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Articles Tagged with ''food and beverage industry trends''

aluminum cups at the Super Bowl
Packaging

Super Bowl venue trades plastic cups and bottles for aluminum

Rose Shilling
Rose Shilling
March 16, 2020
Announcements of drinks in aluminum containers seem to be picking up, and two that stood out recently were for some of the beer and water served at the Super Bowl.
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pet food

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
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.
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packaging
PACK EXPO

5 trends that are driving packaging updates

Sean Riley
February 18, 2020
Consumer desires and modern lifestyles continue to facilitate a shift in how people perceive food, according to "Trends and Advances in Food Packaging and Processing" from PMMI.
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milk

How food and beverage marketing claims can affect the production process

Sharon Spielman
Sharon Spielman
January 17, 2020
Today’s consumers demand transparency more than ever, so the labels on food and beverage products are an important component in such a competitive market.
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mulch film market
Engineering R&D

Novel plastic formulation decomposes naturally

Wayne Labs, Senior Contributing Technical Editor
Wayne Labs
December 19, 2019
A new plastic technology developed by a startup company, Radical Plastics, has created a plastic resin that—depending on composition—can have a “preprogrammed” time to return to basic nonthreatening carbon compounds.
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BKON's RAIN technology
Engineering R&D

RAIN uses vacuum cycles for extraction to occur at the deepest layers of coffee

Wayne Labs, Senior Contributing Technical Editor
Wayne Labs
November 18, 2019
The Reverse Atmospheric Infusion (RAIN) process also works with other media to create new and exciting organic and natural beverages or extracts to use in new products.
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North Carolina Food Innovation Lab

North Carolina Food Innovation Lab takes aim at food production of the future

Casey Laughman
Casey Laughman
November 13, 2019
Depending on who is asked, Kannapolis, N.C., is most well known for being the birthplace of either Parliament-Funkadelic’s George Clinton or NASCAR legend Dale Earnhardt Sr. The mind behind “Atomic Dog” and the Intimidator don’t have a whole lot in common, but one thing they do share is a legacy of turning their respective fields on their heads
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Smithfield biogas recovery
Editor's Note

Sustainable solutions offer big challenges to food processors

Casey Laughman
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.
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miniDART
Engineering R&D

DNA-based solution tracks fruit, produce, oils, grains

Wayne Labs, Senior Contributing Technical Editor
Wayne Labs
October 16, 2019
SafeTraces Inc. was recently granted a U.S. patent which discloses a ground-breaking method for encoding and decoding digital information to and from DNA strands drawn from seaweed.
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processing line
Editor's Note

Annual survey of the industry is mostly good news, but some worries lurk

Casey Laughman
Casey Laughman
October 14, 2019
Both throughput and budgets are generally increasing, which means the industry is growing and companies are investing in hardware and software to help manage that growth.
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