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Processing Equipment
Cartoner Ushers Bumble Bee Out of Plastic Shrink, Into Paperboard Multipacks
An enterprise-wide focus on sustainability pushed Bumble Bee Seafood to reinvent multipacking in a more readily recyclable, paperboard format. A 'Rolls Royce' of a cartoner certainly helped.
September 2, 2022
Printed paperboard cartons are opened out of magazines of 2D blanks by way of mechanical gripers, plus an “elegant” air-assist carton opening feature to ensure the cartons fully open.
Dry Processing
New Vibratory Conveyor Resolves a Sticky Situation
With their sanitary design and compact footprint, robust vibratory conveyor systems move fruit snacks correctly, safely, and efficiently for a top candy producer.
August 4, 2022
Pouched Welch’s Fruit Snacks are ready for cartoning at PIM Brands.
Sustainability
The Race to Save the Planet
The winners of ProFood World’s annual Sustainability Excellence in Manufacturing Awards are focused on reducing greenhouse gas emissions, electricity, and water, as well as food waste and materials management.
August 2, 2022
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Sustainability
Finding the Right Mix for Plant-Based Alternatives
Both ingredient suppliers and CPGs are trying to discover the right proteins for the job as they play with plant-based formulations to get the taste, texture, mouthfeel—and scalability—they’re looking for.
August 1, 2022
The plant-based industry has progressed from burgers to imitating whole cuts of meat. This chicken breast analogue is made through extrusion.
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Food Safety, Sustainability, Convenience Lead Pet Food Efforts
With the pet food market skyrocketing and owners changing the way they care for their pets, manufacturers are innovating to meet a long list of consumer values, notes a survey-based report from CRB.
July 25, 2022
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Dry Processing
Coffee Conveying System Streamlines Production
Mayorga Organics increases production efficiency while reducing manual labor and saving time with immediate packaging.
July 15, 2022
The flexible screw conveyor at left transfers roasted coffee beans from the bulk bag discharger to the grinder, while the conveyor at right moves ground coffee to the bulk bag filler.
Processing Instrumentation
Digital Recorder Replaces Cumbersome Paper Charts
With its Paperless Process Recorder and cloud-based Legendary software, Anderson-Negele aims to digitalize—without necessarily reinventing—the recording of process parameters in food and beverage plants.
June 13, 2022
The Paperless Process Recorder records process parameters like temperature, flow, and pressure, and uses the Legendary cloud-based software to securely store those records.
Dry Processing
Sanitary Conveyor Improves Food Safety, Uptime for Co-Manufacturer
As the nutrition bar market took off and TruFood embarked on expansions, Luxme’s SaniLux conveyor provided an improved ingredient delivery system to speed production and sanitation, while reducing allergen cross-contamination.
June 3, 2022
TruFood produces millions of nutrition bars each week, which are sold at retail and club stores throughout North America and Europe, and online.
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Mark Anthony Brewing Goes for the Gold Standard
The largest and most technologically advanced brewery built in the U.S. in the past 28 years, a 1.3 million-sq-ft highly automated, fast-track greenfield facility wins a Manufacturing Innovation Award from ProFood World.
June 1, 2022
MAB’s new facility makes Mike’s Hard Lemonade, White Claw Hard Seltzer, and other ready to drink brands and will provide increased capacity to keep up with consumer demand in the eastern U.S.
Processing Equipment
Freezing Technology Saves Time and Labor for Pierino Frozen Foods
The family-owned Pierino Frozen Foods had relied on Messer freezers for the past 15 years, including its previous wave technology. Now the Wave Impingement Freezer is improving throughput and nitrogen efficiency.
May 27, 2022
Pierino gnocchi exit the Messer Wave Impingement Freezer. The wave-like action helps keep the product separated while the impingement gas flows increase throughput, cryogen efficiency, and operating leverage for the premium pasta maker.
Processing Equipment
Live at the Craft Brew Conference: Is the Pint Glass Half Full or Half Empty?
Pandemic-related channel shifts subsided in 2021, and on-premise sales bounced back, but there are both encouraging and concerning signs for the craft brew industry. Brewers Association's Bart Watson captures the landscape in his State of the Industry.
May 4, 2022
The Brewing Association's Economist Bart Watson delivers the good news and the bad news in Minneapolis.
Processing Equipment
Creating a Succulent Roasted Chicken With Higher Yield
GEA explains how replacing a traditional tumble-cook process with an inject-tumble-cook process, along with its latest-generation spiral oven, produces yield boosts of up to 10%.
April 6, 2022
For poultry brine injections, GEA recommends 2 mm injection needles with its MultiJector system for better brine distribution that does not destroy the structure of the meat.
Dry Processing
Vitaquest Gets Flexibility, Scalability From Mobile Powder Conveyors
The contract manufacturer of nutraceuticals and functional foods typically opts for vacuum conveyor technology. The mobile version maximizes production versatility, making cleaning and changeovers easier.
March 29, 2022
Vitaquest delivers innovation in nutraceutical development by providing turnkey nutritional manufacturing solutions across a broad range of herbal, vitamin, protein, and probiotic custom formulations.
Processing Equipment
Cucina Fresca Reduces Downtime With Easy Washdown Thermoformer
Gourmet foods manufacturer installs Ossid machine to improve production efficiency and meet order timelines.
March 15, 2022
The ReeForm T45 features a stainless steel frame and sheeting for easy sanitation in washdown environments as well as a user-friendly control panel.
Processing Equipment
Industrial Arts Brewing: The Art of Scaling Up a Hazy IPA
A young craft brewer in New York’s Hudson Valley was maxing out the capacity of its 25-hL brewhouse. A second, larger brewhouse from Krones Steinecker was highly customized to handle its hoppy brew.
March 8, 2022
The high volume of hops used to make Industrial Arts’ hazy IPA required some innovative thinking to optimize brewing.
Processing Equipment
Report: Innovative New Machinery for the Food Industry at PACK EXPO Las Vegas
PMMI Media Group editors fanned out across the many booths at PACK EXPO Las Vegas to bring you this Innovations Report on machinery for the food industry.
February 21, 2022
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Beverage
Automated Canning Line Improves Efficiency, Reduces Costs
PSA’s customer service and CB50C counter-pressure integrated canning line allow farm-based brewery to increase production, opening the doors to further locally grown and produced beers.
February 14, 2022
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Processing Equipment
Operational Success: Productivity Under Pressure
Multifunctional equipment and changeovers, as well as the use of predictive process analytics, can make the difference in achieving operational excellence during challenging times for food and beverage manufacturers.
February 7, 2022
Predictive Process Analytics
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