Processing

Efficient transport, precise delivery

May 03, 2012
No longer one size fits all, today’s conveyor belting choices enhance hygiene, product release and overall plant efficiency.


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Tech Update: Valves

May 03, 2012
Whether manual or automatic, the valves available for today’s plants provide more versatility, control and safety to flow technology.


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Vibratory screeners keep dessert toppings in shape

April 05, 2012
Everyone loves sprinkles, but making them requires some precision manufacturing.


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Tech Update: Sterilization - Better processes, healthier foods

April 05, 2012
Fresh foods and sterile processes are mutually exclusive, but technical advances are putting the best of both worlds within reach.


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Engineering R&D: The upside of cavitation

April 05, 2012
Product heating and mixing are being transformed with technology that makes cavitation a positive force.


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Water’s rising tide

March 07, 2012
Attention to use of the humble hydrogen-oxygen molecule is producing sometimes-surprising operational improvements and cost savings at food plants.
 


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Food-grade lubricants come of age

Past trade-offs between performance and safety have disappeared
March 07, 2012
Food production consists of a vast array of equipment—pumps, mixers, oven chain drives, tanks, pipes, conveyor systems, compressors, automatic doors and many other units and systems.


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Tech Update: Maintain pumps on your schedule

February 06, 2012
With an eye toward maintenance and quick repairs, pump suppliers provide equipment to bolster uptimes.


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Spiral oven bakes potatoes more efficiently

February 06, 2012
New spiral ovens cook a wide range of products at higher speed with more control, consistency and a much smaller footprint.


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Engineering R&D: Anaerobic collaboration

February 06, 2012
The combination of membrane bioreactor filtration with a zoned anaerobic digester resulted in unprecedented COD reductions in a cheese plant’s high-strength effluent.


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Frito-Lay Casa Grande was chosen as Food Engineering's 2011Sustainable Plant of the Year.Part learning lab, part sustainability showcase, the Frito-Lay facility in Casa Grande is the focus of the snack food manufacturer’s ambitious goal of creating a blueprint for sustained production in a resource-strapped tomorrow.

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Seven Surprising Uses for Spray Technology

On-Demand: Processors clean, coat, cool, dry, and lubricate products and equipment in dozens of areas in a plant thousands of times a year. Even though it may not be obvious, spray technology is often the backbone of these operations and can be used in many more.

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