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Food Engineering’s new digital edition premieres this month

February 3, 2021

Any fundamental shift in how you produce your product is a scary thing, and it requires buy-in and cooperation across multiple departments to ensure it’s done properly.

Smart packaging: Connecting the physical with the digital

Technology embedded into packages makes a compelling business case for food processors, with the potential to reduce costs and increase profits.

Sharon Spielman

January 29, 2021

In today's food industry, a product's package is every bit as important as its contents. Today's packaging can be smart, embedded with technology that offers a range of functionality.

Alternative protein market growth shows no signs of slowing

Consumer demand drives market to new heights; now processors are looking at what’s next

Casey Laughman

January 28, 2021

The alternative protein market continues to grow, as new companies and legacy companies alike look to build trust with consumers looking for something different.

How food and beverage processors can build a glass and brittle plastic program

Richard F. Stier

January 28, 2021

There are many different foreign materials that could and actually have ended up in foods. The most insidious of these and the one most feared is glass.

Labor

Food & beverage companies cope with labor shortages

Processors look for solutions to labor challenges

Korie Wilkins

January 26, 2021

Labor shortages are nothing new for food and beverage processors, but the ongoing pandemic has created new challenges.

VAI’s S2K Mobile and order entry solution

Field Reports

Bakery supply company streamlines with ERP solution

Inter-County Bakery Supply modernized and automated its processes with an ERP solution from Vormittag Associates Inc. (VAI)

Sharon Spielman

January 26, 2021

When Inter-County Bakery Supply, a family-owned bakery supply distributor in Deer Park, N.Y., needed to modernize its process and automate its capabilities, they decided an ERP solution from VAI that would offer the most bang for their buck.

Better Juice Cofounders Blachinsky and Yarom

Juice processing

Better Juice, GEA team up to make OJ sugar-reduction invention available globally

Better Juice’s process is now ready for prime time

Wayne Labs

January 25, 2021

Better Juice, Ltd., the sugar-reduction food-tech start-up, has announced a collaboration with GEA Group AG, Germany in a push to scale up and expand Better Juice's global footprint. This move comes as part of the company's commitment to transform the global juice industry through advancing its technology for reducing all sugars in orange and other juices.

Podcast: AI and robotics in pet food processing

How pet food processors are adapting AI, robotics and automation strategy

Casey Laughman

January 8, 2021

Processors are exploring ways to integrate AI, robotics and automation throughout the process—from the time ingredients come in the door until the time finished product is loaded on a truck.

EverGrain Ingredients takes spent/saved brewers’ barley and turns it into wholesome and nutritious protein and fiber products

Innovation and sustainability

Creating healthful products from spent brewers' barley

This new company takes saved barley grain from brewing and creates nutritious protein and fiber ingredient products

Wayne Labs

January 7, 2021

It used to be that spent brewers' grain was often fed directly to the animals. But, now there's an in-between.

Pandemic requires new employee training methods

Some new training methods are here to stay

Casey Laughman

January 7, 2021

As the COVID-19 pandemic has continued to disrupt operations across the food and beverage industry, processors find themselves balancing a number of training challenges.

On Demand Kelley Rodriguez, Editor in Chief of Refrigerated & Frozen Foods, will be joined in this 60-minute webinar by industry experts to help unpack the latest research.

On Demand Driven by climate goals, business risk, client interest, and resilience considerations, food and beverage companies are increasingly turning their attention to decarbonizing their production processes.