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Klöckner Pentaplast plans a major expansion for its Beaver, West Virginia manufacturing site

Plant Expansions

Klӧckner Pentaplast to add rPET/PET capacity to its Beaver, West Virginia site

The multi-million dollar investment will grow the company's sustainable food packaging capabilities in North America

April 1, 2022

Klöckner Pentaplast has chosen its production facility in Beaver, West Virginia for a multi-million dollar production expansion project

Oatly transitions North American production facilities to 100% renewable electricity for 2021

March 31, 2022

Oatly Group AB announced that for 2021 its two North American production facilities, located in Millville, N.J., and Ogden, Utah, sourced 100% renewable electricity for the first time.

Miguel Patricio, CEO at Kraft Heinz (left) and Matias Muchnick, Co-Founder and CEO at NotCo

Scaling up plant-based products with artificial intelligence

This Kraft-Heinz/TheNotCompany, Inc. joint-venture has both the smarts and the manufacturing capabilities to push creative new alternative proteins to market

March 30, 2022

The Kraft Heinz Company and food tech start-up TheNotCompany, Inc. announced a joint venture designed to reimagine global food production and advance toward a more sustainable future.

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Bühler and Ardent Mills celebrate opening of new Port Redwing Mill in Florida

Strengthening supply chain agility and product consistency

March 30, 2022

Swiss technology group Bühler and Ardent Mills, a flour milling and ingredient company headquartered in Denver, Colo., celebrated the opening of Ardent Mills’ new Port Redwing Mill in Gibsonton, Fla.

Smart sensors/transmitters provide not only sensor data, but maintenance data as well

Smart Instrumentation

Increase insights and efficiency with smart instrumentation

By analyzing available instrument data, processors can improve their operational efficiency while performing proactive maintenance to reduce costly downtime.

Ola Wesstrom

March 27, 2022

In the age of Industry 4.0, professionals in many industries are going to great lengths to identify production-enhancing insights from their data.

Bimbo Bakeries USA, Inc. will install solar panels with battery storage at six California locations

Solar Energy

Bimbo Bakeries USA announces multi-site energy conservation plan

Working in partnership with GreenStruxure, the company has announced concrete actions to meet sustainability commitments

March 25, 2022

Bimbo’s six California bakeries will install solar energy microgrid systems

Raw materials like palm oil are often mixed with physically identical raw materials

Blockchain Track & Trace

Unilever tests blockchain technology in tracing palm oil origins to individual suppliers

The pilot, operated by Unilever and Green Token by SAP, helped to ensure that only sustainable sources for palm oil were used

March 23, 2022

In a successful proof of concept in Indonesia, Unilever applied GreenToken, a blockchain technology, to source more than 188,000 tons of palm oil fruit.

Aleph Farms’ scientists, Dr. Keren Tazat-Fireberg and Dr. Hezi Hayun, analyze collagen-producing cells under a microscope. Photo courtesy Aleph Farms

Cell Cultured Products

Beyond cell-cultured meat to other useful products--without the cow

Once the technology was in place to produce steak, Aleph Farms extended its development process to produce collagen

March 16, 2022

Aleph Farms, purveyor of cultivated beef steaks, hasn’t stopped at just producing steak without the cow.

Fried chicken sandwich breading factory Kerry Rome Georgia

Plant Openings

Kerry opens upgraded coatings and breadcrumbs facility in Georgia

The $136 million project features sustainability benefits throughout

March 16, 2022

The $136 million, 316,000-square-foot project features sustainability benefits throughout.

M&A volume is up in the food and agriculture sector

March 11, 2022

According to a Capstone Partners report, “February 2022 Food & Agriculture Sector Update,” merger and acquisition (M&A) volume in the food and agriculture sector surged 17% year-over-year (YOY) in 2021 with 383 deals announced or completed, which marked the highest number of transactions in over four years.