John French will lead Systems Engineering team backed by 22 years of packaging automation experience

Yvonne Edwards is our featured employee spotlight this month. Yvonne first started with NCC Automated Systems in 1991. She’s done everything at NCC, from shipping and receiving, to purchasing and spare parts, and everything in between; she’s been with the company and has seen it grown from a start-up in a garage to the large operation it is now! She is a member of the Optical Delta as the Optical Delta Mechanical Engineer and works closely with Mike (Milky) Milkowich and Ryan Costello.

Erik Bronander brings life-long experience in packaging, including nutraceutical and pharmaceutical industry experience

Today, we’re celebrating Mike “Pencil” Ferraro, Mechanical Engineering Team Leader with NCC Automated Systems, who has been with the team since 2012. Actually, if you count the internship he had with us before he was hired full time, he’s been with us even longer!

2020 was an interesting year. While we were all adjusting to life in a pandemic, at NCC, we were so blessed to have an extraordinary team of committed, fantastic co-owners here with us through it all. We are thrilled that despite 2020 worldly obstacles, we've expanded our team to support our customers.

Dane Bauer is our featured employee spotlight this month. Dane has been with NCC Automated Systems since 2018. As a member of the fabrication department as a FAB Team leader/CNC Programmer/Machinist and reporting to Marty Zona, Dane said that there are many things that he’s done here at NCC that make him proud, but if he had to pick one it would be earning the respect of his fellow employees and being chosen as the employee of the year in his first full year at NCC (2019).

Stainless steel conveyors are an excellent fit for washdown applications in food processing. When you need a stainless steel conveyor that can converge or diverge products, particularly wrapped or packaged food products, pallets, or totes, multi-strand conveyors meet the challenge head-on.

Conveyors for washdown applications are typically made of stainless steel and plastic components to minimize rust and the contamination it can cause. This is especially true when it comes to conveying foods, pharmaceuticals, and nutraceuticals. But the conveying medium is also an important piece of equipment, determining whether a conveyor is washdown-compatible.

Conveyors that move products for human or animal consumption are typically required to meet special design and cleanability criteria to ensure product safety and reduce the risk of bacterial contamination. These criteria are often referred to collectively as “sanitary design.”

Food plants require special sanitation methods throughout the manufacturing process, posing special challenges for the conveyors that move them. When food products are being handled in a plant, conveyors and other equipment must often meet specific design requirements set by government and/or other industry bodies. After the product is packaged – in either primary (individual) or secondary and tertiary packaging - manufacturing equipment may need to be periodically washed down, occasionally with high pressure water, steam, and/or chemicals to maintain a clean environment and mitigate contamination in the facility.