Industrial wastewater treatment equipment for Meat & Poultry Processing

Blood management comes first

Blood management decides half the outcome before treatment starts. A plant that captures blood at the kill floor and sells it or renders it keeps an enormous BOD load out of the drain. A plant that lets it reach the sewer will fight that decision at every downstream stage. The same logic applies to paunch content and manure solids, which belong in dry handling and screening rather than in suspension.

The wet-side treatment train

The wet-side treatment train is consistent across the sector: coarse and fine screening, an equalization tank to buffer wash-down peaks, then DAF with coagulant and polymer dosing. Fat recovered in the float has rendering value, so the sludge line is a revenue question as much as a disposal one. Plants discharging under a provincial permit rather than to a municipal sewer add biological treatment, most often an anaerobic stage for the strength followed by aerobic polishing for the ammonia that blood and protein break down into.

A closely watched sector

Canadian regulators watch this sector closely. Federally inspected plants answer to both CFIA sanitation requirements, which drive the water use up, and to sewer bylaws or Fisheries Act provisions, which drive the discharge quality requirement. The two pressures meet in the effluent plant.

Equipment for abattoirs and renderers

We supply screens, DAF systems, dewatering presses and complete packaged plants for abattoirs, poultry processors and rendering operations. Bring us your kill schedule, water use and a composite analysis, and we will return a sized proposal with realistic sludge-handling numbers rather than brochure figures. Poultry plants deserve a specific mention, because feathers and scald-tank water behave differently from red-meat streams and change both the screening selection and the DAF chemical program, a distinction that generic sizing tables consistently miss.