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Small- and mid-size food businesses/manufacturers (SMBs) are in dire need of automated solutions for end-of-line packaging, primary packaging or processing. “Graybeards” have a considerable presence in manufacturing, and “10,000 boomers reach retirement age every day and represent 27% of the U.S. manufacturing workforce,” according to 2022 Bureau of Labor, Delottie and PEW Research. Plus, companies are experiencing a skills gap with the existing workforce, while also having challenges attracting younger workers to manufacturing jobs.

Key Technology’s Herbert OCULUS optical sorters for whole potatoes automate defect removal to improve production efficiencies while ensuring final product quality.

Choosing the right flooring for your facility all depends on the specific needs of your operation. For Cannonbelle Cheese, this meant working with companies that are knowledgeable of its industry, skilled in execution and aware of the specific coatings required to meet regulation requirements, recommendations and industry standards.

Robots with 3D vision systems can quickly identify food contamination.

Faster programming and commissioning are achieved with five-minute assembly time reduction, improved safety and easier service in the field.

KHS, a manufacturer of filling and packaging systems for the beverage and liquid food industries, supported the British craft brewery in its ambitious goals.

Family owned for four generations, Huntapac is a leading UK grower and supplier of root crops such as carrots and parsnips. Following a reorganization of the business in 2019, the company wanted to develop new value-led product options and so installed a state-of-the-art line to produce carrot powder, with a heat exchanger from HRS Heat Exchangers forming a key part of the new process.

Most snack producers opt for gravity metal detectors. With 15 Fortress Vertex snack inspection systems integrated with multi-head weighers in its Liverpool factory, global nut supplier Trigon Snacks is no exception. Yet, for its latest coated honey roast nut production line, the sustainable nut specialist selected a customized linear Stealth metal detector with an innovative retractable conveyor reject system.

From impingement freezers to automated freezer distribution centers, the goal is to produce and maintain quality products with minimal energy inputs.

Intelligent automation, water activity measurement and precision drying helps processor cure meat more efficiently.