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SARA 313/Toxic Release Inventory: Five Things You Need to Know

The annual Toxics Release Inventory (TRI) reports under SARA 313 for the 2023 calendar year must be submitted to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (US EPA) by July 1, 2024! Now is the time to begin reviewing the amounts your facility used, processed, or manufactured last year. In the Spring issue of Hixson’s EH&S From […]

Conduit Seal Effectiveness

Whether for product or ingredient storage, or to maintain product temperature during processing and packaging, facilities often contain spaces that are conditioned to low temperatures (ranging from 60°F to 0°F or lower). At these temperatures, when the temperature in the conditioned room is below the dew point of vapor in the adjacent spaces, the potential […]

The Value of Construction Mockups

Hixson’s construction specifications typically include items or assemblies that require the contractor to provide mockups for Hixson (as the Architect/Engineer) and the facility’s Owner to approve prior to the installation of the finished product. These mockups are called out for scopes of work which we have found to be challenging for contractors to get correct […]

A Look Back: Maple Leaf Foods

Hixson served as the A/E of record for the $772MM, 640,000 SF Maple Leaf Foods poultry processing facility in London, Ontario. Leading-edge food safety, environmental, and animal welfare processes and technologies were designed into the facility, one of the most technologically advanced poultry-processing plants in the world! Want to discover more about what makes this […]

Six Common Storm Water Compliance Issues

Discharge of storm water from industrial sites is regulated by either a state or, less frequently, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (US EPA). Under these regulations, a site must either apply for a storm water permit or submit a “No-Exposure” exclusion certification. Hixson frequently works with both the permitted and the “No-Exposure” facilities to verify […]

From Experience: Next Generation Stack Economizers

Economizers have long been used in steam boiler facilities to recover energy in the form of heat from boilers and re-use the heat for some other purpose, such as heating feed water. Two common types of economizers are in use today: Direct contact stack economizers and tube-type stack economizers. In the latest issue of Hixson’s […]

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