The International Dairy Foods Association (IDFA) and Dairy Foods magazine have announced a total of 21 finalists for the third annual IDFA Innovations Awards to be presented at the International Dairy Show this September in Chicago.

According to IDFA, each finalist represents significant achievements in performance, advancement in a technology or its application, innovative design or considerable cost savings.

A team of industry experts and IDFA staff will judge the finalists before the show and select one winner in each of the following categories: Food Safety, Ingredient/Flavoring/Seasoning, Packaging, Processing and Sustainability.

Dairy Show attendees, Dairy Foods readers and others also can vote for their favorite overall innovation in the Attendee Choice Award category. The voting is open now online and will close at noon on September 17 at the show.

"The Innovations Awards offer a great way to bring attention and acclaim to the new products and services revolutionizing the dairy industry," said Robin Cornelison, IDFA trade show director. “The Attendee Choice Award is the industry’s way of recognizing and thanking those who make growth in dairy possible.”

The awards finalists include:

Food Safety

Ecolab, Inc.

Product: Dairy Quality Enhancement Program (QEP)

 

Rite-Hite

Product: Eclipse® Dock Shelter

 

Coperion/Coperion K-Tron

Product: Diverter valve, WYK, CIP version

 

Ingredient/Flavoring/Seasoning

Prairie Farms Dairy

Product: Prairie Farms PEEPS Milk

 

Prairie Farms Dairy

Product: Prairie Farms Chef’s Splendor Milk

 

Noosa Yoghurt

Product: Cranberry Apple Noosa Yoghurt

 

Glanbia Foods Inc.

Product: Blue J Cheese

 

Packaging

Noosa Yoghurt

Product: Noosa Yoghurt

 

Berry Plastics

Product: Clarified pint container

 

Berry Plastics

Product: ICONIC

 

Berry Plastics

Product: Qubic

 

Processing

Foss

Product: MilkoStream FT

 

Caloris Engineering, LLC

Product: Caloris Concentrix Compact Falling Film MVR Evaporator

 

ProLeiT Corp.

Product: Plant iT Visu-Recorder

 

Komax Systems, Inc.

Product: Sanitary Static Mixer

 

Krohne Inc.

Product: Ice cream overrun measurement with the Optimass 7400

 

Page & Pedersen International, Ltd.

Product: LactiWHEY

 

Steinfurth, Inc.

Product: Steinfurth Carbolac

 

Burkert Fluid Control Systems

Product: FLOWave

 

Sustainability

Ecolab, Inc.

Product: 3D TRASAR

 

HP Hood LLC

 Product: HP Hood Sacramento, Calif., partnership with CleanWorld