Bakery & Snack

The Mixing & Blending Imperative

From vinaigrettes to viscous pastes, today’s food processors are asking more from their mixing and blending equipment than ever before. Shorter production runs, increasingly complex formulations, tighter allergen controls, and the relentless push for automation are reshaping how manufacturers approach every stage of the mixing process.

June 10, 2026

Frozen & Refrigerated Foods

Sustainability

How Ammonia, CO₂, and Nitrogen Are Reshaping Food & Beverage Cooling

As food processors rethink cooling from the ground up, ammonia, CO₂, and nitrogen technologies are each carving out distinct roles in faster, smarter, and more sustainable refrigeration systems.

June 5, 2026

Robotics

Lean Principles in the Machine Learning Era

While AI grabs headlines, machine learning, modeling and data standardization efforts are rooting out waste. Data in batch processing, lab databases, and production pose standardization challenges, and the ability to sync information across departments and identify waste.

April 16, 2026

Facilities, Design & Infrastructure

Cheney Brothers Expands Southeast Reach with New Refrigerated Distribution Center in South Carolina

Cheney Brothers has added a major new distribution asset to its Southeast network with the completion of a 386,047-sq-ft refrigerated and frozen foods facility.

April 14, 2026

Industry News

Kraft Heinz Invests $250M to Modernize Montreal Facility

Upgrade targets efficiency, sustainability, and added production capacity as the company reinforces its commitment to Canadian manufacturing.

April 1, 2026

Podcasts

Through the Line Podcast: Making Your Plant Infrastructure Work Smarter, Not Harder

Before building, installing, or enhancing a food processing plant, it’s important to identify and understand the challenges that lie within meeting regulations.

March 18, 2026

Podcasts

Through the Line Podcast: How to Avoid Food Recalls

What are the best strategies to avoid food recalls and maintain customer trust? The toll of a food safety failure extends far beyond the initial problem. Whether it brings costs associated with food waste, production delays, regulatory consequences, or loss of consumer trust, suffice to say a recall is best avoided.

March 11, 2026

Meat, Poultry & Seafood

Sysco

March 3, 2026

Facilities, Design & Infrastructure

ESI Group Launches Strategic Growth Team for Food and Pharma-Cold Projects

ESI Group USA

ESI Group's cross-functional Strategic Growth Team aims to support early-stage capital planning by aligning market, technical, and financial insights to improve cost certainty, reduce risk, and guide projects from concept through execution.

February 25, 2026

Floor/Drains/Walls/Doors

Live from East: Drainage - From Afterthought to Food Plant Priority

Legacy drainage systems often mask serious sanitation and structural risks. A PACK EXPO East Innovation Stage outlined actionable steps to help processors minimize risk, maintenance burden, and downtime.

February 19, 2026

Industry News

Tippmann Group to Lead Construction of $860M Cold Storage Distribution Center in North Carolina

Tippmann Group

The facility in Burlington, NC, aims to expand fresh and frozen capacity for major grocery brands and add modern automation and sustainability features.

February 18, 2026

Podcasts

Through the Line Podcast: New Year, New Food Safety Regulations

With the turn of the calendar to 2026, new laws and regulations are on the horizon.  Stricter U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) rules under the American Innovation and Manufacturing (AIM) Act, and FSMA Rule 204 (Food Traceability Rule) are among some of the changes.

February 18, 2026

Sterilization/Pasteurization

American Pasteurization Company Expands High Pressure Processing Capacity with Hiperbaric 525

Hiperbaric - High Pressure Processing

The new Hiperbaric 525 expands HPP capacity at APC's Milwaukee facility, enabling access to food safety, shelf-life extension and clean label food manufacturing.

February 11, 2026