Consumers seeking healthier snack options or better-for-you plant-based proteins have been steadily increasing the demand for nuts for decades. There are more than 20 types of edible nuts in the [...]

Apex recently hosted our Steam 101 Class with vendor Watson McDaniel. This class is an introduction to the fundamentals of steam systems and equipment. The goal of this class is to increase [...]

Why should you use WCR Plate and Frame Heat Exchangers over other heat exchangers? There are primarily 5 Advantages of WCR Plate and Frame Heat Exchangers: Efficiency: WCR plate and frame heat [...]

Otis Spunkmeyer Bakery, located in Illinois, produces gourmet cookies and ready-to-bake bread dough. They originally started as a cookie manufacturer but have become the leading producer of [...]

A Boiler is a closed vessel in which water or other fluid is heated. The boiler control system means a balance of energy and mass. Boilers are used in a wide range of process industries such as [...]

Acrison is a feeder and bulk material handling equipment manufacturer making dry bulk material processing equipment in Moonachie, New Jersey US A since the early 1960’s.  In that time, they [...]

Challenge: A large polymer manufacturing company used steam for their critical assets such as heated hydraulic moulding presses. It was essential that the steam was kept at a very high pressure [...]

A boiler turndown ratio refers to the ratio between a boiler’s highest fire setting (maximum output) and lowest fire setting (minimum output). Turndown ratios vary depending on the boiler. For [...]

The Meyer Pneumatic Screw Pump is an airlock designed to feed dry pulverized material from a gravity feed hopper into a pneumatic conveying line by using a screw auger. It is engineered to [...]

The craft distilling community in the US has grown in leaps and bounds over the years, with just over 2250 active craft distilleries in the US as of June 2020. That adds up to plenty of [...]