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Filtration technology has filled a supporting role in food and beverage production, but multifunction filters are taking a star turn by replacing other technologies in some applications.

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Specialized skills are needed to keep machines running, processing areas clean and foreign invaders at bay, but food companies differ on whether these specialists are staff members or vendors’ employees.

Energy Efficiency Dollars and Sense: How Do You Measure Up?

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Long viewed as a distraction from throughput concerns, energy efficiency and its relation to a product’s carbon footprint are becoming priority concerns for leading food companies.

Engineering R&D: Big bang theory

November 1, 2010

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Hydrodynamic pressure processing got a bad rap for meat tenderizing in the 1990s, but USDA scientists believe there’s still hope for this and other technologies to assist the process.

Engineering R&D: Research's long and winding slog

October 1, 2010

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A decade after a Canadian firm developed a process to recover high-quality protein from a byproduct of vegetable-oil extraction, regulatory obstacles to commercialization have been overcome.

Packaging Machinery: Dramatic Improvements Worth the Wait

October 1, 2010

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There’s no shortage of packaging equipment innovation, though the gap between technical development and implementation often is measured in decades.

State of Food Manufacturing: Spending is Up as Economy Rebounds

October 1, 2010

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Capital budgets are up, production outlooks are brighter as food industry professionals shift focus toward new opportunities.

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