Food and Beverage Manufacturing Top Stories

Supply Chain

Maintaining Supply Chain Inputs and Outputs

Technology helps ensure integrity, safety and transparency in supply chain I/Os

August 25, 2021

For food and beverage processors, supply chain management covers a lot of territory, including maintaining inputs and outputs.

A new app allows for weighing and measuring individual cannabis plants offline. Photo courtesy of GrowFlow

Food Packaging

Harvest Mobile App Launches for Cannabis Growers

Kristen Kazarian

August 25, 2021

GrowFlow, a business management and compliance solution for cannabis wholesalers and retailers, debuts Harvest, a new mobile app.

Lunchskins is a new paper line of lunch bags and straws sold at Target stores. Photo courtesy of Lunchskins

Food Packaging

Sustainable lunch packaging for back to school

Kristen Kazarian

August 24, 2021

Lunchskins™ has launched Lunchskins Bags + Straws Plastic-Free Starter Kit, a new addition to the brand’s paper line in Target nationwide.

Prinova, a provider of ingredients, flavors, and nutrient premixes, creates an innovative e-commerce experience with the launch of its new website. Photo courtesy of Prinova

Food Packaging

E-commerce Website Offers Digital Feature for Ingredient Purchasing

Kristen Kazarian

August 23, 2021

Prinova, a worldwide provider of ingredients, flavors and nutrient premixes, has created an innovative e-commerce experience with the launch of its new website.

New Cannacap is a cap that stores and then delivers THC powder into a water or other beverage bottle. Photo courtesy of Good Mood Cannabis Kitchen Company

Food Packaging

On-The-Go Cannabis Beverages With Flavor in Cap

Kristen Kazarian

August 20, 2021

Good Mood Cannabis Kitchen Company (GMCK) recently launched Cannacap™, a cap that stores flavored THC powder in a portable and discreet cap and delivers it to the beverage, transforming any drink into a cannabis beverage.

Anti-counterfeit solutions will increase in use through 2026, according to a report by Smithers. Photo courtesy of Getting Images / UltraONEs

Food Packaging

Anti-Counterfeit Solutions Increasing in Use

Kristen Kazarian

August 19, 2021

A new Smithers report, The Future of Anti-Counterfeiting, Brand Protection & Security Packaging to 2026, show demand for anti-counterfeit technology, including track and trace, tamper-evidence, product authentication and others, will reach $3.25 billion in 2021.

FE August 2021 Wet cleaning system 2 Cablevey. Photos courtesy Cablevey Conveyors

Field Reports

Enclosed Wet Cleaning Improves Food Safety, Increases Product Changeovers

National Frozen Foods Corp. installed a tubular cable conveyor system from Cablevey Conveyors to improve cleaning efficiency

Sharon Spielman

August 17, 2021

When National Frozen Foods Corp., a national processor of frozen vegetables since 1912 that processes more than 400 million lbs. of product annually, was looking to meet higher compliance standards while increasing the speed of packaging, they found a solution in a tubular conveyor system.

Engineering R&D

Squeezing Extra Sensitivity Out of X-ray Detection Systems

Several improvements in hardware, software and algorithms make consistently spotting 0.3 mm stainless steel fragments in food possible

Wayne Labs

August 16, 2021

Several improvements in X-ray hardware, software and algorithms make consistently spotting 0.3 mm stainless steel fragments in food possible.

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Software

Managing and Surviving Software Updates

Surviving a firmware, application software or a Windows update can at times seem impossible…

Wayne Labs

August 13, 2021

So you put off upgrades and updates as long as possible because you can’t afford the downtime. But doing nothing can lead to an even worse downtime scenario.

Editor's Note

Plant of the Year Submissions Show Innovation Abounds

Food and beverage plants continue to push the envelope of innovation

Casey Laughman

August 12, 2021

What Keurig Dr Pepper and Cuisine Solutions—and the other submissions we received for this year's Engineering Plant of the Year and Sustainable Plant of the Year award—do have in common is the level of innovation and creative solutions present throughout the plants.