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Volume 8 • Number 13 • July 12,
2012

PROCESSING

PACKAGING

SUSTAINABILITY

INNOVATION

FOOD
MASTER

Manufacturing
News

Stop
a potential disaster--stay off the network
news
While dust explosions grab the
lion's share of the news, smoldering self-heating
powders in some applications could go off like a bomb,
putting you out of business.

Putting
some light on efficient lighting
Two
examples of removing older, energy-hogging lamps and
replacing them with modern, efficient lighting provide
the paybacks processors like to get.

Tough
time for Chinese dairy products
The
Chinese melamine scandal from a couple of years ago
didn't help world opinion of Chinese dairy products. Now
lye and mercury have tainted internal dairy products.

Food Engineering Exclusives

Finding
and retaining the right employees
A
three-part series provides some solutions to holding
onto the right staffing.

10th
Annual Replacement Parts Survey: Intelligent maintenance
best practices
FE looks at
trends in maintenance management and parts/components
inventory practices.

AS/RS
grows with dairy/retailer
DC sports a
high-bay AS/RS that moves 42,000 crates daily with a
99.9 percent accuracy.

ERP
system promotes growth
Reports that used
to take a day to assemble now take 20 minutes.

People,
Plants and Industry
News

Tate & Lyle, a global provider
of ingredients and solutions to the food, beverage and
other industries, opened its new Commercial and Food
Innovation Centre in the Hoffman Estates suburb of
Chicago, IL. The 110,000-sq.-ft. state-of-the-art
facility is designed to facilitate customer
collaboration from "idea-to-plate" through the
development of new food and beverage products that
satisfy consumers’ increasing demand for health,
convenience, value and taste.

Mars
Petcare and The Nutro Company
broke ground on an $87 million regional Innovation
Center in Thompson’s Station, TN. The four-building
campus will serve as the companies’ home base for
creating future pet care innovations for its North
American market. Construction is set to begin
immediately on the four buildings, and completion is
expected in Spring 2014. The new center will support 144
jobs. .

More
Industry News

Life-cycle
analysis study suggests eating less
meat
An Austrian/Dutch study revealed
that existing life cycle analyses (LCAs) of
producing animal-based food omitted the loss of
replenishing natural vegetation that is used
instead for grazing. Natural vegetation processes
carbon dioxide back into oxygen. The authors say this
factor also belongs in the LCA.

Water/wastewater/controls
event in Orlando
The 2012 ISA
Water/Wastewater and Automatic Controls (WWAC) Symposium
takes place August 7-9 in Orlando, FL. Food and
beverage processors, who have on-site water and
wastewater systems, will find the conference program to
be helpful in managing and controlling their systms more
efficiently.

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