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Manufacturing Innovation Award
Manufacturing Innovation: MyForest Foods’ Alternative Approach to Food Production
Skip dehydration. Skip extrusion. This Manufacturing Innovation Award winner is making plant-based whole cuts of meat through an innovative solid-state fermentation process.
June 9, 2023
Scientists harvest from a continuous sheet of mycelium grown using AirMycelium technology.
Plant Services and Supplies
Increased Diagnostics, Digital Capabilities in Process Instrumentation
Looking for increased production efficiency despite labor shortages, food and beverage producers demand more from their pressure, flow, temperature, and level sensors.
March 30, 2023
Baumer’s ultra-compact PAC50 sensor measures conductivity in the smallest spaces and is designed for use in small production facilities.
Processing Instrumentation
Exchangeable Continuous Profile Drum Motor Sleeves Provide Flexibility
Easily swap the continuous profiled sleeve for another sleeve with a different type of profile, by simply removing only six screws from the drum motor end flange.
November 3, 2022
Sonia Kanaris demonstrates the easy removal of a profiled, nylon continuous sleeve on this drum motor at PACK EXPO International.
Processing Instrumentation
Cloud-Based CIP, COP Data Collection Software
Sani-Matic’s new SaniTrend Cloud Lite software is available with any automated cleaning system, enabling fully automated reporting functionality, as well as OEE, notifications, and more.
November 1, 2022
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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.
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
Front shot of the filler and seamer.
Processing Instrumentation
Smoked Fish Business Upscales With Automation
Hardy Buoys turns to an automated bagging line to meet increasing customer demands, saving $3,500 per week in labor.
January 18, 2022
The Plan It RotoBagger inside the Hardy Buoys facility includes a multi-head weigher, the RotoBagger, a pre-made pouch machine, with a platform and sanitary washdown inclined conveyor.
Processing Instrumentation
Innovations in Flexibility, Reliability Keep Products Moving
Particularly with the uncertainty that the pandemic brought with it, industry suppliers are working to provide more flexible, reliable, hygienic conveyors, with an increased level of automation.
December 10, 2021
Key Technology’s Zephyr horizontal-motion conveyor minimizes bounce to reduce product damage, noise, and loss of seasoning.
Beverage
Pneumatic Scale Angelus CB50C Counter-Pressure Integrated Canning Line
Machine helps craft beverage producers meet customer demand with isobarometric counter-pressure technology and proprietary magnetic flowmeters.
October 15, 2021
Employing six individual filling heads and a single-head seamer, the CB50C uses isobarometric counter-pressure technology coupled with proprietary magnetic flowmeters, to deliver a system capable of one-milliliter filling precision.
Processing Equipment
Vacuum Pump Improves Lettuce Cooling Process
Switching from three oil-lubricated rotary vane vacuum pumps to one frequency-controlled screw vacuum pump, a lettuce grower eliminated maintenance issues and improved process time and energy consumption.
October 15, 2021
One Cobra Plus screw vacuum pump replaced three rotary vane vacuum pumps.
Processing Instrumentation
BW Flexible Systems’ Hayssen VFFS Machine For Intelligent Sanitary Bagging
This next-generation design of vertical form fill seal machines was developed through customer interviews for intelligent, sanitary bagging.
October 13, 2021
Voice of customer interviews in the frozen/individual quick freezing (IQF), fresh produce, and cheese industries were conducted in order to develop the Hayssen ISB system, focusing on pain points and preferred features.
Processing Instrumentation
CTI Foods Automates Its Hot to Handle Taco Packaging Line
Tacobots efficiently upgrade and automate production with a unique two-pick mechanical tool. The recent line integration project wins a 2021 Manufacturing Innovation Award from ProFood World.
July 23, 2021
Fresh tacos that were once too hot to handle manually are now placed into trays by JLS Talon robots.
Facilities, Design & Infrastructure
MWC Creates a Cheese and Whey Recipe for Success
Intellectual property, proven equipment and technology, operational readiness, a seasoned workforce, and the perfect partnerships provide a winning combination to launch MWC’s greenfield dairy facility.
June 1, 2021
The plant includes 16 Tetra Pak vats capable of making 10,000 lb of cheese in every batch.
Processing Instrumentation
Advanced Weigh Cell Technology Boosts Efficiency in Packaging Applications
Compared to conventional weighing methods, electromagnetic force restoration-based solutions help ensure mission-critical quality control and faster throughput while providing space-saving efficiencies.
April 12, 2021
Figure 1 shows a bending beam load cell with strain gauges.
Processing Equipment
Improve Processing of Plant-Based Proteins in the Manufacture of Meat Substitutes
Continuous-process systems are essential to preparation for plant-based meat substitute processing to maintain precise control over time, temperature, and moisture during hydration, cooking and cooling, de-flavoring, pouch cooling after pasteurization.
March 1, 2021
The Clean-Flow cooker-cooler addresses quick changeovers, and faster clean-up and turn-around time.
Processing Equipment
PEC Innovations Report
The latest in machinery at PACK EXPO Connects.
February 26, 2021
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Processing Instrumentation
Longer Shelf Life, Fresh Taste, Safe Food
HPP technology supports the healthy and convenient products consumers seek. For processors already into HPP, and those looking to get started, the market is poised for expansion, fueled by pandemic shopping habits that shifted from restaurants to retail.
January 28, 2021
Just Made Foods produces juices in nine varieties in 1.8-oz bottles. Early this year, it plans to add SKUs in 1-liter bottles. Photo courtesy of Just Made Foods.
Processing Equipment
Craft Distiller Turns Waste From Whiskey Process Into Revenue
A waste byproduct becomes a useful livestock feed for farmers by using a centrifugal sifter to dewater the stillage, the grain/water mixture stripped out after the fermentation process.
November 19, 2020
Bendt No. 5 is Bendt Distilling Company’s first blended whiskey release, blending five different whiskeys made in-house.
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