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1st & 2nd Legger Bench (Platform)

Millard's 1st & 2nd Legger Bench (Platform) is a center-post stationary platform for the personnel to do the 1st processing of the beef by removing the tails, udders, hooves, etc.  The beef is deshackled after processing, then it is hung by two hooks on trolleys to be transferred to the skinning conveyor.

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4 Inch Roller I Beam Overhead Conveyor

The smaller 4" Roller I Beam conveyor is best suited for Infeed overhead conveyors, Outfeed overhead conveyors, and General Transfer conveyors. Our engineers can custom design a layout and fabricate a complete 4" roller I beam system that utilizes a single or multi drive configuration and includes the beam work and conveyor supporting structure.  These systems use X458 chain (X678 available) with trolley assemblies using blue poly wheels and cast drop finger attachments on customizable centers.  The rail systems are beam supported, and we can supply all the rail hanger parts including the beams.  See our Support Products and Drive Assemblies details below for more information about supplied drives and take-ups.

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  • Constructed of galvanized and plated parts
  • Upgrades, retrofits, and new constuction
  • Sized for your layout and design requirements.
  • Installation services available.

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6 Inch Roller I Beam Overhead Conveyor

The 6" Roller I Beam conveyor is ideal for Quick Chill conveyor and Blast Chill conveyor systems as well as Bleed and Scald conveyor systems. We can supply the entire conveyor system to meet your needs in conveying hogs through a blast freezing system or in moving hogs in a vertical position while bleeding and scalding in a coordinated operation from shackler to dehairing machine.  Our engineers can custom design a layout and fabricate a complete 6" roller I beam system that utilizes a single or multi drive configuration and includes the beam work and conveyor supporting structure.  These systems utilize 6" trolley poly wheels with X678 chain on S 6x12.5# steel I beams and stainless hooks on 1' centers.  Included in our designs are boltable drives, traction wheel turns, and counter-weighted take-ups.  All components are heavy duty with most being galvanized for long life.  The chain is zinc plated and the hooks are stainless steel. See our Support Products and Drive Assemblies details below for more information about supplied drives and take-ups.

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  • Upgrades, retrofits, and new constuction
  • Sized for your layout and design requirements.
  • Installation services available.

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Accumulation Conveyors

Millard has extensive experience in the canning industry and knows the importance of Accumulation Conveyors.  These conveyors act as a "parking lot" and collect large volumes of cans so they can be quickly fed (necked-down) in a single file through upstream processes like labeling without starving the process.  These wide flat top conveyors can be combined with push back tables and generally operate 90 degrees to the next process.  Accumulation conveyors are similar to our Low Back Pressure Conveyors but use a smooth top to glide under the cans instead of rollers.  Millard can provide the controls and integration into your existing or new lines.  All the standard features found on our Belt Conveyors in the "Support Equipment and Services".

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Augers

Millard custom builds Augers and Screw Conveyors supporting a wide variety of applications for moving and/or mixing products from one operation to another or into storage containers, transport hoppers, combos, vats, drums, etc.  Our augers are made with heavy duty stainless steel following our "Safety and Sanitary Design Standards". Carbon construction is available for less sanitary conditions and needs.  We offer a wide range of sizes (most common are 6", 9", 12" and 20"), and most custom sizes available. 

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Augers

Millard custom builds Augers and Screw Conveyors supporting a wide variety of applications for moving and/or mixing products from one operation to another or into storage containers, transport hoppers, combos, vats, drums, etc.  Our augers are made with heavy duty stainless steel following our "Safety and Sanitary Design Standards". Carbon construction is available for less sanitary conditions and needs.  We offer a wide range of sizes (most common are 6", 9", 12" and 20"), and most custom sizes available. 

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Augers

Millard custom builds Augers and Screw Conveyors supporting a wide variety of applications for moving and/or mixing products from one operation to another or into storage containers, transport hoppers, combos, vats, drums, etc.  Our augers are made with heavy duty stainless steel following our "Safety and Sanitary Design Standards". Carbon construction is available for less sanitary conditions and needs.  We offer a wide range of sizes (most common are 6", 9", 12" and 20"), and most custom sizes available.

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Automatic Hog Head Splitter

Millard's Automatic Hog Head Splitter is designed for brain and pituitary extraction.  Millard offers an efficient rotary Head Splitter capable of 1200 head/hr.  The unit comes complete with hydraulic power unit, controls, safety guarding, and outfeed table.

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Bagging Stations

The bagging stations are used to pack meat products into vacuum bags automatically or with worker assistance before they go to the boxing area.  We can supply Bagging Horns, Bag Forks, Polybsg Racks, and Auto Stuffers custom sized for your application.

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Barrels & Drums

Moving product in bulk from one operation to another frequently requires a container in the form of a Barrel or Drum. Millard fabricates sanitary barrels and drums built specifically for moving ingredients from Loss-in-weight systems, Ribbon Blenders, Mixers, Hoppers, Augers, Cluster Breakers, general product transfers, temporary storage, etc. to further mixing and processing operations (e.g. Prefilling, Cooking, Final Processing). Our Barrels and Drums are built rugged using stainless steel and are typically sized in 55 gallon and 140 gallon.

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Belly Press

Millard's unique Belly Press provides a symmetrical method for flattening hog bellies just prior to processing or blast freezing.  Our Press is an in-line operation paced to the line speed providing a uniform flattening process that is easily integrated, operated, and cleaned. See our "Case Study" for more details.

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  • Heavy Duty Stainless Steel Construction
  • Variable speed motor
  • HD Wash-down duty motor and gearbox
  • Mobile (with wheels) or stationary
  • Sanitary Flat Belt versus Rollers
  • Quick Adjustments
  • Application to both trimming and skinning lines
  • Cleaning labor savings
  • Improved quality and consistency of flattened pork bellies
  • Easily cleaned
  • Improved Sanitation
  • Multiple applications: machine can be used for Jowls, Raw Pork Bellies, and Smoked Pork Bellies

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Belly Roller

Millard's Belly Roller is designed for automatic flattening of hog bellies in preparation for blast freezing.  Our Belly Roller can be mounted to a table top conveyor or purchased as part of the conveyor line.

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Belt Conveyors

Our line of custom belt conveyors can be and are used throughout the food industry to move your products for both in-process and completed operations.  They have Safety and Sanitary Designs as standard features and all our belt conveyors are customizable by length, width, height, angle, and belt type. Our years of experience in this industry has helped us evolve our conveyors to a simple effective sanitary design that is built to last and can withstand your manufacturing environment.  Our high quality conveyor's top features include heavy duty stainless steel construction with sanitary welding,  high quality parts, and a sanitary design using only open-channel components. Some of your belt options are Cleated, Stainless Steel Mesh, Smooth, Textured, etc., and if needed, we are a licensed Intralox ARBTM supplier.  Sampling of the Conveyors Available:

• Accumulation Conveyors
• Belt Conveyors
• Blow Off Conveyors
• Bottle Conveyors
• Bulk Handling Conveyors
• Case & Carton Conveyors
• Can Conveyors
• Chain Drive Live-roller Conveyors
• Converging / Dividing Conveyors
• Cooling Conveyors
• Curved Conveyors
• Decline Conveyors
• Empty Box Conveyors
• Freezer Conveyors
• Floor to Floor Conveyors
• Full Box Conveyors
• Incline Conveyors
• Intralox ARBTM Conveyors
• Label Conveyors
• Merge Conveyors
• Mesh Belt Conveyors
• Oven Conveyors
• Pallet Conveyors
• Palletizing Conveyors
• Product Conveyors
• Reject Conveyors
• S-shape Conveyors
• Sanitary Belt Conveyors
• Scale Conveyors
• Sorting Conveyors
• Spacer Conveyors
• Straight Conveyors

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Belt Conveyors (Beef)

Our line of custom belt conveyors are used throughout Beef Further Processing.  They have Safety and Sanitary Designs as standard features and all our belt conveyors are customizable by length, width, height, angle, and belt type.  Our high quality conveyor's top features include heavy duty stainless steel construction with sanitary welding,  high quality parts, and a sanitary design using only open-channel components. Some of your belt options are Cleated, Stainless Steel Mesh, Smooth, Textured, etc., and if needed, we are a licensed Intralox ARB™ supplier.  We can manufacture most any custom width, length and angle you need.  See Belt Conveyors under Support Equipment and Services for more details.

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Belt Conveyors Pack Off

Our line of custom belt conveyors can be used throughout the Pack Off area to move your products for both in-process and completed operations.  They have Safety and Sanitary Designs as standard features and all our belt conveyors are customizable by length, width, height, angle, and belt type.  Our years of experience in this industry has helped us evolve our conveyors to a simple effective sanitary design that is built to last and can withstand your manufacturing environment.

Sampling of Pack Off Conveyors Available:

• Accumulation Conveyors
• Blow Off Conveyors
• Case & Carton Conveyors
• Chain Drive Live-roller Conveyors
• Converging / Dividing Conveyors
• Empty Box Conveyors
• Full Box Conveyors
• Intralox ARBTM Conveyors
• Label Conveyors
• Merge Conveyors
• Pallet Conveyors
• Palletizing Conveyors
• Product Conveyors
• Reject Conveyors
• Scale Conveyors
• Spacer Conveyors

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Bleed and Scald Conveyor

This system is made up of heavy duty overhead conveyors and conveyor systems designed to carry hogs through the scalding and bleed out process.  It is an automated operation from shackling to dehairing.  This complete system includes the 6" roller I-Beam conveyor, 6" trolleys on 24" centers, rollers, drives, traction wheels, sprockets, scald tanks, and other necessary components.  See our 6" Roller I Beam Overhead Conveyor in the Overhead Conveyor Equipment section for conveyor details.

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  • Supplied as a complete system
  • Sticking and bleeding accomplished in vertical positions
  • Unshackler integrated to drop hogs at production pace
  • Variable speed drive permits pacing with line speeds
  • Shackles permanently mounted to chains
  • Custom line designs adaptable to existing or new requirements

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Bleed Conveyor

Our overhead Bleed Conveyor is a custom conveyor used for reliable product conveying.  The X678 chain with its pushing fingers (drop fingers) spaced on customizable centers runs along replaceable guide channels.  The drop fingers engage the trolley assembly that is riding on the supplied rounded meat rail.  This meat rail is usually 5/8" x 3" but is always sized for the application. It is equipped with our fabricated heavy duty hangers for the load and return sides, top and bottom mounting plates for the drop fingers, the take-up, and the complete drive motor assembly.  The hangers are spaced as required and mounted on the properly sized supporting beams that we also supply. Everything is constructed of heavy duty galvanized material.

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  • Upgrades, retrofits, and new constuction
  • Sized for your layout and design requirements
  • Installation services available

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Boning Lines

Boning Lines are one of the key processes in Poultry operations.  Millard is experienced in not only building these lines but also cooperatively working with our customers to design them to fit their facility and processing styles.  Custom configured to your workforce, Millard provides the single or multiple conveying line configuration necessary to efficiently debone poultry. Our lines support improved quality, yields and performance. See our "Case Study" for more details.

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Boning Lines (Beef)

Millard's Boning Lines consist of (3) basic conveyors; a bone conveyor, a trim conveyor, and a product conveyor. Our complete Boning Lines include:

  • Chuck Boning Line
  • Ribs Boning Line
  • Rounds Boning Line
  • Shoulder Boning Line

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Box Packing Stations

Box Packing Stations (pack off) usually consist of three in-line conveyors arranged vertically to allow the line worker easy access to all three.  This setup provides a convenient efficient system for workers to pack sealed product into boxes.  Empty boxes are delivered on the top conveyor, product on the middle conveyor, and full boxes are taken away on the bottom conveyor

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Can Elevator

Millard has developed one of the most efficient Can Elevators today that occupies a minimal amount of floor space.  Our Can Elevator is used where floor space is restricted and moving cans in a vertical direction is required.  The single rotating center core provides speeds up to 1,200 cpm (cans per minute) with quiet operation and gentle handling of cans.  We can integrate it into your existing or new line.  Standard designs can be customized for elevations, LH/RH process rotations, exit locations, and can sizes. See our "Case Study" for more details.

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  • Heavy Duty Stainless Steel Construction
  • Rotating center core with flights to push containers up an incline rail system
  • A precision UHMW lead screw to meter the cans into the rotating core
  • Various discharge configurations, including a flat top conveyor or integrated cable conveyor
  • Single point manifold style lubrication
  • Conveyor drive section is designed to integrate into the customers conveying system
  • Custom designed to specifically fit product cans and meet exact customer requirements
  • Low maintenance and operating costs
  • Speeds up to 1200 cpm (cans per minute)
  • Quiet operation
  • Wash-down duty for sanitation
  • Minimal moving parts and wear points
  • Full integration into existing or new lines

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Can Lowerator

Millard has developed one of the most efficient Can Lowerators today that occupies a minimal amount of floor space.  Our Can Lowerator is used where floor space is restricted and lowering cans in a vertical direction is required.  Our single rotating center core provides speeds up to 1,200 cpm (cans per minute) with quiet operation and gentle handling of cans.  We custom fit each elevator to your can size(s), elevation and can integrate it into your existing or new line. Standard designs can be customized for elevations, LH/RH process rotations, exit locations, and can sizes.  See our Elevator "Case Study" for more details.......the Lowerator is the same machine in reverse.

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  • Heavy Duty Stainless Steel Construction
  • Rotating center core with flights to guide containers down a rail system
  • A precision UHMW lead screw to meter the cans into the rotating core
  • Various discharge configurations, including a flat top conveyor or integrated cable conveyor
  • Single point manifold style lubrication
  • Conveyor drive section is designed to integrate into the customers conveying system
  • Custom designed to specifically fit product cans and meet exact customer requirements
  • Low maintenance and operating costs
  • Speeds up to 1200 cpm (cans per minute)
  • Quiet operation
  • Wash-down duty for sanitation
  • Minimal moving parts and wear points
  • Full integration into existing or new lines

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Can Washers (Empty & Filled)

Our Can Washers are custom engineered to fit your specific application and are used on both empty and filled cans.  Our empty can washers use a gravity rail system to invert (twist) the cans up to 180 degrees for washing upside down then back to upright ready for the next process.  We can accommodate speeds up to 1000 cpm (cans per minute).  This continuous process is fed from "can alley" or the start of the process.

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Carts

We offer a variety of Carts (also known as Product Trucks) for the food processing industry to move not only food products but also non-food items essential in operating your facility. All our carts are made from heavy duty stainless steel and use the highest quality components and casters. We can build to your designs or work with you to custom design a solution.  When a catalog cart will not quite fit, call us and we can get you what you need.

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Case and Pallet Conveyors (Stainless Steel)

Millard offers Stainless Steel Case and Pallet conveyors where the environment requires wash-down sanitary equipment and standard catalog roller conveyors will not suffice.  Our conveyors meet government sanitary standards (FDA and USDA) and are built to withstand daily wash-downs. We provide the powered roller sections generally at 4' intervals with individual drives, controls, interfaces and integration to existing as well as new lines. 

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Case Lift

Case Lifts are a mechanical means to raise or lower cases to different elevations or floors similar to the operation of a "Ferris Wheel".  The lift pallets or surfaces raise to the desired elevation deposit the product or container then return to the bottom for another round. We provide custom heights, widths and depths.  Typical elevations run from 10' - 12' with speeds up to 15-20 cases / min. 

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Catwalks and Mezzanines

We can build simple or complex customized catwalks as well as mezzanines around our own equipment or your equipment using the walksurface of your choice.  Options include stairs, risers, ladders, various handrails, and toe panels.  Our equipment can be built to OSHA requirements and to follow the conveyor equipment manufacturers association (CEMA) guidelines.

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  • Heavy duty stainless steel construction
  • Angle iron handrails standard
  • Square & round tubing construction available
  • Choice of walk surfaces

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Chill Tanks

Chill tanks consist of a small open tank that has cool water circulating through it and a belt conveyor to carry the product out.  Sealed product that may have been previously heated is loaded into the tank to cool and then conveyed out to the next process. 

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Chutes & Slides

Moving food products, trays, containers, and any other item from one point to another is one of Millard's specialties.  We can custom design safe and sanitary Chutes and Slides to direct these items from Process to Process, from Machine to Machine, or connect to most Conveyors: Accumulating, Belt, Sanitary Belt, Bottle, Bulk Handling, Can, Case & Carton, Converging / Dividing, Cooling, Custom & Special, Floor to Floor, Food Handling, Freezing, Heavy Duty, Mesh Belt, Oven, Sorting, Stainless Steel, Empty Box, Full Box, Straight, Curved, Incline, Decline, S-shape, most any custom angle, and more. We can design and build most styles, shapes and sizes to suit your exact needs.

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Cluster Breaker

Millard provides custom designed Cluster Breakers when you need to break up your frozen ingredients into a uniform consistency for the next process.  From small to large capacity systems, we design, build and install Cluster Breakers for custom mixing and cutting using specific agitators and augers to fit your product.  We can also design custom discharge systems to move the mix to the next process.

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Continuous Product Freezer

Our Continuous Product Freezer is a slow moving process to freeze products and packaged products as they are conveyed (belt or chains) through freezers.  The products can be auto loaded and unloaded.  Our Freezer lines are custom configured to your exact specifications. We can provide "Turn-Key" systems to not only move your product through your freezer but also provide the entire system.

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Conveyors

Millard makes custom Conveyors for many of the conveying processes in the Fresh & Frozen Industry.  Our Belt Conveyors are designed to Safe and Sanitary Design Standards with durable construction for years of service.  See our Belt Conveyors in Support Equipment & Services for product descriptions and features.

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Conveyors

Millard makes custom Belt Conveyors for moving your containers and products for most applications in the Canned and Container Industries.  Our conveyors are designed to Safe and Sanitary Design Standards with durable construction for years of service.  See our Belt Conveyors in Support Equipment & Services for product descriptions and features.

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Conveyors

Millard makes custom Conveyors for many of the conveying processes in the Poultry Industry.  Our Belt Conveyors are designed to Safe and Sanitary Design Standards with durable construction for years of service.  See our Belt Conveyors in Support Equipment & Services for product descriptions and features.

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Creeper Conveyor or Accumulation Conveyor

Millard's Creeper Conveyor or Accumulation Conveyor is designed to accept dumped products from combos, vats, or barrels.  The slow pace conveyor collects products on the conveyor belt surface to be slowly forwarded into further processing operations and released as the line pace requires. As with all our belt conveyors, custom lengths, widths, and configurations are available.

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Dressing Chain

Our Dressing Chain is a custom overhead conveyor used for reliable product conveying.  The X678 chain with its pushing fingers (drop fingers) spaced on 8' centers running along replaceable guide channels.  The drop fingers engage the trolley assembly that is riding on the supplied rounded meat rail.  This meat rail is usually ½" x 2 ½" but is always sized for the application. It is equipped with our fabricated heavy duty hangers for the load and return sides, top and bottom mounting plates for the drop fingers, the take-up, and the complete drive motor assembly.  The hangers are spaced as required and mounted on the properly sized supporting beams that we also supply. Everything is constructed of heavy duty galvanized material.

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  • Upgrades, retrofits, and new constuction
  • Sized for your layout and design requirements
  • Installation services available

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Drive Assemblies (Complete)

We supply complete slider chain drive assemblies and roller I beam chain drive assemblies.  Included is a hollow shaft mounted reducer and a motor mounted on a base plate with a shear pin hub sprocket using outboard bearings.  Each drive assembly is engineered for the application.  Multiple overhead conveyor systems can be electrically synchronized or synchronized using a jack shaft and roller chain system.

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  • Shear pin hub assembly.
  • Customer specified motors and gearboxes.

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Drop Finger Slider Conveyor

Our Drop Finger overhead conveyor is an all-purpose custom conveyor used for reliable product conveying.  The X678 chain with its pushing fingers (drop fingers) spaced on customizable centers runs along replaceable guide channels.  The drop fingers engage the trolley assembly that is riding on the supplied rounded meat rail.  This meat rail is usually 1/2 x 2 1/2 but is always sized for the application. It is equipped with our fabricated heavy duty hangers for the load and return sides, top and bottom mounting plates for the drop fingers, the take-up, and the complete drive motor assembly.  The hangers are spaced as required and mounted on the properly sized supporting beams that we also supply. Most parts are constructed of heavy duty galvanized material.

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  • Upgrades, retrofits, and new constuction
  • Sized for your layout and design requirements.
  • Installation services available.

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Drop-Out Conveyor

Drop-Out Conveyors are used to segregate disoriented trays or containers when traveling along  two 1" wide belts in a span of about 4'.  The trays ride along until they reach the "drop zone" where, if they are not oriented properly, they will fall between the two spaced belts, through a hollow bed, and onto a chute or bin for recirculation.  The drop-out conveyor usually leads up to a case packer where proper orientation is required.  These specialized conveyors are custom fit to your product size and follow the same rugged standards that our Belt Conveyors follow.

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Ductwork

Millard can custom build most any Ductwork, scrubber ventilation, or venting hoods you need to fit your application. Applications vary from Heat removal, Exhaust, Ventilation, Cook Hoods, Steam Hoods, and more. Our Ductwork is available in Stainless Steel, Aluminum, Galvanized, or Carbon steel.  We have produced ducting in a variety of shapes, sizes, lengths and custom-fit configurations.  We provide the proper fit, drains, and flanges to make installation efficient and clean.

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  • Material options: Stainless Steel, Aluminum, Galvanized, Carbon
  • Design, Build, and Install
  • Custom fit driven by your application
  • Options: Drains, Access ports, Flange Bolt joints, Flare joints, Seal Welded joints, Jacketed
  • Support Components: Hangers, Supports, Hoods, Vent Fans, Complex Transitions

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Ductwork

Millard makes custom Ductwork for the Ingredient Preparation processes in the Canned Food Industry.  Our Ductwork is designed to Safe and Sanitary Design Standards with durable construction for years of service.  See our Ductwork in Support Equipment & Services for product descriptions and features.

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  • Material options: Stainless Steel, Aluminum, Galvanized, Carbon
  • Design, Build and Install
  • Custom fit driven by your application
  • Options: Drains, Access ports, Flange Bolt joints, Flare joints, Seal Welded joints, Jacketed
  • Support Components: Hangers, Supports, Hoods, Vent Fans

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Ductwork

Millard makes custom Ductwork for the Ingredient Preparation processes in the Poultry Industry.  Our Ductwork is designed to Safe and Sanitary Design Standards with durable construction for years of service.  See our Ductwork in Support Equipment & Services for product descriptions and features.

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  • Material options: Stainless Steel, Aluminum, Galvanized, Carbon
  • Design, Build and Install
  • Custom fit driven by your application
  • Options: Drains, Access ports, Flange Bolt joints, Flare joints, Seal Welded joints, Jacketed
  • Support Components: Hangers, Supports, Hoods, Vent Fans

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Dumpers and Electric High Lift Dumpers

Our Dumpers and Electric High Lift Dumpers are custom engineered to meet your specific requirements.  We offer dumpers and lifts for vats, combos, barrels, boxes, and pallets powered either by electric motors or hydraulics.  Our Hydraulic Dumpers as well as our stand-alone hydraulic power units are made from heavy duty stainless steel.  Our Electric High Lifts can be made to most any height you require.  All our units are designed to meet your demanding needs with sanitary wash-down duty construction and the proper safety features to protect your personnel.

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Electric Dumpers

Millard makes "All Electric" Dumpers for a variety of containers including; barrels, vats, totes, tubs, combos and more.  Our engineers can configure a dumper for your process.   We also manufacture Electric High Lifts and these can be made to most any height you require.  All our units are designed to meet your demanding needs with sanitary wash-down duty construction and the proper safety features to protect your personnel.

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Electric High Lift Dumpers

Millard can produce Electric High Lift Dumpers capable of moving your barrels, boxes, totes, and vats from floor level up to 25' or more.  These "All Electric" dumpers are  loaded from hand dollies, carts, or forklifts.  They are used to lift product into higher elevated processes such as kettles, tanks, chutes, mixers, blenders and most containers needing ingredients dumped.

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Engineering Support

Millard Manufacturing will do all the engineering and calculations to properly size your overhead conveyor system for your layout and design requirements.  We will spec the chain, horsepower, gears, drive motors, etc., using industry standards and the most modern software to fulfill the needs of your application.

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  • Utilize modern CAD and 3-D Modeling Software
  • Preliminary Layout Development Capabilities
  • Meat Industry Experience

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Equipment Stands & Bases

Custom bases can be provided to raise your rendering equipment off the floor.  These heavy duty designs are made for easy cleaning and durability and can be fabricated using the material that fits your budget.

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  • Heavy Duty Carbon Steel Construction
  • Stainless Steel Material Available

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Exhaust Hoods

Millard can build endless configurations of custom Exhaust Hoods to fit your process applications.  We can design, build, and install your Exhaust Hoods above process areas, platforms, and individual processing equipment.  Our Exhaust Hoods can be welded, bolted, preassembled, or assembled on site.  Our engineers can custom design a solution to exhaust your process heat, steam, or gases.

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F.A.T. (Factory Acceptance Testing)

Millard offers Factory Acceptance Testing (F.A.T.) on most of our products should you or the nature of the product require it.  We have over 100,000 sq.ft. of floor space within our facilities to physically accommodate and simulate most production operations.  Our facility is specifically set up with large assembly bays for not only our manufacturing versatility but also to support F.A.T.  We can help to make sure products function properly before they ship. 

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Fabrication Services

Our Fabrication Services not only supports the food processing industries but also many others including; OEM, Pharmaceuticals, Public Works, Tooling Shops, Machine Shops, Corn Processing Plants, Ethanol Plants, Waste Water Facilities, Chemical Plants, Animal Health, and Private Business. Having a Metal Services Supplier at our disposal provides Millard with a unique advantage in getting most projects started quickly.  Millard has the knowledge, facilities, and engineering to work with you for all your fabricating needs.

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Filling Lines (Integration)

Millard's Filling Lines are sanitary, safe systems designed to carry various containers through the filling processes to final packaging.  In many applications we will incorporate our filling equipment into your existing or new process line, as well as others.  From simple Belt Conveyors to more complex merging, converging, diverging and custom conveyors, we can move your container through its filling process.  We provide the connection, timing modes, and other necessary integration controls to drive the entire line.  Millard can engineer a custom configuration to fit your application.

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Funnel Filler

Milllard's Funnel Filler is designed for applications where spillage outside of the can or container is not permitted during the filling process.  The funnels travel in an oval "running track" pattern and are synchronized to each can individually via a phase variator.  The filling process occurs on the straight path while funnels continue to circulate around for another pass. Any "flowable" liquids can be dispersed by the Funnel Filler similar to our Liquid Top-Off machine shown in this section also. The process provides precision adjustments to flow and head space.   Speed and volume requirements determine the Filler machine's overall length. Millard supports full integration into your new or existing lines.

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Gambrel Table

Millard's Gambrel Table is a moving top table made of heavy duty stainless steel upon where the hogs are unshackled, correctly oriented and gambreled. Our Gambrel Table is of the same construction as our Shackle Table except for the width that is 6' instead of 4'.

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Gravity Style Overhead Rail Systems

We design and build a wide range of gravity style overhead rail systems that are commonly used for smokehouse and holding area applications.  These also are called stack rails, smokehouse rails, and holding cooler rails.  These systems use appropriate pusher trolleys riding on 1/2" rounded meat rail that is sized for your application. The meat rail can be black, galvanized, or stainless steel.  We also supply the manual switches required.  Our rail systems are complete and can include all the components for the overhead support systems for either beam or beamless style. Normally these systems are beam style, and we will specify and supply all the necessary beams, hangers, and rail supports.  For beamless style, we will specify and supply the support rods and saddles to support the rail.  Most of the equipment is constructed of galvanized or plated material.  These systems are fed with infeed conveyors and moved to outfeed conveyors and are pushed all the way through.  We also can supply these complementing infeed and outfeed conveyors.

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  • Upgrades, retrofits, and new constuction
  • Sized for your layout and design requirements.
  • Installation services available.

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Ham Pace Line Equipment

Millard can fabricate most ham line and ham pace line equipment including ham tables, ham scale conveyors, ham classifier lines, ham boning (deboning) lines, and pace line conveyors.  We also manufacture related and support equipment including saws, trim conveyors, fat conveyors, chutes, walkovers, crossover stairs, platforms, mezzanines, catwalks, and ergo stands.  Our flexibility also allows us to integrate with and supply complimentary equipment like Metal Detectors.  We follow strict safety and sanitary design and fabrication standards on all of this equipment to meet the demands of the pork industry.  Each conveyor is mated or integrated with the others and each is equipped with properly sized drives and optimal belting with the best surface for the application.  Brands may be specified by the customer. See our Belt Conveyor under the "Support Equipment" section for more detail on our optimized conveyor design.

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Ham Tumbler or Ham Conditioner

Millard's Ham Tumblers are built to last with heavy duty stainless steel material.  Our Tumbler or Conditioner is a 36" drum that tumbles the hams to condition them for the next process which could  involve bone-In hams, boneless hams, or skinning.

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  • Heavy duty stainless steel construction
  • Large 36" drum
  • Drum rides on HD spring loaded caster wheels, 36" x 15" drum
  • Chain driven by 7.5 HP HD gear motor
  • 1" x 3" Bars run the continuous length for conditioning
  • Galvanized center post structure for cleaner installation and minimal footprint
  • Discharge gate for controlling outflow of hams

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Head Workup Area Equipment

Millard manufactures and provides stainless steel Head Workup Area Equipment for Beef Processing.  We can provide the stainless steel platform, conveyor with cutting board stations, meat bins and hoppers, jaw bone puller, head dropper, and head flush cabinet.

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Hog Chutes

Our Hog Chute starts the lead-in for processing the hogs.  Smooth sides enable drivers to keep hogs moving quickly and quietly towards stunning.  The Chutes are available in any length and are constructed of heavy gauge structural pipe.  Slip resistant operator platforms and hog surfaces come standard or can be customer specified.

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  • Heavy duty tubular and sheet metal construction
  • Hot dip galvanized material
  • Stainless steel material optional
  • Custom lengths and applications
  • Adjustable legs for uneven surfaces
  • Slip-resistant surfaces for both hogs and drivers

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Hog Head Spike Conveyor

Our Hog Head Spike Conveyor increases work efficiencies by a paced line allowing the consolidating of snout marking, temple and cheek chiseling, head meat removal and other works.

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Hog Head Workup Table

Millard's Hog Head Workup Table follows the head spike line where workers segregate the head into distinct meat lines and associated conveyors.  Each worker has a workstation adjacent to these lines.

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Hog Jaw & Snout Puller

Millard's automated "Hog Jaw and Snout Puller" is faster, safer, and more sanitary than any other machine in the industry. The patented snout and jaw removal system automatically removes the snout inline prior to jawbone separation.  Our machine unhinges the jawbone, increasing temple meat yields while reducing broken jawbones done by manual operations. See our "Case Study" for more details.

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Hog Predryer / Hog Dryer / Hog Polisher

Millard can custom build Hog Polishers, Predryers, and Dryers into any sequence, rotation and brush or whip configuration you need to reduce hand shaving operations.  Single, multiple or continuous cabinets available.

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Hog Singer

Our Hog Singer is designed for fast removal of the hog's hair.  It can be customized or come complete with cabinet, burners, valves, exhaust, controls.  We can custom design it to fit your layout and space.

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  • High efficiency flame retention
  • Singes entire hog surface at one time
  • Adjustable head burner
  • Vented cabinet
  • Manifold options
  • Gas-air mixer
  • Blower options
  • Automatic solenoid valve and water cooled rail

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Hog Viscera Inspection Table w/optional moving top platform

Millard's Viscera Inspection Tables provide a sanitary moving pan for inspecting the internal organs of the hogs.  They are built in various lengths to conform to conditions at installations and rate of speed.  12" wide x 30" long stainless head pans and 4" wide x 30" long stainless viscera pans standard and can be synchronized with overhead chain.

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  • Heavy Duty Stainless Steel Construction
  • Wash-down duty, Custom lengths available
  • Adjustable legs for uneven surfaces
  • Heavy Duty Variable Speed Motor and Gearbox

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Holding Hoppers

We can supply holding hoppers with screw conveyors that hold the product and then feed it out in a consistent manner.  The equipment is custom sized for your application. 

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  • 1/4" Carbon Plate Construction
  • Sized for the application
  • Stainless Steel Material Available

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Hoppers

Millard's Hoppers for the Canned Foods Industry are made to hold food ingredients in suspension or a mixed state in preparation for the next process (e.g. Fillers).  Our Hoppers are custom designed by shape, length, width, depth and volume to fit your capacity needs.  They can be either vertical or horizontal with blending, mixing, or agitating blades to keep the ingredients suspended so they do not settle out. 

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Hydraulic Barrel Dumper

Millard's Hydraulic Barrel Dumper has a wide variety of uses in many food industries.  Our unit is all stainless steel heavy duty and provides a smooth, efficient, clean, reliable, safe and sanitary method for dumping barrels and drums.  The unit is constructed of heavy duty stainless steel material and is provided as a complete system with or without a stainless hydraulic power pack. The power pack can be configured and located to suit your needs.

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Hydraulic Combo Dumper

Millard's Hydraulic Combo Dumper is similar to our Vat Dumper and has a wide variety of uses in many food industries and is especially suited for dumping cardboard combos in Pork Further Processing.  Our unit is all stainless steel heavy duty and provides a smooth, efficient, clean, reliable, safe and sanitary method for dumping your products.  We provide the system complete with or without a stainless hydraulic power pack that can be configured and located to suit your needs.

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Hydraulic Combo Dumper

Millard's Hydraulic Combo Dumper is similar to our Vat Dumper and has a wide variety of uses in many food industries.  Our unit is all heavy duty stainless steel and provides a smooth, efficient, clean, reliable, safe and sanitary method for dumping your products.  We provide the system complete with a stand alone stainless steel hydraulic power pack that can be configured and located to suit your needs. We can also provide Vat and Barrel dumpers as needed.

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Hydraulic Lift Platforms

Millard can provide you with safe and sanitary Hydraulic Lift Platforms for operations and inspection personnel to assist them in their work.  We will work with you to custom design, build, and install the proper lift platform to fit your process application. Our platforms come complete with hydraulics and controls.

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Hydraulic Platforms

Millard can build most any Hydraulic Platform on the Harvest Floor.  All our platforms are custom designed and built to meet your layout and tailored to each specific process.  Our platforms are made from heavy duty stainless steel and for daily sanitary wash down operations. Hydraulic height control for operator position or process need.

  • Lowbackers Platform
  • Hydraulic Splitters Saw Bench
  • Retrim Platform
  • USDA Platform
  • Retain Platform
  • Steam Vac Platform

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Hydraulic Power Units

Millard has made many variations of Hydraulic Power Units and our designs have evolved to be simple to use and easy to install.  Our units are all Stainless Steel with fluid site gauges, pressure gauges, and high pressure hoses.

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Hydraulic Vat Dumper

Millard's Hydraulic Vat Dumper is similar to our Combo Dumper and has a wide variety of uses in many food industries.  Our unit is all heavy duty stainless steel and provides a smooth, efficient, clean, reliable, safe and sanitary method for dumping your products.  We provide the system complete with a stand alone stainless steel hydraulic power unit. We can also provide Combo and Barrel dumpers as needed.

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Inspection Tables

Millard can design, build and install a wide variety of custom tables to meet your application needs.  Our Inspection tables are generally 24" x 36" and are made to Safety and Sanitary Design Standards that support the food industry. We can provide tables for (but not limited to): Processing, Sorting, Washing, Storage, Inspection, Cutting, Work Surface, and General use.

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Intervention Delivery System

Millard has teamed up with Synergy Technologies to deliver a turnkey anti-microbial intervention system that is practical and economical. The intervention delivery cabinet is constructed of 316 stainless steel and utilizes an open stainless steel mesh conveyor belt. A single spray manifold system provides 360 degree coverage and includes a lift arm to raise the conveyor for easy cleaning. The system can be designed to stand-alone or be part of multi-unit configuration.

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Intestine Workup Trough

Our Intestine Workup Trough is designed to squeeze out and capture the mucosa from the linings of pork intestines.

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Intralox ARB (Activated Roller Belt) Conveyors

We are  a licensed manufacturer and licensed supplier of conveyors employing Intralox Activated Roller Belt(ARB™) technology. ARB technology is used to automate process flow and can be applied to a wide range of applications for turning product, 2 to 1 and 2 to 2 switching, merging, diverting, sorting, dividing, aligning, and 90 degree transferring.  Millard and Intralox can custom design a box conveyor for your specific application that will include the standard features of our heavy duty sanitary belt conveyors.

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  • Reduced Product Line Jams
  • Simpler Designs & Simplified Controls
  • Reduced conveyor footprint
  • More Accumulation and Buffer Space
  • Licensed ARB supplier
  • Millard's HD Sanitary Belt Conveyor Features

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Intralox ARB (Activated Roller Belt) Conveyors

We are  a licensed manufacturer and licensed supplier of conveyors employing Intralox Activated Roller Belt (ARB™) technology. ARB technology is used to automate process flow and can be applied to a wide range of applications for turning product, 2 to 1 and 2 to 2 switching, merging, diverting, sorting, dividing, aligning, and 90 degree transferring.  Millard and Intralox can custom design a box conveyor for your specific application that will include the standard features of our heavy duty sanitary belt conveyors.

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  • Reduced Product Line Jams
  • Simpler Designs & Simplified Controls
  • Reduced conveyor footprint
  • More Accumulation and Buffer Space
  • Licensed ARB supplier
  • Millard's HD Sanitary Belt Conveyor Features

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Intralox ARB (Activated Roller Belt) Conveyors

We are  a licensed manufacturer and licensed supplier of conveyors employing Intralox Activated Roller Belt (ARB™) technology. ARB technology is used to automate process flow and can be applied to a wide range of applications for turning product, 2 to 1 and 2 to 2 switching, merging, diverting, sorting, dividing, aligning, and 90 degree transferring.  Millard and Intralox can custom design a box conveyor for your specific application that will include the standard features of our heavy duty sanitary belt conveyors.

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  • Reduced Product Line Jams
  • Simpler Designs & Simplified Controls
  • Reduced conveyor footprint
  • More Accumulation and Buffer Space
  • Licensed ARB supplier
  • Millard's HD Sanitary Belt Conveyor Features

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Jowl Line Equipment

We can custom build equipment for your jowl line including jowl conveyors, jowl presses, and jowl rollers.  We have the expertise to integrate to other equipment that we can supply such as jowl skinners.  We also build all the related support equipment to go along with your jowl line.  We follow strict safety and sanitary design and fabrication standards on all of this equipment to meet the demands of the pork industry.  Each conveyor is mated or integrated with the others and each is equipped with properly sized drives and optimal belting with the best surface for the application.  Brands may be specified by the customer. See our Belt Conveyor under the "Support Equipment" section for more detail on our optimized conveyor design.

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Jowl Press

Millard's unique compact Jowl Press provides a symmetrical method for flattening hog jowls just prior to skinner processing.  Our Press is an in-line operation paced to the line speed providing a uniform flattening process that is easily integrated, operated, and cleaned.

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Landing Conveyor

Our Landing Conveyor can support the full dress loads of the steers and heifers you process while providing movement necessary to shackle and orient the beef to the Take-Away Conveyor. 

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  • HD Carbon Steel
  • 5' Wide Slats
  • UHMW wear surfaces
  • Chain Driven
  • Tough HD Steel Frame

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Lazy Susans

Our Lazy Susan turn tables are used for product accumulation common to further processing and pack off areas.  Standard sizes are 48" and 60".

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Light Fabrication

Millard understands that many times the equipment and machinery alone will not complete a project and the missing links and/or gaps between processes and machines can be just as important. Millard fills those gaps and links your processes together with our Light Fabrication expertise derived over the years working with both food and non-food industries. We also have the advantage of an affiliated metal supplier, Millard Metal Services, Inc. right next door so your materials are on hand to get your project started quickly. Our vast experiences carry over through our services to provide you will a full solution.

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  • Engineering Support from start to finish
  • Quick turnaround times
  • Creative solutions
  • Over 40 years of fabricating experience
  • Equipment and resources to handle most fabrication projects from large to small
  • S.S. Floor Drains, Pass Throughs, Trim, Drip Pans, Splash Shields, etc.

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Live Bottom Screw Conveyors

This specialized screw conveyor has a large hopper for loading product and uses multiple live screws for feeding the product out.  Each screw is driven by independent drives or we can design the conveyor to have one drive for all the screws.  See our stainless sanitary Augers in the Support Equipment/Services category for more details and options.

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  • Heavy Duty Carbon Construction
  • Stainless Steel Material Available
  • Flexible Drive Configurations

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Live Bottom Screw Conveyors

This specialized screw conveyor has a large hopper for loading product and uses multiple live screws for feeding the product out.  Each screw is driven by independent drives or we can design the conveyor to have one drive for all the screws.  See the Augers detail in the Support Equipment/Services category for more details on our screw conveyor design.

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  • Heavy Duty Carbon Construction
  • Stainless Steel Material Available
  • Flexible Drive Configurations

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LOIN CLASSIFIER LINE

Our innovative Loin Classifier Line automates the sorting and redirecting of products from a common path to multiple paths or conveyor lines. We utilize dynamic digital weigh scales to classify the loins into weight categories and then redirect the loins to the proper area (or conveyor) using a reliable automated drive called the Millard SideKick™. Integration into the customer’s PLC system makes the system both flexible and adaptable to changing product requirements. This unique continuous process originally designed for pork loins could be adapted for other products. See our case study below and contact us with your application.

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Loin Saddle Conveyor

Millard's Loin Saddle Conveyor is made from heavy duty stainless steel with heavy gauge saddles on 24" center flights for holding the pork loin during fat trimming operations. Loin Saddle Conveyors can be custom made in a wide range of sizes to meet your specifications.

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Loss-in-Weight Systems

Millard can provide "Loss-in-Weight" systems to control precise batching of individual ingredients into a common product flow.  Our systems include the weigh stations mounted on load cells that can have "Live-Bottom" discharges, or other means to get the exact weight of ingredient onto a conveyor belt or auger line for main stream integration.  Our typical designs range from 2 to 10 streams converging into a single lane for mixing.  All our systems are custom built per customer's application.

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Low Back Pressure Conveyors

Low Back Pressure (LBP) conveyors are used for starting and stopping container lines, unequal paced lines between processes, product stream inconsistencies, and accumulation points in a process.  Our LBP conveyors contain the same high quality construction found in all our conveyors with a thicker roller belt applied.  We use plastic modular belting (e.g. Rexnord, Intralox, or customer specified) with rollers so the belt will roll under your product when it is slowed, stalled, or stopped.  Includes all the standard features found on our Belt Conveyors in Support Equipment/Services. 

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  • Plastic modular belting (e.g. Rexnord, Intralox, or customer specified)
  • Custom engineered to fit application
  • Integrated stop gates as required
  • Same standard features as our Belt Conveyors

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Low Back Pressure Conveyors

Low Back Pressure (LBP) conveyors are used for starting and stopping container lines, unequal paced lines between processes, product stream inconsistencies, and accumulation points in a process.  Our LBP conveyors contain the same high quality construction found in all our conveyors with a thicker roller belt applied.  We use plastic modular belting (e.g. Rexnord, Intralox, or customer specified) with rollers so the belt will roll under your product when it is slowed, stalled, or stopped.  These include all the standard features found on our Belt Conveyors in Support Equipment/Services.

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  • Plastic modular belting (e.g. Rexnord, Intralox, or customer specified)
  • Custom engineered to fit application
  • Integrated stop gates as required
  • Same standard features as our Belt Conveyors

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Magnetic Hold Down Conveyor

With the standard high quality we put into all our conveyors, Millard can provide Magnetic Hold Down Conveyors to control your empty or full cans.  The powerful stationary magnets will steady empty cans as they pass over them.  Our conveyors are generally used inside of machinery to steady the cans and remove variation in positioning.  We have also made them for other processes where alignment is crucial.  All the standard features found on our Belt Conveyors in the Support Equipment/Services.

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  • Powerful magnets sized and located per your application
  • Design, build, and install services
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Main Breakup Table and Main Line Equipment

We can fabricate and supply the equipment necessary for your main breakup table (the primal cutting line) that will first move the split hogs from an overhead conveyor onto a breakup table.  Along this moving table the four major cuts are completed sending the jowl, ham, shoulder, and mid sections onto their lines for more processing.  This area includes the main breakup table itself, de-gambreling system, ham saws, shoulder saws, ham conveyors, mid-section conveyors, etc., and any of the related and support equipment such as chutes, walkovers, crossover stairs, platforms, mezzanines, catwalks, and ergo stands.  We follow strict safety and sanitary design and fabrication standards on all of this equipment to meet the demands of the pork industry.  Each conveyor is mated or integrated with the others and each is equipped with properly sized drives and optimal belting with the best surface for the application.  Brands may be specified by the customer. See our Belt Conveyor under the "Support Equipment" section for more detail on our optimized conveyor design.

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Meat Recovery Equipment

Millard builds most of the meat recovery support equipment which consists of dumpers, conveyors, chutes, platforms and stands.  All our support equipment is made from HD stainless steel and follows strict Safety and Sanitary Design Standards.

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MeatMaster Support Equipment

Millard supports MeatMasterTM equipment by building the peripheral equipment necessary to make the process functional and efficient.  We provide the (3) key support products; 1) Stand & Support Mezzanines, 2) Reject Discharge Conveyor, and 3) Platforms.  All our support equipment is made from HD stainless steel and follows strict Safety and Sanitary Design Standards.

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Merge and Diverge Conveyors

Millard can design, build, and install the Merge or Diverge conveyor you need in your processing lines.  Our conveyors are specifically suited to your products and process needs and can move 4 lanes to 1 or 1 lane to 2.  We offer several methods to separate and converge products depending upon application.

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  • Move product with physical plows or roller ball belting
  • Licensed Intralox Activated Roller Belt™ (ARB) supplier and installer
  • Timed lanes using phase variators on motors and gearboxes
  • Cleated belts to secure your product containers and trays
  • Standard features found in Belt Conveyors under Support Equipment & Services

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Metal Detector Conveyor

Millard's Metal Detector conveyor is our standard hygenic heavy duty conveyor design integrated with a SAFELINE® metal detector. We build the complete line with the metal detector, standard plastic belting, and a removable metal-free zone section.

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Metal Detector Conveyor

Millard's Metal Detector conveyor is our standard hygenic heavy duty conveyor design integrated with a SAFELINE® metal detector. We build the complete line with the metal detector, standard plastic belting, and a removable metal-free zone section.

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MILLARD LIQUIFILL

The Millard LiquiFill™ was developed as an efficient Liquid Filler / Top-Off design that can be custom fit to your specific product and application.  Our Liquid Filler is a continuous flow process to fill and/or "top-off" cans (or containers) passing through a precision waterfall of most any flowable liquid from single or multiple weirs.  The process provides precision adjustments to flow and head space volumes while recapturing and recirculating virtually all the liquids within the system.  Speed and volume requirements determine the Filler machine's overall length. Millard supports full integration into your new or existing lines. See our "Case Study" for more details.

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Millard PassPRO In-House Passivation

Millard PassPRO™, our large "In-House" Passivation operation, is available for our customers' fabricated items. We place a high priority on Sanitation in both our designs and fabrication processes which is why we have incorporated this process as a standard and can be found in our "Safety and Sanitation Design Standards".   Passivation treatment is intended to improve the surface condition of stainless steel by dissolving iron that has been embedded in the surface during forming or machining. If allowed to remain, the iron can corrode and give the appearance of rust spots on the stainless steel.  Passivation restores the original corrosion-resistant surface by forming a thin, transparent oxide film.  Passivation is the preferred method for the sanitary durability of stainless steel.

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MILLARD SIDEKICK

The Millard SideKick™ is part of our innovative Loin Classifier Line that automates the sorting and redirecting of products from a common path to multiple paths or conveyor lines.  It quickly and cleanly redirects meat products like pork loins to other conveyors. Integration into the customer’s PLC system makes the system both flexible and adaptable to changing product requirements.  This unique "kicking" system originally designed for pork loins could be adapted for other products.  See our case study below and contact us to get the white paper on its application.

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Mixers

Millard makes custom Mixers and Blenders for the Ingredient Preparation processes in the Fresh & Frozen Industry.  Our Mixers are designed to Safe and Sanitary Design Standards with durable construction for years of service.  The GM1000 is a standard that mixes thoroughly and gently yet is durable.  It can be used for vegetables, potato salad, deserts, etc.  See our Mixers and Blenders in Support Equipment & Services for product descriptions and features.

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  • Stainless Steel construction, Carbon Steel for non-sanitary applications, Mechanical or PLC controls
  • Safety Gates with interlocks
  • Custom discharge metering
  • Auto gate lifting option
  • Personnel platforms when needed
  • Reverse motors available
  • PLC integration available
  • Weigh scales available

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Mixers and Blenders

Food Processing can require frequent blending and mixing of ingredients to obtain a final product.  Millard is experienced in manufacturing custom Mixers and Blenders, as well as Cooking Kettles, Mixing Kettles, and Box Shakers, to support food processing applications that tend to be very product specific in design.  The size, shape and combination of mixing and blending can be custom designed to meet your needs.  We can help you develop the right machine to blend or mix your ingredients then engineer it for production.  Our machines are built to last with heavy duty stainless steel, sanitary and wash-down duty construction.

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Other Cut Floor Products

Millard provides many other products for the Cut Floor such as Loin Stuffers, Poly Bag Racks, Bagging Horns, etc.  We can work with you to design or supply the products you need.

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Other Harvest Floor Products

Millard provides a large range of products for the Pork Processing Equipment industry.  Our specialty is working with our customers to provide the proper equipment they need and making it work, whether that be a standard item, a connecting process, or a custom designed product to fit your unique layout or process.  Here is a sampling of some of the other products we manufacture:           

  • Air Operated Shackle Release
  • Dehairing Support Parts
  • Hog Carcass Wash Cabinets
  • Hog Head Basket
  • Hog Head Wash Cabinets
  • Pedestal Inspection Platforms
  • Personnel Wash Stations and Sinks
  • Skinning Stand
  • Tongue Basket Washer
  • Tongue Washer
  • Trolley Indexers
  • USDA Stamper

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Other Harvest Floor Products

Millard provides a large range of products for the Beef Processing Equipment industry.  Our specialty is working with our customers to provide the proper equipment they need and making it work, whether that be a standard item, a connecting process, or a custom designed product to fit your unique layout or process.  We offer the following products but are not limited to them.  If you do not see what you need here, call us and chances are high we can build it or have built something similar.

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  • USDA Stamper
  • Air Operated Shackle Release (Hook style)
  • Pedestal Inspection Platforms
  • Personnel Wash Stations and Sinks
  • Skinning Stand

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Pallet Lifts

Millard's Pallet Lift is an "All Electric" economical way to lift pallets vertically from one elevation to another.  Lift heights range from  10' - 30' but can be customized for your application.  Our lift is similar to our Electric Hi-Lift Dumper with the raising platform made to fit pallets of various sizes.  We can configure the lift to fit most standard pallet sizes or custom size it for special lengths and widths.  Floor to floor or moving hand trucks to mezzanines, our lifts have multiple applications.  Stainless steel construction with capacity up to 2,500 lbs. The pallet lift is well suited for Dry Storage areas but can be used in any food related process where moving pallets is necessary.

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Pin Indexer Feeder

Millard can provide Pin Indexer Feeders that are dual feeder mechanisms designed to space the beef carcasses onto the bleed chain.  Our units are hydraulic driven and limit switch ready.

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  • Hydraulic driven

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Piston Filler

Millard's Piston Filler has evolved from years of innovations and successful applications.  Our Piston Filler is a rotary machine containing up to 40 pistons and a capacity up to 800 cpm (cans per minute).  Applications are best suited for thicker or heavy viscosity slurries.  The rotary process fills and unloads each piston with an exact volume of fluids via a dynamic ramp/track process.  The cans and containers travel underneath each piston and are filled as they travel around the rotary path. This machine allows the filling of cans or containers in one operation versus  multiple filling processes necessary where thicker liquids cannot be pumped and watering down is required.  Your final mix can be filled in one process and consistency maintained.

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Platforms, Stairs, and Ladders

Millard can design, build, and install custom Platforms, Stairs, Mezzanines, Catwalks, Walk Overs, and Ladders for personnel walk ways, equipment supports, and maintenance access.  We offer a wide range of walk surfaces including our exclusive OptiGrip® walk surface.  Our platforms can be general duty or engineer certified to support your application and need.  We provide safety features and railings per your application.

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  • Heavy Duty Construction
  • Stainless Steel
  • Galvanized or Carbon Steel
  • Sanitary Wash-down duty design
  • Custom designed to fit your layout
  • Open channel construction
  • Walk Surface options: OptiGrip®, Bar Grating, Fibergrate®, Fiberplate®, SlipNOT®

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Pork Belly Line Equipment

Millard can fabricate your entire pork belly line customizing the equipment to fit your application.  We build belly conveyors, belly tables, belly scale conveyors, belly rollers, belly flippers, rib tables, and rib boxing stations along with all the related and support equipment including saws, trim conveyors, fat conveyors, chutes, walkovers, crossover stairs, platforms, mezzanines, catwalks, ergo stands, etc.  Our expertise also allows us to integrate with and supply complimentary equipment like skinners.  We follow strict safety and sanitary design and fabrication standards on all of this equipment to meet the demands of the pork industry.  Each conveyor is mated or integrated with the others and each is equipped with properly sized drives and optimal belting with the best surface for the application.  Brands may be specified by the customer. See our Belt Conveyor under the "Support Equipment" section for more detail on our optimized conveyor design.

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Pork Loin Line Equipment

Millard can custom fabricate most of the equipment required on a pork loin line.  We build loin conveyors, lion tables, loin scale conveyors, loin classifier lines, and the deboning conveyors.  We also manufacture all the related and support equipment including saws, trim conveyors, fat conveyors, chutes, walkovers, crossover stairs, platforms, mezzanines, catwalks, ergo stands, etc.  Our expertise also allows us to integrate with and supply complimentary equipment like auto loin pullers.  We follow strict safety and sanitary design and fabrication standards on all of this equipment to meet the demands of the pork industry.  Each conveyor is mated or integrated with the others and each is equipped with properly sized drives and optimal belting with the best surface for the application.  Brands may be specified by the customer. See our Belt Conveyor under the "Support Equipment" section for more detail on our optimized conveyor design.

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Pork Shoulder Line Equipment

Millard can fabricate most ham line and ham pace line equipment including ham tables, ham scale conveyors, ham classifier lines, ham boning (deboning) lines, and pace line conveyors.  We also manufacture related and support equipment including saws, trim conveyors, fat conveyors, chutes, walkovers, crossover stairs, platforms, mezzanines, catwalks, and ergo stands.  Our flexibility also allows us to integrate with and supply complimentary equipment like Metal Detectors.  We follow strict safety and sanitary design and fabrication standards on all of this equipment to meet the demands of the pork industry.  Each conveyor is mated or integrated with the others and each is equipped with properly sized drives and optimal belting with the best surface for the application.  Brands may be specified by the customer. See our Belt Conveyor under the "Support Equipment" section for more detail on our optimized conveyor design.

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Poultry Cooker

Millard revolutionized the Poultry Cooking industry by engineering a continuous operation that not only drastically increased production but also provided an efficient method to reclaim the broth byproduct all in one process. Millard can produce two styles of Poultry Cookers, belt and screw.  Our Poultry Cookers significantly reduce energy consumption and maintenance and eliminate batch cooking processes while providing a more uniform and consistent product.  Complimentary to our Poultry Cookers, Millard also produces a Poultry Cooler to handle continuous production volumes.  See our "Case Study" for more details.

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Poultry Cooler

Millard revolutionized the Poultry Cooking industry by engineering an innovative continuous Poultry Cooker with complimentary continuous Poultry Cooler (see Poultry Cooker above).  As part of the necessary steps in poultry cooking a Poultry Cooler is needed.  It is fabricated under the same stringent quality and construction guidelines as the Poultry Cooker.  Our Coolers are a continuous inline process designed to handle the output of the cooler and drop the temperature of the cooked poultry for further processing and deboning.  See our "Case Study" on the Cookers for more details.

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Product Chiller

The Product Chiller cools product, usually meant for pet food applications, from kill floor temperature down to just above freezing in a continuous and efficient manner to prepare it for packaging into combos and loading into coolers.  The Product Chiller is comprised of a revolving drum, a cooling system, and a baffle assembly. Chilled water, which is recovered, is used to uniformly cool the product as it moves gently through a rotary chilling tunnel (revolving drum).  As the product moves through the tunnel it is continuously turned and exposed to the chilling solution providing a uniformly controlled and regulated cooling rate.  Larger products such as beef livers may require a pre-chiller (slasher) machine that opens up product for increased uniform chilling.  Configurations are available for different tonnage requirements and for both edible and inedible applications.

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Racks

Many operations need racks to store products, tooling, fixtures, supplies, or food grade ingredients.  Millard is experienced in engineering custom racks to fit your application, process, or layout.  We can Design, build, and install the racks as a pre-made unit, built-in-place, or modular components depending upon access and use.  Our Racks are stainless steel and made following our Safety and Sanitary Design Standards.

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Raw Material Sales & Service

Millard Metal Services (MMS) is an affiliate of Millard Manufacturing Corp. and is a supplier of Stainless Steel, Aluminum, Carbon Steel, Galvanized Steel, Brass, Bronze, and Copper Alloys. Raw material is available in custom "cut-to-size" and standard stock sizes such as: Plate, Sheet, Bar, Angle, Pipe, Beams, Structural, Square & Round Tubing, Channel, Flat, Rounds, Half Round, Squares, Hexagon, Tee, Perforated, Threaded Rod, Expanded Metal, Grating, Threaded Rod, Metric, Textured and Custom ordered stock.  Having MMS as an affiliate provides us with a unique advantage to start your project quickly.  Single piece to truck load orders accepted. Most items are available in stock.

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Reject conveyors

For the Fresh & Frozen Foods Industry Millard offers Reject Conveyors specifically designed for metal detection and weight rejects.  Using sensors to automatically monitor continuous processes for bad product or rejects, our conveyors will segregate and separate them from the good products.  Segregation occurs through a variety of methods; air knives, mechanical bumpers, paddles, integrated plows, or guides that take the unwanted product off-stream for disposal or standard QC sampling.

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Ribbon Blenders

Millard's Ribbon Blenders are used for homogeneous mixing of  liquid and semi-solid ingredients.  Our blenders have custom designed bowls, hoppers, and ribbons to support your processing application.  Ribbon Blenders can be driven by hydraulic or electric motors and come complete with all necessary safety guarding.

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Rotary Pocket / Volumetric Filler

Millard's Rotary Pocket Filler / Volumetric Filler takes all the best features, designs and ideas of modern day fillers and incorporates them into a simple, effective and efficient design.  The evolution of our pocket fillers has resulted in a machine that contains the product without spillage, provides adjustable and precise metering into trays automatically, and incorporates the most modern Safety and Sanitary Designs.  Our "Best-in-Class" filler incorporates innovation that provides simple changeovers and servo drives for precise timing. See our "Case Study" for more details.

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Safety Guarding

Millard knows the importance of Safety in the workplace and the value personnel bring to any company. We strive to provide safe products starting from design concepts through production, shipping, and installations. Safety Guarding is an inherent process for Millard when we take on any project and we incorporate the most modern Safety and Sanitary Design Standards. Safety Guarding examples: Chain Guards, Railings, Gates, Interlocks, PLC Interface options, Wash-down Area Containment, Rotating components, Chemical Containment, Robotic Work Zones, Product Zones, Custom Machines, and many more.

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Salt Table for Intestines

The Salt Tables contain a water based salt bath to disinfect the linings from harmful bacteria. Pork Intestine Linings are pulled through the salt bath and wound or gathered up on reels for sale or transport to "further processing" facilities.

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Sanitary Piping

Millard compliments their equipment, machinery and installations with Sanitary Piping as well as Sanitary Welding.   Applications include Pet Foods, Food Processing, Slurries, Pharmaceuticals and many more.  Integrating our equipment into your new or existing processes frequently requires piping food grade ingredients or water to and from the process.  We design, build, and install Sanitary Piping to fit the process and your facility.  With our extensive experience supplying machinery and equipment to the food industry, we know how to ensure the rigidity and performance of your sanitary piping.

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Saws

Millard Manufacturing can build most any saw used on the pork cut floor.  Here are just some of the saws we have built:  bootjack saw, dual-blade hock & foot saw, dual-blade belly saw, front foot saw, ham saw, hind foot quartering saw, shoulder saw, sirloin saw, loin saw, and butt/picnic saw.  As a custom fabricator, we can build the saw to fit your application and we can make it in combination with tables, conveyors, or as a retrofit. Note: Millard does not supply the saw with the saw blade.

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Scald Tub

Our heavy duty scald tanks are custom designed to fit your layout and process. We Include water circulation piping, valving, and drain and overflow connections as required. The scald tub can be mounted on custom frames.

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  • 1/4" Heavy duty construction (mild steel or stainless)
  • Structural bracing to fit your layout
  • Water recirculation lines and fittings
  • Drains
  • Overflow connections
  • Lengths, widths and heights customizable
  • Custom platforms with stands, ladders, and hand railing as needed

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Screw Conveyors

Our line of Rendering screw conveyors can be customized for your application to move either edible or inedible product where you need it. Standard construction is carbon with wear liners while stainless steel is an option. The high quality sectional or helicoid flighting is secured to the pipe by welding and runs inside a heavy duty u-shaped or flared trough sized for your application. A custom hopper can be integrated to ease the loading operation. See our stainless sanitary Augers in the Support Equipment/Services category for more details and options.

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  • Carbon Steel Construction with Wear Liners
  • Optional Stainless Steel Construction
  • High Quality Sectional or Helicoid Flighting
  • Optional Custom Hoppers for Loading

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Screw Conveyors

Our line of Rendering screw conveyors can be customized for your application to move either edible or inedible product where you need it. Standard construction is carbon with wear liners while stainless steel is an option. The high quality sectional or helicoid flighting is secured to the pipe by welding and runs inside a heavy duty u-shaped or flared trough sized for your application. A custom hopper can be integrated to ease the loading operation. See our stainless sanitary Augers in the Support Equipment/Services category for more details and options.

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  • Carbon Steel Construction with Wear Liners
  • Optional Stainless Steel Construction
  • High Quality Sectional or Helicoid Flighting
  • Optional Custom Hoppers for Loading

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Shackle Incline Conveyor

Millard's Shackle Incline Conveyor is designed to lift or pull the beef off of the Landing Conveyor to working elevations typically 12'-6" up to 19' (14' standard height).  The beef are spaced approximately 3' apart and carried up an incline to the Stack Rails.

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  • 6" wide double roller chain
  • 14' standard height
  • 12'-6" - 19' elevation

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Shackle Table

The Shackle Table provides a heavy duty moving surface where stunned hogs are shackled by the hind feet onto an overhead chain conveyor prior to the scald tanks.  Our Shackle Table is of the same construction as our Gambrel Table but is 4' wide versus 6'.

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Side Finger Conveyor

We manufacture Side Finger Incline and Decline Conveyors and Cut Down Conveyors, to move your product from one elevation to another.  It can also be customized to be a combination incline and horizontal conveyor. The side finger conveyor uses round 1" side finger bars to engage the trolley frames under the rail.  Our fabricated heavy duty hangers are spaced on customizable centers with tracking located on the inside of the hangers and are mounted using heavy duty overhead support beams that we can also supply.  The side fingers are attached to X678 chain using top and bottom mounting plates, and the chain runs between replaceable guide channels.  It is constructed of heavy duty galvanized material and includes the required take-ups and drives.

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  • Upgrades, retrofits, and new constuction
  • Sized for your layout and design requirements.
  • Installation services available.

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Six Pocket Filler

Millard manufactures several types of specialty pocket fillers, one of which is our 6-Pocket Filler.  This filler is made to fill (6) pockets simultaneously as the trays or containers are passed under the machine.  This multiple volumetric filler is suited well where space is limited and capacity needs to be increased. See our "Case Study" for more details.

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Skinning Conveyor

Our overhead Skinning Conveyor is a custom conveyor used for reliable product conveying.  The X678 chain with its pushing fingers (drop fingers) spaced on 5' centers run along replaceable guide channels.  The drop fingers engage the trolley assembly that is riding on the supplied rounded meat rail.  This meat rail is usually ½" x 2 ½" but is always sized for the application. It is equipped with our fabricated heavy duty hangers for the load and return sides, top and bottom mounting plates for the drop fingers, the take-up, and the complete drive motor assembly. The hangers are spaced as required and mounted on the properly sized supporting beams that we also supply. Everything is constructed of heavy duty galvanized material.

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  • Upgrades, retrofits, and new constuction
  • Sized for your layout and design requirements
  • Installation services available

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Slide Chutes

Moving poultry cuts, bones, trays, or containers from one point to another is one of Millard's specialties.  We can custom design safe and sanitary Slide Chutes and slides to direct certain cuts or bones from one process to the next.  Our engineers and fabricators can build most styles, shapes and sizes to suit your exact needs. Our Slide Chutes are generally 30" x 12" but can be custom configured.

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Smoked Belly Press

Millard's unique Smoked Belly Press provides a symmetrical method for flattening hog bellies just prior to processing or blast freezing.  Our Belly Press is an in-line operation paced to the line speed providing a uniform flattening process that is easily integrated, easily operated, and easily cleaned.   See our "Case Study" for more details.

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Spiral Conveyors

Vertical Spiral Conveyors are often used to remove heat introduced into the product or container in prior processing. Millard's Container Cooling prepares the product for the next process; filling, freezing, packaging or shipping. Our Cooling operations are custom designed in various heights, widths, and diameters with variable speeds and timing belts.

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SS Screw Conveyors

Millard's SS Screw Conveyors transfer and deliver product from one process to another or into containers.  We produce 6", 9", 12", and 20" screw models.  Mostly used on fat, trim, hams, muscles and other similar products. See our stainless sanitary Augers in the Support Equipment/Services category for more details and options.

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SS Screw Conveyors

Millard's SS Screw Conveyors transfer and deliver product from one process to another or into containers.  We produce 6", 9", 12", and 20" screw models.  Mostly used on fat, trim, hams, muscles and other similar products. See our stainless sanitary Augers in the Support Equipment/Services category for more details and options.

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SS Vat Storage Racks

When a standard rack system will not work or painted carbon steel is not sanitary enough, Millard offers custom built Stainless Steel Storage Racking.  We can engineer and custom build to fit your containers, vats, or combos.

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SS Viscera Table (Gut Table)

Millard's Viscera Inspection Table (Gut Table) is used where carcasses are eviscerated on a moving chain conveyor.  Our table has 6" x 5'0" flights made from 1/4" stainless steel bent up 2" on each end at 45 degrees and secured to (3) chains by stainless steel welding studs.  Plated chain is 6" pitch heavy duty roller chain with Delrin bushings and stainless steel sleeves.  A stainless steel sterilizing chamber is included for continuous sanitation.

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Stack Rail System

Our Stack Rail System is a gravity system designed for holding hogs prior to processing and engaging into the main overhead chain system.  We can provide this complete queuing system including beams, rails, rollers, switches, indexers, and other associated components.  For more on our gravity systems, see Gravity Style Overhead Rail Systems in the Overhead Conveyors section.

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  • 1/2 x 2-1/2" rails
  • Heavy duty switches
  • Carbon steel
  • Galvanized 13" drop hangers standard or custom to fit your requirements

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Stack Rail System

Our Stack Rail System is a gravity system designed for holding beef prior to processing and engaging into the main overhead chain system. We can provide this complete queuing system including beams, rails, rollers, switches, indexers, and other associated components. For more on our gravity systems, see Gravity Style Overhead Rail Systems in the Overhead Conveyors section.

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  • 1/2 x 2-1/2" rails
  • Heavy duty switches
  • Carbon steel
  • Galvanized 13" drop hangers standard or custom to fit your requirements

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Stationary Platforms

Millard can build most any stationary or center-post platform on the Harvest Floor.  All our platforms are custom designed and built to meet your layout and tailored to each specific process.  Our platforms are made from heavy duty stainless steel and for daily sanitary wash down operations.

• Rumper Platform
• Belly Ripper Platform
• Flanker Platform
• Rim Over Platform
• Side Puller Platform
• Open Neck Platform
• Tail Puller Platform
• Low Neck Skinner Platform
• Briskett Saw Platform
• Bung & Tie Platform
• Pregutter Platform
• Head Workup Platform
• Viscera Apron Wash & Boot  
  Wash Cabinet & Platform
• USDA Inspection Platforms
• Saw Platforms
• Trimmer (various) Platforms
• Spinal Cord Removal Platforms
• Head Table Platforms

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Stationary Work Tables

We can build any type of stainless stationary work table needed for the cut floor, and we can design it for your specific application.  Examples include a Meat Wash Table, a SS Drain Table, and a general SS Work Table.  We can utilize USDA approved plastics for cutting board applications as well.

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Stationary Work Tables

We can build any type of stainless stationary work table needed for the fabrication floor, and we can design it for your specific application.  Examples include a Meat Wash Table, a SS Drain Table, and a general SS Work Table.  We utilize USDA approved plastics for cutting board applications.

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Storage Bins & Tanks

Our open top liquid storage bins are available in cylindrical or rectangular shape and can be custom sized for your application in the rendering area.  A storage bin gate is usually used to control product flow. These are typically used for water, blood, or tallow.

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  • 1/4" Carbon Plate Construction
  • Bin gate options
  • Stainless Steel Material Available

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Support Products - Overhead Conveyor

We fabricate and can supply a large selection of support products for overhead conveyor and rail systems.  Below is sample listing of our capability:

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  • Back to Back Channel Supports - Concrete Roof Double-T
  • Bar and sheet steel raw material, cut to size
  • Cage Droppers / Tree Droppers / Lowerators
  • Downrod Supports (Stainless, Galvanized, or Zinc plated)
  • Idler Sprocket Assemblies
  • Meat Rails
  • Rail Hangers - Roller and Sliders
  • Rail Switches - Automatic and Manual
  • Smokehouse Rails
  • Sprockets with shear pin hubs
  • Stack Rail System
  • Tee Saddles
  • Traction Wheel Turn Assemblies
  • Trolley Indexers
  • X348, X458, X678 Chain and associated hardware

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Tables

Millard can design, build, and install a wide variety of custom tables to meet your application needs.  Our tables are made to our Safety and Sanitary Design Standards that support the food industry. We can provide tables for (but not limited to): Processing, Sorting, Washing, Storage, Inspection, Cutting, and General use as well as Scale tables and most Worksurface applications.

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Tanks

Millard is experienced in building Tanks (Non-Pressure Vessels) of all sizes and shapes for the food processing industry. From just a few gallons to a 10,000 gallon liquid tank, we can fill your tank needs. Heavy duty stainless steel is used on most applications but carbon steel is available for non-sanitary applications. We can engineer your tanks complete with inlet and outlet fittings, inspection ports, supports, and lifting eyes if needed.

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Tanks

Millard manufactures custom Tanks (non-pressure vessels) for the Food Industry in most any shape or size.  Our Tanks are designed to Safe and Sanitary Design Standards with durable construction for years of service.  See our Tanks in Support Equipment & Services for product descriptions and features.

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Tool Sterilizer

Millard can provide a sterilizer tank for most any tool you use.  We will custom design and build your tank to fit in the space available and support the process to provide a safe and sanitary operation.

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  • Saw
  • Hock
  • Dehorner
  • Weasand Rod
  • Whizard Knife
  • Others

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  • Heavy Duty Stainless Steel
  • Custom Sizes and Shapes
  • Steam fittings
  • Water Fittings
  • Drains
  • Overflows
  • Multiple mount configurations

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Tote / Product Breaker

Millard's Tote/Product Breaker is a stationary fixture that uses the power of a fork lift to break up product frozen in totes, bins or vats.  The Tote Breaker is comprised of spikes that are pointed down with a frame that is anchored to a 1" plate secured to the floor.

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  • (9) or more spikes 2.5" diameter
  • All Stainless Steel HD construction
  • (4) 6" support posts
  • 1" bottom plate secured to the floor
  • Custom designed to any size or spike configuration you may need

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Tray Pack Conveyor w/Tray Stations

Our Tray Pack Conveyor w/Tray Stations provides a multiple conveyor system applicable for all cuts of beef.  We provide a standard 18" center conveyor delivering the product while an overhead shelf houses the trays for production.  A lower conveyor takes away the package or trimmed product that is processed on moveable trays along the main center conveyor.

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Tray Pack Conveyor w/Tray Stations

Our Tray Pack Conveyor w/Tray Stations provides a multiple conveyor system applicable for all cuts of pork.  We provide a standard 18" center conveyor delivering the product while an overhead shelf houses the trays for production.  A lower conveyor takes away the package or trimmed product that is processed on moveable trays along the main center conveyor.

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Twelve Pocket Filler

Millard manufactures several types of specialty pocket fillers, one of which is our 12-Pocket Filler.  This filler is made to fill (12) pockets simultaneously as the trays or containers are passed under the machine.  This multiple volumetric filler is well suited for applications where space is limited and capacity needs to be increased. See our "Case Study" for more details.

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UHMW Screw Conveyors

Our smaller UHMW Screw Conveyor is used in removing the fines from skinning operations.  UHMW screws provide a better method to move this extremely sticky substance without building up or sticking to belts.

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  • UHMW USDA approved Plastic
  • 4" diameter flights
  • Custom lengths up to 60"
  • Compact design
  • Little to no maintenance required
  • Low Speed - High Torque Direct drive hydraulic coupled motor
  • Easy to clean

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V-Restrainer

V-Restrainer is a V-shaped restraining system which conveys and holds the hog in a still upright position for smooth and efficient stunning.  Hogs walk into the restrainer and are carried by the belts forward.

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  • Conveyor Driven
  • Stainless Steel available
  • Variable Speed Heavy Duty Drives
  • Up to 750 hogs per hour
  • Overhead restrainer to keep hogs down
  • 14' standard length (custom lengths available)

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Vacuum Accumulator

This Vacuum Accumulator Unit is used in dry sausage peeling applications where the peeled casing is vacuum conveyed to the chamber and held within until the load is dumped into a combo or trash bin at breaks. A typical unit holds 250 lbs. of expended casing material in a three-hour time frame and can easily discharge through the 40" diameter opening and rack/pinion gate assembly. The R.T.E. grade unit is designed for high cleanability and ease of use and can be custom designed to fit within your workspace.

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Volumetric Screw Hoppers

Millard produces some highly specialized machinery like our Volumetric Screw Hopper.  This equipment uses a two-screw dispensing system to present an exact amount of product (generally tissue type like Hamburger) into a weigh hopper or scale for a secondary operation.

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Walk Surfaces

Millard's walk surfaces include: OptiGrip®, Fiberglass Grating, Bar Grating, Grip Ladder Rungs, and more.  We can fabricate complete structures using our walk surfaces or provide components cut or made to your specifications. (e.g. risers, stairs, treads, platforms, ladders, walkways, catwalks, mezzanines, walk overs)

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  • OptiGrip®
  • Fibergrate®
  • Fiberplate®
  • SlipNOT®
  • Bar Grating
  • Safe and Sanitary construction
  • Custom cut to size

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Walking Beam Cooler Systems

The "walking" beam type conveyor system uses a hydraulic driven cylinder to "walk" your product through a cooler from the infeed switches to the outfeed switches.  We can supply the entire system including all the support structure, the infeed conveyors and the outfeed conveyors using either X458 or X678 chain, and the electrical controls that interface to the customer's control system. Our system uses a trolley assembly that is pushed along on rounded meat rail using aluminum drop fingers on 9" spacing. These drop fingers are mounted on a T-bar track that is guided by a bearing block mounted on the walking beam support hangers and are driven by a hydraulic cylinder.  Supports can be beamless or support steel type.  Most other parts are galvanized, zinc plated, or stainless for sanitation.

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  • Sized for your layout and design requirements.
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Work Stations & Ergo Stands

No matter what the industry, Millard can provide you with safe and sanitary personnel work stations or ergo stands at either floor level or elevated to bring you to the work.  We will work with you to custom design, build, and install the proper work stations and ergo stands to fit your processing applications.

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