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While most food processors aren’t yet relying only on plants for protein sources, the tools now exist to make more sustainable use of animals as food sources, and highly nutritious ones at that.

Cuisine Solutions and Stellar earn Sustainable Plant of the Year for sous vide facility in San Antonio.

Security technology such as video surveillance, alarm systems and access control optimize manufacturing plant safety and productivity. Food manufacturers have used video surveillance to support their operations, reinforce health and safety, and comply with regulations.

At this time last year, we at Refrigerated & Frozen Foods (the sister publication of Food Engineering) decided to put our annual Foodservice Distributor of the Year Award on hold. The COVID-19 pandemic precipitated unprecedented shutdowns in foodservice—restaurants, hotels, schools, caterers, stadiums, and other volume venues—leaving behind thousands of shuttered businesses. To put it lightly, there was very little to celebrate in foodservice last year.

Two well-known uses are in the making of non-stick frying/cooking pans and the foam used in fighting primarily aircraft fires (or other petroleum-based fires), hence PFAS subsurface ground contamination tends to be prevalent around military air bases where foam firefighting has been taught and practiced.

Amcor partnered with Syntegon to bring to market a new mono-PE vacuum pack for coffee that is designed to be recycled.

ACTEGA, manufacturer of specialty coatings, inks, adhesives and sealing compounds for the print and packaging industry, launches Signite™—a revolutionary, ACTEGA patented, premium decorating solution, designed to significantly reduce waste in label production. 

If you don’t measure it, you can’t control it, so having the right data means a great, consistent batch every time

Suppose you want a process to pasteurize milk without shearing it—while keeping the flavors in and killing any bugs along the way, extending the shelf life beyond ordinary pasteurization. This new technology, Millisecond Technology (MST), offers dairy producers long-life products with the same nutritional values that consumers want.