APEC Blog

Welcome to the APEC Blog! Your resource for finding insights and equipment solutions for process automation, ingredient handling, weighing and batching, and more. Whether you’re an animal or pet food manufacturer, working in the food production industry, or another manufacturing industry, we cover a wide range of topics to help improve efficiencies, maintain quality, and solve your production challenges.

With a variety of different blog types, we have the resources to support manufacturers looking to streamline operations, reduce downtime, and stay ahead of industry trends. Check out our latest articles below.

Getting Screw Conveyor Design Right: Avoid Risks & Maximize Efficiency

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=""]As an engineer, overseeing project efficiency and longevity is crucial for ensuring screw conveyors are designed properly to avoid equipment delays schedules, spikes maintenance, and drives up costs. A poorly designed screw conveyor is not just a nuisance, it poses operational, safety, and budgetary…
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Boosting Efficiency in Your Processing Plant: How APEC Can Help

When it comes to your processing plant, efficiency is everything. Producing pet food, animal feed or specialty ingredients, every minute of downtime, inconsistent mix, or wasted product chips away at your bottom line. That’s why optimizing your plant’s production process is essential to staying ahead…
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7 Ways to Save Money on Cattle Feed

When you save money on cattle feed, you can make your feedlot more efficient. There are a variety of ways to save money on macro and micro cattle feed ingredients. Streamlining the feed mixing process, introducing automation in cattle feed production and perfecting your ingredient…
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Pet Food Industry Trends 2025 | What Manufacturers Should Know

Pet Food Industry Trends 2025  The pet food industry is entering a new chapter in 2025, driven by growing demand for healthier, more sustainable pet food offerings. Today’s pet owners are prioritizing real, nutrient-rich ingredients that support long-term health and longevity. They're more intentional than…
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Types of Sheet Metal Rolling Machines and How They’re Used

Sheet metal rollers are essential for custom fabrication machine shops for a wide variety of applications and industries. The rollers can create arcs, bends, cylinders and circular objects. With the correct type of sheet metal rolling machine, you can improve product quality, system efficiency and…
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How APEC’s Equipment Meets Food Regulatory Compliance

As a leader in the food processing industry, you are dedicated to providing the best product possible. One of the most critical aspects of quality is having equipment that meets health and safety regulatory compliance requirements. Your customers trust that your products are safe to…
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Find the Right Controls Solution for Your Processing Equipment

If your machine has a customized control need, it can be frustrating to find a custom solution. Covering scopes from those as simple as building and wiring a single, predesigned control panel, to as complex as full design, build, and programming of a complete control…
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Factors to Consider when Selecting a Liquid Dosing System

Liquid dosing systems are used in many industries, including animal feed, pet food and food processing. Its primary use is to pump and meter liquids into a process to accurately measure what liquid is added and when it is incorporated. Without a liquid dosing system,…
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Overcoming Production Challenges with APEC’s Custom Machinery

The choice between manual and automated production is a constant consideration for today’s manufacturers. Issues with human error, waste, safety and efficiency have been around since the dawn of manufacturing, and they continue to present challenges for companies in the processing industry today. For companies…
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The Weight of the Matter: Overcoming Load Cell Issues

Are you using capacitive load cells to weigh your ingredients on your production line? It can be tempting to overload the recommended weight. But overloading your capacitive load cell by even a small amount can pose irreversible damage to your load cells’ accuracy. Let’s find…
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