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Reserving a booth at the recent Pack Expo Las Vegas trade show was an error in judgment, engineer Gerd-Albrecht Graf of Cool-System Bev. GmbH frankly admits.

When designing an end-of-line palletizing unit, an upstate New York machine shop melded old-tech mechanics with state-of-the-art technology.

If awards mean anything, Cypress Grove Chevre may be the premier processor of goat cheeses in America.

Organized improvement is the objective behind HACCP. How painlessly that is accomplished depends on the degree of automation.

Outputting consistent products is much easier when the basic components are consistent, and the food industry is making headway in reducing raw-material variability.

Record purchases of new packaging machinery by food and beverage processors in 2002 rescued U.S. equipment suppliers from a second consecutive annual decline in shipments and enabled them to keep pace with 2001's $4.8 billion sales pace.

Over the past year we have been doing a lot of behind the scenes research into what makes food manufacturers tick.

Atmosphere control in a 5 million cubic foot warehouse is a challenge.

A New Jersey firm is challenging American assumptions about the limitations of microwave pasteurization and sterilization.

FALL SIGNALS THE START OF soup season, and fans of the condensed variety may remember fall 2003 as the season they threw away their can openers.