Koch Equipment LLC announced today the 10-year anniversary of their meat processing seminar, Koch College. Over the past 10 years, nearly 500 companies from 23 different countries have benefited from Koch College through increased production efficiencies, reduced sanitation and maintenance costs, improved product quality and consistency, and increased sales.
Koch College was developed in 1997 to teach food processors and packagers the latest meat processing, sausage making, cooking, and smoking techniques to help them increase productivity and profitability. The three-day course covers processes from start-to-finish through a combination of classroom instruction and participative, hands-on activities in our full-service demonstration kitchen where students make sausages, hams, and other meats. Five Koch College meat processing seminars, including one in Spanish, will be held this year at Koch Equipment’s headquarters in Kansas City. The seminar includes a myriad of meat processing essentials, product refinements, and tricks of the trade.
“We’ve always had a number of processing and packaging masters on staff—experts who know what it takes to make perfect products every time and are willing to share that knowledge with our customers,” stated Steve Kingeter, vice president of sales and marketing. “In addition, Koch College allows us to pass on the latest developments in food safety and sanitation to our customers so they can stay on the ever-changing, cutting edge of food science.”
Koch College instructors include Koch Equipment’s own Dr. Willy Núñez, who holds a Ph.D. in Meat Science, and Mr. Doug Rock, master sausage maker and senior application specialist for nearly 20 years. Both have been panelists and presenters at national and statewide meat association events and are known in the meat industry as providers of practical and economic production solutions. Each course also includes third party instructors who teach the fundamentals of spices, casings, and other meat processing and packaging principles.
Koch Equipment LLC is a full line manufacturer and distributor of equipment for meat production, food processing, packaging, and labeling. A one-stop shop for vacuum chamber packaging machines, skin packaging machines, modified atmosphere packaging machines, labelers, rollstock parts, accessories, and service, as well as a full range of processing equipment including stuffers, bowl cutters, injectors, mixers, grinders, tumblers, dicers, smokehouses, and kill floor equipment. Since 1883, Koch Equipment has been the name more packagers and processors trust for their equipment needs.
