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Today’s economy creates hard choices for processors selecting cooling and freezing equipment systems. But solutions exist to decrease energy usage and convert the reject heat of cooling to useful energy to heat water.

It may be a function of their companies’ volumes, but respondents to this year’s survey voice a desire for less physical labor, more machine labor and increased automation.

There are many tools to make supply chains respond to quick and unplanned changes, but success must begin with senior management.

Machinery technology, food safety protocols and capital budget optimization can only be improved with changed outlooks and recharged brain power.

Biotechnology meets process innovation to convert toxic byproducts of the olive press into a therapeutic ingredient.

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Today, savvy processors employ remote equipment and machine conditioning diagnostics, special supplier partnerships, heat measurement, vibration analysis, predictive maintenance tools, placement of parts in kits for routine maintenance and vendor-managed inventories to boost spare parts efficiency and management.

The Vac-U-Max pneumatic conveying system installed at Piasa cuts manual labor and increases process throughput many times over. Source: Vac-U-Max.At Piasa, producer of food additives in Monterrey, Nuevo León, Mexico,

For the beleaguered snack-and-soda vending business, help is on the way in the form of iPhone-inspired interactive machines.

The single-serve market has eluded US winemakers, despite efforts by some of the largest producers.