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Sustainability
Rocol Removes PFAS From Full Line of Food-Grade Lubricants
Driven by customer requests, the lubricant manufacturer got out ahead of PFAS regulations, removing all per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances from its Foodlube product range.
April 5, 2024
Rocol's entire line of Foodlube food-grade lubricants has been reformulated to be PFAS-free.
Chilling/Freezing
Why Temperature Control Is Crucial to Keeping the Cold Chain Intact
The cold foods segment continues to grow, and with it, evolving best practices to enable efficiencies in production, storage, distribution, labor, and facility construction.
March 29, 2024
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Automation
Automated Brine Injector Helps Meat Processor Grow
Spurred on by the demand and funding that came with the COVID-19 pandemic, Clarion Locker found that automated injection not only improved throughput, but also quality and consistency.
March 24, 2024
With the Nowicki automated brine injector, Clarion Locker is able to inject in less than an hour what an employee used to take two days to inject manually.
Processing Equipment
Food Processing Highlights From PACK EXPO East
A focus on mixing and blending innovations, along with automation and technology tools to offset the labor crunch are among the takeaways from the Philadelphia show.
March 19, 2024
Pack Expo East Philadelphia 2024
Processing Equipment
Innovative New Food Processing Technologies at PACK EXPO
PMG editors fanned out across PACK EXPO Las Vegas 2023 in search of packaging innovation. Here's what they found in Food Processing Technologies.
February 20, 2024
Liftvrac
Dry Processing
The Artistry of Making THC Powders
Le Herbe has spent nine years mastering the art and science of nanoemulsions to create ready-to-mix cannabis powders. Help with scaling has come from specialized spray drying and mixing equipment.
February 14, 2024
Le Herbe THC drink packets easily dissolve in hot or cold liquids.
Dry Processing
Belting Combines Ease of Change With Hygienic Design
Intralox’s new ZeroSplice technology gives food processors a way to connect ThermoDrive belting sections without field splicing.
February 6, 2024
Intralox ZeroSplice ThermoDrive
Food Safety
High-Pressure Processing Preserves Baby Food’s Taste, Nutrition
HPP was an essential tool when GroGro's Malin Bruset set out to create a baby food that was as close to homemade as possible but could also be sold in stores.
January 21, 2024
GroGro explains to its customers how high-pressure processing preserves the texture and nutrients of the original ingredients while the taste, nutrition, and consistency of the raw materials are reduced with heat pasteurization.
Processing Equipment
Back to Basics: Mixing and Blending Equipment
Get up to speed on the main types of mixers and blenders, how they work, and what to look for in a machine.
December 20, 2023
Look closely at the ingredients you use and the likelihood of an ingredient change when considering mixing and blending machines.
Food Safety
Plasma-Based Disinfection Improves Safety in Fresh Produce Processing
SPLASH, a German government-funded research project, successfully tested Kronen’s innovative plasma washing process to improve food safety for fresh-cut lettuce.
December 5, 2023
The SPLASH project showed the efficacy of plasma-treated wash water for reducing the risk of contamination in packaged cut salads.
Dry Processing
Fast-Changing Consumer Tastes Drive Trends in Mixing Equipment
Speed, customization, resource-saving features, and versatility to handle a broader range of additives are just some areas advancing today’s mixing and blending equipment.
November 29, 2023
Bulk Dry Ingredient Mixing Equipment
Sustainability
Upcycling Producer Rescues Produce, Other Foods From Demise
Loop Mission is working to save fruits, vegetables, and a range of food byproduct from landfills. High pressure processing has been instrumental to achieving this circular economy model.
November 8, 2023
Loop Mission began as Loop Juice, focused on rescuing fruits and vegetables to make cold-pressed juices.
Heating, Cooling and Freezing
Baggers Add Flexibility to Automated Pork Rind System
This pork rind line represents a seamless transition between processing and packaging, turning raw pig skin ingredient at the infeed into a finished packaged product at line's end, with fully automated connective tissue between processing and packaging.
October 27, 2023
Mac’s Chicharrones, Turkey Creek Snacks, and Pörq are Benestar’s own brands. The company also produces pork rinds as a CM/CP for private label.
PACK EXPO Las Vegas 2023
Technology’s Not Worth Much If They Can’t Use It
Lots of innovative technologies were launched at PACK EXPO Las Vegas in September. Perhaps most impressive were the technologies that were easy to use.
October 12, 2023
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Dry Processing
Factory Automation Advancements for CPGs
At PACK EXPO Las Vegas, Bosch Rexroth showcased developments in control systems, conveyance, and more for packaging machinery.
October 9, 2023
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PACK EXPO Las Vegas 2023
Lights-Out Mixing Is Within Reach
Presenting on the Processing Innovation Stage at PACK EXPO Las Vegas, Reading Bakery Systems explained the benefits of continuous over batch mixing.
October 8, 2023
Continuous mixing can cut necessary operator interaction considerably over batch mixing.
Dry Processing
Modern Process Equipment Showcases Compact Grinders
Modern Process Equipment is now manufacturing compact precision grinders for coffee and other dry ingredient processors.
October 6, 2023
The MPE Crack-u-lator is a compact coffee grinder within a series to make its precision grinding technology accessible to medium and small manufacturers
Heating, Cooling and Freezing
Continuous Sterilizer Runs Wide Range of Primary Packaging
Surdry introduces its new continuous sterilizer to the North American market at PACK EXPO Las Vegas with the flexibility to run various product packaging with minimal changeover time.
October 3, 2023
The continuous sterilizer is an inline solution meant to ensure better quality with its capacity to sterilize over 800 pouches per minute, or half a ton of product every five minutes.
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