Quadro Engineering Hosts Waterloo Plant Tour For The GCBPA

Eddie & Ursula Koch hosted our members on a tour of their modern and spacious World Headquarters Manufacturing Facility, located in Waterloo on the evening of September 11, 2001. We arrived en masse along with our respective partners and were immediately split into several groups to begin our Plant tour, thereby enabling each of us to experience the capabilities of Quadro�s complete range of processing equipment whilst at the same time, obtaining a detailed description of what we were seeing.

Quadro Engineering World Headquarters (Waterloo)

Quadro engineers and manufactures processing equipment designed to fulfil specific, individual customer requirements. We viewed their ground-breaking invention, the Quadro� Comil�, a stainless steel conical screen mill engineered to generate product of surprising size consistency during either wet or dry processing. We also witnessed the high speed, low energy dispersion process achieved via means of Quadro's Ytron� technology.

Friendly, knowledgeable staff patiently explained the unique features of their full-range of processing equipment which were described as the universal standards for dry milling and mixing, size reduction, dispersion and wet-mass delumping. Quadro Product Specialists explained that their drive to quality-engineer, manufacture, and service equipment to consistently high standards enabled them to maintain their status as leaders in process equipment innovation.

Quadro's processing equipment is adopted wherever either uniformity in product sizing or consistent mixing capability is required, as in the Food/Pharmaceutical/Personal Care and Cosmetic Industries. A display highlighting a cross-section of everyday product applications clearly demonstrated that each and every one of us has benefited from Quadro's processing technology.

Quadro's Manufacturing Facility incorporates drawing-driven robotic equipment reminiscent of auto manufacturing facilities. The most amazing aspect of this process is that the machine takes the data from the drawings and directly translates the information into high-speed, precision component manufacturing.

We also learned that Quadro serves customers in more than fifty (50) countries and is supported by a worldwide network of representatives, distributors, OEMs and partners.

Hospitality Centre - Hors d'Ouevres to come

The Quadro Team is obviously extremely proud of their work and enjoyed giving this tour as much as we did receiving it. They milled and mixed with us, while we happily indulged in the seemingly unlimited availability of expertly prepared food/beverages.

 
Hospitality Organizers Helen Desmeules (Quadro) and Wesley Moore (Country Kettle Classics)

We sincerely thank Eddie & Ursula Koch, Susan Adams, and Keith McIntosh for the warm welcome and also, the very informative tour. We would request that they please convey our appreciation to their enthusiastic staff members, particularly Helen Desmeules, who contributed to the evening's enjoyment, as well as to their caterer - Country Kettle Classics, owned and operated by Wesley Moore.

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