Kibble with segregation issues

Consumer Products

On-time delivery and product quality depend upon reliable bulk material handling. The Consumer Products industry supplies items such as batteries, laundry and dish detergent, soap, and pet foods.

This industry is continuously searching for means to increase production, reduce manufacturing costs, improve product quality, or develop innovative products offering a competitive edge.  In order to meet these demands, producers must design the material handling equipment to provide consistent, reliable feed and maintain consumer product quality from formulation through final packaging.  Market success can quickly degrade due to a recall, series of customer complaints, or poor product performance.

Consumer Products Industry Services

Whether you are batching raw materials to a mixing operation, transporting ingredients from a storage silo to a dosing bin, or high-speed filling of your product into bags, boxes, cartons, or sacks, Jenike & Johanson can help you achieve reliable material flow and maintain your consumer product quality from its inception to final form.

Common Consumer Products Industry Challenges

Many consumer products, such as detergent or soap, can be prone to poor flow due to arching or ratholing during routine storage and handling.  These flow problems can result in powder caking, production delays, increased operator intervention, or product losses.  Some products like dry cell battery cathode blends may be free-flowing, but have a high tendency to segregate.  Segregation of the final blend components can have an adverse effect upon batch quality, product uniformity, and final product performance.

Common Materials Handled

Below, please find a shortened list of the bulk materials we have successfully handled in the Consumer Products industry to date. Please note the below list is just a small sampling of the materials we’ve handled for clients in the Consumer Products industry.

  • Laundry and dish detergent
  • Soap (flakes, noodles, pellets)
  • Kitty litter
  • Batteries (MnO2, LiOH2, NiCad)
  • Toner (for laser printers)
  • Pet foods (kibble)
  • Cosmetics and beauty products
  • Paper and hygiene products
  • Cleansers and sanitizers
  • Animal Feed
    • Catfish Food
    • Chicken Meal
    • Chicken Uncoated
    • Cow Feed Pellets
    • Dairy Feed Supplement
    • Domestic Bone
    • Lamb Meal
    • Liver Meal
    • Marigold Meal
    • Meat Flour
    • Poultry Meal
    • Rice Hulls
    • Soybean Meal
    • Soy Flakes
    • Sugar Beet Pulp
    • Whole Rice Hulls
    • Whole Wheat
    • Animal Feed, Corn
      • Chaff
      • Dust
      • Fiber
      • Fines
      • Germ
      • Gluten
      • Starch
      • Whole
    • Animal Feed, Peanut
      • Shells
      • Hull Pellets
      • Hulls
  • Antacid
  • Baby Powder
  • Battery
    • Cathode Blend
    • Grid Metal
    • Mud
    • Zinc Anode
  • Construction Materials
    • Asphalt
    • Carpeting
    • Ceiling Tile Dust
    • Edge Trim
    • Floor Tile Mix
    • Grout
    • Plaster of Paris
    • Plastic Lumber Product
    • Polystyrene Foam
    • Roofing Granules
    • Siding Capstock
    • Stucco
    • Tile Body
    • Window Compound
  • Cosmetics
    • Blush
    • Eye Shadow
    • Highlighter
    • Perfume
    • Brake Lining Mix
    • Dental Adhesive
    • Deodorant
  • Detergent
    • Agglomerates
    • Bleach
    • Brightener
    • Compacted
    • Diluent
    • Dishwasher
    • Fabric Softener
    • Laundry
    • Powdered Cleanser
  • Dyes (various colors)
  • Fertilizer, Grass
  • Flax Seed
  • Fungicide Ingredient
  • Herbicide
  • Hibiscus Flowers
  • Laxative
  • Magnesium Hydroxide
  • Pet Products
    • Cat Litter
    • Cheese Flavored Dog Food
    • Dog Bone Pellets
    • Dry Pet Food
    • Feline Growth Food
    • Puppy Blend
  • Soap
    • Chips
    • Flakes
    • Noodles
    • Pellets
  • Super Absorbent Polymer
  • Toothpaste Ingredients
  • Polymer
  • Talc
  • Tobacco
  • Toner (various colors)

Consumer Products Industry Clients

Below, please find a sampling of clients who we have successfully provided bulk material engineering services for in the Consumer Products industry.

  • Procter & Gamble
  • Unilever
  • Duracell
  • Kimberly Clark
  • Scotts Miracle-Gro
  • GAF/Elk Roofing
  • Xerox
  • Energizer
  • Clorox
  • Amway
  • Church & Dwight
  • Clorox
  • Colgate-Palmolive
  • Dial
  • Drackett
  • Duracell
  • Eastman Kodak
  • Eveready
  • GAF
  • General Electric
  • Great Lakes Carbon
  • Haartz
  • Hill’s Pet
  • IBM
  • Imperial Tobacco, Canada
  • Johnson & Johnson
  • Kal Kan
  • Kohler
  • Knauf Fiberglass
  • Lever Brothers
  • Manville
  • Nantong Celulose Fibers, China
  • Philip Morris
  • Procter & Gamble
  • Procter & Gamble de Mexico
  • RCA
  • Ralston Purina
  • Sociedad Pesquera, Chile
  • Xerox