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Home » Authors » Mikell Knights

Articles by Mikell Knights

Fresh and frozen fruit processors are the focus of a new high-productivity bag packaging system
Packaging News

Fruits are the target for new integrated weighing and bagging unit

Mikell Knights
February 7, 2014
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A fully integrated weigh scale and bag packaging system designed specifically for fresh and frozen fruit is a new development resulting from a partnership between Automated Packaging Systems and BBC Technologies.
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Butter sculptures, created in three designs by Kellerâ??s Creamery
Packaging News

Sculpted butter moves to supportive packaging

Mikell Knights
February 7, 2014
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Butter sculptures, holiday-themed products manufactured by Keller’s Creamery, which is owned by the Dairy Farmers of America, are now being offered in a new, advanced packaging design.
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The Snapsil line of semi-rigid containers
Packaging News

Easy open portion pack now in North America

Mikell Knights
February 7, 2014
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An audible, snap-opening function integrated into the lower web of the thermoformed package allows consumers to open the package with one hand.
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PrimaPak is a new flexible film that is stackable and recloseable, and achieves up to 70 percent weight savings compared to rigid plastic jars.
Packaging

Flexible film with rigid film characteristics

Presenting a new line of stackable, reclosable, and flexible films
Mikell Knights
January 10, 2014
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The package is a multi-layered film, laminated onto several proprietary substrates to improve heat resistance.
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NewPage earned the Institute of Packaging Professionals' 2013 AmeriStar Packaging award for sustainability for its LittleFoot 100 percent compostable line of packaging
Packaging

Innovation stars

Shelf-stable packages win IoPP awards based on composition and design focused on ease of use and sustainable qualities.
Mikell Knights
January 10, 2014
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The winning packaging laminate is fully compostable and made in the US from renewable resources.
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RGF's PHI Treatment Plus system
Engineering R&D

Using nature’s disinfectants

The photohydroionization disinfection process combines several non-chemical, non-penetrating radiation approaches, which together can effectively kill harmful microorganisms in food, air and water.
Mikell Knights
January 10, 2014
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The process has been approved in food processing plants inspected by the USDA, FDA and FSIS
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Inline inspection of meat product length, width, height, area, volume, aspect ratio, mass flow, yield and defects can be accomplished with the new JBT FoodTech DSI J-Scan unit
Tech Update

Tech Update: Meat and poultry processing

Equipment advances help minimize product contamination while raising production efficiency.
Mikell Knights
January 10, 2014
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From freezing and frying to cleanliness and coding, new technologies make tasks easier.
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Dr Pepper Snapple Group installed the Baswood BioViper wastewater system. It will treat up to 350,000 gal./day.
Water usage and treatment

Take a load off

Food and beverage plants under pressure to reduce contaminants in their discharge water are finding a wider range of solutions.
Mikell Knights
January 10, 2014
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Water recovery and productivity goals are aided by new systems.
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Water conservation, water reuse and wastewater pretreatment

Mikell Knights
January 10, 2014
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Water conservation, water reuse and wastewater pretreatment strategies take many forms. Culligan Matrix Solutions, the commercial and industrial division of Culligan International, and Emerson Industrial Automation, a business unit of Emerson, point out less obvious areas for efficiency improvements.
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Friedrich Fischer, president of Atmic-FF Fischer Planning
Engineering R&D

Watch your dairy air

Sterile air extends product shelf life by protecting the processing space from impurities.
Mikell Knights
December 5, 2013
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Purging airborne microbes like yeast and mold is not easy due to their size.


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