Food Engineering

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The June 2023 issue of FOOD ENGINEERING features the 2023 Sustainable Plant of the Year, AI: Behind-the-Scene Partner in Process Applications, and much more!

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Vital Farms’ Egg Central Station

Laying a Model of Sustainability for Food Processing

Vital Farms hatched a plan to create a model of sustainability for Egg Central Station, which is why it’s FOOD ENGINEERING’s 2023 Sustainable Plant of the Year.
Derrick Teal
Derrick Teal
June 12, 2023
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It only takes a few seconds after stepping into Vital Farms’ Egg Central Station (ECS) to realize that the company truly loves its egg-related puns. If there’s writing nearby, be it on a wall, memo or bulletin board, there’s a pun not far behind. They’re part of an ethos that starts from the top and flows down the company’s ranks to put a smile on someone’s face, even if just for a second. That idea of doing good extends beyond the facility walls to its other locations, the farmers who supply the eggs, the consumers who buy the product and, finally, to the planet itself. That visible commitment to the environment is why the addition at ECS was chosen as FOOD ENGINEERING’s 2023 Sustainable Plant of the Year.


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Choosing the right VFFS
Packaging

Ready to Select Your Next Vertical Form Fill Seal Machine? Consider This...

Selecting the right VFFS can augment your packaging operations, and these elements will help guide you to the VFFS system that best meets your needs now and in the future.
Spencer Johnson
June 30, 2023
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Vertical form fill seal (VFFS) machines can mean different things to different people. The criteria used in evaluating, and ultimately determining, which bagging machine to buy is likely different if you are a small startup manufacturer versus operating for a global Fortune 500 brand.


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Garofalo Pasta

Garofalo Pasta Addresses Consumer Concerns with Mono-Material Packaging

Food producers are working with packaging makers to create flexible packaging options that meet existing and proposed EPR regulations.
Grant Gerke
June 20, 2023
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Italian-based Pasta Garofalo has introduced biaxially oriented polypropylene (BOPP) film material to its line of select pasta products. This new mono-film material is the product of advanced recycling via some form of pyrolysis—an anaerobic high-heat process that breaks down commingled plastics and produces oil and, eventually, a polymer resin for packaging film material or other uses.


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manufacturing automation

State-Based Control Uncovers Automation Gains

For an edible oil processor, the best way to efficiently manage unique characteristics of different products was by adopting modern control loop performance monitoring software with the ability to recognize different operating states.
Robert Rice
June 26, 2023
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Most manufacturing operations are constantly faced with change, and therefore they must be designed to adapt. Change routinely presents itself in the form of different production recipes, varying material properties, irregular equipment availability, weather extremes and many other factors. What’s more, change often includes several of these variables concurrently, and each may interact with others—adding still more complexity.


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Label verification system increases automatic identification of barcodes, defect detection, code dates and SKU management

Food Giant 'Expedites' Quality Control Upgrade

New labeling equipment and connecting to its SCADA platform add critical data monitoring to packaging lines, avoiding recalls and reputational harm.
Grant Gerke
June 14, 2023
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In a FOOD ENGINEERING interview, a PMMI VP said that three-quarters of food manufacturers were expected to spend money on new equipment from 2020-2025. PMMI’s Jorge Izquierdo, VP of market development at PMMI, said the driver behind the increase in processing and packaging purchases was “to leverage new technologies that offer increased flexibility.”


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Food Traceability

IFT Report Recommends Collaboration and Innovation to Advance Food Traceability

The report is intended to contribute to discussions about the role of technology in food traceability and provide recommendations on advancing the traceability landscape.
June 28, 2023
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The Institute of Food Technologists (IFT) has released a report commissioned by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) that evaluates food traceability trends based on 90 submissions from teams that participated in FDA’s 2021 Low- or No-Cost Tech-Enabled Traceability Challenge.


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