Anderson International Corp.
Contact: Sales Manager
6200 Harvar Ave.
Cleveland, OH 44105-4896
U.S.
Phone: 216-641-1112
Fax: 216-641-1571
HISTORY OF ANDERSON
Mr. Valerius D. Anderson
No history can be complete without mention of the founder and humble roots of this company.
Mr. Valerius D. Anderson was 58 years old when he founded our company as the V. D. Anderson Company in 1888. He was a true product of the Industrial Revolution, an inventor and visionary not afraid to risk all for an idea. In 1855 he worked in Milton, Wisconsin in a tin shop repairing leaky roofs and fabricating hoops for the then popular hoop skirts. He moved to Kewanee, Illinois where he developed and patented an improved steam boiler, which led him to form a company to manufacture and sell them.
A better opportunity arose for him in Springfield, Ohio where he operated the Mast-Foos Company; a boiler manufacturing company which later became a part of International Harvester.
Mr. Anderson severed his relationship with the Mast-Foos Company in 1876 and four years later, in 1880, relocated to Cleveland, Ohio where he invented a new rendering tank for local butchers. Sales of these tanks dropped when packinghouses started to replace butcher shops, causing Mr. Anderson to develop and turn to the manufacture of fertilizer dryers. His first assembly operation was a "home" industry, located on West 54th Street, which then formed the basis for Mr. Anderson to found the V. D. Anderson Company in 1888.
By 1893 the business had prospered to the point that it was necessary to build a small manufacturing plant. A tract of land was purchased on West 96th Street and what is now Madison Avenue. It was the first manufacturing plant built on the West Side of Cleveland.
The Inventions
Expeller® Press - The product for which the company is best known is the Expeller® press. In 1876 At the Chicago Centennial Exposition Mr. Anderson witnessed a printing press print on a continuous web of paper, rather than one sheet at a time. It was then that Mr. Anderson conceived of the idea that there must be a continuous means of extracting oil from oleaginous seeds and nuts. It was not until 1900; however, that the first successful Expeller® press was produced.
Even though he invented this press for what we now call the Vegetable Oil Industry, it was his friends in the butcher shop/packinghouse industry who tried it first in degreasing their cooked by-product materials. As will be later shown, this product, the Expeller® press, revolutionized many industries.
Steam Traps - It must be recalled that Valerius D. Anderson was knowledgeable in steam boilers and fertilizer dryers. His success in manufacturing fertilizer dryers was enhanced by his development of an improved steam trap in 1893, called the float type trap. He found that the efficiency of any steam system is only as good as the quality or dryness of the steam being used. This is the responsibility of the steam trap, which separates condensate from the steam in steam systems. His development of this style steam trap not only made his fertilizer dryer the most efficient, but also expanded his market into steam specialties around the world.
Summary
Our company, now known as Anderson International Corp, is a company whose achievements and longevity have earned it a strong place and name in the world. The Expeller®, invented by Valerius D. Anderson almost 100 years ago, has become commonplace in both the Vegetable Oil, Rendering and Synthetic Rubber Industries. The great majority of processing plants in these industries are using machinery and technology developed by the people of Anderson over its 109 year history.
To date Anderson has manufactured over 11,000 machines to process oilseeds, meat by-products, synthetic rubber and animal feeds in over 90 countries throughout the world.
With the Anderson people's knowledge of the processes involved and continued improvements of the technology and design of machinery, these served industries can continue to rely on our goods, services and technology for a long time to come.
Synthetic Rubber Drying
Dewatering and drying machinery and systems
Animal Feeds Processing
Extrusion machinery and their systems that process animal feeds such as, pet foods, aquafeeds, poultry and piglet feeds, and a wide variety of special applications.
Animal By-Products Processing
Animal by-products fat extraction machinery and systems
Vegetable Oil & Fat Extraction
Machinery and their systems used in the preparation for and extraction of oils and fats from a variety of seeds, beans and nuts.
Research & Development
List of all materials processed with our line of extrusion machinery
* Super Soya Feed System
* Cat foods and Dog foods, dry and semi-moist
* Floating and sinking Fishfeeds for the aquaculture industry and fishfarming.
* Textured vegetable protein production in granular form
* Gelatinization of starches
* Infant formulations
* Full fat soy meal production without Urease enzyme and Trypsin inhibitor activity
* Stabilization of rice bran by arresting lipase enzyme activity
* Finger snack production
* Preparation of oilseeds for oil extraction
