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Volume 7,
Number 23   December 15,
2011

Plan Now to Attend!

Food
Automation and Manufacturing Conference and Expo
2012

April 22-25,
2012
Sanibel Harbour Marriott Resort
Fort
Myers, FL

US
packaging machinery shipments up 12 percent in
2010
If packaging machine
shipments are a barometer of the economy, there
may be light at the end of the tunnel. Shipments
in 2010 saw a 12-percent jump over
2009.

Is
Santa breaking all the
rules?
Santa Claus will have to
get in step with the Food Safety Modernization
Act as he imports uninspected candy and other
snacks from his unregistered plants at the North
Pole.

Global
baby food market is
booming
While the markets for
baby food in the US and developed countries may
have slowed, the markets have taken off in the
undeveloped countries as a new middle class
wants all the conveniences.

FDA
set to make decision on BPA in food
packaging
The BPA debate isn't
over yet. A recent court decision has instructed
the FDA to make a decision by March 31, 2012
regarding BPA's continued use in can
linings.

Consumer
satisfaction stagnates as economy
slows
The measure of how
satisfied American consumers are with food, pet
food and other necessities has stagnated,
according to the latest American Customer
Satisfaction
Index.

Fabulous
Food Plant: Hormel's Progressive Processing
plant
A quarter-century had
passed since Hormel Foods had commissioned a new
production facility. In designing its Dubuque
plant, engineers aimed to create a facility that
would be contemporary for the next 25 years.

Site
Selection: Redefining location, location,
location
What makes location the
most important criterion in selecting a site?
Transportation, logistics, labor force, water
and utility costs--to name a few.

Tech
Update: Packaging machine
controls
Thanks to open
standards, packaging machine controls
communicate up and down the line and with MES
and ERP systems to provide key performance
data.

Supply
Chain: Demand-driven
production
Mastery of the supply
chain can yield tremendous cost savings for food
companies, but only if production is aligned
with what will sell in the months
ahead.

Food
Engineering White Papers

"Preventing Contamination - A
guide to material selection for food and
beverage equipment," Bimba.

"Food for Thought: Automated
Material Handling Technology for the Food
Industry,"
Retrotech.

Carmine Catalana III,
Cumberland Diary patriarch,
passed away at age 81. Under his direction,
Cumberland Dairy grew from a small, local New
Jersey dairy to one of the largest producers on
the East Coast.

Eriez company founder,
Orange Fowler (O.F.) Merwin,
was inducted into the Erie, PA Hall of Fame.

The 2011 Invensys Operations
Management OPEN winner for Asset
Excellence is Frito-Lay of
Plano, TX. The People Excellence award was given
to Campbell's Soup of Camden,
NJ.

Lyco
Manufacturing appointed Jon
Cleveland as its marketing manager.
Cleveland joins Lyco after serving with ABB
Automation in the US and UK. Tom
Surmiak was appointed as the company's
international sales manager.

Hapman added Leonard
Engineered Products Company of
Hollywood, CA to its team of master account
representatives.

Sara Lee
Corp. and its Norwegian joint venture
partner Kaffehuset Friele have
entered into an agreement with ISS
A/S to acquire the House of
Coffee business, a foodservice provider
of beverage solutions to offices and
institutions.

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