Ruprecht, a provider of fully cooked sous-vide protein products and raw meats, is an example of the capabilities and cost savings food manufacturers can attain with a modern enterprise resource planning (ERP) purpose-built for their industry.

Recently, Hostess partnered with METER Group to assist with product predictions in R&D, to quality control metrics and production optimization.

St-Méthode Bakery goes paperless for better communication, coordination and collaboration.

Although a national, downward trend in sales is happening in many sectors, Hanan Products, a 75-year-old, third-generation wholesaler in the whipped topping, icing and dessert-filling sector—and the original creator of Tasty Whip—has seen an increase in sales. 

Milk powder is produced by the process of “spray drying,” which is widely used in the food industry for making products as diverse as baby foods, coffee and soup mixes. 

When the UK-based pre-fried and frozen potato producer Agristo was looking to expand its production, they turned to Ajax Equipment—a company that had supplied the first three mixers at the potato plant.

Spanish EVOO producer uses cellulose filter sheets to ensure its early-harvested oil is free from impurities 

In facilities that handle or produce sugar, fines can accumulate in a number of areas such as production floors; along conveyor belts and on machinery; in hot rotary dryers used to dry sugar; in steel storage and conditioning silos; in dust collectors; and on beams, rafters, light fixtures and other horizonal surfaces.

One of the largest producers in the sugar industry traces its roots all the way back to 1799. Today the company descended from that enterprise produces 6.5 million tons of sugar annually from plants in the Americas and Europe.