Casey Laughman

Casey Laughman is the former Editor in Chief of Food Engineering magazine. He has almost two decades’ experience as a writer and editor for mainstream and trade publications. He spent several years as a writer and editor for two news services before becoming the editor of a legal publication and managing editor of a trade magazine that covered the commercial facilities market.

A new editor-in-chief for Food Engineering

Editor’s Note

An ending and a beginning

A new editor-in-chief takes the reins of Food Engineering

Casey Laughman

October 11, 2021

Editor-in-chief Casey Laughman says goodbye to the food and beverage industry.

Sustainable Plant of the Year

Our 2021 award goes to Cuisine Solutions and Stellar for their sous vide facility in San Antonio, Texas

Casey Laughman

September 30, 2021

Cuisine Solutions and Stellar earn Sustainable Plant of the Year for sous vide facility in San Antonio.

Supply Chain

How COVID-19 is continuing to disrupt supply chains

Insights from a specialty food purveyor

Casey Laughman

September 10, 2021

Over the last 18 months, the COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted supply chains from end to end around the globe. In many cases, food and beverage processors suddenly learned the hard way where weaknesses in their supply chains were. Justin Marx, CEO of Marx Foods, a supplier to restaurants and home cooks, shares insights on the ongoing supply chain challenges facing the industry.

2021 Top 100, Exclusively Sponsored by CRB

The 2021 Top 100 Food and Beverage Companies

PepsiCo takes over top spot, Top 10 sees a reshuffling

Casey Laughman

August 27, 2021

A volatile year for food and beverage companies of every size has seen a reshuffling of Food Engineering’s Top 100 food and beverage companies.

Editor's Note

Plant of the Year Submissions Show Innovation Abounds

Food and beverage plants continue to push the envelope of innovation

Casey Laughman

August 12, 2021

What Keurig Dr Pepper and Cuisine Solutions—and the other submissions we received for this year's Engineering Plant of the Year and Sustainable Plant of the Year award—do have in common is the level of innovation and creative solutions present throughout the plants.

FE August 2021 Plant of the Year: Keurig Dr Pepper Facility. Photos courtesy of Keurig Dr Pepper

Plant of the Year | Just What The Dr Ordered

Keurig Dr Pepper Earns the 2021 Food Engineering Plant of the Year Award

Casey Laughman

August 2, 2021

Keurig Dr Pepper wins the 2021 Food Engineering Plant of the Year award for its production facility and regional distribution center in Allentown, Pennsylania.

Man Loading Produce Boxes into Back of Truck

Editor's Note

Supply chain challenges aren't going away

A look at the State of Food Manufacturing survey reveals some major concerns

Casey Laughman

July 30, 2021

Annual survey shows what's top of mind for processors.

The State of Food Manufacturing

COVID-19 pandemic continues to dominate current, future plans for processors

Casey Laughman

July 5, 2021

Food Engineering’s annual State of Food Manufacturing shows processors are still responding to the effects of COVID-19.

Editor's Note

Fixing it on the fly

We plan and prepare, but sometimes timing is everything

Casey Laughman

June 4, 2021

We had a minor snag with one of the feature stories for this issue.

Editor's Note

What does the future hold?

Whether inventions or iterations, technology and our understanding of it continue to hold untapped potential

Casey Laughman

May 5, 2021

There’s a helicopter on Mars.

It’s still pretty amazing to be able to type those words.

The food and beverage industry is at the nexus of transformative global manufacturing trends, driving a shift toward personalized, customer-centric solutions.

Casey Laughman

ARTICLES

An ending and a beginning

Sustainable Plant of the Year

How COVID-19 is continuing to disrupt supply chains

The 2021 Top 100 Food and Beverage Companies

Plant of the Year Submissions Show Innovation Abounds

Keurig Dr Pepper Earns the 2021 Food Engineering Plant of the Year Award

Supply chain challenges aren't going away

The State of Food Manufacturing

Fixing it on the fly

What does the future hold?

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