Food and Beverage Manufacturing Top Stories

Packaging

The future of plain packaging laws

Why food companies should care about plain packaging regulations

December 14, 2016

When someone buys a pack of cigarettes in some countries, the consumer doesn’t see the brand’s logo plastered across the front. Instead, he or she sees something called “plain packaging” that is meant to deter people from the buying the product.

Packaging

PTI launches two compartment snap-fit PET package

Perfect for cocktails, protein shakes and coffee

Crystal Lindell

December 14, 2016

How many times have customers stood in the alcohol aisle wishing they could just get all the parts of a great cocktail in one bottle? Well, Plastic Technologies, Inc. (PTI) has good news!

Packaging

Swedish drinking yogurt switches to new carton bottle

Skånemejerier is first to use carton bottle from Tetra Pak

Crystal Lindell

December 14, 2016

A Swedish company is changing how it packages drinking yogurt to something more environmentally sound.

Engineering R&D

New technology uses typically discarded produce to cut waste

Making tomato soup or pumpkin puree? Why not throw in the whole vegetable and have no waste?

Wayne Labs

December 14, 2016

Green Cell Technologies co-founder set out to design a food processing machine that uses every part of a fruit or vegetable.

Food Safety

How food and beverage makers can better monitor water quality

Ensuring safety and quality of a facility's water is crucial to meeting processing performance goals

Debra Schug

December 14, 2016

Water is used in everything from cleaning to ingredients, making it something companies can't afford to overlook.

Fabulous Food Plant

How Bell & Evans built a new 160,000 sq. ft. facility

Organic poultry maker uses new facility to further process and package its products.

Wayne Labs

December 8, 2016

Bell & Evans' decision not to use the mass-produced farming/processing methods of industrial poultry production has paid off.

TECH FLASH

How 3D printing is propelling the robot revolution

PMMI’s Jorge Izquierdo on how technology is changing manufacturing facilities for the future.

Crystal Lindell

November 30, 2016

Two of the most futuristic sounding technologies are working together to change the manufacturing world while saving processors a lot of upfront costs.

FE’s new senior editor draws on background in commercial facilities

Casey Laughman on how his experience covering corporate headquarters will help him report on the food manufacturing industry.

Casey Laughman

November 30, 2016

Most people probably don’t think there’s much in common between a food manufacturing plant and a corporate headquarters, but I bet a lot of you understand that there is.

TECH FLASH

The Top 10 Food Trends for 2017 from Innova Market Insights

Clean labels remain popular, addressing the needs of the increasingly more health-conscious consumer.

Debra Schug

November 30, 2016

Processors looking to make a sure bet on what foods and beverages to produce for next year should focus on clean and healthy products.

TECH FLASH

PMMI report offers insight, tips for dealing with FSMA

Putting process control in place to enhance food safety but also improve food quality has become critical.

Maria Ferrante

November 30, 2016

The report indicates that companies are largely making procedural changes, such as how the manufacturing environment is organized, operated, cleaned and maintained; what people are trained on and how activities are documented.