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Volume 5, Number
1

Manufacturers hone their survival skills
against increasing
costs
Increasing costs,
primarily due to prices of raw materials
and commodities plus energy, both in
transportation and manufacturing processes, are
forcing processors to sharpen their pencils.

General Mills Innovation Network a year
later

After
one year of operation, General Mills received
more than 200 concept solutions and put many of
them to use in new products.

More crops, less environmental
damage
While global food demands
are calling for more and more yields,
efficiencies are improving significantly while
energy and water usage is down.

Chinese promise food safety
crackdown
You've heard it
before. This time, really, the Chinese are
cracking down on those who intentionally
contaminate Chinese food and beverage
supplies.

FSIS checking retail stores for
melamine
Because of the numerous
incidents of melamine contaminations reported in
North America, FSIS is conducting random
testing of meat and poultry products in the
US with samples obtained directly from
retail shelves.

BETE HydroWhirl spray nozzles for quick,
efficient tank
cleaning
BETE Fog Nozzle, Inc. introduces
HydroWhirl™ S slotted rotating spray nozzles and
HydroWhirl™ RB rotary ball spray
nozzles.
HydroWhirl™ S rotary spray
nozzle:
• Cleans more quickly, uses less
water & lower pressure than static tank
washers
• Complete 360º coverage
• Lower
flow and pressure mean smaller pump size
resulting in lower operating
costs
HydroWhirl™ RB rotary spray
nozzle:
• Spins to provide a more complete
coverage than static spray balls
• Continuous
wetting
• Complete 360º coverage
Both
HydroWhirl nozzles are designed for long service
life.

Cover Story: The greening of
manufacturing
Food plants often
outlive the people working in them. No wonder
more attention is being paid to their
sustainability.

Minimum processes, maximum
hurdles
Fresh and nutritious
sounds good on paper, but minimally processed
foods pose a big challenge to food safety.

Poultry processors uncover new ways to reduce
costs
Market pressures,
sustainability and food-borne illness issues are
driving industry changes.

Tech Update: Process
control
If you think process
control is a closed-loop PID controller or a
collection of them, or a PLC running a machine,
you need to expand your horizons.

Industry-Sponsored White
Papers

Information you can use:
"Achieving Sustainable Development Goals, Part 8
of 9 - Boiler Optimization," Nalco
Company.

Cargill Meat Solutions
Corporation purchased certain assets of
Carneco Foods LLC, including a
ground beef processing plant in Columbus, NE.

Unilever completed the
previously announced sale of its
Bertolli olive oil business to
Grupo SOS for a consideration
of 630 million euros.

Forbes named
Flowers Foods the
"best-managed" food company among the 400 best
big companies in America.

Sunsweet Growers, Inc. and
Shoei Foods USA formed a joint
processing alliance where Sunsweet will dry,
process and pack all Shoei USA prune
products.

Bay Grove Capital LLC, a
specialized principal investment firm based in
San Francisco, acquired Seafreeze Cold
Storage, a subsidiary of Toyo
Suisan Kaisha, Ltd.

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