September 2025

Food Engineering

This month brings the 2025 Top 100 Food and Beverage Companies list! We alsolook at 5 strategies for ensuring hygiene and food safety in food processing, how alternative protein gets create, and so much more.

FOOD ENGINEERING’s 2025 Top 100 Food and Beverage Companies

While sales were largely down under dynamic economic and geopolitical conditions, some of the world’s top food and beverage manufacturers experienced revenue growth.

Alyse Thompson-Richards

September 16, 2025

While sales were largely down under dynamic economic and geopolitical conditions, some of the world’s top food and beverage manufacturers experienced revenue growth.

Backed Into a Corner, Alternative Protein Gets Creative

State legislative bans are targeting ingredients, dyes and cultivated products in 2025. Therefore, the market is forcing OEMs and alternative protein suppliers to get creative in manufacturing, lowering ingredient costs, and even going to market.

Grant Gerke

September 8, 2025

Accurate and Precise Filling Saves on Giveaways

Today’s filling machines can achieve extremely accurate and precise fills, and real-time monitoring and maintenance prevent wasteful overfills, underfills, and sporadic and inaccurate fills.

Wayne Labs

September 4, 2025

Today’s filling machines can achieve extremely accurate and precise fills, and real-time monitoring and maintenance prevent wasteful overfills, underfills, and sporadic and inaccurate fills.

How Continuous Moisture Monitoring Supports Food Manufacturing

Sarah Hammond

August 6, 2025

Moisture monitoring has become an integral part of the production line, helping manufacturers safeguard product quality, boost efficiency and meet compliance targets.

Regulatory Watch

FDA, USDA Request Information on Ultra-Processed Foods

August 6, 2025

The agencies seek to draft a federally recognized definition of “ultra-processed food” to inform research and policy.

Man holding tablet near production tanks

FSMA 204: The Clock Is Ticking, and Most Food Manufacturers Are Already Behind

Stephen Dombroski

July 17, 2025

Manufacturers now have a grace period to get the right systems, processes and teams in place. If you move quickly, you can use this time to implement a traceability strategy that not only meets compliance but builds long-term supply chain resilience.

On Demand Kelley Rodriguez, Editor in Chief of Refrigerated & Frozen Foods, will be joined in this 60-minute webinar by industry experts to help unpack the latest research.

On Demand Driven by climate goals, business risk, client interest, and resilience considerations, food and beverage companies are increasingly turning their attention to decarbonizing their production processes.