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Heating/Cooking
Heat Exchangers Play Key Role in Spanish Soup Production
This heat exchange product helps companies produce two of Spain’s esteemed soups.
February 10, 2025
HRS Gazpacho and Salmorejo Image
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Top 10 Articles of 2024 – No. 9: SunOpta Takes Aseptic Processing to New Level
Join ProFood World in looking back at the site’s most popular articles of 2024. The No. 9 spot features greenfield plant SunOpta taking lessons from its other facilities to advance in several key aseptic processing areas.
December 24, 2024
The greenfield project enabled SunOpta to optimize production, improve the flexibility of its systems, and accommodate new product lines, including 330 mL protein drinks.
Food Safety
High-Pressure Processing Preserves Baby Food’s Taste, Nutrition
HPP was an essential tool when GroGro's Malin Bruset set out to create a baby food that was as close to homemade as possible but could also be sold in stores.
January 21, 2024
GroGro explains to its customers how high-pressure processing preserves the texture and nutrients of the original ingredients while the taste, nutrition, and consistency of the raw materials are reduced with heat pasteurization.
Sustainability
Upcycling Producer Rescues Produce, Other Foods From Demise
Loop Mission is working to save fruits, vegetables, and a range of food byproduct from landfills. High pressure processing has been instrumental to achieving this circular economy model.
November 8, 2023
Loop Mission began as Loop Juice, focused on rescuing fruits and vegetables to make cold-pressed juices.
Processing Equipment
Baggers Add Flexibility to Automated Pork Rind System
This pork rind line represents a seamless transition between processing and packaging, turning raw pig skin ingredient at the infeed into a finished packaged product at line's end, with fully automated connective tissue between processing and packaging.
October 27, 2023
Mac’s Chicharrones, Turkey Creek Snacks, and Pörq are Benestar’s own brands. The company also produces pork rinds as a CM/CP for private label.
Processing Equipment
Continuous Sterilizer Runs Wide Range of Primary Packaging
Surdry introduces its new continuous sterilizer to the North American market at PACK EXPO Las Vegas with the flexibility to run various product packaging with minimal changeover time.
October 3, 2023
The continuous sterilizer is an inline solution meant to ensure better quality with its capacity to sterilize over 800 pouches per minute, or half a ton of product every five minutes.
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SunOpta Takes Aseptic Processing to New Level
As a greenfield plant, SunOpta has been able to take the best of everything from its three other plants and improve them further—from efficiencies and sustainability to sanitary design and safety.
August 2, 2023
The greenfield project enabled SunOpta to optimize production, improve the flexibility of its systems, and accommodate new product lines, including 330 mL protein drinks.
Processing Equipment
Johnsonville Achieves Order With Immersion Cook/Chill System
Struggling with a process that caused package damage and inconsistent cook times for its sausages, Johnsonville turned to FPS and its Spiral Immersion System.
August 1, 2023
With the Spiral Immersion System, product comes out in an orderly fashion—the same way it went in.
Sustainability
Optimizing Steam Traps Brings Conagra Significant Water and Energy Savings
Conagra Brands has received a ProFood World Sustainability Excellence in Manufacturing Award for second place in the project category.
July 31, 2023
Optimizing its steam traps, Conagra Brands’ Imlay City facility is saving almost 139,000 gallons of usable boiler feeder water each year.
Processing Equipment
Tips and Tools to Handle Ongoing Growth in Pet Food Processing
The pet food industry shows no sign of slowing down, so processors need a flexible manufacturing strategy to accommodate the volume and variety of product produced today.
June 7, 2023
According to the American Pet Products Association, $58.1 billion was spent on pet food and treats in 2022, projected to be $62.7 billion in 2023.
Robotics
Evolution Fresh Teams With Hiperbaric to Automate HPP, Reduce Labor Injuries
High-pressure processing is essential for improving the taste and shelf life of cold-pressed juices. Partnering with Hiperbaric, Evolution Fresh made it a less labor-intensive operation.
February 22, 2023
At the loading and tilting station, bottled juices are loaded automatically into vessels.
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Mepaco Highlights ThermaBlend Batch Cookers at PACK EXPO International
Energy-efficient and speedy batch cookers are ideal for volume sauces, stews and chilis, in sizes from 75 to 1,000 gallons.
October 28, 2022
Batch cooking food processing Mepaco
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.
Processing Equipment
HPP and PET Kegs Help Nourish Juice Bar Tap the Market
Watching cold brew and kombucha companies take their products to market in kegs, Nourish Juice Bar wanted to do the same. But it needed to merge high pressure processing from Hiperbaric with plastic kegs from Petainer.
January 31, 2022
Francine Covelli, founder of Nourish Juice Bar, jumped on the chance to get her juices into Petainer kegs, getting them to partner with Hiperbaric to enable high pressure processing in the containers.
Processing Equipment
Flexible HPP System Processes Both Bulk and Packaged Products
FlexiBulk high pressure processing equipment from JBT Avure can handle bulk bags in one basket while processing individually packaged products in another, improving speed and pack efficiency.
November 30, 2021
The FlexiBulk can fill bags in baskets while other bags are being pressed and unfilled.
Processing Equipment
PET Kegs Meet High Pressure Processing
Hiperbaric teamed up with Petainer, putting its One Way PET Keg under pressure to enable the cold-pressed juice market to take advantage of keg dispensing.
October 4, 2021
The cylindrical shape of the PET kegs adapts well to the processing chamber of the Hiperbaric HPP in-pack units.
Processing Equipment
Health-Based a Top Trend in High Pressure Processing
HPP touches on the better-for-you and clean-label consumer trends, as well as sustainably utilizing perishable produce, and the growing pet food market.
October 4, 2021
HPP aligns with consumer health trends
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.
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