In the August 2021 issue of Food Engineering, we present the 2021 Plant of the Year: Keurig Dr Pepper, artificial intelligence for food and beverage manufacturers and more!
Keurig Dr Pepper wins the 2021 Food Engineering Plant of the Year award for its production facility and regional distribution center in Allentown, Pennsylania.
So you put off upgrades and updates as long as possible because you can’t afford the downtime. But doing nothing can lead to an even worse downtime scenario.
A leader in the tomato processing industry, The Morning Star Company is looking at new AI agriculture technologies in extensive field settings that can help to achieve this goal.
Artificial Intelligence (AI) offers numerous advantages to manufacturers, including synching machinery on a production line, solving supply chain issues, business forecasting, improving food safety standards and waste reduction, as well as yield and quality—all in real time.
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.
Prinova, a worldwide provider of ingredients, flavors and nutrient premixes, has created an innovative e-commerce experience with the launch of its new website.
Good Mood Cannabis Kitchen Company (GMCK) recently launched Cannacap™, a cap that stores flavored THC powder in a portable and discreet cap and delivers it to the beverage, transforming any drink into a cannabis beverage.
A new Smithers report, The Future of Anti-Counterfeiting, Brand Protection & Security Packaging to 2026, show demand for anti-counterfeit technology, including track and trace, tamper-evidence, product authentication and others, will reach $3.25 billion in 2021.
When National Frozen Foods Corp., a national processor of frozen vegetables since 1912 that processes more than 400 million lbs. of product annually, was looking to meet higher compliance standards while increasing the speed of packaging, they found a solution in a tubular conveyor system.
Since the mid-1990s, Berryhill Foods in Fraser Valley, B.C., Canada—with its rich, fertile soil conditions and temperate climate—has been providing premium blueberries and raspberries to a range of customers. Although Berryhill’s customers vary, their exacting standards do not.
MAXXDRIVE® Industrial Gear Units are used wherever high torques are required. Units have high power density and torque, rugged UNICASE™ housings, and offer high axial and radial load capacities.
OPTIMASS 1000 is designed with a close-coupled twin tube configuration with an optimized flow splitter, made to be durable and capable of handling flow rates, even with pressure fluctuations.
Nelson Heat Trace Type AXPC100 CM GP is a microprocessor-based combination power connection and digital electronic controller designed for stand-alone pipe mounted electric heat tracing applications.
Industrial Marathon Globetrotter 140 Frame rolled steel motor is designed for applications such as cooling tower, HVAC, conveyors, packaging equipment, pumping, extruders, gear reducers and machine tools.
The VFsync line is designed for use in conveyor systems, greenhouse equipment, bottling equipment, bagging equipment, packaging machines, and industrial pumps and mixers.
The Nyle Container Food Dryer features a dehumidification unit, air handling equipment and touch screen controls for a fully controlled climate within the re-engineered shipping container.
BFM fittings provide a simple and sanitary way to connect a sifter to an overs container. The flexible fitting snaps in and out of place in seconds, no tools required.
The digital Chatillon CS2 Series of force testers is an ideal low-cost solution for force testing applications where advanced material testing functionality is not required.
ModSort® technology by System Plast®, recently incorporated into several conveyor systems, is driven by MDR technology, designed to transfer, sort, divert, left justify, right justify and works with all shapes and sizes.
The expanded X-Scan T camera family addresses a wide range of industrial inspection needs with four new variants of the TDI-based (Time Delay Integration) product family.
Batch-Weigh System automatically transfers, weighs and dispenses precise amounts of powders, pellets, flakes and other bulk materials into mixers, hoppers, tanks, vessels and containers.