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How to Beat the ‘Great Resignation’
Focusing on recognition instead of resignation may help quell current manufacturing workforce challenges. Employers should focus on flexibility, skills development, meaningful work, work-life balance, and creating new workplace dynamics.
Automation
Counting Down the Top 10 Articles of 2021 – No. 3: COVID-19 Provides a Push for Digital Innovation
Sustainability
Counting Down the Top 10 Articles of 2021 – No. 5: Kraft Mac and Cheese Modernization
Sustainability
Kraft Mac and Cheese Modernization
COVID-19
Concerns About COVID-19 Being Addressed by Government, Businesses
COVID-19
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.
Podcasts
unPACKed with ProFood World Podcast: Refitting Processing Plants in a Pandemic
Listen to the inaugural unPACKed with ProFood World podcast for insight on the tumultuous past 18 months for food processing facilities and the industry's future plans for avoid repeating some of the same mistakes.
Sponsored
Bulk Bag Filling: Increase Bulk Material Packaging Efficiency
Move beyond constraints of build-to-order machine manufacturers. See how engineered-to-application bulk bag filler design and construction increases bulk material packaging efficiency and accuracy.
COVID-19
Manufacturing Skills Gap Widens in the Wake of COVID-19
A new study by Deloitte and the Manufacturing Institute says the pandemic erased 1.4 million U.S. manufacturing jobs. And, even as the industry rebounds, the remaining unfilled jobs could cost the U.S. economy $1 trillion.
Take Five
Pandemic-Driven Changes in Food and Beverage Plant Design
Food and beverage producers don’t see COVID-19 as a one-time event. As they actively prepare for the next global pandemic, they’re looking at the changes they need to make in plant design. Find out about their new ideas in this Take Five video.
Automation
Coronavirus’s Impact, Learnings, and the Value of Discipline
Prior to the pandemic, manufacturers spent most of their time optimizing assets and processes. When the crisis struck, the industry was forced to reinvent day-to-day activities. Refocusing on people is the key to being prepared for future uncertain times.
COVID-19
Pushing Change to Keep Workers Safe, Plants Running
The COVID-19 pandemic prompted food and beverage manufacturers to implement several new safety measures along with cutting-edge technologies geared toward maintaining production in a booming market. As we move forward, which changes will take root?
COVID-19
unPACKED with Packaging World Podcast: Did 2020 Change Packaging Forever?
Listen to the unPACKed with Packaging World podcast for Matt Reynold's take on the seismic shifts in packaging caused by COVID-19 and societal call for social responsibility.
COVID-19
Pandemic Gives Boost to Smaller Meat Processing Plants
Though COVID-19 certainly caused its share of issues as meat processors raced to figure out how to keep their workers safe, one of the biggest challenges the smaller organizations have faced is how to keep up with the rising demand.
COVID-19
Protective Packaging Demand Grows During Pandemic
Consumer demand for protective and hygienic packaging during the COVID-19 pandemic has brought new innovations in the areas of sleeve, film, and cardboard coatings.
COVID-19
FDA & CDC: No Transmission of COVID-19 Through Food or Food Packaging
FDA and CDC continue to underscore that there is no credible evidence of food or food packaging associated with or as a likely source of viral transmission of COVID-19.
COVID-19
Growth of Contract Packaging and Manufacturing Through 2025
Interview with Bush Brothers and Pretzels, Inc. on the expanding role of contract packagers/contract manufacturers during the pandemic, with an introduction by PMG's Jim Chrzan on recent Contract Packaging Association survey results.
COVID-19
Meat and Poultry Workers’ COVID-19 Rates Drop Sharply
New data shows the sector’s workers are far less likely to contract the disease than members of the general public.
IIoT
COVID-19 Provides a Push for Digital Innovation
As food and beverage manufacturers scramble to keep workers safe and shelves stocked, many have moved forward with automation and digital transformation initiatives that might have only been on the radar before the pandemic.
COVID-19
OpX Best Practices for Accessing Equipment Remotely
How to select a solution for accessing equipment remotely that can work for both OEMs and CPGs.
COVID-19
Where's my Vaccine?
unPACKed with PMMI podcast tackles why distribution of Pfizer and Moderna's COVID-19 vaccine isn't matching its breathtakingly fast approval.
COVID-19
COVID Trickle-Down Tied to Potential Corrugated Shortage
The pandemic has pushed e-commerce into overdrive, boosting the demand for corrugated shipping boxes while also slowing down recycling efforts and supply chains, creating a potential problem (or a great opportunity) for the corrugated industry.
COVID-19
How FDA Food Supply Data Supports COVID-19 Vaccine Distribution
In the latest FDA Voices post, Dr. Stephen Hahn and Frank Yiannas, M.P.H. discuss how the new data analysis tool, 21 FORWARD, is helping food and agriculture workers receive vaccines.
COVID-19
COVID-19 and the Consumer Landscape
Consumer priorities switch from the environment and general health-related issues to the pandemic, economic concerns, and food safety.
Cleaning and Sanitation
Challenges Amid a Pandemic
COVID-19 is changing the way food and beverage manufacturers manage their cleaning processes and products, accounting for social distancing and increased sanitation requirements.
COVID-19
CDC Gives Meat and Poultry Workers High Priority for COVID-19 Vaccination
Following letters and appeals from the Meat Institute and other food industry groups, the CDC moves food industry workers closer to the top of the list.
Cleaning and Sanitation
Remote Access Technologies Help Keep Food Sanitation Workers Safe
Cloud services, augmented and virtual reality, and videoconferencing applications are among the latest tools that suppliers are using to keep food and beverage workers safer during the COVID-19 pandemic.