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Get Recognized for Your Hard Work and Bright Ideas

Started up a new plant or expanded food safety? Created a sustainability project to help meet environmental goals? We’d like to hear about it—and tell your peers why you deserve accolades.

December 7, 2023

Sustainability: Page 6

Inspection

Bunting Appoints New Director of Sales and Global Marketing Director

Bunting

Tony Rampino returns to Bunting and Mark Friesen fills the position held by Michael Wilks, who's retiring after 23 years with the manufacturer of magnetic technology products.

December 6, 2023

Sustainability

Paper-Based Carriers Help Coca-Cola Bottler Replace Plastic Multipacks

This Coca-Cola bottler says it will replace 200,000 lb. of plastic a year with the addition of a paper-based mulitpack solution. Liberty Coca-Cola Beverages partnered with WestRock to replace plastic multipack rings with paper in this application.

December 4, 2023

Sustainability

McCain Foods Launches Business Unit to Advance Farming Technologies

Presia Ag Insights will help food companies, landowners, and farmers foster on-farm resilience and support the adoption of regenerative agricultural practices.

November 30, 2023

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Alternative Protein Sector, Despite Setbacks, Looks Healthy

A Horizons report from CRB takes an in-depth look at alternative proteins, detailing a still nascent industry that is learning how to succeed at production scale.

November 26, 2023

Industry News

New York Files Lawsuit Against PepsiCo Over Plastic Packaging

The legal action names PepsiCo as the major contributor of plastic waste collected from the Erie Basin Marina in Buffalo and details the actions it wants the company to undertake.

November 16, 2023

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

Processing Equipment

Hapman Establishes Strategic Partnership With Greif-Velox

Hapman

The 2 companies are set to elevate the standards of efficiency and innovation in bulk material handling equipment and sustainable packaging solutions.

October 26, 2023

Sustainability

Tyson, Protix Building U.S. Insect Ingredient Production Facility

The two companies also have entered into a partnership to explore new ways to create and produce more efficient, sustainable proteins and lipids for inclusion in the global food system.

October 17, 2023

Sustainability

Maple Leaf, McCain Foods, Others Join Forces for Decarbonization

Industry giants have come together with environmental experts to form CANZA—Canadian Alliance for Net-Zero Agri-food—to promote an environmentally responsible future for the Canadian agri-food value chain.

October 16, 2023

Sustainability

Upcycling Tackles Food Waste in Manufacturing

Concern about food waste continues to grow in importance globally. With so much of the waste happening before the food reaches the consumer, producers are finding new ways to make use of what previously went to landfills.

September 29, 2023

Sustainability

Hormel Foods Completes Major Solar Project in Minnesota

The 8-acre solar field at the Jennie-O plant in Montevideo, Minn., will generate energy while reducing greenhouse gas emissions by approximately 2,265 metric tons per year.

September 29, 2023

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Industry Report: Labor’s Long Reach Creates Challenges Beyond Processing

Many significant hurdles facing food processors in 2023 can be linked to the ongoing labor crunch, while inflation continues to drive several industry trends.

September 27, 2023