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Ferrero Building Its First-ever North American Chocolate Processing Facility

The $75 million project will be instrumental to Ferrero’s building on its growth in the market, and advance the company’s goal of being a world leader in global confectionery.

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Beckhoff Showcases XPlanar Updates

At PACK EXPO Las Vegas 2021, Beckhoff highlighted is XPlanar materials handling system that uses levitating movers to transport materials for packaging, assembly or transfer.

Cargll Dawson Plant

New Production Facility Supports Joint Venture Between Cargill and Puris

The new Minnesota plant will double Puris’s pea protein production capacity, enabling the company to meet growing consumer demand for sustainable plant-based foods.

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Leak Detection System

At PACK EXPO Las Vegas 2021, Emerson demonstrated its CT4215 leak detection system which uses quantum cascade lasers to detect leaks in real time.

One Cobra Plus screw vacuum pump replaced three rotary vane vacuum pumps.

Vacuum Pump Improves Lettuce Cooling Process

Chain Guard Formula 600 Aerosol Spray Lubricant

Spray Lubricant Helps Keep Machinery Moving Safely and Efficiently

Gericke Nibbler Lump Breaker

Lump Breaker Converts Costly Waste Into Saleable Product

Lubriplate Syn Fg Sdo Synthetic Oil

Synthetic Oil Removes and Prevents Sugar Deposits

HY7 CW has a compact and hygienic design to meet international standards.

SACMI Cut and Wrap Machine for Double Twist Style

Viswanath Puttagunta, president and CTO, Power Central, demonstrates the company's Microsoft dynamics ERP platform.

Power Central ERP System for Small and Mid-size Food Companies

Voice of customer interviews in the frozen/individual quick freezing (IQF), fresh produce, and cheese industries were conducted in order to develop the Hayssen ISB system, focusing on pain points and preferred features.

BW Flexible Systems’ Hayssen VFFS Machine For Intelligent Sanitary Bagging

Key Discovery Software

Software Helps Optimize Product Quality and Maximize Yield

Hillbrush Essentials Cleaning Tools

Cleaning Tools Add Layer of Safety

Thermo Fisher Sentinel 1000 head for metal detection.

Advanced Food Safety Inspection from Thermo Fisher Scientific

Super Seal Touch Hero

New Super Seal Sealing Head by Enercon at PACK EXPO Las Vegas

Sani Matic Sani Trend Cloud Online Data Acquisition And Management System

Software-as-a-Service Makes Cleaning Easier, More Productive

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Beckhoff Showcases XPlanar Updates

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Automatic Changeover of Timing Screws and Conveyor Rails

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Yaskawa Demos Collaborative and Autonomous Palletizing Robots

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Leak Detection System

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Innovation Stage Interview: State of Snacking

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Innovation Stage Interview: State of Snacking

Kim Overstreet interviews SNAC International's David Walsh as he discusses current trends in snacking.

Savencia Buys Hope, a Leading U.S. Plant-based Dips and Spreads Brand

The acquisition adds fast-growing, ‘better-for-you’ products to Savencia’s portfolio in the U.S. and provides an opportunity to expand its consumer options for great-tasting, plant-based products.

Vision & sensor cap inspection system

Clever Syrup Capper & Reject System Eliminates a Sticky Situation

Quebecois syrup producer Nokomis Maple Products had a big fill inconsistency and reject problem that often made a sticky mess. An easy-to-use new capper with advanced inspection features made a big difference in reducing rejects and keeping things moving.

PACK EXPO’s Innovation Stages Detail Interesting Trends in Food Manufacturing

This year’s PACK EXPO Las Vegas featured several interesting presentations on its Innovation Stages. See highlights around functional nutrition, high pressure processing, and new packaging techniques from Bumble Bee on this Take Five video.

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VFFS Bagger Squeegees Air Out for Faster, Flatter Packing of Hot Liquids

Triangle Packaging Machinery demonstrates its Model XYTLF, a vertical form/fill/seal bagger for hot fill, pumpable foods. Its servo-controlled squeegee system helps eliminate costly leakers and headspace inside the package.

Mars Pledges Fresh Climate Action to Achieve Net Zero Emissions by 2050

The move advances Mars’s previous pledge to cut emissions in its full value chain by 67% by 2050 and reaffirms a near-term target to cut GHGs in its full value chain by 27% by 2025.

The idea for the project emerged when a Conagra Brands plant engineer attended PACK EXPO and discussed ways to improve the plant’s current operation with an exhibitor.

Conagra Brands Paper Waste Reduction Project Is on a Roll

Project ties for second place in the project category of ProFood World's Sustainability Excellence in Manufacturing Awards.

Del Monte Foods Publishes 2021 Sustainability Report

The plant-based foods leader’s report highlights progress toward the company’s sustainability goals and its efforts to increase food access and expand nutrition education.

Global 250: Health Comes to the Fore

If one word sums up prevailing consumer attitudes, it’s “Health.” Despite the shakeup amid the ongoing pandemic, many top companies in ProFood World’s Global 250 Food and Beverage Manufacturers list have maintained their positions.

Maple Leaf Foods Creates Bacon Centre of Excellence at Winnipeg Plant

The expansion of the prepared meats plant and creation of the centre significantly increase its production capacity and position the company to meet growing customer and consumer demand in the pre-cooked bacon market.

In this rotary batch mixer at Pablo & Rusty’s Coffee Roasters, internal flights direct beans toward and through a stationary discharge as the vessel rotates until fully evacuated.

New Advances in Mixing and Blending Meet Merging Challenges

As food and beverage manufacturers face changing market demands, safety requirements, and sustainability goals, mixing and blending technologies are meeting market challenges with increased automation, rapid cleaning, and customized approaches.

Agropur Planning New Wisconsin Facility

The new state-of-the-art facility is being constructed to meet growing market demand and significantly increase the company’s production of cheese and dairy ingredients.

JBT Expanding European Presence

The company is opening a new facility in Spain that will manufacture and distribute JBT’s fresh produce technologies and product lines, and create identification solutions.

The cylindrical shape of the PET kegs adapts well to the processing chamber of the Hiperbaric HPP in-pack units.

PET Kegs Meet High Pressure Processing

Hiperbaric teamed up with Petainer, putting its One Way PET Keg under pressure to enable the cold-pressed juice market to take advantage of keg dispensing.

HPP aligns with consumer health trends

Health-Based a Top Trend in High Pressure Processing

HPP touches on the better-for-you and clean-label consumer trends, as well as sustainably utilizing perishable produce, and the growing pet food market.

PACK EXPO Las Vegas 2021 Technology Excellence Awards Winners Unveiled

Chosen by a panelist of packaging professionals and voted on by show attendees, winners include a new can-end design, an innovative roll-fed labeler, and an HPP bulk beverage technology.

Leprino Foods Building $870 Million Facility in Texas

Supplied by local dairy farmers, the 850,000-sq-ft site will make mozzarella and nutrition products that will be distributed throughout the U.S. and internationally.

Ruprecht provides proteins cooked sous vide, a safe cooking process that vacuum seals the food and places it in temperature-controlled water.

Enterprise Resource Planning Essential Amid Strong Market Growth

Ruprecht, a sous vide cooked protein maker, integrates an ERP system purpose-built for food processing to build its Industry 4.0 foundation, helping operations better align with—and gain insights into—finance matters.

The TOMRA 5C combines sensors with machine learning and big-data analysis to ensure as accurate foreign material removal as possible.

TOMRA Food’s Highlights Sensor-Based Sorting Systems for Nut and Dried Fruit

TOMRA Food showcases the TOMRA 5C, its state-of-the-art sorting systems for the nut and dried fruit segment at PACK EXPO Las Vegas.

The cloud-based VR164+ offers international advanced multi-spectral analysis technology, along with Hawk-Eye recognition technology, and intelligent shape sorting automation.

Anysort Highlights Hawk-Eye Technology and Infrared Sorting

In the Processing Zone at PACK EXPO Las Vegas, Anysort U.S.A demonstrates its cloud quality sorting capabilities, multi-dimensional algorithm, and Hawk-Eye recognition technology.

Why Your Peers Came to PACK EXPO Las Vegas 2021 (and Why You Should Too!)

Watch interviews with PACK EXPO Las Vegas attendees on what they came to find and what they discovered at the largest comprehensive packaging and processing event in the world this year.

Veryx 2.0 belt-fed and chute-fed digital sorters

Optical Sorters Get a Boost in Performance, Longevity, Smarts

The Veryx 2.0 is the latest digital sorter from Key Technology, offering enhancements over its original flagship product in mechanical layout, LED illumination, laser scanning, and artificial intelligence.