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SPECIAL FOCUS Innovation at Sweet. The company has invented, designed, perfected and manufactured in-house a very clever multi-purpose heat processor called the ‘CalorMatic’. It offers a new concept for the economical, efficient, uniformed and clean thermal treatment for a large variety of products, byproducts and materials. It basically roasts, toasts and dries grains; for example, it takes moisture out of the soybeans making the soy a better protein for the feed industry, giving better enzyme activity and conversion for bette§r feed energy. It’s a hybrid product, it’s more like a dryer. These units are available in different sizes. Sweet indicated that they have sold multiple units to a customer in the U.S. that processes specialty products for the dairy and animal industries. I was taken outside to see first-hand this awesome machine, this working model is kept onsite to run tests for potential customers to see if it will extract the right amount of moisture from the different products received. This CalorMatic has a powerful fan that pulls air from the outside and forces it through a flame burner which fills a chamber with heated air under the conveyor. This super-hot air passes underneath the product. The product never touches the flame; however, you can see the burner through the window. The fan will blow over the burner, thus blowing hot air over the product. The heated air will push through the product, so six inches of product depth will go in and as you see this the material will be wet at the beginning then it will become super-heated with the air and will take out the moisture in just one run. The company has a long-time European dealer in Italy who has sold multiple CalorMatic® units
The Sweet Calormatic throughout Europe over the past 20 plus years. This awesome piece of equipment is very instrumental in the feed industry and for roasting beans. The importance of such a dynamic product was referenced in a panel discussion at a recent Feed industry conference in the U.S. A senior executive on the panel from a prominent industry cooperative indicated how important it would be for all feed mills and cattle related operations to have provisions for a roaster for their facilities. The CalorMatic® is an awesome piece of equipment indeed!
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