Subscribe
Processing Equipment
Automation
Food Safety
Newsletters
Machine Tours
Home
Videos
Videos
The latest videos from ProFood World
Take Five
Plant-based Alternatives Innovate Products to Reach Fickle Consumers
Though on a continuing growth trajectory, plant-based alternatives face fickle consumers and a demand for lower prices. Brand owners and technology suppliers met recently to compare notes.
Take Five
BevTech 2022: Driving Sustainability Best Practices Forward in Beverages
Coca-Cola and PepsiCo point to improved transparency as the beverage industry discusses sustainability this year at ISBT’s annual BevTech meeting.
Take Five
Mark Anthony Brewing Constructs $490 Million Facility to Meet Growing Eastern U.S. Market
As the fourth largest brewer in the U.S., the company’s new 1.3 million-sq.-ft. facility in Columbia, S.C., can produce 6 million barrels of finished product and package 80 million cases per year, with a packaging speed of almost 1,000 barrels per hour.
Take Five
Barry Callebaut, Sargento, Bel Group, Maple Leaf and More in the Headlines
The latest food company news about plant openings, acquisitions, and staff changes proves the industry is continuing its quest for operational excellence.
Take Five
Cheese Expo Panel: Supply Chain Challenges Hit U.S. Dairy Exporters | Label Your Bioengineered Foods Correctly
With difficulties getting product to customers, a panel of cheese and milk makers discuss supply chain woes and post-pandemic realities during the Cheese Expo in Milwaukee. Also featured, AIB International’s course covers complying with NBFDS.
Food Safety
FDA Regs on Perishable Goods, Nut Butters Expected This Year
Automation, increased diligence, and additional costs and staffing may be required for food processors of certain perishable goods and nut butters later this year under the Food Safety Modernization Act.
Take Five
Labor Solutions and Sanitary Design Technologies Seen at PACK EXPO East
Redzone enables plant floor employees to contribute their full potential with technology to improve productivity and throughput, while Netzsch focuses on sanitary design of pumps.
Boiler Room
Live From PACK EXPO East: Steam on Demand in a Small Footprint
Miura's LX-150 is a gas-fired, high-efficiency, low-NOx steam boiler that can provide steam when and where you need it in your operations.
Robotics
High-Speed Pick & Place is Washdown Ready
The Orics DS Series robot is constructed from stainless steel, designed to withstand harsh washdown water and steam environment in the food, chemical, and medical industries.
Home
Discover Why Your Peers Attended PACK EXPO East 2022
Watch interviews with PACK EXPO East attendees on what they came to find and what they discovered at the largest comprehensive packaging and processing event in the world this year.
Home
Onexia's HD Palletizer for Heavy Lifting
Demonstrated at PACK EXPO East, the collaborative robot can lift up to 38 pound payloads.
Process Equipment
Live at PACK EXPO East: Hygienic Feeder Reduces Labor Need for Food Assembly Line
The Ultimate Feeder from Hoosier Feeder Co. incorporates a hygienic design for the food industry, increasing the automation of the singulation and orientation of bulk product such as bread or meat patties to ready them for packaging.
Take Five
PACK EXPO Innovations Report: Machinery for the Food Industry
PMMI Media Group editors fanned out across the many booths at PACK EXPO Las Vegas to bring you the Innovations Report. Here’s what they saw in machinery for the food industry.
Home
Innovation Overload at Natural Products Expo West 2022
A small sampling of the many innovative products seen at Natural Products Expo West, some of which were launched at the show.
Robotics
Thermoformer Loading Machine Features Hygienic Robotics
JLS Automation’s Talon pick-and-place thermoformer loading machine includes a hygienic robot from Codian with compliant grippers from Soft Robotics, and B&R’s machine-centric automation platform.
Robotics
Sealed Air's Meat Packaging Automation Improves Predictability
New innovations in vision-based product identification, robotic bagging, vacuum, shrink, quality inspection, and more show how automation can help reduce labor needs and improve throughput, quality, and safety.
Podcasts
Cyber Alert: Secure Your Operations, Now
IT Specialist Andy Lomasky and OT Specialist Bryan Griffen deliver five quick recommendations to assist all employees — on and off the plant floor — in doing everything they can to thwart potential Russian interference.
Take Five
Why Proper Cybersecurity Is Critical to Food and Bev Operations
Recent attacks have made it clear how imperative cybersecurity is to the food and beverage industry and to the entire supply chain. It’s also important to keep your operations up and running, and making money.
Inspection
Inspection Combo Provides Ease of Use in Small Footprint
Taking what would typically be 7.6 m of equipment down to 4.7 m, Wipotec-OCS has combined several inspection capabilities, including metal detection, vision, X-ray, checkweighing and more, all through a single HMI.
Heating, Cooling and Freezing
Wave Impingement Freezer Addresses Key Market Concerns
Messer’s new wave impingement freezer, introduced at IPPE 2022, reduces labor needs, provides an alternative to CO2, and enhanced throughput in a smaller footprint.
Take Five
Combatting Foodborne Illness Inside and Outside of the Plant | Tyson, Conagra Brands, Kerry Expanding Production
Non-profit asserts education is key to reducing foodborne illness and efforts must start with leadership. Also on Take Five: Tyson breaks ground on $355 million bacon facility, while Conagra Brands expands Slim Jim production in Ohio.
Take Five
Meat Processing Innovations Return With In-Person IPPE
At IPPE 2022, where poultry and other protein processing is the primary focus, we found innovations in IQF freezing, contamination detection, bagging, thermoforming, and more. Check out our video highlights.
Take Five
Global Minute: Packaging and Machinery Updates from the UK, Iraq, Spain, and Mexico
Packaging updates from around the globe; retailer-led sustainable packaging material directives, high-speed automated solutions, and paper can package design.
PMMI News
PACKadelphia Season Three: Coming Soon!
Your PACK EXPO East Packaging Vlog returns with the inside scoop on all things packaging and processing.
