Cleaning and Sanitation

A Sanitation-First Rebuild Helps an RTE Processor Recover

After a contamination-related event, ProFab moved from remediation to equipment rebuilds and new installations—turning an urgent response into a continuing plant partnership.

July 24, 2026

Meat, Poultry & Seafood

Heating/Cooking

Standard Meat's Sous Vide Focus in a Historic Site

Take a look inside Standard Meat's new facility built in Fort Worth's historic Stockyards, with a focus on sous vide production and flexibility for customer needs.

July 22, 2026

Industry News

How a Shrinking Cattle Herd is Steering Machinery Spend

Tight beef supply and labor scarcity are pushing processors toward poultry and yield-focused automation.

July 17, 2026

Inspection

Delivering Context to Food Safety Data at the Machine Level

As food processors connect machine-level data with contextualized analytics, retrofits, and AI tools, food safety programs are moving from isolated records toward real-time, risk-based decision-making.

July 17, 2026

Regulatory

USDA Food Safety Reorganization and Industry Implications

USDA’s new National Food Safety Center in Iowa is part of a broader FSIS realignment that shifts support, scientific, and administrative functions closer to agricultural production while keeping frontline inspection activities unchanged.

July 15, 2026

Podcasts

Through the Line Podcast: Bar-W Beef Keeps Supply on Track with Traceability Tech

How can protein processors stay on top of traceability? Manual tracking of inventory from animal receiving through regulatory checks and all the way to warehousing and shipping can take diligent record-keeping.

July 8, 2026

Regulatory

FSIS Launches Pilot to Measure Salmonella Levels in Raw Poultry Plants

The USDA's Food Safety and Inspection Service is launching a voluntary pilot program that will evaluate new Salmonella monitoring and verification approaches in chicken and turkey processing establishments.

June 26, 2026

Facilities, Design & Infrastructure

How Standard Meat Company Built a Future-Ready Plant in Fort Worth’s Historic Stockyards

By anchoring its new facility around sous vide technology—even before securing a site—Standard Meat Company transformed a historic renovation into a flexible, high-capability processing hub built to meet the evolving demands of modern customers.

June 17, 2026

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

Processing Instrumentation

The Middleby Corporation Announces the Launch of Midera Food Processing

The Middleby Corporation

Middleby Food Processing rebrands as Midera, marking its transition to a standalone food processing company ahead of its July 2026 separation from The Middleby Corporation.

May 29, 2026

Industry News

MarketsandMarkets Forecasts Poultry Processing Equipment Market to Reach $8.61B by 2035

The global poultry processing equipment market is projected to increase as processors accelerate investments in automation, inspection technologies, and high-capacity systems to meet rising demand for poultry products.

May 27, 2026

Heating/Cooking

Fortifi Announces Acquisition of Deighton Manufacturing Ltd

Fortifi Food Processing Solutions

The UK firm brings over 25 years of forming, coating and frying technology to the Fortifi Food Processing Solutions portfolio.

April 28, 2026

Facilities, Design & Infrastructure

End of The Line Video Series: Sustained Horizontal Compression, UTI Kit Launch, and The Rise of Mutton

Watch as some of the PMG editors sit down and talk about trends, insights, and the cool things that pass by our desks.

April 20, 2026