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Unifiller Uni-X extruder

February 7, 2017

The Unifiller Uni-X stainless steel extruder is intended for food items such as stiff pastes, doughs, chunks, sports bars, gluten-free mixes, marzipan fillings and meat products.

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RBS single-screw extrusion system

October 17, 2016

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The RBS single-screw extrusion system produces corn curls and balls, as well as a range of expanded snacks made from corn, rice and other cereal ingredients.

JR Short Milling uses fVAC-U-MAX portable industrial vacuums

Dry Processing

Extruder keeps house with portable industrial vacuums

A supplier of grain-based intermediate foods steps up its plant sanitation and safety efforts.

Debra Schug

December 16, 2015

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At J.R. Short Milling, a large-footprint snack food extruder, sanitation has become a way of life.

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Twin screw laboratory extruder

August 26, 2015

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Designed for a variety of foods, the Coperion ZSK Mv PLUS twin screw laboratory extruder meets hygiene requirements.

Food Packaging

Advanced plastic molding provides significant savings

Shane O'Halloran

September 4, 2014

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Sustainable packaging provides more than environmental benefits—it can minimize packaging, warehousing and shipping costs.

Extrusion

Supercritical fluid extrusion makes super-nutritious puffed rice

The new method preserves taste and nutritional content more effectively than steam extrusion.

Shane O'Halloran

January 14, 2013

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The new method preserves taste and nutritional content more effectively than steam extrusion.

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Designed for boxed chocolate centers, caramel, cookies and frozen dough, the Egan servo wirecut extruder features a linear servo motor that controls the wire cutting motion profile, allowing more of the motor force to be applied directly to the actual driven load and producing rates up to 150 cuts/min.

Store-wrapped beef’s Waterloo?

Kevin T. Higgins

August 6, 2012

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Case-ready meat has replaced in-store wrapping for many products, and a new film provides another opportunity for centralized packaging in vacuum bags.

Plant of the Year: Shearer's Foods Rethinks the Food Plant

Kevin T. Higgins

April 1, 2011

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Some additional upfront cost already is paying dividends to this manufacturing organization, with the biggest returns yet to come.

Engineering R&D: What's printing for dinner?

Kevin T. Higgins

March 1, 2011

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3D printers have followed the path of mainframe computers: unrealized potential related to unaffordable access. Thanks to a serendipitous food application, 3D is morphing into a PC.

Vacuum plays a key role in the production of cannabinoids, from oil concentration to purification. With this exploding industry, it is important to understand the proper vacuum practices to optimize your vacuum equipment’s performance.

Mastering Inventory Management (and Why It’s Crucial to your Business)

As the pace of change accelerates in food and beverage, real-time visibility and insight can be the difference between barely surviving and thriving. Today’s dramatic market changes and constantly evolving business models are forcing food and beverage companies to re-examine their inventory management processes.

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Packaging Research in Food Product Design and Development

Packaging Research in Food Product Design and Development is the first book to comprehensively address the issues of graphics design and visual concepts, from a systematic, scientific viewpoint, yet with business applications in mind.

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Food Engineering

2020 February

In the February 2020 issue of Food Engineering, we outline how to prepare backups for your automation systems in the event of power spikes, outages and viruses or cyber attacks.

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