Excellent Foods installed a Freshline nitrogen freezer from Air Products so its Apple Fries product freezes in five seconds, allowing no shrinkage from loss of moisture. Source: Air Products.Excellent Foods
Ball Corporation has introduced what it claims is the first microwavable steel can. The Fusion-Tek microwavable steel can features a plastic end joined to a steel can body using Ball’s proprietary technology.
Sealed Air’s Cryovac packaging unit provides a shelf-stable, flexible alternative to cans and refrigerated pouches with its Flavour Mark retort pouches.
The latest entry in the heat-and-eat market is Now Foods’ Rice Now, a line of prepared rice dishes packaged in Sonotort Shatterproof microwavable retort pouches from Sonoco, Hartsville, SC. Headquartered in Pearl, MI, Now Foods, LLC develops and markets high-quality foods for the ready-to-serve market.
If one of your co-workers told you about a worthwhile food industry conference focusing on manufacturing issues, you might decide to take a look at the program to see if
A crowd of more than 500 packaging suppliers, food company executives and other consumer packaged goods professionals were in rapt attention at PACK EXPO/PROCESS EXPO in Chicago for “The Wal-Mart/Sam’s Club Packaging Vision,” a presentation on the retail giant’s sustainable packaging initiative.
Aluminium Plant & Vessel Co. (APV) founder Richard Seligman is credited with the invention of the plate heat exchanger, and APV’s R5 plate was dominant in this method of indirect heating and cooling of fluids throughout the latter part of the 20th Century, beginning with its introduction in 1965.
For over a quarter of a century, Food Engineering has conducted an annual salary and job satisfaction survey. Over the years, our readers have provided some very candid insights about the ups and downs of a career in the food industry.
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