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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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

Purging airborne microbes like yeast and mold is not easy due to their size.


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