PLANT TOUR

Located in Clinton, Missouri, just 75 miles southeast of Kansas City, Champion’s 450,000 square foot plant accommodates more than 1.7 million gallons of bulk storage with convenient rail siding.

The plant has 10 filling lines and blow molding machines to produce HDPE, PVC and PET bottles. The facility also houses state-of-the-art net weight as well as piston filling lines.

One of the net weight filling lines is capable of filling 300+ – containers per minute to exact weight specifications. Containers are de-palletized, labeled, filled, sealed, capped, coded, packed and palletized, using only 3 operators.
Lines are capable of running metal, HDPE, PVC and PET containers; in sizes ranging from 2.4 oz to 330 gallons.

The speed and versatility of these lines make it a high volume, cost effective solution for the many Fortune 500 companies that private label product with Champion Brands.

BLENDING LUBRICANTS & CHEMICALS

37 – Blending and Final Storage Tanks ranging from 1.5K to 33K Gallons

10K – 33K Gallon Chemical Blending and Storage Tanks.
84 – Raw material storage tanks ranging in capacity from 10K to 33K gallons with Rail Siding.

The collection of blending tanks, ranging from 5K to 33K gallons, feed the elaborate pigging system designed to prevent cross product contamination.
Rail siding and tanker truck offload locations provide the versatility to receive bulk fluids in sizes ranging 5 gallons to 30,000 gallon rail cars.

Throughput rates and energy efficiency earn high marks as blends are mixed while in the process of charging components using “eductor” technology rather than conventional prop mixing.

Champion Brands’ blow molding operation has multiple full-time lines capable to produce HDPE, PVC and PET bottles in sizes ranging from 2 oz. to 2.5 gallons in a wide range of colors.
Champion’s bottle production utilizes a percentage of regrind material, essentially reusing and recycling otherwise unusable plastic.

Ten lubricant filling lines package engine oils, hydraulic fluids, specialty oils, fuel additives, and automotive fluids that include power steering fluid, brake fluid, tire sealant, etc.
Each line has specific types of products that it can package.

Bottles are labeled, capped, heat sealed (if needed), coded, placed into cartons, and loaded onto pallets.

Champion Brands has a state of the art laboratory. While the lab’s primary function is to test the performance of products before they are packaged, the lab also has the tools to perform elemental analysis of fluids to blueprint the various components of different fluids or test used fluid.

Champion Brands fleet services most of the Mid-West while using common carrier for the rest of the continental US and Canada.

GENERAL

Approximately 450,000 sq. ft. with 30 loading bays.
Private rail spurs capable of holding/unloading 9 cars
Bulk tank truck loading/unloading area.
1,700,000+ gallons of bulk storage/mixing tanks (outside & inside) used for glycols, glycol ethers, base oil, mineral spirits, methanol, racing gasoline, bulk additives and finished fluids.
Tank capacities range from 1,000 gallons to 33,000+ gallons.

OIL/AUTOMOTIVE ADDITIVES

1,500 gallon mini-mix tank on load cells for special blends
10 lines/filling areas capable of filling 2.5 oz. to totes.
Explosion-proof tank farms and filling lines for special applications.

BLOW MOLDING

Two Bekum 406 production units capable of blowing PVC and HDPE bottles.
One AOKI PET Blowmolding Machine
One Bekum E807D capable of producing (4) 5 Gallon containers per cycle.
Three resin silos w/approximate capacity of 550,000 lbs.— capable of taking resin in bulk railcar or truck—can support many more blow molders.

BRAKE FLUID

Almost ½ million gallons glycol storage/blending capacity
All glycol storage is inside a pressurized, dry air system to prevent moisture from impacting the quality of the fluid.
Filling 8 oz. to 55-gallon containers, in steel and plastic.
Filler has accuracy of +/- 0.4 gram/bottle (on approximate fills of 245 grams to 980 grams).