spiral freezer on the market today, offering reliability and economy for large volume processors. Each LST is custom engineered to accept very heavy belt loads.
Flexible, gentle, and user-friendly powder filling solutions for optimal, automated performance
About The Brand
Since 1994, PLF International has designed and manufactured the most reliable and versatile powder filling machinery in the world. Our comprehensive range of semi and fully automated filling machines are built to facilitate the demands of the highly competitive food, beverage, cosmetics, and pharmaceutical industries.
PLF International equipment is designed to maximize performance, reduce waste, and limit operation and maintenance costs. Easy to clean with quick changeover, minimum giveaway, and gentle product handling, our machines are designed so performance can be adapted to meet specific production demands.
Our customers rely on our equipment to gain a competitive advantage in some of the most demanding industries and markets in the world, from baby food, coffee and tea, and dairy, to cosmetics and pharmaceuticals. When you partner with JBT and PLF International, you gain access to the most cutting-edge equipment in these industries and beyond, as well as our world-renowned customer service and support. We’re committed to your success.
Flexible Operation, Reliable Performance
Throughout our history, PLF International has developed a proven reputation for creating user-focused powder filling machines that give extensive options in terms of functional adaptability, while also providing assurance that you’ll get consistent, high-quality results every time.
PLF machines are designed to accommodate your specific needs and concerns. Our equipment can be semi or fully automatic, allowing you to optimize your operation and meet even the most ambitious production goals. With a line that offers easy cleaning and gentle product handling, we work tirelessly to develop state-of-the-art equipment that is both highly effective and user-friendly. You also have the option to fit each and every machine with our accumulated or individual head-update weight control systems to enhance accuracy and reduce giveaway.
PLF Products
Our comprehensive line of powder processing systems can accommodate a wide variety of production-line requirements. Versatility and simplicity combine to offer you solutions that limit the risk of human error, reduce operating costs, and maximize performance based on your needs.
Our Vacuum Powder Filler, for example, provides the flexibility to fill non-flow products by vacuum and free-flowing products by volume; additionally, cans, glass, plastic, and PET of any shape or size can be handled on one machine. Our Laser Coding System provides a complete solution for date and batch coding across a wide range of manufacturing sectors, coding a range of container types, including cans, composite, glass, and more. It also accommodates worldwide use with multiple languages and symbols.
PLF International understands the often rigid demands of the food, beverage, cosmetic, and pharmaceutical industries. With nearly 30 years of experience in manufacturing high-tech powder processing systems, we have gained unique insight into the challenges you face in your industry.
With unwavering commitment to providing practical solutions and an unbroken dedication to developing revolutionary and innovative designs, we continue to raise standards and break barriers alongside our customers.
For over a century, JBT has remained focused on a single mission. We strive to consistently push the limits of technological advancement and human capability in order to redefine what’s possible in FoodTech. Over the years and decades, we’ve established a reputation as an industry leader, designing and producing the world’s most advanced and powerful food-processing machinery. But we don’t stop there. What truly sets us apart is our commitment to the success of our valued partners. Our primary goal is to give our partners the tools and expertise they need to thrive and succeed.
When you choose to work with us at JBT, you gain access to:
Unrivaled industry expertise, available to you around the clock
Customized professional support and services
Our continued commitment to understanding your unique challenges and developing targeted solutions to help you achieve success
Unlock Your Potential at JBT’s Research & Technology Centers
When you partner with JBT and PLF International, you become part of a network of innovators and established industry leaders. We do more than just manufacture equipment. We also invest in the future of FoodTech, and we want to share that future with you.
We invite you to join us at our global Research and Technology Centers, where our partners have the opportunity to work directly with our specialists to test the latest equipment and technology, explore new production line setups, fine-tune recipes and processes, and take part in real-time innovation. Together, we can build a better future in FoodTech.
Dependable, High-Quality Support
Over the course of our extensive history, JBT has not only provided high-tech food processing equipment, we’ve also worked to provide our partners with unmatched customer support. From specialized maintenance and support to comprehensive insight into diverse markets, our team is available 24/7 to provide you with superior, personalized assistance.
Exceptional pathogen protection to improve product quality, maximize worker safety and consumer health, and increase trust in your brand
Prevenio produces innovative solutions that consistently deliver superior pathogen protection to enhance food safety for its clients and their customers. Businesses in the protein and produce markets stake their reputation on the quality of their products, the safety of their workers, and the health of their customers. Prevenio protects your brand by protecting lives. We aim to increase public trust in the food we all eat by ensuring your products are the best they can be in terms of quality and safety; we do this by staying true to our core values of honesty, consistency, thoroughness, and precision.
Our brand was founded in 2011 by scientists and engineers determined to develop technologically advanced solutions with powerful and precise food protection. Prevenio remains committed to providing the highest level of microbiological performance, an exceptional technical team, and cutting-edge solutions to prevent foodborne illness from entering the supply chain.
Prevenio’s dedication to scientific rigor, health and safety, and product quality can not only enhance food safety for your company, but also help you build trust with your customers and boost your profits.
Superior Pathogen Protection To Maximize Safety & Quality
Working with the leading produce and protein producers in the country, we deliver advanced pathogen protection to enhance food safety while also fostering safer work environments and limiting costs. At Prevenio, we add value by focusing on performance, innovation, service, and safety.
Performance — We help you achieve the highest standards of quality and microbiological performance by offering you advanced solutions to maximize yield while protecting your workers, your products, your customers, and your brand.
Innovation — We ask you to partner with us as we introduce new and innovative solutions and systems to the food-processing industry and apply data-driven approaches and ways of thinking to the industry’s toughest challenges.
Service — The advanced chemistries and engineering solutions we provide are supported by an exceptional technical service team; they work closely with our customers to consistently provide predictive, precise protection.
Safety — We protect your brand by protecting those you serve from foodborne illness; we do this by eliminating harmful bacteria from food products while maintaining full flavor, color, and nutrients.
Protein: Our Full-System Approach to Category 1 Performance
Prevenio employs a full-system approach to achieve Category 1 performance for our partners in the protein market. This enables us to deliver reliable, highly effective pathogen protection to maximize food safety while protecting the safety of workers and the health of consumers. Our comprehensive food-safety solutions empower you to: 1) achieve Category 1 performance within three months of installation, 2) improve product quality for texture and moisture retention, reduce costs and waste with chemical and water optimization, and 3) optimize your operations by taking advantage of our D3S Delivery System.
We believe food safety should be preventative, not reactive. That’s why we develop our solutions to ensure they provide you with highly flexible, consistently effective ways to prevent dangerous outbreaks of foodborne illness by pathogenic organisms such as salmonella and campylobacter.
Produce: Superior Post-Harvest Protection
In order to meet the highest standards of pathogen protection in produce markets, you need innovative, advanced chemistries combined with technologies that empower you with precise, flexible control. Prevenio’s solutions are targeted to your unique needs and challenges. We design intervention strategies around your specific products, processes, and plant conditions. This results in superior pathogen protection and improved product quality while reducing unnecessary costs and fostering a safer work environment.
Used alone, sequenced, or in conjunction with PAA, our unique chemistries have proven capable of achieving 99.999%+ pathogen reduction, while also improving the shelf-life and sensory profile of your processed produce.
Prevenio’s Innovative Solutions
Our comprehensive range of food-safety solutions are designed to achieve the highest possible standards of pathogen protection while also improving product quality, texture, and shelf-life, ensuring the safety of your workers, reducing unnecessary costs, and increasing flexibility, control, and precision. We develop targeted solutions to address specific problems and challenges.
Protein
We consistently deliver superior pathogen protection for our partners in the protein market, utilizing a full-system approach to achieve Category 1 Performance.
Produce
With our targeted solutions, you can reach the highest level of protection against the top pathogenic threats on processed fruits and vegetables.
Hand Sanitizer
Manufactured in GFSI-certified facilities using the highest grade of raw materials on the market, our hand-sanitizing products meet WHO guidelines and are USDA rated.
D3S Delivery System
Our automated delivery system enables you to optimize/titrate chemical usage to achieve more efficient pathogen control and take advantage of 24/7 remote monitoring.
In addition to our innovative solutions, Prevenio is committed to helping you maximize safety and improve process and product outcomes with our full-service private laboratory specializing in microbiology.
JBT: Your Industry Leader in Food Processing Technology
Producing food for consumption requires a commitment to precision, efficiency, consistency, and safety. You need industry partners you know you can rely on. The equipment, processes, and safety measures you utilize are vital to your success and the health and safety of your customers. You need a partner that delivers comprehensive, effective solutions that are targeted to your specific needs, challenges, and markets.
JBT is a proven leader in FoodTech. From food-safety and pathogen protection, to brine-preparation machinery, to fryers and filters, and beyond, we are committed to providing cutting-edge solutions that are flexible, innovative, and efficient.
Our Commitment to Collaboration
We don’t just think of you as another customer. When you work with JBT, we consider you a true partner in cultivating a better future in the food-processing industry. Over our long history, we’ve built a reputation for collaboration. That’s because we know that our success depends on your success. We focus on ensuring you get the attention and service you need to address the challenges you face in your industry and with your production lines so we can understand you better and improve our products and services in the future. By working together, we can make a better tomorrow for all of us.
JBT’s Research & Technology Centers
When you partner with JBT, you gain exclusive access to our global Research & Technology Centers. With over a dozen locations around the world, you’re invited to join us with your most pressing food-processing challenges, and our experts will help you find targeted solutions. Our R&T centers are there for you to utilize as you strive to optimize your processes and perfect your products. At our facilities, you’ll have the opportunity to:
View and test equipment and production-line setups to optimize your approach
Refine your recipes and techniques
Examine product quality, safety, craftsmanship, and compliance
Learn from our experts and access a wealth of industry data
Leading Industry Expertise At Your Fingertips
JBT made its debut in the FoodTech industry over a century ago, determined to push the boundaries of what was possible and develop new technologies to address the toughest challenges. Over the years, we’ve blazed new trails across a variety of diverse markets in food processing. We want to share what we’ve learned with you. We’re here to provide you with the support, service, and guidance you need to thrive and gain a competitive edge in your markets.
If you have questions about our equipment or solutions or need advice on your production line processes, contact our support team and let us know how we can help!
Prime Equipment Group, Inc. is a USA-based manufacturer of poultry processing equipment that has earned over more than two decades the trust of the industry by supplying innovative, reliable and hard-working solutions for nearly every point on the modern processing line.
We design and build stand-alone machines, as well as customized equipment systems and equipment from brand partners for processing plants all over the world. Our team members also offer helpful engineering assistance, hands-on field support and a quality selection of spare and replacement parts for multiple industries in over 15 countries.
Proseal designs, manufactures, assembles and services high quality tray sealing machinery and bespoke turnkey production line solutions. These machines are used to put flexible film lids onto pre-formed trays, this is done by applying a combination of time, temperature and pressure, to create a bond between the pre-formed tray and lidding material.
Predominantly used in the food sector, Proseal tray sealing machines package foods such as; ready meals, ready-to-cook dishes, meat, poultry, fish, fruit, vegetables, salads and sandwiches.
Proseal’s advanced technology is trusted by global food organizations packaging at significantly high volumes, to help extend the shelf life of produce and help retailers deliver food in the freshest state possible to the consumer.
JBT SCHRÖDER is a globally recognized manufacturer of technologically advanced injection and marination solutions. Our diverse range of machines are designed to solve even the most unconventional needs of facilities that process meat, poultry, fish, as well as other food products.
Successful curing is more complex than the simple addition of brine. Typical cured products include whole cuts, boned meat and cuts (with and without skin) and boneless meat. Apart from technological consultation, Schröder Maschinenbau also offers the following curing methods: Cooked and raw cured goods, fresh meat, fish and poultry are the main product groups for curing and marinating at Schröder.
The reproducibility of the end product forms the basis for product calculation. Schröder plays a large role in the establishment of this reproducibility.
In addition to consistent product quality, the BRIMAX brine preparation system offers operator guidance during brine creation, weight checks during batching, uniform cooling and mixing times and much more.
Injection is a common method for boned and boneless meat. The integration of Schröder IMAX injectors is possible in continuous processing lines, batching operation or as a flexible individual solution.
Traditional curing methods (pickling) are seldom sufficient for distributing brine uniformly in meat cuts in industrial processing. Precise injection quantities with uniform brine distribution, continuous production and a hygienic design are just some of the customer advantages when using IMAX injection technology.
The goals of the Schröder PREMAX system are the improvement of intramuscular and extramuscular slice cohesion, higher yields, tenderising effects and the adaptation of different meat cuts to subsequent production processes.
Schröder MAX vacuum massage units are primarily intended for boneless meat cuts. MAX massage units are used with and without vacuums at a controlled temperature in both continuous processing and batching operation.
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