Now is the time of year when Food Engineering begins to evaluate what our readers will want to read in the next 8 to 16 months. In fact, our publishing company was founded on this principle: helping people succeed in business with superior information.
A shiny shrink sleeve delivers shelf appeal for a new polypropylene soup cup from Huhtamaki Oyj, but the engineering underneath the sleeve is what appeals to European food manufacturers.
Control System Integrators Association (CSIA) is a worldwide organization whose members provide more than $1 billion annually in integrated control and information systems service, translating the promise of technology into performance on the plant floor for companies in all the major manufacturing sectors.
I'd like to take this opportunity to thank all of my colleagues in the food and beverage industry for finally bringing to market a group of products I have been requesting for more than a decade: single-serve packs of food & beverage, the latest of which are the popular 100-calorie packs.
In today's world of food and beverage manufacturing, more product variations, more packaging changes equal more profit-or at least that's what manufacturers and processors hope. The market is moving rapidly from a supply driven to an increasingly regulated demand- and service-driven market.
Have you ever ordered a meal or purchased a food product and not been satisfied with it? Did you make your feelings known? As a member of the food industry, I certainly hope you did. Food processors establish customer service departments for just that reason.
Style and substance converge in a cracker box created for Kraft Foods Inc., with each element contributed by a different division of Graphic Packaging International Inc. (GPI), Marietta, GA.
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.
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