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Darn Tough Vermont Streamlines Production with Right-Sized Steam Technology
Against the Green Mountains in Northfield, Vermont, family-owned Cabot Hosiery Mills has been knitting premium socks for more than 40 years. The company has built a global reputation making something surprisingly complex: socks. But not just any socks โ Darn Tough Vermontยฎ socks. Darn Tough Vermont streamlined its operations by consolidating knitting and sock finishing under one roof at the Original Mill in Northfield. After advancements in the finishing process made this possible, the company partnered with Clayton Industries to replace two large 100 BHP fire-tube boilers with two compact 50 BHP Clayton Steam Generators equipped with Super Economizers.
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Recondition or Replace Aging Steam Generators?
See What Led One Company To Itโs Decision
Modine Manufacturing produces thermal management technology and solutions, such as heat exchangers and cooling systems, for a wide range of industries, from on highway vehicles to data centers engineering mission-critical thermal management solutions. It is based in Racine, WI, and has operations in North America, South America, Europe, and Asia.
Don Raines, Modine Maintenance / Sample Shop Supervisor, said steam is used in simulated environmental conditions as well as direct applications. โWe simulate conditions in order to produce a superior product for our customers.โ
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Claytonโs Steam Technology Saves 2 Million Pounds Of Perfect Tomatoes.
Seaside Farm Lost 8% Of Its Tomato Crop Each Year Because It Was Too Ripe To Ship.
Itโs all about the tomato,โ says Ross Taylor, a fifth-generation heir of the family tomato farming business, Seaside Farm. Based on Saint Helena Island in South Carolina, every year the family sells 20 million pounds of their tomatoes to restaurateurs and local grocers mostly along the East Coast.
โWe pick them mature green. We canโt ship a ripe tomato,โ said Mac Sanders, Rossโs uncle and one of the familyโs current crop of patriarchs. Tomatoes ripen to their luscious red color naturally when the plant produces ethylene, an odorless, tasteless chemical.