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Process Control

Your window to the process: Clear view or obstructed?

Today’s process control software is tasked to keep machine interfaces easy to configure for both engineers and operators

Wayne Labs

March 7, 2022

Chances are, you’ve probably been using the same HMI, MES or SCADA program for some time in your operation, and you’ve been through several version upgrades too. Providers of these products work hard to make their software backward compatible with equipment and operating systems as well as create new features users want.

Mergers & Acquisitions

Dot Foods acquires Morsum, an AI/ML food platform technology company

The merger will help Dot’s suppliers be more responsive to supply chain issues when they arise

Wayne Labs

March 6, 2022

Dot Foods, Inc., said to be North America’s largest food industry redistributor, has acquired Morsum, a food industry data and AI platform technology company.

Alternative Protein Report

Top 10 plant-based trends for 2022

From food and beauty to fashion, trends show where the market is heading.

Kristen Kazarian

March 5, 2022

From food and beauty to fashion, trends show where the market is heading.

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Mergers & Acquisitions

Bubbies and Wildbrine brands acquired by Fermented Food Holdings

March 4, 2022

Fermented Food Holdings (FFH), established in late 2021, has acquired fermented-food brands Wildbrine and Bubbies. The fermented-foods category is expanding rapidly, expected to reach 10% CAGR by 2025.

CMMS

Six steps for implementing a successful CMMS after COVID-19

Wasique Ahmad

March 4, 2022

Computerized Maintenance Management Systems (CMMS) have become an important tool for companies looking to improve their safety and efficiency.

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Visual inspection system helps ensure brand quality for distillery that makes spirits from milk

Dairy Distillery uses a visual inspection system to add AI-based decision-support for labelling and quality control

March 3, 2022

Canada-based Dairy Distillery, a spirits producer that combines artisanal distilling techniques with a scientific process to transform milk into vodka, is using Pleora Technologies’ visual inspection system to help maintain brand quality standards and reduce errors that increase operating costs and slow production.

Good Planet Foods debuts plant-based cheese wheels

March 3, 2022

GOOD PLANeT Foods, creator of premium plant-based, allergen-free cheeses, unveiled two new products to their line-up: Real Smoked Cheddar and Real Smoked Gouda Plant-Based Cheese Wheels.

Mergers & Acquisitions

May River Capital acquires Cablevey Conveyors

Cablevey Conveyors celebrated its 50th anniversary on the day of the acquisition

March 2, 2022

May River Capital, a Chicago-based private equity firm focused on lower middle market industrial growth companies, has acquired Cablevey Conveyors, a global manufacturer of tubular-drag conveyor systems based in Oskaloosa, Iowa.

People are more consumed about food price inflation than COVID-19.

COVID & Inflation

COVID cases drop in the U.S. while food prices climb

A new study finds diminished worry about COVID among American consumers, but an overly heightened concern about food price increases

March 1, 2022

While concern for COVID decreases among Americans post Omicron, consumers feel inflation's pain at the supermarket.

EnWave launches vacuum-microwave toll manufacturing facility to service global food industry

March 1, 2022

Vancouver-based EnWave Corporation has opened its REVworx large-scale vacuum-microwave toll processing facility, which offers on-demand contract manufacturing services for the production of high-quality, vacuum-microwave dried snack and ingredient applications for food companies of all sizes.