Regulatory

Top 10 Articles of 2025, #9: Navigating Red Dye Regulation Changes

The #9 most clicked article of 2025: Pablo Elizondo, an R&D manager and chemist with color expertise from German chemical manufacturer Capol, offers insight into how processors can handle the phasing out of artificial dyes with a special eye on FD&C Red No. 3.

December 26, 2025

Leaders (UNIVERSAL TAXONOMY PFW): Page 31

Podcasts

Through the Line Podcast: Top Episodes of 2025, #2: Sargento’s Product Development and Manufacturing Work Together for Natural Cheese

The number 2 episode: Casey Flanagan, Associate Editor with ProFood World, sits down with Rod Hogan, Senior Vice President - Innovations at Sargento to discuss how working with manufacturing from the earliest stages of development meets consumer expectations, retailer needs, and the company’s own business goals.

December 24, 2025

Facilities, Design & Infrastructure

Top 10 Articles of 2025, #10: Connections Make Smiles for The Campbell’s Company

The #10 most clicked article of 2025: Meeting soaring demand for Goldfish crackers means bringing people, companies, communities, and even buildings, together for the benefit of all.

December 23, 2025

Dry Processing

Processing News Roundup December 19: Rotary Batch Mixing to Slash Blend Times, Smarter Infrastructure Solutions, and The Scrooge of Cybersecurity

Catch up on the latest topics in food and beverage processing, including how a nutraceutical company cut its blend cycles by 90%, tips to solve plant infrastructure challenges, and some Scrooge-like cybersecurity advice from ProFood World's Derrick Teal.

December 19, 2025

Sterilization/Pasteurization

Universal Pure Expands HPP Capacity with New Hiperbaric 525i System at Pennsylvania Facility

Installation expands Universal Pure’s nationwide HPP network to 23 machines, strengthening its scale and capacity in high-pressure processing and cold-chain services.

December 18, 2025

Automation

What Food and Beverage Manufacturing Can Expect in 2026

ProFood World takes a look at the market and predicts what influences they’ll have on the upcoming year.

December 18, 2025

Podcasts

Through the Line Podcast: Top Episodes of 2025, #3: Land O'Frost Automates on a Budget

The number 3 most downloaded episode: Land O'Frost automates without high initial costs. Thanks to the RaaS offering from Formic, the company's able to avoid the typical upfront challenges of five palletizers. The rental of automation equipment has also solved Land O’Frost's struggle with having a qualified maintenance staff.

December 17, 2025

Dry Processing

Nutraceutical Manufacturer Cuts Blending Cycles by 90% with Rotary Batch Mixing

By slashing blending times from nearly an hour to just minutes, the company has increased line capacity without compromising uniformity, tabletability, or GMP compliance.

December 16, 2025

Inspection

Eriez Builds Largest X8 Metal Detector in Company History

Eriez

Eriez's custom unit—with a 1,200 x 1,200 mm aperture—expands the platform’s size capabilities while maintaining the same high detection accuracy and reliability.

December 15, 2025

Food Safety

3-A SSI Student Hygienic Design Competition to Challenge Collegiate Teams

3-A Sanitary Standards

Students to compete for $10K in prize money by developing innovative solutions to persistent food industry problem.

December 15, 2025

Floor/Drains/Walls/Doors

How to Make Your Plant Infrastructure Work Smarter, Not Harder

Here’s an outline of how to work through the infrastructure challenges, the solutions available and things to consider when building new or enhancing an existing plant.

December 15, 2025

Security

Call Me Ebenezer Scrooge

Being a miser about cybersecurity should be giving you horrible visions of what’s going to happen if you don’t change your ways.

December 11, 2025

Podcasts

Through the Line Podcast: Top Episodes of 2025, #4: Upcycling to Combat Food Waste in Manufacturing

The #4 most downloaded episode: Manufactures repurpose food byproducts to reduce their waste as concerns about food waste grows. 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.

December 10, 2025