Wenger Manufacturing Announces Multimillion-Dollar Expansion of Innovation and Development Centre

Wenger Manufacturing, Inc, has begun work on a US $13 million renovation project to expand and modernise the Wenger Technical Centre in Sabetha, USA. The Wenger Technical Centre is a facility dedicated to innovation and continuous improvement of extrusion process systems for food, feed and industrial applications.

The Wenger Technical Centre houses full-scale extruders, dryers and ancillary components to provide a real-world development environment for extrusion-based products and processes. A recognised proving ground for innovation and training, the centre is used by clients, academia and other industry partners for accelerating product development and operational training.

'This renovation is a strategic reinvestment into a facility that has long served our industries as the critical hub for innovation and continuous improvement,' says Lafe Bailey, Co-CEO and President of Sales and Corporate Development. 'The Technical Centre has held global importance to the extrusion industry since 1954, and we are committed to both renewing, and expanding, the roles and responsibilities that the Wenger Technical Centre holds in the industries we serve.'

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The new construction will increase the existing 22,000-square-foot centre's capacity by 40 percent, making the facility more scalable and extending its lifespan long into the future. The modernisation will include enhancing preventative measures for food safety, and the added square footage will make the centre more versatile. It will expand the scope of market-facing services while also further enhancing existing innovation projects already active in the Wenger pipeline.

'As our industries face increased scrutiny over food safety, the new Wenger Technical Centre will provide a lowrisk environment to evaluate prototypes and make sure new products and processes adhere to safety and quality standards,' says Brend King, Vice President and Technical Centre Director.

'We're very excited for this expansion as it will allow us to continue helping clients—and Wenger—move ideas from concept to market more quickly.'

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With a little ingenuity and a lot of hard work, brothers Joe and Louis Wenger founded the Wenger Mixing Company in a small town in Kansas (USA) in 1935. They then designed a machine that mixed molasses with dry feed ingredients and Thus they began to produce pellets in 1948.

The novel idea of the Wenger brothers created a worldwide industry. And seventy-five years later, Wenger Manufacturing, Inc. remains a family business committed to innovation in the extrusion market.

Today, Wenger offers a range of premium single-screw extruders, twin-screw extruders, dryers / coolers, coating systems, and control systems. A new generation of proud employees work for customer satisfaction in our multiple plants, in our world-class research and development center, and in sales and service offices around the world.

Wenger equipment is unmatched in quality. Perhaps even more important, it is the reputation we have built by having long-lasting partnerships with customers. Lasting because of our dedication, ingenuity, and responsiveness - and our promise to deliver on that commitment for generations to come.

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