A History of Serving Your Processing Needs
Below are milestone highlights and pioneering process systems that mark the evolution of Caloris. All of these systems are still operating to the satisfaction of the customers and are available as references upon request.
Historical Highlights
Caloris Engineering celebrates its 20th annivesary.
Art Zimmer, co-founder of Caloris Engineering, received WCMA’s Distinguished Service Award at the 2022 CheeseExpo in Milwaukee. Wisc.
Caloris received U.S. Patent No. 10,182,580 for the Caloris Low-Spore Powder Production Process. Caloris acquired equipment fabricator Seitz Stainless of Avon, Minn., adding in-house manufacturing to Caloris’ suite of capabilities. Caloris received U.S. Patent No. 10,258,899 for the vapor separator integration on the CALORIS AGILIX® Mobile Evaporator.
Caloris Engineering LLC and Lone Star Dairy Products received the 2018 American Dairy Products Institute (ADPI) Breakthrough Award for Dairy Ingredient Innovation for implementation of the Caloris Low-Spore Powder Production Process. Caloris received U.S. Patent No. 10,046,249 for the CALORIS CONCENTRIX MVR Evaporator.
Community Impact Caloris Engineering receives a Community Impact Award from the Talbot County Office of Economic Development and Tourism, as well as citations from our Congressional delegation and the Maryland General Assembly.
Caloris delivered the first low-spore process for high-quality low-spore milk powders. CALORIS CONCENTRIX recognized as a Top Project for 2016 by Water & Wastes Digest for the installation at the HPPG plant in Tallapoosa, Ga. Artur Zimmer and Caloris are awarded U.S. Patent No. 9,487,415 for the CALORIS AGILIX™ Mobile Evaporator. Caloris 10th anniversary!
Caloris launched its new membrane filtration systems.
Caloris installed and commissioned the first CALORIS FLEXMODE® evaporator. The CALORIS CUBIX compact evaporator debuted. Installed and commissioned the first CALORIS CONCENTRIX MVR evaporator for a wastewater application. Caloris entered into a strategic partnership with a small group of Minneapolis investors, & Jim Peterson joined as president.
Caloris successfully installed and commissioned the largest CALORIS CONCENTRIX MVR evaporator to-date at a dairy processor. Caloris completed nine new commercial evaporator systems in this year alone.
Designed and built the world’s largest MVR evaporator for grape juice and the world’s first single calandria turbofan MVR unit for skim milk, concentrating it in all-MVR mode. Caloris built the first two CALORIS DFC® systems. Caloris began serving the ethanol industry. Launched the CALORIS FLEXMODE® modular steam-heated evaporator.
The CALORIS AGILIX® mobile evaporator successfully designed and a commercial prototype completed in 2011 and then licensed to a Fortune 10 company in 2012. Prototype of the CALORIS CONCENTRIX® evaporator completed, immediately resulting in orders.
After designing and building the world’s largest multipurpose dairy evaporator (Quadruple Turbofan MVR), Caloris launched development of a High Viscosity/High Volume Atomizer (HVA) for spray drying super-high concentrated products.
Caloris launched the CALORIS CONCENTRIX MVR evaporator and Caloris DFC® (Dryer Feed Conditioner) programs.
Caloris redesigned and modified a 7-Effect grape juice evaporator to become the world’s largest and most steam-efficient.
Caloris resolved an emergency at a tomato pressing processing plant by retrofitting a used evaporator for tomato peeling caustic. The thermal evaporator started up successfully just in time for harvest, three months from project initiation.
