Food and Beverage Manufacturing Top Stories

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Keep your equipment running smooth for long life and ease of use, a necessity with old machinery, as well as new.

In order to understand what factors are shaping the industry today and what obstacles operators face in 2022, Clear Seas Research, a B2B market research firm, recently surveyed processors about a wide range of today’s industry challenges, and here are some of the highlights from that report.

KM Packaging supplied Earth & Wheat with the home-compostable bag.

Aurora selected Westfalia to design, manufacture and install a second AS/RS within their new Columbia cold-storage warehouse, whose location was a greenfield site, offering flexibility in square footage, capacity and solution design.

With loads of ingredients coming in, being stored, transported, processed and packaged, there are a number of ways for cross-contamination to occur at food manufacturing plants.

When we recently surveyed architectural and engineering/construction firms (A&E/Cs) and asked what trends or forces they see driving automation projects, every firm mentioned “labor” or “workforce availability” in its initial response.

AI use in food processing is expected to have a compound annual growth rate of 45% between now and 2026, promising improved safety and food quality, according to HUB Risk Services. But AI in food processing is not without risk.

Cold-pressed juice maker Evolution Fresh updated their HPP process to increase efficiencies, reduce costs and drive revenue.

A greenhouse automation system can’t afford to make mistakes, because losing control of a single crop is prohibitively expensive.

This year’s plant construction survey hit the highest number of projects ever recorded.