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Articles by Mikell Knights

Two bulk and three bag packaging lines accurately fill 25- or 50-lb. bags or 2,000-lb. totes before sealing, labeling and palletizing. Photo by Candy Padilla.
Plant of the Year

Plant of the Year 2014: Excellence and efficiency at Blue Diamond

Mikell Knights
April 8, 2014

Built from a foundation of emerging collaboration tools and a unique, cross-functional, interdisciplinary approach, Blue Diamond Growers achieves its manufacturing goals with its new “dream” plant. 


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Minimizing food safety risk
Audits

Plant audits: Minimizing food safety risk

A global food maker, a developer of certified audit programs and consultants discuss non-regulatory onsite plant audits and how they improve food safety, customer compliance and food quality.
Mikell Knights
March 8, 2014

A global food maker, a developer of certified audit programs and consultants discuss non-regulatory onsite plant audits and how they improve food safety, customer compliance and food quality.


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Detectamet's new detectable pallet wrap helps reduce food contamination caused by packaging materials.
Food Packaging

Pallet wrap reduces contamination threat

The wrap offers greater resiliency and is less likely to tear.
Mikell Knights
March 8, 2014
Detectamet, a UK-based manufacturer of food-safe detectable products, developed its new detectable pallet wrap to reduce the contamination of finished food products.
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Designed by Krones AG for Coca-Cola Amatil CCA, the NitroHotfill bottle is the lightweight 2014 Australian Packaging Design Award winner
Food Packaging

Lightweight hot-fill bottle a design winner

Coca-Cola Amatil CCA won the 2013 Australian Packaging Design Award for a 600ml Powerade Sports bottle.
Mikell Knights
March 8, 2014
Coca-Cola Amatil CCA won the 2013 Australian Packaging Design Award for a 600ml Powerade Sports bottle, an extremely lightweight, eco-friendly hot-fill bottle featuring a 38ml-wide neck closure.
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Carton packaging is sustainable and is becoming more accessible to US households.
Food Packaging

Making renewable and recyclable cartons sustainable

Taking down the barriers to carton recycling helps to make cartons more recycle friendly for consumers.
Mikell Knights
March 8, 2014

 Sustainability is a consumer trend that is transforming the packaging industry. The top three concerns in relation to beverage packaging include recycling or landfilling, renewable resources and energy, said Erin Reynolds, marketing director at Evergreen Packaging, at last year’s Sustainable Packaging Forum in St. Petersburg, FL. 


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SDC is a natural, nontoxic, nonflammable antimicrobial that kills more than 31 types of germs in as little as 30 seconds
Engineering R&D

Surface appeal: Novel antimicrobial for direct food contact

Novel antimicrobial quickly neutralizes broad range of pathogens on food contact surfaces; now takes aim at direct food contact.
Mikell Knights
March 8, 2014

 Chlorine- and ammonia-based disinfectants and sanitizers are typically used as interventions or rinses to eliminate dangerous bacteria, fungi, viruses and foodborne pathogens on food preparation and food processing areas. 


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Sealed Air brings aseptic technology to bag-in-box applications with its new IDC/Cryovac SpeedFlex aseptic system
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Aseptic applications: Redefining freshness

Through machinery developments, aseptic treatment of products and packages has notched gains against more entrenched technologies.
Mikell Knights
March 8, 2014

 Over the last 10 to 15 years, more low- and high-acid products have been processed in ways designed to kill bacteria and extend the life of foods and liquids. Retort-style thermal processing, chilling and refrigeration steps and the use of preservatives remain the most common routes to produce shelf-stable foods and beverages in the US. 


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Make it easy to do business with your company, and track the proof
TECH FLASH

Make it easy to do business with your company, and track the proof

Though most distributors pride themselves on their customer service, few can back it up with data.
Shane O'Halloran Mikell Knights
February 12, 2014

Confusion over who in the company owns the customer relationship is a major obstacle.


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Gourmet Baker turned from an older screener designed for sugar to the Kason centrifugal sifter
Dry Processing

New centrifugal screener helps bakery stay on schedule

An older screener was a food safety hazard.
Mikell Knights
February 7, 2014
For Gourmet Baker, a Canadian producer of baked desserts, it is the power of fine flour that separates its strudel, Danish pastries, puff pastries, croissants and cinnamon rolls from competing brands. The company consumes about 80,000 lb. of flour per week at its plant in Winnipeg, MB.
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MDX dual-energy systems
Engineering R&D

X-ray's double take on inspection detection

Dual energy X-ray systems bring value added detection features to identify missing product, damaged product, dented or altered packaging and presence of a premium item.
Mikell Knights
February 7, 2014
Conventional single-energy X-ray inspection technology has been established as a reliable tool in detecting contaminants like stainless steel, ferrous and non-ferrous metals, glass, calcified bone, mineral stone and high-density plastics and rubber.
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