Automation, artificial intelligence and robotics are becoming a staple of food and beverage processing, and the pet food market is no different. In this installment of the Food Engineering podcast series, Editor-in-Chief Casey Laughman speaks with Tyler Cundiff, President, Food and Beverage Market, Gray, and Greg Powers, VP of Solution Architecture, Gray Solutions, to discuss how pet food processors are adopting these technologies.

Listeners will learn how using nitrogen and carbon dioxide improves food manufacturing processes and product quality. The podcast will explore the benefits of cryogenics, and factors involved in choosing between them. Food processors will gain a new perspective on improving their company’s efficiency and output...

Sponsored by: Air Products

If you have old equipment, there is hope that you can keep what works and modernize it by pulling worthwhile information from it with instrumentation and controls.

Producing pet food can be difficult, but even more challenging is recovering from a safety recall. TOMRA advanced its technology into pet food - bringing a whole new safety level and peace-of-mind to the industry. This podcast looks at how technology can help you get the best possible product.

Sponsored by: TOMRA

SideDrive’s Kevin Mauger explains how food-safe, side drive belt technology enables the most flexible, hygienic spiral and long run conveyors available for the food industry. 

Sponsored by: SideDrive

In the April episode of the Food Engineering podcast, Editor-in-Chief Casey Laughman speaks with Art Sebastiano, CIO, Ken's Foods, on applying lessons from other industries as part of a digitalization strategy.

COVID-19 has had a significant impact on the selection of HVAC systems and filtration options. “HVAC Options for a Post-Pandemic Plant,” a podcast from Hixson’s Food Plant of the Future series, looks at the latest HVAC options that may minimize viral spread and protect employees.    

Sponsored by: Hixson Architecture & Engineering