Food and Beverage Manufacturing Top Stories

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, Senior Contributing Technical Editor

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.

Blockchain

Using blockchain to track transparently

Blockchain technology can create trust within a competitive environment, enabling collaboration and connection

Sharon Spielman

January 5, 2021

Global supply chains can be challenging to track and trace as paper trails can be difficult to follow, and they do not offer transparency.

COVID-19 has provided automation suppliers with the expertise to help food processors survive the pandemic

Processors are taking a second look at robotics and analytics to fill in the gaps when key employees take time due to coronavirus

Wayne Labs

January 4, 2021

It took a pandemic for us to take seriously something we take for granted: We all rely on one another.

Biron Tea's rotary batch MX-3-SS mini mixer

Field Reports

Biron Teas brings batch mixing in house

Mini mixer from Munson Machinery allowed Georgia-based tea company to expand and help other tea purveyors.

Sharon Spielman

December 23, 2020

Mixing teas requires gentle handling at each phase. Find out how this mini mixer helps Biron Teas expand its business.

Engineering R&D

Real-time water quality metrics help beverage processors guard their most important resource

Whether it's "mountain spring water" or tap water, it's the most important ingredient in your beverage—so keep its quality consistent in real time

Wayne Labs

December 22, 2020

Whether you obtain your incoming water from your local municipality, the nearby river or a natural mountain spring—or a mix of these sources—consistent taste and quality of water is your most important ingredient as a brewer or bottle packer.

Choosing the right cleaning tools

Identify needs to ensure right cleaning and sanitizing equipment, materials choice

Richard F. Stier

December 21, 2020

Cleaning and sanitation are far more than just chemicals used for cleaning.

Packaging

A sustainable, plastic-free bundling solution for beverage cans

Smurfit Kappa, KHS roll out sustainable bundling solution for cans

Sharon Spielman

December 17, 2020

TopClip can topper is a recyclable solution that replaces the need for shrink wrap, the stretch film that is used to bundle and sell cans in one pack, and provides an option for substituting plastic with sustainably sourced paper-based packaging.