Victor Pacheco will serve as senior vice president for operations and logistics.

Waheed Chaudhry will develop product strategies and provide technical solutions.

David Stearle has been named president and Harry Kahn will serve as general manager.

Regional sales manager Rick Chrzan has retired, while Danny Harmann has been promoted to sales manager for Wisconsin and Illinois, and Todd Kasik will serve as regional sales manager in the Midwest.

For locating facilities, operators look for geographical areas with an employable workforce and adequate logistics.

Processors are turning to automation to fill jobs where people are unavailable.

Kellogg's announced that employees have ratified the tentative agreement for a master contract at four U.S. cereal plants in Battle Creek, Michigan; Omaha, Nebraska; Lancaster, Pennsylvania; and Memphis, Tennessee. The contract covers approximately 1,400 BCTGM union-represented employees (Bakery, Confectionary, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers) who will return to work on December 27. 

For the second time in as many years, FE’s annual Food Automation and Manufacturing Conference was held quite successfully on line—rather than in person—due to the persistent COVID-19 pandemic.

Labor shortages are nothing new for food and beverage processors, but the ongoing pandemic has created new challenges.