A Brief Look at Extrusion

Chuck Frye, Extrusion Supervisor at our plant in Mooresville, talks about the future of extrusion in the food industry.

PacMoore is a contract manufacturer in the food industry, specializing in services such as extrusion, blending, spray drying, consumer packaging, re-packaging and more.

Video Transcription:
My name is Chuck Frye. I’m the extrusion supervisor. I've been with PacMoore since May 2nd of 2015. Well the future of extrusion - what we're seeing now - it's wide open. There are so many products that are extruded. People would not believe for instance a lot of the cheeses - the mozzarella cheese that you see on pizzas is extruded. A lot of people don't know that. They're not really eating cheese. Most of your cereals, your corn puffs, your Rice Krispies, all that kind of stuff is all extruded. So, the door for us here at PacMoore is wide open. I mean there's a lot we can do. There's baby food. We can do a lot. The extruder we have is capable of running at 3,000 pounds an hour, so you can imagine a dry product going at 3,000 pounds an hour getting puffed and they're coming out the other end. That's a lot of product in a day.