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1999 PACKAGING TRENDS: Safety & Convenience Take Center Stage

March 28, 2003
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Food Engineering’s 14th Annual Packaging Trends Survey of our readers reveals that concern for product safety, shelf life and consumer convenience continues to fuel improvements in packaging equipment flexibility and automation.
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Editors Note: Need to feed at full-speed? Indeed

March 28, 2003
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This past June I had the honor of being invited to judge the annual DuPont Awards for packaging.
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Asepsis Reconsidered

March 28, 2003
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New technologies and a broader view of objectives could help aseptic processing realize its potential.
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Proactive Maintenance: You Can Bank on it

March 27, 2003
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Emergency repairs cost 10 times more than planned repairs, yet reactive maintenance — “don’t fix it ‘til it breaks” — is still the mindset in many food plants. Proactive maintenance can dramatically cut costs and boost productivity.
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SUPPLY CHAIN SAVVY

March 27, 2003
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A well-planned and executed supply chain solution streamlines operations and all upstream/downstream links, from raw materials through distribution producing corporate-wide efficiencies.
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Engineering R&D: Advances in Ozonation

March 27, 2003
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As reported earlier by Food Engineering (September, '97), ozone -- a powerful oxidant which destroys microbes -- was affirmed as GRAS (Generally Recognized As Safe) by an FDA-recognized expert panel.
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Digital In-Line Blending Continuously Standardizes Non-dairy Products

March 27, 2003
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The H.P. Hood plant at Oneida, NY, shifted from a batch to a continuous process for standardizing non-dairy creamer production with a skid-mounted Digital In-Line Blending system designed and installed by JCS Controls, Inc.
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The World's TOP 100 Food & Beverage Companies

March 27, 2003
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Consolidation, streamlining and brand strengthening continue to punctuate activity among the world's top food and beverage companies as they vie for competitive advantage.
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The future looks bright for Latin America

March 27, 2003
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Despite economic setbacks, the Latin American market continues to stabilize, allowing domestic food and beverage companies the opportunity to take a deeper look at their internal operations for cost improvements.
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Consolidation Drives Dairy Innovations

March 27, 2003
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Extended shelf life, plastic packaging, 'complementary protein products' and the need to integrate multiple plants are the forces driving the dairy industry.
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