Microbreweries and specialty beers have come a long way in the last quarter century, riding the small-is-good wave to account for more than 7 percent of the 6.4 billion gallon American beer market, according to some estimates. To transition from brew-pub favorite to mainstream retail sales, San Clemente-CA-based Left Coast Brewing Company Inc. is relying on an amber-colored PET bottle.
The most nutritious portion of a kernel of rice is discarded during milling. A California processor is trying to make a business case for the byproduct by partnering with humanitarian aid groups.
With entrepreneurial beginnings as a Swiss cheese maker dating back 60 years, Berner Foods now employs 200 workers and has sales of more than $75 million through a business that provides the US with a variety of processed cheeses and snack dips, manufactured at its state-of-the-art facilities in Dakota, IL.
As understanding and control of mixing and blending kinetics expands, technology firms are devising systems that deliver new benefits to food and beverage processors.
Garelick Farms, a division of Dean-Suiza, is the largest dairy operation east of the Mississippi, processing more than a half-million gallons of milk each day. Located in Franklin, MA, and in operation since 1931, Garelick Farms also produces cream, ice cream, sour cream, cottage cheese and juice.
Maybe it was the memory of last night's 20th anniversary celebration; maybe it was the E2OH still metabolizing in his system. Either way, the technology provider kept returning to the marriage analogy to characterize the manufacturer-systems integrator relationship.
Vacuum packs play a key role in delivering gourmet frozen meals from Grace's Kitchen Inc., an approach that is helping the Seattle-based firm gain freezer space in some of the fastest growing retail chains nationwide.
The package used by a Park City, UT, bottled water venture will take longer to decompose than the residence time of the liquid in its aquifer, which was carbon dated at roughly 20,000 years. That's not stopping Wasatch IceWater LLC from boasting about the earth-friendly aspects of its flexible pouch.
What do you need to know and when do you need to know it? A knee-jerk response might be that you need to know everything about your plant and you need to know it in real time. But in reality, fast data collection simply for data collection's sake won't save you money or improve your efficiency.
With a fluctuating economy and pressure to keep dairy prices low, the Maryland & Virginia Milk Producers Cooperative Association was looking for ways to improve product processes for its Laurel, MD, manufacturing plant, which processes butter, condensed milk and non-fat dry milk for use in infant formula, ice cream, candy and bakery items.
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