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FDA, USDA issue recommendations for PPE shortage during COVID-19 pandemic

The FDA and USDA have released recommendations to help address shortages of personal protective equipment, cloth face coverings, disinfec...

People and Industry News: July 2020

Announcements about new hires, staff promotions, association news, awards, mergers and acquisitions.

Plant Openings & Expansions: July 2020

Announcements about new food and beverage plant construction projects, plant renovations and plant expansions.

High-speed case packers help pickle maker meet demand for single-serve pouches

OH SNAP! Pickling Co. installs new high-speed, end-of-line packaging machines from SOMIC to handle increasing demand.

Choose wisely when considering a variable speed drive, oil-free compressor

Is a variable speed drive (VSD) air compressor the best solution for applications where demand fluctuates? It’s important to realize that...

Fresh Express recalls more bagged salads in cyclospora outbreak

Fresh Express expanded its bagged salad recall to include many lettuce mixes and coleslaw with iceberg lettuce, red cabbage or carrot tha...

Dual-energy inspection at CCPs may help reduce physical hazard risks

Eagle Product Inspection has found that deploying advanced X-ray systems at critical control points (CCPs) in the production and packagin...

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Food Safety

Food fraud is not only an economic drain but also a supply chain safety concern

Sharon Spielman

Guarding against food fraud in the supply chain can be a costly, resource-intensive effort—but the potential effects of not catching it can be disastrous. …

Innovation

Finding a digital strategy to manage electrical consumption at sugar plants

Wayne Labs

No question about it, sugar plants consume vast amounts of electricity, and with a lot of aging equipment, there’s no doubt that several motors and the mechanical systems they drive …

Automation

Modularity brings flexibility in automating production lines

Wayne Labs

Today, consumers expect to choose from a wide choice of brands and products—not just from the “center” of the store, but fresh and organic products from the periphery of the …

Food Safety

Some pointers on choosing metal detection systems to keep food safe from adulteration

Wayne Labs

In the engineering world, it has often been said that you can’t inspect quality into a product. Rather, you design and build quality into a product and then inspect to …

Fabulous Food Plants

Clif Bar’s visual bakery project has the company ahead of the game

Casey Laughman

Clif Bar's Twin Falls bakery was named Food Engineering’s Sustainable Plant of the Year in 2017. The Indianapolis bakery has a different—although equally successful—story to tell. …

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Sustainability

Diageo aims to go carbon-free with new whiskey distillery

Rose Shilling

Diageo will try to make its new Bulleit whiskey distillery in Kentucky carbon neutral, electrifying the boilers with renewable power as a step toward the company’s climate change goals. …

Coronavirus Coverage

Humidity Control: Conquering frost during pandemic production levels

Dan Dettmers

Humidity control may be the last thing on your mind right now if you’re running a food processing facility, trying to execute a rapid buildout to meet increased consumer demands. …

Digital transformations require honest communication, admission of mistakes

Casey Laughman

Having honest and direct communication about what is and isn’t working is the difference between success and failure.

New Products

Material Transfer's Bulk bag discharging system

Unit features sanitary stainless steel construction with round or angled structural tubing for rapid cleaning.

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Public Auction for Food Processing & Canning Equipment - April 23-29

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FMC Model 659F1 can seamer with enclosure
Stainless steel spray cooling tunnel 65’ long with 5 pumps
Mettler Toledo Safeline metal detector
100s of Stainless check,…

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Coronavirus Coverage

Production restart packages

ABB's Robotics and Discrete Automation business has launched a special package of digital solutions, as well as virtual and field service support initiatives to help businesses restart production lines that may have been idle during the COVID-19 pandemic.

New Products

Firmware upgrade

The latest groov EPIC firmware adds support for multi-signal, multifunction Ethernet-based groov RIO edge I/O and updates many embedded applications.

New Products

Stackable chilling incubators

EchoTherm stackable/programmable vibration-free chilling incubators for protein crystallography have a 27-liter capacity and are Peltier-based for heating and chilling.

New Products

Reverse-lift double planetary mixers

Available in a reverse-lift design that raises the vessel to the mixing position, rather than lowering the agitator assembly, DPM-100 mixers can process both wet and dry applications, including semi-solids.

Food Engineering

2020 July

In the July 2020 issue of Food Engineering, Clif Bar's Indianapolis bakery takes the title of Fabulous Food Plant with the implementation of the company's visual bakery project.

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