The historic facility received $21.5 million in improvements.

Used for fragile, seasoned, coated and frozen food products, the Key Horizon horizontal motion conveyor has a maintenance-free mechanical drive that moves product at speeds up to 42 ft./min. on a single continuous conveyor up to 100-ft. long.

Anuga FoodTec is awarding its silver medal to Insort GmbH for its development of the Sherlock Separator and associated technology, a chemically specific monitoring and sorting system based on hyper-spectral imaging and analysis.

The NuTEC 720 all-hydraulic, microprocessor-controlled, multi-outlet forming machine runs up to 3,600 8-oz. patties on 5 1/2-in. paper per hour with the 1-hole mold. It can run up to 7,200 4-oz. patties on 4 3/4-in. paper per hour with the 2-hole setup.

Capable of resisting harsh chemicals, solvents, detergents and salt water, Stafford 316 stainless steel shaft collars and rigid shaft couplings come in 1- and 2-piece and set-screw styles with 18-8 or 316 stainless steel fasteners plus a variety of bore configurations.

With Bosch SurePOUCH stand-up, flexible packs, product is filled directly into the pouch rather than through the spout that is ultrasonically welded to the exterior of the pouch; product does not come into contact with the spout until opened by the consumer.

Hinds-Bock servo filling machines employ servo drive technology for high-speed depositing and custom-tuning of filling parameters to control the appearance of a fill as well as the velocity.