A & K Development Company
Ronald L. Anderson, owner of the company, developed the original A&K "Power Husker" with fellow inventor Tom Kessler in 1979. Based on years of experience in the Pacific Northwest food processing industry, they saw the need for a high capacity sweet corn husking machine. Recognizing the potential of this new machine, they started a manufacturing company in 1980 following successful tests of the prototype unit. A&K Development manufactured and sold 8 units for the 1980 processing season and went on to revolutionize the husking of sweet corn. Companies such as Green Giant, Kraft General Foods, Del Monte Corp., Twin City Foods, National Frozen Foods, Comstock Foods, Norpac, Agripac, Dean Foods, Seneca Foods and many other companies have converted their husking operations 100% to the A&K machine. Seldom has there been a machine that has converted an entire industry to its use in such a short period.
We have modified this base machine for many additional food processing uses besides husking of sweet corn. These include husking of corn for seed, fresh market husking, de-stemming and de-leafing citrus products such as oranges and grapefruit, de-leafing of onions, removal of sprouts and vines from potatoes, removal of tops and tails from radishes and pre-cleaning of carrots and apples.