Automated Super-Sack System in Cocoa Plant

AIG Food Ingredients, Installation, Project Management

Customer: Midwest Cocoa Producer Installed Cost: $350,000 The customer is upgrading production lines and automating manual processes. AIG replaced an old manual super-sack filling process (ingredient weighing had been the only automated step) with an automated super-sack fill system that includes a pallet dispenser, fill system and stretch wrapper. Once each woven-poly bag is filled with 1 metric ton of …

Automated Insulation Packaging & Unitizer Process

AIG Automation, Building Materials, Installation

Customer: Private | Southwest facility Installed Cost: $2.5 million Objective: Replace existing manual packaging system with a new PLC-driven automated packaging system to unitize single packages of insulation into a unit. System was fully automated allowing single packages to be transported to the unitizing system and automatically placed into a large bag for shipping. System included a high-speed vision system …

Automated Insulation Packaging & Palletizing Process

AIG Automation, Building Materials, Installation

Customer: Private | Southwest facility Installed Cost: $15 million Objective:  Replace existing manual packaging system with a new PLC-driven automated packaging system to package different products at variable packaging rates.  Some products are stacked and placed in cartons, then the cartons stacked on pallets and secured together to the pallet.  Other products are stacked directly on pallets with corrugated end …

Salt Processing Facility

AIG Mining and Minerals, Project Management, Specialty Chemicals

New Johnsonville, Tennessee Installed cost – $8.5 million The salt plant receives dried salt from an existing titanium dioxide facility’s effluent recovery process, then processes it for final shipment. Project for the new plant included a bulk truck and rail loading system, warehouse for shipments of palletized product by truck and rail, bulk storage silos, food-grade bagging line, office and …