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Yorkshire England Flour Mill Whitworth Bros.

Buhler and Whitworth Bros. open high-tech flour mill in Yorkshire, England

September 24, 2021

Bühler and Whitworth Bros—the UK’s largest miller—have opened a high-tech flour plant called Mill E3 at Whitley Bridge in Yorkshire, England. The data generated and analyzed at the Whitley Bridge plant will drive the evolution of milling technology from the current data assisted mill into a plant capable of using its own process parameters in a closed loop to optimize production. This development of the self-adjusting mill will be the precursor to the SmartMill.

Powder made from crickets. Photo courtesy of Getty Images / Arisa Thepbanchornchai

Food Processing

The Automation of Alternative Protein

Processors turn to automation to provide next-generation, smart factory solutions

Kristen Kazarian

August 30, 2021

Plant-based meat companies are looking to automation strategies to face their unique challenges.

Editor's Note

Plant of the Year Submissions Show Innovation Abounds

Food and beverage plants continue to push the envelope of innovation

Casey Laughman

August 12, 2021

What Keurig Dr Pepper and Cuisine Solutions—and the other submissions we received for this year's Engineering Plant of the Year and Sustainable Plant of the Year award—do have in common is the level of innovation and creative solutions present throughout the plants.

Smithfield reveals new commitments in its 2020 Sustainability Impact Report

The protein supplier has announced it will reduce GHG emissions across its entire domestic supply chain 30 percent by 2030 as well as obtain 50 percent of its electricity from renewable sources, such as solar and wind power, over the same time period.

Sharon Spielman

June 3, 2021

Smithfield Foods Inc. reports that its new carbon reduction goal will reduce the company’s GHG emissions by nearly 5 million metric tons—the equivalent of removing over 1 million cars from the world’s roads or planting 216 million new trees.

PepsiCo to reduce GHG emissions by 40% by 2030

Net-zero emissions pledged by 2040, a decade ahead of Paris Agreement

Sharon Spielman

January 22, 2021

PepsiCo, Inc. plans to more than double its science-based climate goal, targeting a reduction of absolute greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions across its value chain by more than 40% by 2030.

Pet food quality expectations mirror trends in human food

From premium ingredients to sustainable manufacturing practices, the food we feed our pets mirrors what we eat

Sharon Spielman

February 24, 2020

As consumers change how they feel about their pets, it creates new challenges for pet food manufacturers that must respond to customer demands to feed pets like people.

Fab Food Plants

How Prestage Foods of Iowa built a state-of-the-art pork processing plant

Sharon Spielman

December 9, 2019

Producing more than 1.4 billion pounds of pork and turkey annually, the Prestage Farms family of companies employs more than 2,700 associates and is affiliated with more than 470 farm families across the U.S.

Editor's Note

Sustainable solutions offer big challenges to food processors

Casey Laughman

November 13, 2019

It’s fair to say that the easy part is over, or at least mostly over. But sustainability isn’t going away because corporate sustainability goals, cost pressures and demands for details about sustainable production and ingredients from consumers are all here to stay.

Cargill to open Innovation Lab at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

The innovation lab provides Cargill with a pipeline of software engineering and data science students and graduates ready to modernize agricultural supply chains and food systems across the globe.

August 26, 2019

Cargill, Minneapolis, announced plans to open a new Cargill Innovation Lab at University of Illinois’ Research Park, Urbana-Champaign, Ill.