As the story goes, John (Hans) Faerber – NID’s founder – first became interested in starch moulding, he quickly realized that the traditional means of handling the trays and starch just weren’t good enough.
And so, he created something better — the first NID starch moulding machine (or mogul). The machine, “displayed several features unusual at that time, including the use of screw conveyors for starch instead of bucket elevators and scrapers, a walking beam for gentle tray transport within the starch section and swinging hopper mounted over a continuous tray transport in the depositor section.”