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U.S.-based manufacturers of beef products have had to make some tough choices due to higher costs, and one option to help keep plants from closing might be a mixed bag.
Ithought that with the change in the calendar year that I would’ve been able to give my prognostication skills a rest, but a topic came up during a recent editorial meeting that had me trying to predict the future… again.
The meeting involved Tyson Foods’ o cial closure of operations at its Lexington, Neb., beef plant and the company’s shift adjustment at a beef facility in Amarillo, Tex. Nearly 5,000 people lost their jobs. The problem is that the cost of beef production in the U.S. continues to rise. At some point it just becomes untenable at a for-profit manufacturer. I wouldn’t be at all surprised to see a mid-size to large meat manufacturer get out of the beef game in the relatively near future if they have other avenues to explore like poultry or pork. (Although some of us really want mutton to make a comeback.)
I think there are some good beef alternatives, but many come with caveats like cost, flavor, texture, and of course, some consumers just aren’t onboard with them.
While the idea of hybrid meat production has been around, I think the combination of what’s happening in the beef industry and the desire of the alternative protein market to gain more traction becomes a win-win scenario.
The challenge, as it has been, is whole cuts. Rather than trying to make hybrid whole cuts, I expect alternative protein manufacturers to reinvest and find a way to make whole-cut analogues work. The inroads made by hybrids with members of the doubting public will o er a foothold for those products. The question will be if that happens before there’s some sort of federal intervention to lower costs or the beef industry does something on its own to lower costs.
Until then, don’t be surprised to see more plant closures by beef producers.
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OT Cybersecurity Looks to IT in 2026
Companies are investing in threat detection services and performing OT asset inventory initiatives while bringing IT departments along for the ride.
INVESTMENTS IN CYBERSECURITY tools are paying o . In the recent 2025 SANS State of ICS/ OT Security Survey, the study revealed that nearly half (49%) of all incidents were detected within 24 hours, and 55% were contained within 48 hours in the manufacturing and industrial sectors. The study suggests investments in threat detection services are working, and visibility into OT processes, with the help of Information Technology (IT) departments, is making substantial gains.
However, the 2025 SANS report reveals that visibility into deeper operational levels of the ISA-95 (Purdue model) manufacturing standard is lacking.
Below are the results (Source: SANS report):
• Level 3 (Operations Systems): 19.7% report full visibility
• Level 2 (Supervisory Control - SCADA/HMI): Just 10% report full visibility
• Level 1 (Basic Control - PLCs/RTUs): Coverage is even thinner
• Remote Sites: 17.5% report coverage across distributed operations
Recent studies show OT cybersecurity investments are coming from IT departments. The reasons for these cybersecurity investments are legacy devices that were never meant to be online and to prioritize OT asset inventory initiatives since experienced operators and plant managers are retiring.
The future is now for management to implement OT cybersecurity strategies, including training of IT sta .
“As IT and OT environments continue to converge, organizations must focus on foundational security practices that improve visibility and resilience without disrupting operations,” says Sean Tufts, Field CTO at Claroty, a supplier of cyber-physical systems protection and asset visibility services, enabling brands to automatically map and virtually segment networks. “This includes maintaining accurate asset inventories, securing remote and third-party access, improving network segmentation, and continuously monitoring asset behavior across geographically dispersed facilities.”
What types of ICS/OT-speci c detection capabilities are currently in use? (Select all that apply.)
Protocol-aware anomaly detection
Passive visibility tools
Signature/IOC detection speci c to OT environments
Host-based detection on engineering workstations or servers
Active visibility tools
(where safe and possible without negative impacts to operation)
Detection platforms originally built for IT, adapted for OT
The 2025 SANS report ranked asset inventory/visibility as the top investment category, with 50% of respondents citing asset inventory as their main investment. Another 54% responded that it will remain the top priority for 2026-27.
“The initial customer goal with threat monitoring is to create and automate OT asset inventory,” says Alexandre Peixoto, Cybersecurity Business Director at Emerson . “IT has said to OT that IP addresses are showing up in our networks, so what kind of asset inventory and protection mechanics are in place for your devices?” Emerson works with multiple reputable cybersecurity vendors to deliver native OT tools to food manufacturers.
In addition, Emerson enables plants to conduct OT asset inventory using its Guardian Digital Platform before implementing any threat monitoring solution. “The most important piece of threat monitoring is to perform threat and vulnerability management, but many companies are still in the asset inventory phase,” adds Peixoto.
“Our clients still need more data about all assets,” adds Rick Kaun, Global Director of Cybersecurity Services at Rockwell Automation . “They also need to provide context to that asset list, such as the asset criticality to operations, information about the obsolescence (support or capabilities) of the asset, vulnerabilities present, configuration, redundancy, location in the network, manufacturer type, etc.”
Rockwell Automation announced the launch of the Secure Digital Operations (SDO) organization, which is a collection of Rockwell expertise that combines manufacturing, cyber security and digital optimization skill sets under one roof.
With numerous industrial networking protocols at food plants, threat detection services deliver much needed visibility at this level for OT and IT personnel.
While asset inventory investments increase, the SANS report also shows an alarming time gap between attack and remediation. About a fifth (22%) of incidents took two to seven days to fully remediate, while 19% took over a month and 3% over a year.
“Faster resolution depends on security teams having operational context, like understanding which assets are critical, how they normally behave, and what impact disruption would have on production, safety, or compliance,” says Claroty’s Tufts.
“In food and beverage environments in particular, organizations often lack full insight into how vendors connect to operational systems, which can slow containment and remediation e orts,” Tufts adds. “Lean OT teams, combined with limited cross-training between IT and OT, also make coordinated incident response more di cult, extending downtime and recovery timelines.”
Also, C-Level executives understand the importance of OT security investments in their own language. “It’s an operational availability and a fi nancial risk problem,” says Phil Tonkin, Field CTO at Dragos , in a recent analysis of the SANS report. “Extended recovery times translate directly to lost production, emergency contractor costs, regulatory scrutiny and potential safety implications.”
According to Dragos, IT discovery tools often require active scanning that can disrupt industrial processes, lack the protocol-specific knowledge to identify ICS devices accurately, and don’t provide the depth needed to understand PLC configurations, fi rmware versions, or backplane-level details that matter for vulnerability management.
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The next couple of years should see greater knowledge sharing between IT and OT experts, especially as older plant sta retire.
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How is IT/OT visibility and monitoring integration performed in your organization? (Select
all that apply.)
Coordinated but separate IT and OT teams
Shared log aggression and correlation tools (e.g., SIEM)
Shared detection tools/ platforms
Joint alert triage of escalation processes
Manual or ad hoc coordination only
Cybersecurity maturity varies across food and beverage, and the SANS report reinforces this fact. According to the 2025 SANS survey, “half of all reported incidents this year began with unauthorized external access. Even as multifactor authentication (MFA) becomes commonplace, fewer than 15% of organizations have implemented advanced ICS-aware controls, including session recording, device-specific access, or real-time approvals.”
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MFA is one of the foundations of Zero Trust security, along with air gaps between IT and OT networks. E Tech Group, a system integrator, o ers IT/ OT cybersecurity services and revealed details of a recent attack with a food and beverage manufacturer. The system integrator’s services include
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traditional automation services and the implementation of third-party threat detection technology providers, such as Nozomi Networks, Claroty, and Dragos.
This specific attack focused on unexpected tra c between the IT domain controller and the backup system, a common ransomware target used to disable systems and pressure victims to pay ransom. Due to the air gap network design, the plant minimized the damage that allowed the manufacturer to operate fully while mitigating the attack at the enterprise network.
The OT network firewall implemented by E Tech Group relied on enhanced access control that restricted access to sensitive areas of the building network, while delivering protocol filtering, segmentation, zoning, monitoring, and logging. Operating deep within the OT network, a threat detection engine monitored and analyzed network tra c for unusual or suspicious activity.
“Without the threat detection engine monitoring the network, the attackers could have remained unnoticed for a much longer period,” says Kevin Romer, Solutions Architect at E Tech Group. “This delay would have allowed them to gather extensive knowledge about the facility’s operations before executing a full-scale attack.”
The future: IT and OT knowledge sharing
Retaining IT talent is a challenge for manufacturers, and so is training and leveling up new hires about the complexities of an OT network. “The younger generation embraces IT technology, and they’re coming to help on the OT side,” said Kevin Kumpf an OT/ICS Strategist at Hard Hat Cybersecurity Services during the ARC Advisory Industry Leadership Forum. “However, they don’t understand safety, uptime, and all the areas of OT within critical infrastructure.”
The future is now for management to implement OT cybersecurity strategies, including training of IT sta . For this to happen, experienced plant sta need digital tools to share and document OT security controls, such as identity and access management, and network segmentation.
“From a leadership standpoint, e ective OT security programs require translating cyber risk into operational and financial risk that resonates with executive stakeholders,” says Tufts. “Aligning security initiatives with business priorities helps ensure investments support productivity and operational continuity while reducing exposure.”
NEW YEAR, NEW FOOD SAFETY REGULATIONS:
What to Expect, How it Impacts Food Processors
With the turn of the calendar from 2025 to 2026 comes a slew of new laws and regulations impacting food processors.
WITH THE TURN OF THE CALENDAR from 2025 to 2026 comes a slew of new laws and regulations impacting food processors. One of those being the implementation of stricter U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) rules under the American Innovation and Manufacturing (AIM) Act.
On Dec. 27, 2020, the AIM Act was enacted, authorizing the EPA to address hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs) to phase down the production and consumption of listed HFCs, manage these HFCs and their substitutes, and facilitate the transition to next-generation technologies through sector-based restrictions.
These regulations aim to phase out high-global warming potential (GWP) refrigerants (HFCs) and transition to lower-GWP alternatives, presenting several compliance and operational challenges for businesses.
Also e ective come 2026—although a proposal has been made to delay it by 30 months until July 20, 2028—is FSMA Rule 204 (Food Traceability Rule), an FDA requirement under the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) mandating detailed records for high-risk foods on the Food Traceability List (FTL) to enable rapid tracing during outbreaks. This revised rule focuses on Critical Tracking Events (CTEs) like growing, receiving, and shipping, and Key Data Elements (KDEs) like traceability lot codes, aiming to significantly speed up recalls and protect public health, forcing food processors to be more accountable and proactive in the track and trace of their products.
“This regulation requires enhanced, end-to-end traceability for specific high-risk foods, like cheese. This creates a significant data management challenge for processors,” says Bill Adams, Director, Food and Pharmaceutical Solutions at Airgas, an Air Liquide company. “Data-driven systems and
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What’s more, the “Make America Healthy Again” (MAHA) strategy from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is pushing proces sors to remove artificial preservatives and ingredients, Adams says. “This trend directly increases the need for alternative preservation methods. We are working closely
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with customers to implement modified atmosphere packaging (MAP) solutions, which use a precise blend of food-grade gases to extend shelf life and maintain product freshness, quality, and safety, all without adding chemicals to the label,” he says.
Aside from macro issues like trade tari s and food safety requirements, “in May 2025, the Compressed Gas Association (CGA) published CGA P-95, Guideline for the Safe Installation and Use of Cryogenic Food Freezing and Chilling Equipment. This new, harmonized guideline provides detailed recommendations to support the safe and e ective use of refrigerated liquefied gases in food applications,” says Don Smiley, Director of Food and Beverage at Messer
And food processors are exhibiting a more concerted focus on CO2 to be used not only as a gas for carbonated beverages, but also as a liquid for dry ice production and inline freezing/chilling.
“Most are unaware of how CO2 is acquired in the U.S. CO2 is typically sourced as the o -gas of industrial ethanol plants. In 2022, with the Inflation Reduction Act, Section 45Q o ered companies credits for carbon capture and sequestration,” says Tony Vacaro, Industry Manager of Air Products
“Although U.S. ethanol plants account for likely less than 1% of CO2 emissions, the CO2 ogas stream is an easy target for those looking to take advantage of this lucrative tax credit. Therefore, many ethanol companies began exploring options for sequestration and multiple pipeline projects were greenlit. An unintended consequence of this legislation was that CO2 suppliers seeking to capture and resell this molecule into the food and beverage product supply chain were left with
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fewer options. The ripple e ects of this change can be seen in price increases in grocery stores around the country. However, it appears this may be short lived, as new legislation has been introduced that seeks to repeal Section 45Q. A very dynamic topic to say the least, but one that has an impact on U.S. consumers everywhere.”
Although these rules and regulations (and others) are designed to enforce stricter food safety, they also pose financial and operational challenges for many of today’s food processors. That’s why some providers o er initiatives designed to help processors manage maintenance, training, and sanitation more e ectively, according to Smiley.
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Messer, for example, made available the Messer KwikChiller, a nitrogen-based, continuous, in-line cooling and freezing solution that delivers rapid, uniform temperature control and variable cooling rates for delicate products.
Messer also helps food processors overcome production and CO2 supply challenges by converting lines to liquid nitrogen and installing cryogenic chilling and freezing technologies to help customers run more e ciently.
Messer also announced a $70 million strategic investment to construct a state-of-theart air separation unit (ASU) in Berryville, Ark., to ensure reliable nitrogen, oxygen, and carbon dioxide supply, Smiley adds.
“Messer’s field-based team is continuously innovating, with a strong record of developing proven technologies to support the food and beverage industry’s challenges,” Smiley adds. “Our team has decades of hands-on experience of listening to our customers’ needs and delivering safe, cryogenic solutions that help increase throughput, improve e ciency, preserve quality, and support more resilient supply chains.”
For its part, Air Products released its Freshline Smart Technology designed to help food processors struggling with a lack of skilled labor and retention, says Vacaro.
“Over the last several years, Air Products has o ered what we call our Smart Technology platform. Air Products Smart Technology is a platform that our team designed and built that allows us to compile data from production equipment, such as freezers and blenders, and relay it to our internal
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communications system. It uses sensors and wireless communications technology to advise process optimization based on advanced analytics, as well as tracking key process parameters. All Air Products cryogenic tunnel freezers now come with the hardware necessary to securely connect to the network. There are many features available within the platform, but I’ll provide a tangible example as to one of the use cases,” Vacaro says.
“Air Products’ food freezing customers no longer need to spend hours training employees to become experts in operating their nitrogen freezing equipment. With Air Products’ Smart Technology, our team can help troubleshoot any issues in real time and provide the necessary guidance to make adjustments as needed,” he adds.
Air Products also introduced the MP+ tunnel freezer variant for customers looking to achieve a very high throughput crust freeze. It can process more than 5,000 pounds per hour in ~20 feet of freezing zone for certain food items, and is designed for food processors limited in space.
Airgas, on the other hand, provides comprehensive cryogenic solutions that combine high-purity food-grade gases, state-of-the-art equipment, and unmatched application expertise, according to Adams.
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“Our freezers (including tunnels and spirals) and chillers are all designed with sanitary, open, and accessible builds to directly address the sanitation challenge,” he says. “To solve the challenges of downtime, ine ciency, and reliability, we are focused on data-driven solutions. Our Connected Tunnel o er, for example, moves beyond just equipment by using sensors to gather continuous data on key operational parameters. This provides processors with actionable insights to monitor gas consumption, optimize performance, and enable predictive maintenance, directly reducing downtime and cutting operational costs. It transforms the freezer from a standalone, unmonitored piece of equipment into a smart, manageable asset.”
FPS Food Process Solutions also launched several initiatives designed specifically to help processors manage maintenance, training, and sanitation more e ectively.
For instance, the FPS Remote Monitoring System collects and analyzes real-time data to help predict maintenance needs, minimize downtime, and improve overall equipment performance.
Additionally, the FPS Sanitation Division consists of sanitation specialists who conduct equipment
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audits and provide hands-on training for customers’ in-house teams.
“FPS Food Process Solutions has been at the forefront of thermal processing innovation for over 15 years, providing leading-edge freezing and cooling equipment to global food processors,” says Justin Lai, VP, Sales & Marketing for FPS Food Process Solutions. “Integration is the future. The more that refrigeration, monitoring, and sanitation systems are connected, the more e ciently a facility can run.”
And they can align with the ever-changing food safety rules and regulations of tomorrow.
Sargento’s Product Development and Manufacturing Work Together for New Natural Cheese
Working with manufacturing from the earliest stages of development meets consumer expectations, retailer needs, and the company’s own business goals.
INNOVATION ONLY CREATES VALUE when it can be produced at scale, consistently, and cost-e ectively. Product development teams may dream up the concepts, but those concepts never leave the lab without manufacturing know-how. Likewise, operations can only realize its full potential when its aligned with consumer needs and market direction. The interplay between these two functions is central to the longterm success of companies across the food industry.
Sargento Foods o ers an example of how the balance is struck. Rod Hogan, Senior Vice President of Innovation, has spent nearly three decades with the company, helping to bring some of its most ambitious projects to life. “Innovation is core to what we do,” he says. “It goes back to our founder, Leonard A. Gentine, who was an innovator at his core. Sargento changed the way American consumers shop for, buy, and consume natural cheese. That
spirit continues to drive our business today.”
Hogan describes innovation at Sargento as a meeting point between consumer expectations, retailer needs, and the company’s own business goals. Any new product must deliver across all three. That is why his team works in lockstep with manufacturing from the earliest stages of development. “It’s not just Rod sitting in an o ce and picking cool ideas,” he says. “We’ve got structured processes, rigorous approaches, and strong collaboration across R&D, business, and operations. We follow the process consistently, guided by our strategic plan.”
The launch of Sargento Natural American cheese slices illustrates the depth of this collaboration. The idea was simple: Create a natural cheese that delivers the melt, flavor, aroma, and texture that consumers are familiar with. In other words, a natural cheese that could melt and taste like processed cheese. But turning that vision into reality required a decade of persistence. “That is the longest project I’ve ever worked on in my professional career,” Hogan says. “We had project teams working for years, and at times we couldn’t get over the technological
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hurdles. We even stopped and told our R&D team, ‘You go develop the science, and when you have it, we’ll come back.’ Ultimately, it required rethinking many aspects of how natural cheese is made.”
This patience paid o , but only because manufacturing teams were fully engaged in the process, troubleshooting at every step and designing production methods that could scale. Hogan describes it as a “labor of love,” underscoring the point that in food production, innovation is never just about flavor or marketing: It’s about whether the plant can consistently make a safe, high-quality product that lives up to the consumer promise.
The theme of integrated development and manufacturing surfaces across the industry. ProFood World has chronicled how manufacturers are
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in close proximity, the company aims to ensure that ideas can move more quickly from concept to commercialization, with fewer surprises along the way.
Puratos has taken a similar approach with its pilot bakery plant in New Jersey, developed with AMF Bakery Systems. The facility enables customers and Puratos’ own technical teams to co-create, test, and scale bakery products without leaving the site. The integration of innovation and equipment in one environment makes the development process more ecient and reduces the risks that often appear when a product transitions from bench to factory floor. As Puratos’ leadership explains, the goal is to allow bakers to “go from concept to commercialization in one visit.”
Beyond physical space, collaboration depends on culture and process. Hogan repeatedly emphasizes that Sargento thrives on cross-functional teamwork. “If we are anything, we are collaborative,” he says. The same emphasis appears in industry best practices. Breaking down silos requires a shared mission and values, transparent shop-floor systems that keep everyone aligned, and leadership that rewards joint problem-solving. When employees understand that innovation success depends equally on product
design and production excellence, they are more likely to engage constructively across roles.
What becomes clear is that innovation is never the work of a single team. For Sargento, flavor remains king, but production realities define how far and how fast ideas can travel. “It’s about finding the middle ground,” Hogan says. “Flavor has to be there, but it has to be able to be produced at scale and create value for our retail partners, our consumers, and our business.”
For food processing professionals, the lesson is straightforward but demanding. Build innovation strategies that are not only consumer-driven but also manufacturing-ready. Invest in facilities and tools that physically and digitally bring teams together. Nurture a culture that values collaboration as much as creativity.
The result is a faster, smoother path from concept to commercialization, and products that truly resonate in the marketplace while delivering on operational performance. As the food industry continues to evolve, companies that integrate product development and manufacturing most e ectively will be best positioned to meet consumer demands, satisfy retail partners, and sustain long-term growth.
From Bare Bones to Advanced Flexibility
Stampede Culinary Partners takes a bare structure in New Mexico and turns it into an advanced facility with the flexibility to handle a variety of needs for its clients.
STAMPEDE CULINARY PARTNERS acquired its Sunland Park, N.M., plant in 2018, and to say it was ready to run from the outset would be a massive exaggeration. As John Villa, Vice President of Operations, describes the 100,000-sq-ft site previously owned by Tyson, it was “essentially a startup.” With only a bare structure, Stampede would soon transform the facility into what would become one of the company’s most advanced and flexible prepared-protein plants.
“When we bought it, we basically had the walls in the plant and that was it,” Villa says. “We redid the floors, ceilings, all the lights, plumbing, and electrical. Even the copper wire had been taken, so it was a complete rebuild.” That rebuild included a new roof—an investment of more than a million dollars— and full modernization of the plant’s infrastructure.
The renovation moved quickly. “Brock’s directive was to be running in 2018,” Villa says, referring to Stampede CEO Brock Furlong. “We bought it in 2018 and were running on the grind line by December. Some of the bigger installations, like the ovens, came online by January 2019.” From the lights to the ovens, most of the equipment on the floor is 2018 or newer, underscoring the plant’s modern build and reliability.
Layout and process design
The Sunland Park facility was engineered for both food safety and operational e ciency. The team began by dividing the plant into separate raw and cooked zones with the ovens placed in the middle, serving as the dividing line.
“We knew we wanted two sides of the plant,” Villa explains. “The ovens are pretty much centrally based, so production space is about 50-50—maybe 55-45 toward the raw side. They’re pass-through ovens: one door opens on the raw side, one on the cooked side. It’s never going to change.”
That configuration supports Stampede’s goal of maintaining the highest level of control during post-lethality handling. “We designed it for post-le -
The project team had to redo most everything on the facility—even the copper wire had been taken.
thality exposed slicing, essentially a clean room,” he says. “We developed not only the equipment flow but also our food safety programs around that design. No exceptions.”
Equipment and engineering
The rebuild equipped Sunland Park with a modern suite of processing technology: multi-vacs, tumblers, injectors, mixers, slicers, and smokehouses configured for flexibility and throughput. Although most of the equipment is newer, a few pieces, such as an older injector, were relocated from the company’s Chicagoland plant to New Mexico.
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Stampede’s focus on people provides the company with the flexibility to meet customer product needs.
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Stampede’s Sunland Park site was the company’s first to implement postlethality slicing and smoke capabilities.
day,” Villa explains. “You have to be on top of sanitation, on top of testing, and very aware of what’s being touched, how drains are managed, and how airflow works.”
The Sunland Park site was Stampede’s first to implement post-lethality slicing and smoke capabilities, representing a significant step forward in product diversification. “In 2018, we didn’t have any smoke or post-lethality slicing capability,” Villa says. “That was all new here as of January 2019.”
Flexibility and batch design
Ten large ovens were installed simultaneously, creating a complex logistical e ort that required long lead times and precise planning. “We had a very aggressive timeline,” Villa says. “Lead time on the ovens was about eight months at the time. That stretched because we were getting ten at once, but we still started production in January 2019.”
The plant was designed with scalability in mind— something Villa calls an intentional risk. “You’ve got to take on some risk and be ready when the business comes,” he says. “That’s where the ‘if you build it, they will come’ mindset comes from. We’ve set up lines that are ready to go so we can trigger production when customers are ready.”
Clean room operations
The facility’s clean room is one of its defining features because it enables ready-to-eat slicing while maintaining high sanitation control. The setup demanded not only infrastructure investment but also process discipline.
“It’s di cult to have a clean room in an industry like this, where everything gets washed down every
While many modern facilities lean heavily on automation, Stampede’s Sunland Park plant is intentionally focused on people. “The biggest thing we’re looking for is flexibility,” Villa says, explaining one of the reasons why the facility didn’t incorporate as much automation. “We do an analysis of where the bottlenecks are. If the cook process—like a 14-hour sous vide run—is the bottleneck, then the hand trimming isn’t slowing us down.”
That flexibility allows Stampede to serve both large national accounts and smaller customers requiring specialized runs. “We run 50,000 pounds a day on some slicers,” Villa says, “but we also take on smaller opportunities. We can perfect the product for what the customer needs without saying it’s not big enough for us.”
The approach extends to equipment choice. “We’re batch-oriented, so we’ll go smaller,” Villa explains. “Our tumblers are around 1,000 pounds. We’re not doing 3,000- or 4,000-pound batches because we change over to di erent products throughout the day. Smaller batch equipment gives us the flexibility to handle multiple SKUs.”
Product innovation
The facility’s combination of smoke, par-fry, and sous vide processing has been central to Stampede’s growth. “The sous vide, the combination of the par fry with the smoke and the sous vide—it’s something brand new for the company,” Villa says. “When we first ran smoked sliced brisket, we were doing maybe 5,000 pounds a week. Now it’s over 150,000 pounds a week on a regu-
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lar basis, and it can go up to 250,000.”
The success of the company’s endeavors can be seen in the quality and consistency of the finished product. “You get that rich smoky flavor while retaining moisture,” he says. “We’re not over-drying through the smoke process because we combine it with sous vide. It eats very well and has taken o in both retail and foodservice.”
That quality translates to value for operators facing labor shortages. “We do all the heavy lifting,” Villa says. “All the back-of-the-kitchen work is done here. We can go down to 2-oz portions, ready for burritos or bowls. There’s no guesswork, and it helps our customers save on labor and food costs.”
Food safety and pasteurization
Food safety innovation at Sunland Park includes the development of Stampede’s proprietary Low Temperature Pasteurization (LTP) process, designed as an alternative to high-pressure processing.
“In the clean room, the product gets exposed again, so we wanted another kill step,” Villa explains. “That’s where LTP came in. It’s our belt-and-sus-
Stampede’s proprietary LTP process is an alternative to HPP that still o ers an extended shelf life.
penders approach to food safety.” The process not only provides additional pathogen control but also extends refrigerated shelf life—often tripling it.
“Customers want to move toward fresh products, but that can be rough on operations,” Villa says. “With LTP, we get longer shelf life and confidence in safety, which gives both us and our customers flexibility. It also reduces food waste because the product can stay in rotation longer.” s
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Unlike HPP, LTP is gentle on the product. “HPP can cause compression and dry the product out,” Villa says. “With LTP, the product comes out the same way it went in, but with extended shelf life and the same quality.” The process, developed in Sunland Park by Stampede’s R&D team, avoids the cost of installing or tolling for HPP systems—another operational advantage.
Workforce and training
Beyond equipment and process innovation, Villa is equally proud of what the plant represents for the local community. “We’re the largest employer in southern New Mexico in this area,” he says. “It gives people a chance to advance their careers and learn new skills.”
Stampede has partnered with New Mexico State University (NMSU) and Dona Ana Community College to provide training programs in ammonia refrigeration, forklift operation, and butchery. “We built a butcher certification program with NMSU that all of our trimmers—not only here, but at our other facilities in Georgia, Illinois, and Canada—went through,” Villa says. “We created it here, and now hundreds of people across the company have benefited.”
Lessons learned and future outlook
Villa describes the Sunland Park project as a study in risk management, flexibility, and disciplined execution. “You’ve got to have patience, and you’ve got to be willing to take some risk,” he says. “When we started, we had two smokehouses. Now we have seven. You wonder if you’ll have that business consistently, but if you stay disciplined on quality and keep those ovens full, it pays o .”
That forward-looking mentality extends to product and process development. “When we first started in the clean room, we had nothing—just one multi-vac and a slicer,” Villa recalls. “Now we have four multi-vacs, ten slicers, and two tumblers. It expanded because we kept seeing where the market was going and stayed ahead of it.”
Stampede’s approach, he says, is fundamentally customer-driven. “We don’t have a product list or a price list,” Villa explains. “We come in and ask, ‘What are you trying to achieve?’ Our R&D team helps formulate something specific to those needs. Once it’s here, we keep it consistent. We might do a dozen versions of smoked sliced brisket—each one unique to a customer—but every SKU is made to the same high standard.”
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Strategies for Implementing Speedy Line Changes
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Automated equipment that supports fast changeovers can help processors to balance e ciency and flexibility.
Here are 5 strategies to help food processors improve the speed of line changes throughout their operations.
1Implement automation systems that enable quick changeovers
Traditional automation systems usually improve labor productivity and throughput by taking repetitive tasks o the line. But they often make changeovers more di cult because they are stationary, specialized for a narrow range of ingredients, and time consuming to clean, according to Rajat Bhageria, Founder and CEO of Chef Robotics
“One of the strategies that help food manufacturers truly improve productivity is to pick automation systems that enable quick changeovers and shift changes,” Bhageria says.
That’s why Chef Robotics built AI-powered, flexible automation specifically for high-mix meal assembly where quick changeovers are a must.
“Our robots combine the consistency and eciency of a traditional automation system with the flexibility of a worker. By replacing even a small number of manual workstations with Chef robots,
our customers can increase labor productivity and throughput while also maintaining fast changeover times,” Bhageria says.
For its part, Stampede Culinary Partners, Inc. opened new test kitchens at its Sunland Park, Minn., and Alma, Ga., production facilities. Built to replicate customer processes and environments, these test kitchens are equipped with modern culinary tools, such as new Rational ovens and high-capacity woks. By mirroring each client’s cooking equipment, from char grills and flat-tops to TurboChef ovens, Stampede’s research and development team closely simulates the exact heating and cooking methods that customers use in their own operations.
“We’re creating a seamless, rapid response experience for our customers,” says Brock Furlong, President and CEO of Stampede Culinary Partners. “When clients visit, they can see their products cooked exactly as they would prepare them, providing immediate reassurance about quality and performance.”
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line changes where possible
Streamlining line changes isn’t just about improving speed; for some manufacturers, it’s about stream-
For Chef Robotics, “the only parts that come into contact with food are the utensil that pick and deposit food ingredients and the two pans where food ingredients are stored,” Bhageria says.
As a result, Chef Robotics launched the Chef+ robot, which supports changeovers in under a minute for non-allergen changeovers with twice the ingredient capacity, reduced footprint, improved food safety, and enhanced usability and performance.
Meanwhile, Stampede Culinary Partners announced Low-Temperature Processing (LTP) technology, developed to enhance pasteurization outcomes without compromising product quality. Stampede’s LTP process mirrors the pathogen reduction e cacy of high-pressure pasteurization (HPP), extending the shelf life of refrigerated meats and meals to between 90-180 days based on taste and texture. (See the article on p. 26 for more.)
“Our LTP technology represents a major step forward in food safety and quality for the fully cooked meat and meal industry,” says Stampede Culinary Partners’ Furlong. “We’re able to deliver products that are not only safer but maintain exceptional flavor, texture, and shelf life. This innovation underscores our commitment to setting new standards of safety in the industry and providing our customers with the best possible products.”
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Don’t trade labor productivity for simplicity and vice versa
“One of the biggest challenges our customers face is the tradeo between improving labor productivity and throughput and keeping line changes fast and simple,” Bhageria says. “Many traditional automation solutions improve output through fixed, high-speed depositing but create bottlenecks during changeovers because they’re rigid, fixed in place, and slow to clean.”
Tradeo s aren’t necessary with the right equipment in place, such as Chef Robotics’ AI-powered robots, which “eliminate that tradeo and let food manufacturers increase overall labor productivity and throughput while still enabling rapid, frequent changeovers,” Bhageria says.
4 Meet food safety regulations no matter what
The FDA’s FSMA 204 Food Traceability Rule requires food manufacturers to maintain strict, enhanced records for rapid, 24-hour tracing. Despite some industry leaders’ concern about these new regulatory processes slowing down the line, the revised law increases the importance of documenting line operations for traceability purposes. Regardless of how fast a line is, complying with food safety regulations is a must.
Some experts encourage food manufacturers to follow the “standardize and simplify” method, where companies implement color-coding systems, standard work instructions, fewer tools and adjustments, and even going as far as laying out universal guides across SKUs.
If operators have to make decisions on the fly, food manufacturers are already losing time.
Furthermore, when designed the right way, speedy line changes help food processors meet food safety regulations by not cutting corners, making the lines more consistent, enforcing stronger documentation and traceability, and reducing cross-contamination.
“Chef Ron Joicoeur,” in a new Stampede Culinary Partners’ test kitchen that helps customers fine-tune the production process and informs how to best incorporate line changes.
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“I think it’s a really exciting time for food manufacturing right now because physical AI and robotics have advanced to the point where we can automate parts of the production process that traditional automation has struggled to handle, particularly in high-mix meal assembly.”
— Rajat Bhageria, Founder and CEO of Chef Robotics.
“While FSMA 204 doesn’t necessarily slow down the physical steps of a line changeover, it does increase the operational importance of disciplined documentation and traceability, especially in highmix environments where ingredients and SKUs change frequently,” says Bhageria. “For manufacturers, this adds pressure to ensure that every run is accurately tracked.
5Schedule and design for the future
As companies grow and their production facilities expand, so too should the equipment used to produce those products. But with every line enhancement or modification comes a series of checklist items needed to ensure e ciency, safety, and productivity.
Incorporating speedy line changes is no di erent. In fact, doing so requires even more attention to detail.
When designing for the future, aim for fewer changeovers to eliminate high-complexity SKUs or inconsistent sequence runs. Industry experts encourage bundling similar products, packaging, and ingredients, and scheduling changeovers once per shift vs. multiple times.
Food manufacturers should also design for a changeover-friendly plant layout, even if it’s more of a long-term vision. Position staging areas close together to eliminate operators moving between stations. Design a one-way tra c flow with dedicated sanitation zones and minimize—or even eliminate —shared equipment between lines.
“It’s also important to recognize that faster changeovers aren’t always the right goal, especially with allergens or specific rules and regulations,” adds Bhageria. “Changeovers should always be
Incorporating speedy line changes involves not only buying the right equipment, but also the right scheduling and facility design to maintain high standards.
performed to spec because a fast changeover done incorrectly can create far more serious issues than a slower changeover done right. Manufacturers set themselves up for success if they clearly define changeover requirements based on the product and risk level and then train workers and design line processes around those standards.”
Before diving down the speedy line change rabbit hole, processors should ask themselves, “Do we need to change?” “Why are we changing?” and “How can we design to accommodate the change?”
“I think it’s a really exciting time for food manufacturing right now because physical AI and robotics have advanced to the point where we can automate parts of the production process that traditional automation has struggled to handle, particularly in highmix meal assembly,” says Bhageria. “Now, manufacturers no longer need to choose between e ciency and flexibility as they once did. Line changeover speed is a visible example of that shift, but the bigger change is that manufacturers can increasingly scale output, reduce labor strain, and improve consistency while still supporting the product-mix variety demanded by end consumers and the responsiveness required in modern food manufacturing.”
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By slashing blending times from nearly an hour to just minutes, the company has increased line capacity without compromising uniformity, tabletability, or GMP compliance.
FACING RAPIDLY INCREASING DEMAND for its health and wellness supplements, A&Z Pharmaceutical expanded its Hauppauge, N.Y., operations with a new 26,700-sq-ft production wing dedicated to nutraceutical products. Along with the physical expansion came a critical process change: The company replaced traditional V-cone blending on the new line with rotary batch mixing—cutting blending times by more than 90% while maintaining strict uniformity and GMP requirements.
“We make uniformity claims for all the actives in our formulations, and we have to meet those claims in the final product—whether it’s a capsule, tablet, or powder drink,” says Marian Vija, Director of Research and Development at A&Z. “Our biggest need was a way to achieve that uniformity without compacting the materials or damaging the product.”
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“That’s 11 to 15 times faster than what we were seeing with the V-cone blenders,” Vija says. “And it gives us flexibility, because the mixer performs just as well at partial loads—down to about 15% of rated capacity—as it does at full capacity.”
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Rotary Batch Mixer yields uniform blends in short mixing cycles without degradation, or segregation upon discharge.
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Ingredients are transferred from drums to the mixer in a sterile, dust-free manner, isolated from the plant atmosphere.
Controlled loading and critical lubrication
Operators load raw materials into the stationary inlet using a drum lift, following a prescribed order defined in the master batch record. According to Vija, material characteristics often dictate sequencing.
“Half of the time they’re very flu y materials that would occupy the whole volume of the machine,” she explains. “So, we load those first, then add another ingredient to reduce the overall volume and allow for proper mixing.”
For tablet and capsule formulations, magnesium stearate or a similar dry lubricant is added near the end of the cycle. Lubrication is a critical control point: As little as one gram of magnesium stearate
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Drums containing each ingredient are lifted, aligned with the mixer’s stationary inlet, and emptied—in a prescribed order according to the Master Batch Record.
can treat hundreds of cubic feet of product. Too much lubricant—or too long a mix cycle—can prevent particles from binding properly during compression.
“With the rotary batch mixer, adding lubricant only extends the cycle by about 30 seconds,” Vija says. “In our V-blenders, it added about five minutes. The shorter exposure significantly reduces the risk of over-lubrication and overmixing.”
Once blended, finished batches are discharged back into the same GMP-lined fiber drums used to receive the ingredients. One operator controls the mixer speed at the panel while a second positions drums beneath the discharge gate to manage controlled fill.
GMP-driven sanitation and changeover
Given the variety of nutraceutical formulations produced on the line, A&Z established a rigorous sanitation protocol to prevent cross-contamination and maintain FDA Good Manufacturing Practice compliance. After discharge, the mixer is placed under vacuum to remove residual dust. Large access doors on opposite sides of the vessel allow full visual inspection and hands-on cleaning of all product-contact surfaces.
The interior is pressure-washed with hot water, followed by circulation of a hot-water cleaning solution while the vessel rotates. After draining and rinsing, the system is treated with 70% isopropyl alcohol in two successive cycles, then dried under vacuum for approximately two hours before the next production run.
The blended batch is discharged into lined fiber drums, as dust is collected by a vacuum. Operator adjusts the mixer to rotate slowly during discharge.
“The large doors let us thoroughly clean and inspect the vessel without moving the drum or disassembling components,” Vija notes. “That’s a big advantage from both a sanitation and labor standpoint.”
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Before committing the system to production, A&Z validated performance using actual formulations at Munson’s test facility on a laboratory-scale rotary batch mixer. Four minutes was established as the optimal cycle time. The company then conducted full content-uniformity studies on commercial-scale batches produced in-house.
“We obtained excellent results—uniformity and a good, repeatable mixing procedure,” Vija says. “The blends are suitably robust for both compression and encapsulation, which was a critical requirement for us.”
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Kerry Turns to ‘Cruise Control’ Technology to Optimize Dryer Performance
To support its quality, e ciency, and sustainability goals, Kerry implemented model predictive control technology at its Rothschild, Wis., facility. The system helped to improve e ciency at the site, solving dryer blockages that had caused about 145 hours of lost production in 2023.
NO FOOD PRODUCER wants to leave e ciency on the table, and adaptability is key to reliably finding those e ciency wins.
Sustainable nutrition company Kerry demonstrated this when it implemented Rockwell Automation ’s FactoryTalk Analytics Pavilion8 Model Predictive Control (MPC) on evaporators and spray dryers at its Rothschild, Wis., facility. Kerry representatives explained at Rockwell’s Automation Fair in November that the software optimized spray dryer and evaporator performance for whey per-
meate production at the facility, helping to eliminate about 145 hours of lost production due to CIP each year.
Implementing the MPC enabled a 21% increase in spray dryer e ciency and better consistency between shifts, Aleisha Jaeger, Senior Director of Engineering for Foundational Technology at Kerry Group, shared at the event. “Calculations were conservative. We had an ROI of five months, versus an anticipated two years to get this online,” she added.
How the MPC works
An MPC acts as a “cruise control” applied on top of existing regulatory control systems, computing the optimal settings to accrue performance over time, and applying those settings to control systems, according to Scott Jost, Director of Industrial Data Science for Kalypso: A Rockwell Automation Business.
An MPC balances three types of variables, Jost explained. They include:
•Controlled variables which are set to hit specific targets.
•Manipulated variables that operators typically adjust, like temperatures or flow rates.
• Disturbance variables, which impact the process but can’t be moved, so they must be accounted for.
“We use a solver to predict the best future path, how to move from where we are now to where we want to be, to get things into a more economic position,” said Jost. “The MPC actually coordinates all of these things in concert to basically push us toward the most economical operations.”
Kerry first started working with Rockwell’s MPC technology with a pilot in 2022, Jaeger said. “From there, we did a rack and stack of our remaining dryers in North America, and decided which ones
Kerry upgraded its Rothschild facility in 2024, focusing on food safety enhancements and employee welfare. Jaeger was at the facility’s reopening (right).
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would be best suited for this after the pilot. We looked at things like operations, duration, age, infrastructure, profitability, margins, and a handful of other metrics, and Rothschild provided the best opportunity,” she said. Implementation at the Rothschild facility began in early to mid 2024, with full results realized by early 2025.
From blockages to consistent performance
As a leader in sustainable nutrition, Kerry has strict standards around conserving energy and water, and reducing or eliminating waste, and invests heavily in solutions that will help meet its goals. One of the reasons Kerry chose its Rothschild facility was due to chronic spray dryer blockages and lump-outs throughout the year, amounting to about 25 incidents in 2023. Those blockages were the source of the estimated 145 hours of lost production time due to CIP, as each dryer lump-out resulted in a CIP lasting about eight hours, explained Alec Johnson, Process Tech Engineer at Kerry.
“We also noticed looking at the historical data that was pulled for Rockwell that the dryer was being run at the same rate in the summer that it was in the winter,” added Johnson. “We all know how many di erences there are between summer and winter, and [the Rothschild facility] could’ve been running at a much higher rate during winter.”
During implementation, Kerry and Rockwell
evaluated all parts of the operation that could act as a bottleneck for performance gains. “We noticed the evaporator and speed of the dryer had constantly changing variables, which would then a ect the annual operating hours (AOH) and feed rate of the dryer,” Johnson said.
Rockwell and Kerry conducted a benefits analysis based on historic data and potential improvement points and landed on a 0.4% uplift for the evaporator and 3.1% uplift for the spray dyer, Jost said.
“What we were really trying to do was shrink the variability, and that gives room to adjust targets closer to more optimal constraints of higher production,” Jost said.
Installing the MPC brought benefits across several factors, including:
• Improved product quality and less variability.
“Some of your key parameters like finished moisture percent, density, things like that—with MPC you have that controlled variability between shifts, so operators aren’t coming into the next shift and changing set points. It just runs the same, shift to shift, week to week,” Johnson said.
• Minimized energy consumption. “In the summer months, you may have a constraint on your packaging side or your upfront side. Depending on what your constraint is, MPC will run the dryer to that bottleneck,” Johnson said.
• More operator time on the factory floor. “This is a big one, especially with all the spray dryer safety procedures,” explained Johnson. He said when production rates increase during winter months, the MPC can cut back on safety monitoring time, allowing for more available time on the production floor. “They still have to do checks, but when they’re doing the dryer safety walk, they can have a pretty safe mind that the MPC is taking control; it’s not going to run outside its parameters and ensure the process remains safe.”
• Minimized guesswork. The system allows Kerry to run at optimal performance considering any bottlenecks in the operation, placing less responsibility on operators to maximize e ciency. “When the MPC is on, you don’t have to worry about asking operators, ‘Why are you not at a certain rate?’ or ‘What’s your bottleneck?’ It takes some of the guesswork out of it, because you know the asset will
This example of the Pavilion8 MPC shows how operators can use it to set and adapt to operational constraints.
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run to whatever bottleneck it identified upstream or downstream,” Johnson said.
Lessons learned and potential for expansion
Installing the MPC at the Rothschild facility took a measured approach for Kerry, first in deciding Rothschild was an ideal candidate for the software, and then in introducing the technology at the plant level.
“One of the biggest critical parameters was ensuring that it was site-led to ensure full buy-in,” said Johnson. “You want to ensure the site wants it and has a place for it. We explained the many benefits to the Rothschild facility, and they were very supportive.”
Senior leadership also needed to have a solid understanding of the benefits of MPC to make the project work.
“It was one thing to get the site team bought in, but another to sell it to senior leadership that this under-a-million investment is going to pay for itself, and why that’s the case,” Jaeger said.
Lastly, it was crucial to involve the operator early so they have a full understanding of how it will help their day-to-day work.
“We got [operators] involved so early that they
were excited about this, and after the first couple weeks of running, they hit some records,” Jaeger said.
To consider MPC technology for more Kerry facilities, the company learned it would need to set prerequisites for existing technology in the plant, meaning not every facility will be able to immediately adopt the technology.
The company evaluated its IT/OT networks across all facilities prior to this project and learned that its historian would need an upgrade before beginning the project. The upgrade was lumped in with the project, but it was one area that needed preparation for the new technology.
Remote access would also be a barrier to MPC adoption at some facilities. “We have to make sure folks can securely get into our systems,” Jaeger said.
Finally, though downtime is typically not part of Pavilion8 implementation, Kerry built in some leeway for downtime to test and configure the system.
“We have other facilities interested in the technology,” said Jaeger, “and we are working through the requirements with them to determine which site will be the best fit.”
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DATA MONITORING INVESTMENTS are accelerating across food manufacturers. Smart manufacturing investments in automation, machine learning, and predictive maintenance are not slowing down. The 2025 Manufacturing Outlook survey revealed that control system investments ranked number one in the food segment, while digital field devices, sensors, and electronic record investments rounded out the top five.
Accordingly, plant data has grown exponentially, and food manufacturers are playing catch up in data monitoring investments. These investments are focused on increasing throughput and driving innovation. At the Connected Worker: Manufacturing Summit conference in October, Arnold Kogan, Managing Director and Partner at Boston Consulting Group (BCG), said, “Innovation is needed to tackle more, since food companies are not launching fast enough and missing margins.”
Slow product launches can be traced to many issues, such as delays in food formulation development, missed regulatory requirements, and a lack of real-time monitoring in the hands of operators.
Luckily, there is a range of middleware solutions—big and small—that can be implemented for real-time manufacturing metrics, such as OEE, machine center performance, predictive maintenance tools, and more.
Data monitoring evolution
Plant data has grown exponentially, and food manufacturers are playing catch up in data monitoring investments.
Plant managers are evaluating numerous solutions to provide operators real-time data visibility and relevant metrics, including manufacturing execution systems (MES), productivity software, and machine learning solutions. Food manufacturers’ focus is on relevant, and possibly advanced, metrics to improve throughput while understanding workforce dynamics.
Operators are struggling to manage new reports and advanced manufacturing metrics. “My fi rst project was with a food and beverage company, and they had basic reporting with no historical trending, so we created a more detailed report,” said Elizabeth Hill Reed, Director of SCADA
and MES at DMC at the Inductive Community Conference. “At this same company, we did another project the next year, and the operations sta had no idea that this previous report existed. In some cases, it’s di cult to get operations to use data in meaningful ways.”
As MES technology has evolved from rigid proprietary platforms to lightweight modules combined with supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) platforms, adoption has grown. Targeting specific servers—process or packaging—and being able to pass data through a range of industrial network protocols, such as APIs, OPC UA, and other agnostic tools, has made detailed reporting easier.
In addition to acting on relevant metrics, brands want to repurpose sta and do more. According to Rockwell Automation’s 2025 State of Smart Manufacturing report, “Through increased use of smart manufacturing technology, 48% expect to repurpose workers to di erent roles or hire more workers. Sustainable success depends on a workforce that can evolve, making continuous training not just a support function but a driver of organiza-
tional resilience and growth.”
“There were a lot of challenges when we started this data collection journey,” said Raju Mariyappan, Director of Digitization and Reliability at Niagara Bottling during a recent ARC Advisory case study presentation. “There are di erent types of data sources like sensors, nodes, controllers, PLCs and di erent communication protocols. Data is scattered everywhere.”
Niagara Bottling, a large manufacturer of bottled water and soft drinks, adopted a system software solution that eliminated preventive maintenance routines across 25 plants, freeing up sta for other tasks. “We eliminated our previous work order management system for preventative maintenance for utilities,” said Mariyappan. “We don’t need to visit the equipment and take readings since we eliminated it completely.”
To stay on top of motor maintenance in its processing areas, Niagara uses Litmus Edge on virtual machines and sends data—vibration frequency, current, and voltage checks—to Microsoft ’s Azure Cloud and the Oracle Maintenance System. “We
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want to bring it to one platform where we can do all the analytics and provide visibility to the plant team,” added Mariyappan.
The edge computing platform has been scaled to 25 Niagara water processing and packaging facilities in the U.S.; the company has a total of 45 plants in the U.S. The system solution scales across all plants and collects more than 20,000 data points per hour, with an alert notification system that monitors threshold levels based on statistical and predictive modeling.
“We alert plant teams on what is going to happen in the next six hours, so that the plant team can decide what they want to do,” said Mariyappan.
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KPIs and the workforce
Lightweight system solutions are creating flexibility for plant managers to set relevant KPIs and expand the workforce. Midsize companies see lightweight solutions as a good first step for KPIs that collect safety, quality, delivery, and cost metrics, or overall equipment e ectiveness (OEE) numbers.
The Little Potato Company is one midsize food manufacturer moving down this path. The brand decided to standardize its KPI processes and man-
The Little Potato Company is a midsize food manufacturer moving down this path. The brand decided to standardize its KPI processes and manufacturing metrics across its plants using QAD Redzone’s Connected Workforce platform.
ufacturing metrics across its plants using QAD Redzone’s Connected Workforce platform. The Little Potato Company faces the same workforce challenges many manufacturers face today: high turnover, limited operator experience, ongoing retraining, and language barriers.
Management recently standardized OEE metrics across five production lines at its DeForest, Wis., plant. “We weren’t measuring OEE and not providing visibility of what targets would be. The employees had no idea,” says Mike Szewczyk, Director of Manufacturing at The Little Potato Company.
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To solve this problem, the brand uses the productivity module to deliver real-time OEE dashboards, downtime tracking and shift-winning metrics to operators and plant managers. The plant has achieved 13-point OEE improvements at one plant and 18-point improvements at a second plant following recent installations, according to the company.
The Little Potato Company has implemented three modules across its plants, including the productivity, compliance, and reliability solutions from Redzone. The compliance module allowed the Wisconsin plant to focus on overfills. “Over the past month, we’ve been working on weights and found that we were 5% overweight prior to having these (compliance) checks,” says Preston Benisch, Assistant Plant Manager at The Little Potato Company.
“Continuous improvement routines and collaboration tools that are not grounded in real OEE data have limited impacts on productivity,” says Katie Bellot, Director of Product Marketing at Redzone. “Problem solving, communication, and lean habits are beneficial, but without tangible data around the impacts, it’s very hard to prioritize problems or
realize the value of the problems solved,” she adds.
The common data monitoring platform at The Little Potato Company also provides visibility for operators across all production lines. “The solution allows operators to stay in one spot, and we don’t have to wander around the plant to find out what’s going on with all five lines in the plant,” says Jenn Williams, QC3 at The Little Potato Company.
Brands see a common operator platform as a crucial ingredient for higher throughput. At the recent Connected Workforce Conference, John Dougherty, Head of Manufacturing for the Americas at ServiceNow, revealed that, on average, 11 apps are used by one worker each day in manufacturing. In his presentation, Dougherty demonstrated how agentic AI technology will accelerate troubleshooting for machine downtime within frontline worker platforms and how these platforms can digitally document knowledge from experienced operators and engineers on the plant floor.
Metrics are always a moving target at plants, but the wave of data-monitoring investments is bringing brands closer to standardizing reporting and moving toward higher throughputs.
Pork Processor Consolidates Line and Recovers Space with Integrated Slicing Solution
Plant leadership also needed to control capital and operating costs while ensuring that food safety, sanitation, and throughput targets were met.
WHEN A LEADING U.S. PRODUCER of pork products expanded its portfolio to include new bacon bit and sliced belly o erings, the company faced an immediate production challenge. The new SKUs required the precise, high-speed slicing of pork bellies, but the existing facility had limited available floor space for additional equipment.
Plant leadership also needed to control capital and operating costs while ensuring that food safety, sanitation, and throughput targets were met. Adding multiple standalone machines from di erent vendors risked increasing both the physical footprint and the project complexity.
The operations team set out to identify a compact, integrated pork belly processing solution that could support the new product line without disrupting existing production flow.
Integrated solution: one line instead of two
The processor initially approached Grote Company to source a high-speed slicer for the application. However, the project required more than just slicing—upstream product handling, controlled transfer, and detection were also necessary to build a complete, production-ready line.
During the evaluation process, the processor learned that PFI, another member of the Grote Company Family of Brands, could supply the additional sanitary conveying and dumping equipment required for the line. By keeping both the slicing and material-handling components within the same brand family, the company was able to simplify the project scope and engage with a single, coordinated supplier.
The resulting collaboration between Grote Company and PFI delivered an integrated pork belly
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processing line that allowed the plant to operate one consolidated line instead of two, producing a meaningful reduction in both footprint and total installed cost.
After reviewing throughput requirements, product characteristics, and plant layout, the joint solution included:
• A PFI sanitary, stainless steel two-stage dumper to transfer pork bellies into the line. Immediately downstream, a metal detection system verifies product safety before slicing.
• An inclined belt conveyor that moves product from the dumper to a custom PFI platform. The conveyor features tool-free adjustments, simplifying setup and changeover during production.
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To further streamline execution, the processor selected PFI as the single point of contact for the project. This centralized project management structure simplified communication, scheduling, and coordination between equipment disciplines.
Results: on-time installation, reduced footprint, improved ef ciency
Through joint engineering, factory testing, and coordinated installation support, PFI and Grote Company delivered the complete line on time and fully commissioned to meet the processor’s production ramp schedule.
From an operations standpoint, the most significant gain came from reclaiming valuable floor space. By consolidating what would have been a two-line configuration into a single integrated system, the plant reduced congestion, simplified tra c flow, and lowered overall equipment and utility costs.
The integrated approach also delivered:
• Improved material flow from raw pork bellies to finished sliced and diced product.
• Reduced labor complexity through simplified line supervision.
• Strong sanitation performance through open, accessible, stainless-steel design.
• Faster startup and changeovers enabled by toolfree conveyor adjustments.
For the plant’s operations and engineering teams, the project demonstrated the value of sourcing interconnected equipment through a coordinated supplier strategy rather than managing multiple independent vendors.
Looking ahead: a platform for future line expansions
With the pork belly slicing line fully operational, the processor now has a proven reference for future capacity expansions and new product introductions. The successful execution has already laid the groundwork for additional projects with the Grote Company Family of Brands, allowing the manufacturer to leverage a shared engineering philosophy, unified project management, and long-term service support.
The ability to collaborate across multiple equipment brands within a single organization provides the processor with faster project timelines, reduced integration risk, and a simplified procurement process—advantages that are increasingly important as plants continue to optimize space, labor, and capital investment.
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The alternative proteins market, covering everything from plant-based to lab-grown meat, could reach $109.5 billion by 2032, a DataM Intelligence report says.
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The market research company valued the alternative proteins market at $34.3 billion in 2024 and predicts a 15.6% CAGR from 2025 to 2032 to hit the $109.5 billion figure.
The report attributes the forecasted growth to rising concerns around sustainability, food security, animal welfare, and long-term protein availability. These factors are motivating governments, manufacturers, and consumers to diversify their protein sources.
The defining market trends driving growth by 2032 also will include mainstream adoption of alternative proteins in foodservice and retail, expansion into animal nutrition and pharmaceuticals, improved cost competitiveness compared to animal protein, and regulatory progress in cultured meat and novel proteins, DataM Intelligence says.
Key sources of alternative protein growth
Plant-based protein was the dominant alternative protein source in 2024, accounting for about 45% of global market revenue at $15.4 billion. The report predicts it will remain the revenue anchor in this space through 2032, as producers continue to innovate in texture and taste.
Mycoprotein, or protein sourced from fungi, is the next most dominant market force, taking up 14% of global market revenue in 2024. Its meat-like texture and nutritional profile are driving adoption in the meat alternative and functional food spaces. Insect protein, holding 11% of global market revenue as of 2024, is gaining traction as a protein-dense and sustainable option for animal feed, pet food, and specialty nutrition.
While cultured meat made up a small portion of global market revenue at 7% in 2024, DataM Intelligence notes the segment’s strategic importance and potential to accelerate in coming years as regulatory approvals expand.
Regionally, the U.S. currently represents the largest alternative proteins market globally. It accounted for about 36% of global revenue at about $12.3 billion in 2024. DataM Intelligence expects it to maintain this leadership by 2032, forecasting it to exceed $38 billion.
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Coke Bottler Cuts Co-Packing, Adds Aseptic Line for Fuze Tea, Powerade
This Sicily bottler for The Coca-Cola Company’s products brings sensitive beverages in-house, reduces transport impacts, and gains fast changeovers and format flexibility with a complete aseptic PET line supplied by Sidel and processing support from Tetra Pak.
THE COCA-COLA COMPANY’S o cial bottler in Sicily, Sibeg Srl, has installed a new 18,000-bph complete-aseptic PET line at its Catania site, selecting Sidel as the single-source supplier for the packaging line. The investment is designed to pull “sensitive” beverages back from co-packers, expand the plant’s product mix, and support sustainability targets that include zero Scope 1 and Scope 2 emissions by 2030 and full carbon neutrality by 2032.
With roughly 400 employees and eight production lines spanning soft drinks and energy beverages, Sibeg produces, bottles, distributes, and develops beverages for more than 24,500 points of sale across the island, serving both residents and seasonal tourist demand.
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why now
Sibeg’s stated ambition is to act as Coca-Cola’s fast-moving innovation “gazelle”—a local test site for new products and formats driven by Sicilian consumers. For packaging operations, that translates into two non-negotiables: flexibility for frequent SKU and format changes, and process reliability that can satisfy internal corporate validation requirements.
According to Luca Busi, CEO at Sibeg, the new line is as much about portfolio expansion as it is about logistics and sustainability impact: “This move reflects our strategic e ort to both expand our product portfolio and enhance flexibility in meeting customer demands, while also cutting down on pollution from truck transport from Northern Italy, further reinforcing our commitment to sustainability.”
Sibeg chose Sidel to cover the full packaging-line scope—supported by a collaboration with Tetra Pak on beverage processing—so the project could run with one “front door” for execution.
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“We felt safe relying, especially from a technical point of view, on a partner who is widely renowned for mastering the PET aseptic packaging production. Moreover, the collaboration with Tetra Pak for the processing part enabled us to cover the entire production process, from beverage preparation to the packaging line with a single contact point, bringing a strong increase in e ciency during execution,” says Gianluca Tornatore, Operations Director at Sibeg.
Sibeg’s existing relationship with Sidel also helped set expectations for the expanded aseptic scope: “Sidel and Sibeg share a long-standing partnership, with a complete line previously supplied for CSD (carbonated soft drinks) packaging,” says Busi. “Once again, Sibeg places its trust in Sidel, this time for aseptic production, relying on its well-known expertise to ensure the highest levels of product safety. The complete aseptic PET line will enable us to diversify into energy drinks and tea production.”
The heart of the line
At the center of the new installation is Sidel’s Aseptic Combi Predis, integrating preform sterilization, blow molding, filling, and capping into a single, aseptic process. The system uses dry preform decontamination via a hydrogen peroxide mist, a design intended to reduce both water and chemical usage versus conventional approaches.
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Aseptic filling in PET: preforms are sterilized and blown before filling/capping within the integrated Aseptic Combi Predis platform.
In Sibeg’s case, the aseptic requirements were tied to internal standards and commissioning performance. Sibeg reports that the line “successfully passed on the first attempt at the aseptic validation protocol,” meeting Coca-Cola company standards. The line is positioned to support products without preservatives while delivering extended shelf life for sensitive beverages.
The installation also is intended to support fast portfolio shifts: Sibeg indicates it can switch among 10 di erent formats across categories including energy drinks and teas—an important capability for a plant positioned as a proving ground for new beverages.
Downstream, Sibeg installed Sidel’s EvoFilm Stretch packer, moving away from traditional shrink solutions and eliminating the shrink tunnel by wrapping at ambient temperature. Sidel positions the technology as a step change in both carbon and materials impact— claiming up to 60% plastic reduction and as much as 90% lower energy consumption versus conventional shrink wrapping.
Tornatore supplies the on-pack material details and the operating delta the plant expects to realize: “Using high pre-stretch LLDPE with a thickness
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of 10 to 23 microns, EvoFilm Stretch allows automatic sealing and flexible wrapping options. It lowers plastic use from 26 grams to 6 grams per pack and energy use is only 10 kWh, leading to a 90% savings compared to traditional shrink-wrapping solutions,” says Tornatore. “Without shrink tunnels or conveyors, it also minimizes the machine footprint, making packaging lines more compact and cost-e ective.”
To support frequent format changes while protecting line time, Sibeg also selected Sidel’s Evo-ON Flex changeover app. The software guides operators through bottle changeovers step by step and provides a real-time view of scheduled changeovers across a shift— aimed at reducing variability and limiting downtime.
Execution under strict requirements
Sibeg characterizes the project execution as schedule-driven and compliance-heavy, particularly around aseptic safety requirements. Tornatore credits Sidel’s team for meeting those constraints without derailing
ramp-up: “The Sidel team was deeply committed to meeting our needs and timelines at every stage, from line design to ramp-up, while navigating the challenges of meeting Coca-Cola’s stringent safety standards. Their dedication ensured a smooth process without compromising on quality or compliance.”
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Turning Down the Tap: Practical Utility Optimization in Food Processing
The fourth installment of our “E ciency in Uncertain Times” series explores practical, real-world strategies for reducing compressed air, water, and energy use.
COST EFFICIENCY is no longer just about labor and throughput—it’s increasingly about utilities. With energy prices rising and water becoming both costlier and more regulated, utilities are now a growing slice of the operating expense pie. According to CRB Group, energy costs for food and beverage facilities typically range from 1-2% of production costs, but that number exceeds 10% in some facilities and is climbing. Water is no di erent. In many plants, millions of gallons are used every month, and treatment or disposal costs are steadily rising.
The good news? You don’t always need capital projects to make a di erence. Many utilities can be optimized from the plant floor through simple actions, procedural changes, and improved visibility. In this article, we’ll explore practical, real-world strategies for reducing compressed air, water, and energy use, often without spending a dime on new equipment.
Bryan Gri en is the President of Gri en Executive Solutions LLC. He was previously Senior Director of Industry Services for PMMI: The Association for Packaging and Processing Technologies, and he held a number of roles for Nestlé during his many years there.
Compressed air: the hidden drain
Let’s start with compressed air, one of the most expensive and wasteful utilities in any plant. It’s easy to overlook because it’s invisible. But industry data shows that up to 30% of compressed air is lost through leaks in piping, connections, and valves. And since air compressors are notoriously energy-hungry, every leak translates into real cost.
At one facility I worked in, we regularly performed leak detection walks during planned shutdowns using ultrasonic leak detectors. Maintenance technicians would listen for leaks and tag the sources. In many cases, we fixed them on the spot. This e ort proved so successful that in one instance, the recovered air capacity eliminated the need to purchase a new compressor for an additional production line. We simply didn’t need the extra horsepower once the system was running e ciently.
Plants often operate their compressed air systems at higher pressures than necessary, resulting in unnecessary energy usage. A simple reduction of just 2 psi can yield a 1% savings in energy consumption with no impact on performance. Upgrading drain systems also helps; many facilities still rely on timer-based drains that expel air whether or not moisture is present. Replacing these with zero-loss
Energy savings can be achieved with modest procedural and control upgrades.
Training teams to avoid using compressed air for cooling themselves or blowing o equipment can reduce both consumption and risk.
drains ensures moisture is removed e ciently without wasting compressed air. Operator behavior plays a role as well. Training teams to avoid using compressed air for cooling themselves or blowing o equipment can reduce both consumption and risk. These small changes, when sustained, add up to measurable impact.
Water: every drop counts
In many facilities water is used liberally, especially in cleaning and sanitation. But overuse often stems from cultural habits rather than necessity.
At one ice cream factory, water hoses were left connected on the floor and often left running between washdowns. Operators routinely rinsed the floor during and after spills, but the hoses became crutches. We made a bold change—removing all hoses from the production floor. If a washdown was truly required, a hose had to be checked out from maintenance.
The result? Operators quickly learned how to minimize spills and avoid unnecessary washdowns. Water became more valued when it was less accessible. That one change significantly reduced water use and also helped raise ownership and accountability.
In the case of water, several straightforward practices can yield significant conservation without a ecting product quality or safety. Installing flow restrictors on high-use outlets like handwash stations and rinse hoses can cut unnecessary overuse. Prioritizing dry cleanup methods, such as using floor scrapers or vacuums, before washdowns reduces the volume of water needed during sanitation. And
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by timing CIP (clean-in-place) cycles to avoid peak water demand periods, plants can reduce the burden on supply and treatment systems while maintaining compliance with hygiene protocols. Simple procedural changes, consistently applied, can drive substantial savings.
Importantly, water e ciency must be balanced with food safety. But even within regulatory constraints, smart operational practices can reduce water waste significantly.
Energy: control the peaks
Electricity usage is one of the most controllable—and misused—utilities on the plant floor. One of the biggest challenges is peak demand, which often occurs when multiple large machines start up at once. These spikes not only increase utility bills but also place undue stress on electrical infrastructure.
At another site, we conducted coordination studies on equipment and implemented a staggered startup protocol. Rather than flipping everything on at the beginning of a shift, operators followed a carefully designed sequence that minimized the overlap of energy-intensive loads. The di erence was measurable: peak demand decreased, and the electrical system ran more reliably.
Energy savings can also be achieved with modest procedural and control upgrades. Many pieces of equipment can be configured to enter idle or low-power mode during short stops or changeovers, reducing unnecessary consumption during downtime. Upgrading lighting to energy-ecient LED systems, especially when combined with motion sensors, yields quick returns through reduced power draw and maintenance. HVAC and exhaust systems are often overlooked, but adjusting ventilation settings or adding smart controls can optimize airflow and lower energy usage without compromising air quality or food safety. These improvements are especially e ective in older plants where default settings tend to remain unchecked for years.
Visibility drives behavior
If you want to change behavior, you have to make it visible. Many operators have no idea how much water, air, or energy they’re using. Providing real-time or shift-based feedback creates awareness, and that awareness creates action.
In one plant, we posted utility usage graphs during each shift handover. Operators would review daily consumption and compare it to targets. As soon as this
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data was shared openly, consumption trended downward. People naturally wanted to “beat the number.”
You don’t need a full-scale software platform to do this. While tools like Redzone or LineView can automate visibility, whiteboards and clipboards work too. What matters is that feedback is timely, actionable, and aligned with team goals.
Involving operators in data collection can also create accountability. For example, asking teams to note observed leaks or overuse situations during their rounds gives them a sense of ownership in the solution.
Don’t ignore the “simple stuff”
Finally, it’s easy to focus on technology-driven solutions and overlook the simpler fixes that deliver outsized returns. Conducting regular steam trap audits can identify failed traps that waste energy through continuous discharge. Likewise, inspecting and repairing insulation on steam and chilled water lines helps maintain temperature control and reduces system load. Persistent leaks from worn gaskets or loose seals—whether on water lines or compressed air fittings—often go ignored but can add up to significant losses. In many facilities, these low-cost fixes o er faster payback than larger automation investments, yet they’re often overlooked simply because they don’t have a line item on the budget.
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Utility optimization doesn’t require a massive capital budget. In fact, many of the most impactful changes come from operator involvement, maintenance discipline, and cultural reinforcement.
Wrapping it up: small changes, big gains
Utility optimization doesn’t require a massive capital budget. In fact, many of the most impactful changes come from operator involvement, maintenance discipline, and cultural reinforcement.
In uncertain times, food and beverage manufacturers need every edge they can get. Compressed air, water, and energy are often invisible drains on performance. When teams become aware, empowered, and accountable, those drains become opportunities.
Start by listening for air leaks. Remove a hose. Post a chart. Coordinate your equipment startup. These may seem small, but they create a culture where e ciency is owned, not imposed.
And that’s when you stop simply surviving and start truly doing more with less.
Smarter, Not Flashier: Starting Digital Transformation the Right Way
The real wins in manufacturing don’t come from the most sophisticated tech—they come from practical tools.
NOT LONG AGO, I worked with a large manufacturer that set out to create its own in-house MES (manufacturing execution system). The goal was ambitious: a fully customized, all-in-one platform that could access data from every system in the plant and deliver any report an executive might dream of. Millions of dollars were poured into the project over several years. But despite the e ort and cost, the system never fully materialized. Teams struggled to maintain it, operators avoided it, and the promised functionality remained out of reach.
It’s a story I’ve seen play out more than once: well-intentioned companies chasing big digital wins but overlooking the basics. The truth is, smart manufacturing doesn’t require massive systems or shiny dashboards. The smartest plants aren’t the ones with the flashiest tech. They’re the ones using the right tools to solve the right problems.
Bryan Gri en is the President of Gri en Executive Solutions LLC. He was previously Senior Director of Industry Services for PMMI: The Association for Packaging and Processing Technologies, and he held a number of roles for Nestlé during his many years there.
Welcome to “The Smart Line Playbook” series. Over the next several months, we’ll focus on practical, plant-floor-level strategies for using digital tools to improve e ciency, performance, and profitability. We’ll look at where technology is delivering real ROI and where it’s just creating noise. This series isn’t about trends—it’s about traction.
The pressure to get smart
Today’s food and beverage manufacturers face increasing pressure to embrace digital transformation, but that pressure can backfire when it turns into a technology-first mindset. I’ve seen companies implement complex analytics platforms before clarifying what decisions they wanted to make. Others install dozens of sensors and generate terabytes of data—but no one looks at the reports.
The drive to “get smart” often leads to solutions that are overly complicated, underutilized, and poorly aligned with actual plant needs. And as the MES example shows, investing in flashy systems without a clear business case doesn’t just waste money, it undermines confidence in digital transformation e orts as a whole.
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A disconnect between those who implement the tools and those who use them day to day can be a pitfall in digital transformation.
What smart really looks like
The smartest manufacturers I work with don’t chase hype. They start small, solve real problems, and scale what works. One processor began its digital journey by implementing mobile forms for downtime tracking on a single line. The data captured helped identify a mechanical issue that had been slowing down production for months. The problem was fixed, the ROI was validated, and then that same tool was expanded to other lines.
That’s smart. Smart doesn’t mean high-tech. It means high-impact.
It means:
• Choosing tools your operators will actually use;
• Solving the pain points that cost you most; and
• Making incremental improvements with measurable results.
Digital tools should empower the team, not overwhelm them. When an operator logs into a system and immediately sees how a line is performing, that’s smart. When maintenance receives an alert that a motor is trending out of spec—before it fails—that’s smart. When supervisors can pull up shift data to help coach performance, that’s smart.
Often, it’s simple tools like QAD Redzone, LineView, or o -the-shelf OEE tracking platforms that drive those wins. Not the multi-million-dollar custom builds.
Asking the right questions rst
Before choosing any new technology, smart companies start with three simple questions:
• What business problem are we trying to solve?
• Who will use this tool, and how will it fit into our workflow?
• How will we measure success?
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Digital transformation isn’t about being the most connected plant. It’s about being the most e ective one.
If a vendor can’t help you answer those questions clearly, you’re not ready to buy.
This use-case-first mindset is echoed in the OpX Leadership Network’s work on digital transformation. Recent guidance on data management encourages manufacturers and OEMs to agree on a core set of equipment-level data points—things like runtime, stop codes, and production counts. The goal isn’t to collect everything—it’s to collect what matters and ensure it’s consistent across machines.
That consistency enables smarter decisions and easier tool integration. But it only works when the data connects back to a business use case. Just collecting runtime data doesn’t improve anything. Using it to pinpoint bottlenecks or coach operators? That drives results.
The real cost of ash
Big, flashy systems may look impressive on a trade show floor, but their hidden costs are steep. Every dollar spent on the wrong system is a dollar not spent solving a real problem. And every hour your team spends learning a tool they don’t need is time lost on actual production.
Even worse, when these systems fail to deliver, they leave behind a trail of skepticism. I’ve seen it firsthand. Teams become wary of new initiatives. Operators stop o ering input. Leaders hesitate to approve new projects. All because the last big promise didn’t pan out.
The smartest line is the one that works
The most e ective smart lines I’ve seen didn’t get there overnight. Companies started with a single pain point, addressed it with a manageable tool, and then built momentum. They used data to drive conversations—not just to populate dashboards—and they trusted their people to lead the way.
Back at that manufacturer with the failed MES rollout, a new plant manager eventually changed
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course. Instead of pushing the custom software, he empowered his teams to identify their own pain points. One group asked for a better way to track changeovers. Another wanted alerts for bottling machine jams. Small tools were implemented line by line. E ciency went up, operator satisfaction improved, and trust in digital tools started to return.
Bridging the gap between people and tech
One of the biggest pitfalls in digital transformation isn’t the technology itself—it’s the disconnect between those who implement the tools and those who use them day to day. Too often, projects are driven exclusively by engineering or IT teams without enough input from frontline operators, maintenance sta , or quality leads.
Smart transformation doesn’t just require smart tools—it requires smart collaboration. The best initiatives bring people together early: involving line operators in identifying pain points, asking mechanics about root causes of downtime, and inviting quality assurance teams to define what “good” really looks like. This cross-functional perspective not only leads to better solutions but also accelerates adoption and reduces resistance.
In one factory I visited, a maintenance tech pointed out that a newly installed vibration sensor was mounted in a spot that would never catch the early signs of bearing failure—the real problem was seen on an adjacent bracket. That small insight saved thousands in avoided downtime, and it wouldn’t have come from the spec sheet. Building mechanisms for ongoing operator feedback, field testing, and co-development ensures the technology stays grounded in reality and continuously improves.
Final thoughts
Digital transformation isn’t about being the most connected plant. It’s about being the most e ective one. That starts with clarity, not complexity.
As you look toward improving your own operations, resist the urge to chase flash. Instead, ask the right questions. Focus on your pain points. And remember: The smartest investments are the ones your people use every day.
Because in manufacturing, the real wins don’t come from the most sophisticated tech. They come from practical tools that make your line—and your people—smarter, one decision at a time.
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Scaling Upcycled Ingredients in Food Manufacturing: Challenges and Solutions
Upcycled ingredients are more sustainable and support a circular economy where resource e ciency is improved.
“UPCYCLED” INGREDIENTS are currently one of the biggest challenges faced by the food industry. With nearly one third of food processing ingredients ultimately heading to waste, there is a dire need to find ways to use ingredients that otherwise would go to landfill. Examples include peels, stems, apple pomace, fruit pulp, and vegetable scraps.
Various technologies are available to further process these materials, break them down, purify them, and extract valuable components. Some of the technologies used in today’s food manufacturing environment include mechanical separation, enzymatic hydrolysis, and hydrothermal processing to extract fiber from food-processing byproducts.
Ironically, upcycled ingredients do not necessarily mean cheaper or lower cost. Collecting byproducts, extracting usable ingredients, purifying, and repacking them all come with added costs—even though these
Moisture control is crucial, and byproducts must meet a defined moisture target before they can be upcycled to ensure consistent finished product moisture.
Niveditha Ravishankar is an R&D Manager at McCain Foods with over a decade of experience in product development including confectionery and frozen foods. Her expertise spans ingredient technology, clean-label formulations, and processing innovation.
methods are more sustainable and support a circular economy.
The challenges don’t end there. Pilot to scale-up challenges are common when using upcycled ingredients. Waste streams are often not consistent ingredient sources due to variability in color, moisture, and nutrient availability from batch to batch. This is no di erent from using agricultural products as ingredients. However, the food industry historically has been able to streamline manufacturing processes for those inputs. The challenge now is producing consistent ingredient quality from upcycled sources.
At pilot scale, this variability is relatively manageable in small batches by controlling moisture, texture, and flavor with additives. These controls become far more di cult to navigate in large-scale production. However, there are proven strategies that can help in these scenarios.
Moisture control is crucial, and byproducts must meet a defined moisture target before they can be upcycled to ensure consistent finished product moisture. This can eliminate batch-to-batch variation in large-scale production without requiring frequent process adjustments.
Particle size is another key contributor to texture and mouthfeel, as well as water absorption. Controlling particle size prior to blending into large batches supports more e cient processing.
Blending multiple batches also helps reduce variability by combining large volumes from multiple
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• Control Particle Size
• Stabilize Enzymatic & Microbial Activity
3 De ned Operating Ranges
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2 Batch Blending to Reduce Variability
• Combine Standardized Batches
• Ensure Consistent Quality
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sources. Blending multiple batches after moisture, particle size, and stability have been standardized helps average out variability and supports consistent large-scale production.
It is also essential to stabilize microbial and enzymatic activity using methods such as pH adjustment and thermal blanching. Agricultural ingredients inherently come with variability. Therefore, it is important to define reasonable operating ranges rather than fixed targets to avoid unnecessary product waste due to overly tight specifications.
Implementing a tiering system, such as Grade A and Grade B ingredients, can further improve processing e ciency by aligning ingredient quality with the requirements of the final product. Overall, having a clearly defined gold standard product and maintaining a tight feedback loop between quality assurance and operations, allowing process settings to be adjusted and issues addressed in real time rather than post-run, is essential to reducing losses.
As infrastructure, technology, and industry collaboration continue to mature, these challenges are increasingly solvable. Companies that approach upcycled ingredients with the same operational rigor applied to conventional raw materials, while adapting processes to their unique characteristics, will be best positioned to scale sustainably.
Ultimately, integrating upcycled ingredients into mainstream manufacturing is not just a sustainability initiative but a manufacturing evolution that aligns environmental responsibility with commercial viability.
COMPANY INDEX
Lubricants Company 153
& Hunt, Inc 158 MSKTD and Associates 163
Corporation 167 Pick Heaters, Inc 168
Inc. 173
Equipment 175
Inc.
SUSTAINABILITY
BEVERAGE
Admix, Inc. 104
Aerzen USA, Inc 106
Ampco Pumps Company109
Anderson-Negele 111
Atlas Copco Compressors114
Central States Industrial 126
Columbia Machine, Inc. 123
DCI, Inc. 128
FlexLink Systems, Inc. 136
FoodSafe Drains 138
Frain Industries 139
Fristam Pumps USA 140
Hiperbaric - High Pressure Technologies 145
Hydro-Thermal Corporation146
Lubriplate Lubricants Company 153
M&M Carnot 154
Massman Companies 155
Mead & Hunt, Inc 158
Messer Americas 159
Miura America Co., Ltd. 162
MXD Process 165
PAXTON, An ITW Air Management Company166
Pick Heaters, Inc 168
Sani-Matic, Inc. 173
Scott Turbon Mixer, Inc. 131
SEW-EURODRIVE, Inc. 174
Silverson Machines, Inc. 176
Sleeve Seal, LLC 177
Statco-DSI Process Systems 179
The Austin Company 115
ThermOmegaTech, Inc. 182
CEREALS, BREAKFAST FOODS
Acrison, Inc. 103
Camfil APC 122
EDGE Industrial Technologies 132
FOCKE & CO 137
Industrial Magnetics, Inc. 147
Layton Systems 152
Material Transfer & Storage Inc.156
Metsa Board 160
PPM Technologies Holdings LLC 169
ROSS, Charles & Son Company 172
Vibra Screw Inc 188
Witte Company 190
Xchanger Inc 191
CONFECTION & CANDY
Acrison, Inc. 103
AmTrade Systems 110
The Austin Company 115
Camfil APC 122
CRB 125
FlexLink Systems, Inc. 136
FOCKE & CO 137
High Tek USA 144
Starview Packaging Machinery Inc. 178
TNA North America, Inc.184
VAC-U-MAX 186
Vibra Screw Inc 188
DAIRY
Admix, Inc. 104
Aerzen USA, Inc 106
Air Products 108
Ampco Pumps Company109
Anderson-Negele 111
Anritsu - Product Inspection & Detection 112
Big-D Construction 119
Central States Industrial 126
DCI, Inc. 128
Dennis Group 129
Deville Technologies, LLC130
FlexLink Systems, Inc. 136
Fristam Pumps USA 140
Harpak-ULMA Packaging, LLC 142
Massman Companies 155
Matthews Marking Systems 157
Mead & Hunt, Inc 158
METTLER TOLEDO 161
MSKTD and Associates 163
Sani-Matic, Inc. 173
Scott Turbon Mixer, Inc. 131
Sleeve Seal, LLC 177
Statco-DSI Process Systems 179
ThermOmegaTech, Inc. 182
Tippmann Group 183
Urschel Laboratories, Inc.185
FOOD
INGREDIENTS
Pumps USA
Haver & Boecker USA, Inc.116
Machinery Co., Inc.164 Silverson Machines, Inc. 176
Statco-DSI Process Systems 179
VAC-U-MAX 186 Xchanger Inc 191
FROZEN & REFRIGERATED FOODS
Advanced Equipment Inc.105
Airgas, an Air Liquide Co 107 Apex Motion Control 113 Big-D Construction 119
Machine, Inc.
Tippmann Group 183
TNA North America, Inc.184
Wire Belt Company of America 189
FRUITS & VEGTABLES
Advanced Equipment Inc.105
AmTrade Systems 110
Deville Technologies, LLC130 ESI Group USA 135
Harpak-ULMA Packaging, LLC 142
High Tek USA 144
JAX INC. 149
Key Technology 150
Matthews Marking Systems 157
Starview Packaging Machinery Inc. 178
Urschel Laboratories, Inc.185
GRAINS, SEEDS, BEANS, FLOUR & NUTS
Bühler Inc. 120
Camfil APC 122
FOCKE & CO 137
Heat and Control, Inc. 143
Industrial Magnetics, Inc. 147
Matthews Marking Systems 157 Munson Machinery Co., Inc.164
Sleeve Seal, LLC 177
Witte Company 190
Xchanger Inc 191
MEAT, POULTRY
& SEAFOOD
Advanced Equipment Inc.105
Airgas, an Air Liquide Co 107 Air Products 108 AmTrade Systems 110
Deville Technologies, LLC130 EDGE Industrial Technologies 132 Eriez 134 ESI Group USA 135 FoodSafe Drains 138 Graphalloy 141 Harpak-ULMA Packaging, LLC 142
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Machinery Inc. 178
Swift Sensors 180
Central States Industrial 126
EllisLudell 133
FoodSafe Drains 138
Hydro-Thermal Corporation146
Miura America Co., Ltd. 162
MXD Process 165
PAXTON, An ITW Air Management Company166
Perfex Corporation 167
Pick Heaters, Inc 168
Sani-Matic, Inc. 173
Statco-DSI Process Systems 179
TechniBlend 181
ThermOmegaTech, Inc. 182
CONVEYING & PRODUCT HANDLING
Apex Motion Control 113
Columbia Machine, Inc. 123
Coperion 124
Deville Technologies, LLC130
Eriez 134
FlexLink Systems, Inc. 136
Graphalloy 141
Heat and Control, Inc. 143
Key Technology 150
Layton Systems 152
Material Transfer & Storage Inc.156
METTLER TOLEDO 161
PPM Technologies Holdings LLC 169
Quickdraft, Inc. 171
SEW-EURODRIVE, Inc. 174
VAC-U-MAX 186
VDG (Van der Graaf) 187
Vibra Screw Inc 188
The Witte Company 190
Wire Belt Company of America 189
Xchanger Inc 191
Yaskawa America, Inc 192
DRY PROCESSING & HANDLING EQUIPMENT
Acrison, Inc. 103
Aerzen USA, Inc 106
Atlas Copco Compressors114
Bepex 117
Bühler Inc. 120
Busch Vacuum Solutions121
Columbia Machine, Inc. 123
Coperion 124
D&F Equipment Sales 127
Haver & Boecker USA, Inc.116
Industrial Magnetics, Inc. 147
Layton Systems 152
Material Transfer & Storage Inc.156
Munson Machinery Co., Inc.164
Perfex Corporation 167
Premier Tech Systems and Automation 170
SEW-EURODRIVE, Inc. 174
Urschel Laboratories, Inc.185
VAC-U-MAX 186
Vibra Screw Inc 188
The Witte Company 190
COMPANY INDEX
Xchanger Inc 191
FACILITIES, DESIGN & INFRASTRUCTURE
Aerzen USA, Inc 106
Atlas Copco Compressors114
Big-D Construction
D&F Equipment
Miura America Co., Ltd. 162
MSKTD and Associates 163
Premier Tech Systems and Automation 170
Sharpe Engineering & Equipment 175
The Austin Company 115
Tippmann Group 183
Yaskawa America, Inc 192
FOOD PROCESSING EQUIPMENT
Admix, Inc. 104
Airgas, an Air Liquide Co 107
AmTrade Systems 110 Anderson-Negele 111
Bepex
141
- High Pressure Technologies 145 Hydro-Thermal Corporation146
Packaging Solutions148
Swift Sensors 180
TechniBlend 181
TNA North America, Inc.184
Urschel Laboratories, Inc.185
VDG (Van der Graaf) 187
The Witte Company 190
Wire Belt Company of America 189
INSPECTION, SORTING & WEIGHING
Anritsu - Product Inspection & Detection 112
Eriez 134
Frain Industries 139
Heat and Control, Inc. 143
Key Technology 150
METTLER TOLEDO 161
Premier Tech Systems and Automation 170
TechniBlend 181
TNA North America, Inc.184
LIQUID PROCESSING
Lubriplate Lubricants Company 153 Material Transfer & Storage Inc.156
Systems 179
& HANDLING
EQUIPMENT
Admix, Inc. 104
Ampco Pumps Company109
Anderson-Negele 111
Apex Motion Control 113
BETE Fog Nozzle, Inc. 118
Busch Vacuum Solutions121
Central States Industrial 126
DCI, Inc. 128
EllisLudell 133
Frain Industries 139
Fristam Pumps USA 140
Hydro-Thermal Corporation146
MXD Process 165
Pick Heaters, Inc 168
Sani-Matic, Inc. 173
Sharpe Engineering & Equipment 175
Silverson Machines, Inc. 176
Statco-DSI Process Systems 179
MIXING & BLENDING EQUIPMENT
Admix, Inc. 104
Air Products 108
Ampco Pumps Company109
AmTrade Systems 110
Central States Industrial 126 Coperion 124
DCI, Inc. 128
Fristam Pumps USA 140
Linde 151
Messer Americas 159
Munson Machinery Co., Inc.164
MXD Process 165
Premier Tech Systems and Automation 170
Charles & Son Company 172
Turbon Mixer, Inc. 131
Machines, Inc. 176
181 PACKAGING EQUIPMENT & MATERIALS
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Email: order-usa@aerzen.com
Aerzen’s positive displacement machines are known for high reliability and efficiency and are chosen for harsh environments, difficult applications, and where high turndown capability is required.
Aerzen provides various types of dry, single-stage, air-cooled positive displacement blowers and compressors for pressures to 50 psig and vacuum to 25.5” Hg. Blowers are used for processes such as pneumatic conveying in both vacuum and pressure modes to handle the transfer of dry bulk materials.
The Delta Hybrid Blower was developed with a focus on increasing energy efficiency and significantly reducing energy costs and greenhouse gas emissions. The wire-to-process energy usage reduction can exceed 30% over typical positive displacement blowers, depending on operating conditions and turndown range.
Aerzen Turbo Blowers are single-stage high-speed radial turbo blowers designed to meet the varying flow and pressure requirements in many different processes. This modern frequency-controlled, gearless driven machine and lubricant-free aero bearings guarantees an economical, reliable and maintenance-free compressor operation.
Aerzen Rental provides temporary oil-free blower and compressor solutions under 50 psig. Rental units are available for immediate deployment in the event of a production failure or shortfall, as well as longer-term operational leasing and rent-to-own programs.
AERZEN offers you 100% oil-free process air for various applications in food technology. For 100% product purity and safety solutions, visit: www.aerzen.com
Airgas, an Air Liquide company
In the competitive food processing landscape, achieving ideal temperatures quickly is only half the battle. To truly lead, processors must eliminate bottlenecks and reduce total costs without sacrificing quality. Airgas, an Air Liquide company, provides a complete solution: high-purity food-grade gases, state-ofthe-art equipment, and unmatched application expertise tailored to your unique production needs.
Quality and Precision: The Secret is in the Process
Did you know that product inconsistency is more often a process precision problem than an ingredient problem? Talk with our ALTEC experts to optimize your final product quality. Our liquid nitrogen and carbon dioxide systems provide precise temperature control to reduce dehydration and maintain the taste and texture that define your brand. From meat and poultry to prepared foods, we ensure our high-purity gases meet the most stringent food safety standards.
Costs and Optimization: Beyond the “Cheapest Way”
The “cheapest way” to freeze is often the most expensive once you factor in gas waste, quality loss, and process inefficiency. Ask our experts to find real cost savings on your production line. We focus on the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO), providing engineering support and installation services that maximize yields and minimize gas consumption, ensuring your growth remains profitable.
Reliability and Uptime: From Reaction to Prediction
The most successful plants don’t just fix downtime quickly; they predict it before it happens. Talk to our experts about our connected tunnel offer. By integrating real-time data and insights, we allow you to proactively adjust operations and implement predictive maintenance. With a national distribution network and 24/7 technical support, Airgas ensures your facility meets its production deadlines every single day.
Phone: 1-800-654.4567
Email: info@airproducts.com
www.airproducts.com/food
Air Products’ Freshline® solutions offer food processors high-purity food-grade gases (N2 & CO2) and equipment to chill or freeze a wide variety of foods.
Select equipment highlights includes:
• Freshline F - highly e icient design allows processors to produce consistent, high-quality individually quick-frozen products in larger throughputs than standard spray ree ing cryogenic F ree ers, without re uiring the high li uid nitrogen consumption of immersion freezers.
• Freshline Spiral Free er - roviding e icient, continuous ree ing chilling to a broad range o meat poultry products in a small ootprint at high production rates.
• Freshline -in ection Cooling System - tailor-made temperature control system that uses liquid nitrogen or carbon dioxide to deliver rapid, precise temperature control to a blender or mixer grinder, enabling ood manu acturers to optimize processing speed and product quality.
The benefits of these cryogenic systems include faster freeze times, increased throughput, improved product quality and more. We also offer gaseous solutions including controlled atmosphere stunning, wastewater treatment, modified atmosphere packaging (MAP) and inerting.
We can test a customer’s product on commercial-scale equipment in our stateof-the-art food laboratory, or bring our mobile food lab to you to determine the feasibility of using cryogenic freezing or chilling for their specific process.
For more information about Air Products’ complete portfolio of Freshline® solutions for food processing, call 800-654-4567 outside of the U.S. 610-706-4530 or visit www. airproducts.com ood Email in o airproducts.com
Ampco Pumps Company
2045 W Mill Road, Glendale, WI 53209 USA
Phone: 800/737-8671
www.ampcopumps.com
Email: info@ampcopumps.com
Ampco Pumps Company manufactures the most complete line of sanitary pumps, mixers, blenders and drum unloaders in the industry. ISO 9001:2015
PUMPS: Ampco offers a full array of sanitary centrifugal and positive displacement pumps. The centrifugal lines are tried and true and offer options from the budget-friendly AC Series to the heavy-duty L Series and NEW high-capacity H Series. These products can accommodate the simplest to most challenging applications.
Ampco’s portfolio of positive displacement pumps includes PATENTED ZP1+ and ZP3 pumps which both feature maintenance-saving front-loading seal designs. The new ZP4 shares this design in a compact size, offering the industry a NEW solution for viscous low-flow dosing applications. The AL Series are affordable rotary lobe pumps, ideal for a variety of applications and the dual-duty SLH twin screw pumps (ITT Bornemann) are in stock and backed by Ampco’s superior customer service.
MIXERS & BLENDERS: Ampco Applied Products offers a vast selection of inline and in-tank mixing and blending products and powder induction systems. Blend wet and dry ingredients, stabilize emulsions and enhance texture while improving process efficiency. The SBI, SBH and SHEAR-max in-line mixers have options to fit any process. The JET-shear in-tank mixer comes in many sizes and configurations.
NEW: Ampco Applied Products offers a robust line of homogenizers and replacement parts that are interchangeable with other competing brands.
NEW: The ADU/ATU unloading systems are designed to quickly and efficiently empty product-filled drums or totes, reducing waste and saving money.
AmTrade Systems, Inc.
12885 Wayne Road, Livonia, MI 48150
Phone: 734/522-9500
www.amtrade-systems.com/Mohn
Hygiene management: Tailor-made systems for your industry
AmTrade Systems, Inc. represents Mohn GmbH, a manufacturer of hygiene equipment and cleaning technology for the food, beverage, cosmetics and pharmaceutical industry. With MOHN and AmTrade, you can obtain everything you need from a single source - from the design concept to the delivered system, tailored to your existing space conditions - for personnel and equipment hygiene.
All hygiene products are made of stainless steel, which is particularly valued in hygiene-critical areas as it is durable, corrosion-resistant and easy to clean, ensuring high hygiene standards.
Our hygiene solutions include:
• and, sole and boot washing, drying, and disin ection systems
•Wagon wheel disin ection or orkli ts, pallet acks and wagons
• arts, tools and e uipment cleaning acilities and e uipment
•Cart, wagon, combo and pallet washing lines
• ersonnel hygiene stations and devices,
• ccess control, including turnstiles, railings and gates
• ockers and changeroom e uipment in stainless steel
•Boot storage and drying racks, including optional disin ection
Besides the hygiene technology, O also o ers
• utomatic washing systems or pallets, bulk containers, and totes
• niversal washing systems or BC tanks, bins, racks, and wagons
• roduct wagons or smoking, chilling, de rosting and other processing
• i ting and tilting systems or kitchen carts and bins
Anderson-Negele
At Anderson-Negele, we combine unparalleled application expertise, trusted partnerships, and high-quality instrumentation to deliver innovative solutions for food, beverage, and life sciences processors worldwide.
We collaborate closely with customers, OEMs, and system integrators to craft tailored solutions for diverse applications, ensuring every product meets the highest hygienic standards, including 3-A, EHEDG, and BPE compliance. Our comprehensive range of temperature, pressure, flow, and analytical measurement instruments reflects our commitment to precision and reliability.
As guardians of safety and sustainability, we leverage over 90 years of expertise to help processors reduce waste, safeguard product integrity, and maintain environmental stewardship. Backed by the Ralliant Business System, we continually enhance product quality and drive process improvements to meet the ever-evolving demands of our industries.
Choose Anderson-Negele, the trusted partner for innovative solutions that protect and enhance your processes.
Anritsu Product Inspection & Detection
710 Innovation Drive, Suite A, Elk Grove Village, IL 60007
Phone: 847-419-9729
Email: eva.bar@anritsu.com
www.anritsu.com/product-inspection
Protect Your Brand Against Recalls and Consumer Complaints
Manufacturers worldwide rely on Anritsu’s contaminant detection and quality inspection solutions to protect their brands. Our equipment delivers exceptional precision, proven reliability, and long-term performance, helping producers elevate product quality while improving operational efficiency.
How Much of Your Product Is Truly Inspected?
100%. Reduce consumer complaints and product recalls with the world’s most widely installed food X-ray technology. Anritsu X-ray systems provide producers with an industry-leading combination of detection performance, reliability, and low total cost of ownership.
The Anritsu X-ray Advantage
Anritsu X-ray systems are engineered with high-definition imaging that consistently outperforms competitors in detecting metal, bone, glass, and stone contaminants. The new XR76 X-ray delivers up to 40% improved contaminant detection and up to 80% fewer false rejects, minimizing food waste and total cost of ownership while maximizing uptime and inspection accuracy.
• ood -ray supplier worldwide with over , installations
• ndustry-leading per ormance or metal and low-density contaminants
• ow total cost o ownership with up to longer tube and detector li e
• roven reliability with one o the lowest warranty rates in the industry
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Discover What You’ve Been Missing. DETECTION PERFECTION™
nritsu is an engineering-driven company with more than , inspection installations worldwide since 1964. Anritsu’s comprehensive portfolio includes X-ray, checkweighers, metal detectors, and combination systems, backed by technical support and available remote service capabilities.
APEX Motion Control
Since 2000, Apex Motion Control has been working closely with food, bakery, pharma and dairy manufacturing companies to help them optimize production, increase profitability, and maximize consistency and throughput with user friendly automated solutions, in particular robotics and vision automation.
Apex continually pushes innovation to help modernize food processing, and assist with the reduction in skilled and production labor. Collaborative robotics help provide a user friendly, easy to use and flexible environment that all workers enjoy working with.
Apex Motion Control helps companies focus on removing the dull, dangerous, dirty and repetitive tasks and in-turn, move production floor workers in to more value added positions, rather than focusing on non-value added tasks.
The company’s continued growth reflects strong market demand for robotics and automation solutions that support a more resilient, productive, and technologyenabled manufacturing system.
Everyone at Apex Motion Control are industry trained professionals with decades of experience. From management and sales to engineering, fabrication and assembly, the number one goal is to provide the customer with an automation solution that is flexible enough to fit your plans now, and in the future.
Have Production Issues?
Get in touch with us today and one of our sales consultants would be happy to drop by your plant for and in-depth, in-house production assessment.
Atlas Copco Compressors LLC
300 Technology Center Way, Rock Hill, SC, 29730
Phone: (866) 546-3588
www.atlascopco.com/airusa
Atlas Copco Compressors is transforming the way manufacturers optimize their processes. With a comprehensive range of cutting-edge solutions, including air and gas compressors, gas generation systems, carbon capture technology, air blowers, industrial chillers, process filtration, and quality air products, we’re helping businesses achieve maximum performance across every stage of their production. Backed by 24/7 service, remote monitoring, and auditing capabilities, we ensure your operations run efficiently and seamlessly, no matter the scale or complexity.
Headquartered in Rock Hill, South Carolina, Atlas Copco Compressors is a global leader with a strong local presence to serve businesses around the world. Whether you need solutions for a single facility or across multiple regions, we deliver the expertise and technology to meet your unique challenges.
At Atlas Copco, we don’t just provide equipment. We partner with you to drive performance. We understand that to stay competitive in today’s fast-paced manufacturing environment, efficiency is key. That’s why we’re committed to providing solutions that optimize your operations, reduce downtime, and lower total cost of ownership.
Our promise goes beyond just products; it’s about creating long-term value. We take you on a connected efficiency journey that enhances every aspect of your production, from process optimization to energy management. With a legacy of innovation and a forward-looking approach, Atlas Copco Compressors is the trusted partner for businesses seeking to unlock their full potential.
The Austin Company
Founded in 1878, The Austin Company is a design-builder of commercial and industrial facilities. We offer a comprehensive portfolio of in-house architectural, engineering, and construction management services to deliver our clients’ most complex and challenging projects.
DESIGN-BUILD
Austin offers a proven methodology—known as The Austin Method®—for executing projects from vision to site selection, through project planning, design, and engineering, and into construction and building occupancy. As a team of experienced consultants, architects, engineers, cost estimators, schedulers, and construction professionals, we are committed to consistently meeting rigorous schedule, budget, and quality requirements.
DESIGN AND ENGINEERING
Austin’s design team members have the industry knowledge and experience to tackle the most challenging industrial manufacturing and production facility projects. Our integrated, multidisciplinary organization provides complete, highly technical, and fully coordinated documents.
CONSTRUCTION
Austin’s construction solutions include general contracting and construction management. Our team is dedicated to safety, quality, efficiency, and the project’s overall success. Austin is a schedule-driven design-builder. Therefore, we seek efficiencies during the preconstruction and construction phases to save our clients time and money. Our construction services include: bid packaging, budgeting and estimating, constructability reviews, preconstruction, and project administration, control, and supervision. www.theaustin.com
BEHN + BATES, A Haver & Boecker Brand
460 Gees Mill Business CT NE, Conyers, GA, 30013, USA
Phone: 770/760-1130
Email: food@haverusa.com
BEHN + BATES: Leaders in Bulk Food Packaging Solutions
From powders to liquids, we deliver high-performance systems for:
- Bulk liquid filling
- Bagging powders
- Container palletizing
- Robotics & complete automation
Our focus: quality, accuracy, output, and user-friendly design.
Choose from semi-automatic to fully automated equipment, including:
- Valve bag packers
- Open-mouth bag fillers
- Form-Fill-Seal baggers
- Big bag/tote fillers
- Drum & tote fillers
- Pail & canister fillers
- Conventional & robotic palletizers
Get your production done right—partner with BEHN + BATES for the best packaged goods. www.haverusa.com/industries/food-industry
Bepex designs and supplies continuous solids processing equipment for challenging food ingredients, produce, dairy, meat, and protein applications. For more than 100 years, manufacturers have relied on Bepex when materials are difficult to dry, agglomerate, mill, or scale reliably. Our focus is practical: improving product consistency, reducing process risk, and delivering systems that operate dependably at commercial scale.
Where we fit
Bepex typically engages early, during process development, scale-up, or when an existing process is underperforming. We work directly with R&D, engineering, and operations teams to evaluate material behavior and translate development results into continuous production systems that can be built and run with confidence.
Thermal Processing
Bepex specializes in direct and indirect thermal processing, including drying and conditioning of difficult solids. Customers often turn to us for heat-sensitive, or hard-to-dry materials where uniformity and control are critical.
Agglomeration
We provide both pressure (dry) and wet agglomeration technologies to control bulk density, particle size, flowability, and solubility—often improving handling, reducing dust, and creating more consistent products.
Size Reduction
Our milling technologies range from coarse size reduction to fine grinding and classification into the micron range, with options to integrate drying where beneficial.
BETE Spray Systems
50 Greenfield Street, Greenfield, MA 01301, United States
Phone: 413-772-0846
www.bete.com
Email: sales@bete.com
BETE Fog Nozzle, LLC is a pioneer and innovator in spray nozzle engineering, manufacturing, and application solutions. Our extensive product line includes automated spray systems, customizable spray headers, automatic nozzles, air atomizing nozzles, misting nozzles, spray drying nozzles, tank washing nozzles, and lances. These solutions improve spray processes worldwide across various markets, including food and beverage processing.
We engineer and manufacture high-quality spray systems technology to enhance food processing operations with consistency, efficiency, and reliable performance. Our products support a wide range of applications, including equipment and tank cleaning, precision coating and lubrication, humidification, sanitizing, cooling, and more.
With decades of experience, BETE provides expert engineering you can count on when it matters most. Our Advanced Spray Engineering Services address complex and critical challenges through Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) analysis, physical testing, and application-specific design, supported by in-house CNC machining, a foundry, and a dedicated spray laboratory.
Our mission goes beyond just selling spray nozzles. It is to provide engineered spray process solutions that exceed customer expectations in every detail. Expect world-class customer service from project inception through the delivery and maintenance of your final product. From initial discussions to design, fabrication, and ongoing service, we ensure your project is a success.
Big-D Construction - National Food & Beverage
www.big-d.com
Email: fmcnabb@big-d.com
THINK BIG, WORK BIG, LIVE BIG
We have an appetite to build and a zeal for success. Since our first project for Western General Dairies in 1967, our annual revenue has grown to more than $2 billion, with Cold Storage, Distribution Centers and Food Processing facilities making up a significant portion of this revenue. And we are hungry for more.
A Language All its Own
Food and Beverage facilities are built on a language of their own – where critical control means systematically identifying, assessing, and controlling health hazards – from construction to production. We speak it. Without a hint of an accent.
In fact, we are fluent in Food Processing Plant language, not just Construction language. Besides the value of understanding your product requirements, we have purchasing power with national vendors/subcontractors in dairy brick, specialty flooring, insulated metal panels, refrigeration systems, sanitary drains, low temp doors, dock equipment, and numerous other specialty construction products/trades.
Menu of Capabilities
Our company understands the needs and demands of your facility and the requirements to comply with regulatory requirements and plant specifics such as FSMA, GMP, HACCP, PSM/RMP, and other programs. The ingredients or success or our customers includes Dairy rocessing lants • Food Beverage Facilities • emodels • Expansions • dditions • ow- emp Facilities • anu acturing Distribution Facilities • ilt- p Construction • Green Field • Brown Field • EED Sustainable • Service ro ects • aintenance Support • Strategically Planned Shutdown Support Services
We support customers along the entire milling value chain, from raw material intake to finished product. Our portfolio covers cleaning, grinding, sifting, handling, and automation for wheat, maize, pulses, and specialty grains. Customers benefit from stable quality and high yields through precise process control and reliable equipment. Energy-efficient machines and intelligent automation help cut operating costs and improve resource efficiency. Our process consulting, project engineering, and lifecycle services support planning, building, and operating your plant with predictable performance. Training and digital services help maintain uptime, monitor key parameters, and plan maintenance based on actual conditions.
We help you develop and manufacture safe, high-quality products such as snacks, breakfast cereals, pet food, and plant-based foods. Our systems enable flexible recipes, quick changeovers, and fast response to market trends. You gain process stability and hygienic design that support food safety and consistent texture, color, and shape. Optimized thermal treatment and moisture control help reduce waste and improve line efficiency. Our application centers and technical support teams assist from product idea to industrial scale-up, reducing development time and risk. Data-driven services support continuous optimization of throughput, quality, and energy use.
We provide solutions from mixing and forming to baking, cooling, and finishing, as well as grinding, refining, conching, and molding in chocolate production. You gain reliable process control for consistent quality in your product, while modular equipment layouts allow gradual capacity increases. Efficient use of raw materials and energy helps manage costs and supports sustainability targets. Through process know how, joint trials, and global service, we help customers bring new products to market, standardize quality across sites, and keep lines running with predictable performance and lifetime support.
Busch Vacuum Solutions
Phone: 1-800-872-7867 516
Email: info@buschusa.com
Busch LLC, established in 1975 and employing more than 500 people, are part of the global, family-owned Busch Vacuum Solutions organization, which includes more than 60 subsidiaries worldwide.
More than a product supplier, Busch USA serves as a total solutions partner for manufacturers across the food packaging industry. The company works closely with customers to develop vacuum solutions tailored to specific production processes, where performance, consistency, and reliability are essential. By combining application expertise with a consultative approach, Busch USA helps manufacturers improve operational efficiency, reduce energy consumption, and maintain high packaging quality.
Vacuum packaging plays a critical role in preserving food freshness and quality from production through consumption. Applications such as tray sealing and modified atmosphere packaging rely on the removal of air to minimize oxidation and spoilage, helping extend shelf life while maintaining flavor and color. This performance is made possible by reliable vacuum technology, including Busch’s R5 oil-lubricated rotary vane vacuum pumps, widely recognized as the industry standard in food packaging and engineered for consistent, efficient operation.
Busch USA offers a comprehensive portfolio of vacuum pumps, blowers, compressors, and custom-engineered vacuum systems designed to meet a wide range of industry requirements. These solutions are supported by genuine spare parts, oils, accessories, and measurement equipment to ensure long-term reliability and performance.
With a commitment to quality and innovation, Busch USA builds and services vacuum equipment while supporting customers throughout the entire equipment lifecycle. Customers rely on Busch’s experienced engineers and service technicians, along with service programs and exchange options, to help ensure
Camfil APC
Phone: 833-331-0311
Email: filterman@camfil.com
Our mission is to safely collect and contain dangerous airborne food dust particles. We take this mission very seriously, because keeping your air clean helps keep your employees safer and more productive. Excellent indoor air quality (IAQ) also protects your facility from combustible dust incidents and your products from cross-contamination.
Camfil APC is the world’s leading manufacturer of industrial dust collection systems. These systems, equipped with highly efficient filter cartridges, capture the airborne particles generated during the manufacturing and processing of food and food packaging products. Our dust collectors are backed by decades of experience and comprehensive technical services dedicated to solving the most challenging dust problems.
Our compliance experts recommend dust collectors with explosion venting and isolation equipment that meet all OSHA and NFPA guidelines. We offer a full range of technical services to test dusts and analyze specific operating conditions, and we carry a variety of products to mitigate dust collector explosions, including explosion vents and ambient fume collection systems with HEPA-grade filters.
Gold Series III dust collection systems: Safely and efficiently capture and contain all kinds of harmful and combustible airborne dust particles, including fine, fibrous and heavy dust loads. They exceed OSHA mandates for factory air quality. When equipped with a Camfil explosion vent, Gold Series collectors provide the highest level of combustible dust explosion protection in accordance with NFPA and ATEX standards.
Replacement filter cartridges: We manufacture replacement filters that fit most other dust collector brands. All filters feature our patented OmniPleat® technology that is proven to make filters last twice as long as standard filters and improve www.camfilapc.com
Flexible Product Handling
Columbia’s conventional palletizers are the most flexible palletizing solutions available and handle virtually every package type, including shrink bundles with and without a pad, plastic totes, high CG, unwrapped trays, and more. Part of the flexibility comes from Columbia’s ability to provide zero time changeover from one SKU or package type to the next.
Industry Leading Standard Safety Features
Columbia’s standard safety package contains Category 3 electrical safety components, including dual circuit safety interlocks & full height light curtains. This safety package provides a fully guarded, Performance Level D palletizer to keep your employees safe while enhancing OEE and production demands.
Complete System Integration
Columbia Machine manufactures conventional high speed, high level, floor level and robotic palletizers, load transfer stations and provides complete system design and integration. With the most flexible and modern palletizing solutions available, Columbia is the leading palletizer solutions provider in North America.
High Performance AND Sustainability
Columbia has a palletizing solution for virtually any application, each equipped with standard features designed to safely maximize OEE, throughput and uptime.
Coperion delivers modern processing solutions for global food manufacturers seeking a trusted partner in systems, components, and equipment supply. With extensive application experience and system design expertise, Coperion distinguishes itself through highly knowledgeable specialists who prioritize process efficiency, reliability, and the highest standards of food safety.
The Coperion Food, Health and Nutrition Division unites the world’s most trusted technologies for food production including Baker Perkins, Bakon, DIOSNA, Gabler Engineering, Kemutec, Mucon, Peerless, Shaffer, Shick Esteve, Unifiller, and VMI. Backed by over 200 years of expertise in ingredient systems and automation, and process technologies for fermentation, mixing, forming, dividing, dosing, decorating, and cutting, we deliver comprehensive solutions tailored to the unique needs of each customer. Our end-to-end technologies are supported by global aftermarket services, empowering food manufacturers to operate safely, efficiently, and innovatively.
We work closely with our customers to develop customized, streamlined solutions that enhance each stage of their process. By addressing industry challenges, driving efficiency, and fostering innovation, we help our partners stay ahead in a rapidly evolving marketplace.
(816) 880-9800
ENGINEERING | ARCHITECTURE | CONSTRUCTION | CONSULTING
Delivering safe, high-quality, value-driven food + beverage facilities to fuel your growth and success.
No matter your size or goals, you need an adaptable facility that quickly responds to consumers’ changing tastes and meets increasingly strict regulatory standards. Get design, construction, integration and consulting solutions to:
- Increase production rates
- Optimize energy efficiency
- Improve speed to market
- Achieve food safety compliance
ABOUT CRB:
Est. 1984 | 20+ offices | 1,200 employees | Projects in 40+ countries
CRB is a leading provider of engineering, architecture, construction, integration and consulting solutions. Our team provides best-in-class solutions that drive success and positive change for our clients, our people and our communities. CRB is a privately held company with a rich history of serving clients throughout the world, consistently striving for the highest standard of technical knowledge, creativity and execution. From design and construction to end-to-end integrated project delivery, CRB customizes our offerings to fit your unique needs, requirements and business goals.
To learn more about our design, construction, integration and consulting solutions, visit www.crbgroup.com
Central States Industrial Equipment (CSI)
Springfield, MO | Grand Prairie, TX | Durham, NC | Modesto, CA
Phone: 417-831-1411
www.csidesigns.com
Email: sales@csidesigns.com
Central States Industrial (CSI) is an engineering, design, and fabrication partner for hygienic fluid processors, providing value-added process components for the food, dairy, beverage, biopharmaceutical, data cooling center, and personal care industries.
The CSI team includes experienced process engineers, project managers, and designers who listen, analyze, and problem-solve every project regardless of size to ensure a successful outcome. CSI utilizes 3D scanning and AR/VR technology to provide clients with a preview of their system before fabrication begins. Experienced and certified craftsmen, combined with ASNT Level II inspectors, ensure components and equipment meet regulatory industry standards.
CSI offers custom equipment options, including Clean-in-Place (CIP), process skids, utility stations, transfer panels, holding tubes, valve manifolds, jacketed tubing, pump carts, and more! CIP systems are scalable and can grow with your future needs using smart machine technology to enhance performance, flexibility, and reporting. The process systems are designed to solve existing hygienic process issues and optimize new processes. Skid-mounted systems are built on time, pre-tested, and ready for utility hookup to avoid costly delays
CSI utilizes our OEM-trained technicians to provide on-site maintenance for heat exchangers, valves, pumps, and more—preventing failures, extending equipment life, and ensuring smooth operations.
CSI has four distribution centers across the United States for quick delivery of sanitary processing equipment and installation materials, including fittings, pumps, valves, tubing, and instrumentation. Complete lines of corrosion-resistant Super Alloys™ AL-6XN® and Hastelloy® C-22® are also stocked.
Find more information at csidesigns.com.
D&F Equipment Sales, Inc.
D&F Equipment Sales began over 39 years ago with a vision to address critical gaps in the poultry industry. Armed with a toolbox and his relentless drive to solve problems, Larry Fortenberry set out to bridge the gap between equipment manufacturers and plant operations. What started as a small equipment and millwright service provider quickly gained traction, and very early on, D&F expanded its capabilities, transitioning from installations to custom-engineered solutions and stainless steel fabrication.
At D&F, our Process Engineering team is dedicated to delivering innovative solutions tailored to your facility’s needs. We specialize in designing and optimizing food processing systems that maximize plant efficiency and productivity. Whether you’re building a new facility or reimagining your existing processes, D&F is committed to doing Whatever it Takes to convey solutions.
In the second stage of our process, the Fabrication team transforms your vision into durable, food-grade equipment designed to meet the unique demands of the food processing industry. We specialize in crafting systems that integrate seamlessly into your operations and endure rigorous daily use.
Our Service & Installation brings all of D&F’s manufacturing arms together, allowing us to deliver turnkey solutions tailored to your plant’s unique needs. With a team that has set the industry standard, we bring unparalleled expertise and adaptability to every project.
While D&F began with a singular focus on servicing the poultry industry, its commitment to growth and innovation led to diversification. In 2008, D&F expanded into the meat and prepared foods industries, as well as other sectors, positioning the company as a leader in process engineering and system integration. Today, D&F continues to deliver customized solutions that optimize production and drive success across a range of industries.
DCI, Inc.
Phone: 320-252-8200
www.dciinc.com
Email: sales@dciinc.com
DCI, Inc. is a world-leading manufacturer of stainless steel storage and processing vessels, agitators, and integrated systems, proudly serving the food, dairy, and beverage industries for 70 years. We are recognized for exceptional craftsmanship, innovative designs, and reliable solutions, we are committed to delivering the highest quality equipment tailored to meet the unique needs of our customers.
DCI has built a legacy of trust and excellence, collaborating with customers to design and manufacture tanks and processing systems that optimize performance, safety, and efficiency.
We provide a comprehensive range of equipment tailored to food, dairy, and beverage applications:
• Silo Storage anks
• rocessors - Flat-Bottom, Cone-Bottom
• Whey Crystalli ers
• ound ori ontal ertical Storage anks
• ixing anks
• Whey Crystalli ers
• DC Dynamixer Dynamixer rocessor
• Sloped-Bottom anks
Onsite Fabrication Capabilities
Our skilled field fabrication team specializes in stainless steel and other alloys, offering fast, efficient service. We can manufacture tanks up to one million gallons in the field.
From small-scale operations to large acilities, DC , nc. is your trusted partner in the food, dairy, and beverage industries, empowering you to produce the highest-quality products with confidence.
Dennis Group
Since 2015, ENR has annually ranked us the #1 Food and Beverage Design Firm. We’ve built a specialized team who understands the unique challenges faced by food manufacturers and how to solve them. From small-scale studies to large greenfields and everything in between, we have the internal resources to support you.
Our more than 800 employees spend every day working on food and beverage projects, and our project managers average more than two decades of experience in the food industry. We specialize in:
• Food Sa ety and FS C Food Sa ety Certi ication raining
• ro ect De inition
• Facility rocess udits
• Site Search
• Sustainability, Energy udits, and Carbon aster lanning
• Civil, Structural, rchitecture
• echanical
• Electrical
• lumbing
• Wastewater
• rocess Design
• e rigeration Design
• odeling Simulation
• utomation
• ackaging ntegration
• ro ect anagement
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Deville Technologies, LLC
USA:
Phone: 866/404-4545
Email: info@devilletechnologies.com
www.devilletechnologies.com
Deville Technologies combines its extensive years of experience with an innovative mindset to supply state-of-the-art hygienic food cutting solutions to clients worldwide. Whether integrating the industry’s leading technologies or leveraging our proprietary cutting systems, we ensure efficiency, precision and consistent quality.
We are committed to manufacturing equipment that provides increased uptime and yield without compromising cut quality and hygiene. Our consultive approach remains constant - no matter the size of the company. We work with companies ranging from Fortune 500 members to small entrepreneurs requiring sanitary, durable, practical, and efficient food cutting equipment. Deville’s cutting-edge technology coupled with traditional craftsmanship, quality materials and hygienic principles, allow us to deliver cutting solutions that provide high performance with low maintenance.
Deville has two state-of-the-art Client Centers so that clients may run trials with our equipment without incurring the cost of halted operations. Our detailed trial reports provide the necessary data to review cut quality, options and gain an understanding of the impact our sanitary cutting equipment will have on their business; all of which assist informed investment decisions.
Our technical experts are always available to meet our client’s needs; whether it be to provide telephone-based support, a customized engineering solution to solve a specific challenge, or to schedule an on-site visit to assist with expansion planning. We have an inventory of genuine parts for our equipment readily available; because we understand the cost of recurring labor for replacing parts can quickly consume a maintenance budget.
EBARA Mixers Inc. - Scott Mixers
9351 Industrial Way, Adelanto, CA 92301
Phone: 760/246-3430
www.ebaramixers.com
Email: info@ebaramixers.com
When it comes to manufacturing high-performing, durable, and cost-effective mixers and mixing systems, our Scott Mixers and Sharpe Mixers brands are the gold standard - trusted by hundreds of companies.
We have over 50 years of experience designing and building high-performance low-shear and high-shear mixers, along with turnkey systems for sanitary, industrial, and municipal applications.
Whether you’re tackling formulation development, process scale-up, or full-scale production, our Scott and Sharpe brands provide a complete range of mixing solutions to meet your needs.
At EBARA Mixers, we’re dedicated to making your job easier, your products better, and your operations more efficient.
Scott Mixers, Sharpe Mixers, and EBARA Mixers are proud to be part of the EBARA Corporation.
Founded in 1912, EBARA Corporation is recognized as a world leader in the design, development, and manufacture of industrial machinery.
Contact Us Today at www.ebaramixers.com, info@ebaramixers.com, 760-248-3430.
Discover how we can enhance your mixing processes and help you select the perfect mixer for your needs.
EDGE Industrial Technologies
5 Braco International Blvd, Wilder, KY 41076 USA
Phone: 1-800-407-0173
www.edgeindtech.com
Email: marketinginbox@edgeindtech.com
At EDGE, our mission is clear: to empower your operations with the industry’s sharpest, most reliable cutting solutions. We bring unmatched quality to every step of your processing line, offering a catalog of over 50,000 products engineered to withstand the most rigorous demands.
Our FDA-compliant knives support every stage of production—from initial slaughtering, evisceration, and deboning to complex further processing—ensuring clean cuts, uniform portions, and minimal waste. Our expertise even extends to critical end-of-line packaging, providing precision solutions for FFS, tray sealing, and vacuuming applications.
OVER 115 YEARS OF INDUSTRY LEADERSHIP
EDGE stands as a testament to enduring innovation. Our expertise is built upon a legacy of iconic brands—TGW International, Pearl Technologies Inc., Leverwood Knife Works, and Carbonomics—uniting over a century of knowledge to drive cutting-edge solutions.
GLOBAL STRENGTH, LOCAL FOCUS
Through a robust global distribution network, we ensure that our customers receive consistent quality and support, no matter where they operate.
PARTNER WITH EDGE TODAY
An EDGE knife represents the intersection of superior materials, expert engineering, and a relentless commitment to your needs. We are your one-stop-shop from start to finish, offering tailored custom solutions when standard options aren’t enough. By investing in advanced technologies and building lasting partnerships, we ensure your business stays sharp, efficient, and ahead of the curve.
Ready to experience the EDGE difference? Connect with our team today to find the solution for your processing operation.
EllisLudell
1400 West Bryn Mawr Ave. Itasca, IL 60143 USA
Phone: 630-250-9222
www.ellisludell.com
Email: jmundt@elliscorp.com
EllisLudell supports food and beverage processors with engineered process water heating systems designed to deliver consistent temperatures for sanitation, clean-in-place operations, and production continuity. In regulated processing environments, reliable hot water performance is essential for meeting food safety requirements and maintaining predictable daily operations.
Process water heating plays a central role in food processing where sanitation and temperature control are closely tied to food safety programs. Direct contact water heating provides an efficient method for delivering consistent volumes of hot water to support clean-in-place processes and other sanitation requirements. Where applicable, NSF-certified direct contact water heating systems help processors meet food safety and regulatory expectations.
EllisLudell offers both Direct Contact Water Heaters and Mini Direct Contact Water Heaters to support a range of processing environments. Standard systems are commonly used in larger operations with sustained hot water demand, while Mini Direct Contact Water Heaters support facilities where space constraints or phased expansion require a more compact approach to process water heating.
Beyond equipment design, EllisLudell emphasizes system reliability and visibility throughout the life of the installation. Uptime, the company’s equipment monitoring and support platform, provides maintenance and operations teams with access to system status information and a step-by-step maintenance video library that supports operator training, routine maintenance, and troubleshooting. This combination helps teams maintain consistency and reduce disruptions to sanitation and production.
By combining process water heating, scalable thermal solutions, and equipment visibility, EllisLudell supports processing teams responsible for sanitation, compliance, and production continuity in food and beverage operations.
2200
Phone: 814-835-6000
www.eriez.com
Email: eriez@eriez.com
Eriez Vibratory Feeders, X-ray Inspection Systems, and X8 Metal Detectors
Eriez® partners with OEMs to deliver high-performance vibratory feeders, metal detectors, and magnetic separators that enhance operational efficiency, product purity, and quality.
X8 Metal Detectors
Eriez X8 metal detectors seamlessly integrate into existing systems to detect metal contaminants in bulk materials, packaged goods, and liquids. These highly sensitive detectors meet stringent safety standards while reducing false rejections, upholding quality without compromising productivity.
Vibratory Feeders
Eriez electromagnetic feeders offer precise material flow control, from microdosing to high-speed, high-volume applications. High Deflection (HD) and High Speed (HS) models provide exceptional packaging, weighing, and filling accuracy. Featuring energy-efficient electromagnetic drives, these feeders deliver high throughput and require minimal maintenance. With customizable tray configurations and variable speed controls, Eriez feeders can be tailored to tackle any processing challenge.
X-ray Inspection Systems
Protect your brand and make safety a priority with Eriez X-ray Inspection Systems. Detect contaminants, foreign objects, and irregularities in your product line and avoid costly and potentially dangerous product recalls. Designed to meet and exceed strict industry standards, our line of X-ray Inspection Systems delivers the checks you need.
ESI Group USA
Phone: 866-369-3535
www.esigroupusa.com
Email: sales@esigroupusa.com
ESI Group is a nationally recognized leader in the design, engineering, and construction of advanced climate-controlled facilities. For over 35 years, we’ve specialized in building high-performance cold storage environments for the food and pharmaceutical industries across the continental United States.
Since 1991, our focus has remained clear: maximize operational efficiency, reduce risk, ensure regulatory compliance, and accelerate speed to market. We deliver tailored facility solutions that support manufacturing, processing, and storage needs—helping our clients build resilient operations that are safe, scalable, and future-ready.
With over 500 successful low-temperature projects completed, ESI Group brings unmatched expertise in complex, highly regulated environments. Our integrated design-build approach streamlines projects, reduces risk, and ensures on-time delivery—while enabling maximum capacity planning and rapid market readiness with minimal disruption and maximum product safety.
Our proven Single-Source, Three-Phase Approach takes every project from concept through completion. This fully integrated delivery model enhances communication, shortens timelines, reduces costs, and allows us to provide a Guaranteed Maximum Price (GMP)—delivering peace of mind along with exceptional results. An 85% repeat customer rate reflects our long-standing partnerships and consistent ability to deliver value. We take pride in our strong safety record, deep industry knowledge, and commitment to helping our clients build, manage, and grow their businesses.
If you’re a food or pharmaceutical organization seeking experienced partners in cold storage facility development, let’s talk. Visit ESIGroupUSA.com to learn how we can help you stay ahead—because when we put you first, you can put your customers first.
FlexLink Systems, Inc.
6580
Phone: 610/973-8200
www.flexlink.com
Email: info.us@flexlink.com
FlexLink, a Coesia company, is a leading manufacturer of food handling conveyors and automated food processing equipment. With a dedicated team of industry specialists, we support the food industry worldwide. We provide systems that are easy to design, assemble, integrate into machines and eventually modify and redesign, significantly facilitating new product introductions.
With over 40 years of experience delivering turn-key solutions to the food industry, we are the perfect partner when facing your production challenges. Working closely with customers, we provide innovative, automated solutions to produce goods smarter, safer and at lower operating costs. With a dedicated team, we support the industry directly in over 31 countries and are represented in more than 60.
FlexLink focuses on providing our global customers with the highest quality service and products. We focus on improving your overall equipment effectiveness (OEE) by balancing production flow, offering compact solutions, and lowering your maintenance cost and requirements. We offer high quality products that are easy to wash down and reduce the amount of bacteria build-up – reducing your chances of a recall. Our toolbox of products and services include line design, conveyor equipment, product manipulations and line balancing and controls.
FlexLink offers a variety of options for the food industry such as: Stainless Steel/Hygienic Conveyors, Chain Conveyors, Modular Belt Conveyors, Spiral Conveyors, Elevators, Line Balancers, Line Control, Cleaning Devices and Robotic Palletizers.
As part of your collaboration with FlexLink you can also utilize our line simulation tools. We truly offer a complete solution for all your production needs.
Phone: (336) 449-7200
www.snacks.focke.com
Email: sales@fockegso.com
FOCKE & CO provides customized packaging solutions with concentrated expert knowledge in two divisions, Tobacco and General Packaging for food and hygiene.
The General Packaging division provides customized case packing and end-ofline solutions for the food industry, with modern automation concepts for flexible products, breakthroughs in snack and confectionery foods, and well-established installations in hygiene and tissue, from flexibles to cartons.
In addition to the headquarters and divisions in Germany, the family-owned enterprise operates sales and service branches on all continents. Since its foundation in 1955, FOCKE & CO has delivered more than 22,000 machines to more than 120 countries.
Snack Packaging Solutions
Due to the delicate nature of snack products, FOCKE & CO’s case packers offer careful handling alongside the flexibility to accommodate tray, tray-with-lid, and case (RSC) packaging. In fact, our machines – such as the HFP Base (Highly Flexible Packer) – provide multiple pack configurations that normally cannot be achieved with a typical case packer. With a clean machine concept and a compact footprint, our HFP Base is designed to fir perfectly into typical snack food production lines.
Salea and Service Worldwide
With sales and service centers worldwide, FOCKE & CO has the capabilities to deliver local technical support, training, and spare parts. FOCKE & CO has repeatedly set new benchmarks in terms of output and product quality. Our ground-breaking technologies in the field of motion control combined with components featuring extreme dimensional accuracy are highly acclaimed in the industry. This is why we are the leader in Packaging Solutions.
FoodSafe Drains
Phone: (855) 497-7508
As a food processor, we know your number one priority is cleanliness, which is why we build drainage systems that are sanitary and safe for all types of food production applications. We can help with drainage systems that stand up to the roughest wear, keep both your floor and products bacteria-free, and are easy to clean. Whatever your application, we have the custom drainage solutions to fit your unique needs.
FoodSafe Slot Drain - People, equipment, and your products are constantly moving, and your floor needs to stay safe. That means you need drainage that is bacteria- resistant, durable, and easy to clean to sanitation standards — you need a Slot Drain system.
Our Slot Drain systems are built to integrate into your existing workflow and equipment placement and feature no-niche designs that are easy to clean, with options to suit all applications. FoodSafe Trench Drain - When solid materials accumulate and plug a drain, it can create backups, which can cause accidents and delays in your workflow. With several design options to choose from, you can safely, quickly, and easily dispose of solids.
FoodSafe Area Drain - Standing water can cause a multitude of issues in your facility, from bacterial accumulation to accidents, terrible odors, and worse. Our area drains can help make your facility more hygienic, safer, and can help reduce nasty odors. FoodSafe area drains also feature tamper-proof strainers, allowing you to protect your facility by ensuring that only designated employees can access them.
Contact us today to talk about any upcoming projects - our drainage experts are ready to assist!
Frain Industries
Frain is Transforming Equipment Delivery!
Frain Industries partners with over 70 original equipment manufacturers (OEMs), giving customers access to a vast selection of new high-quality, industry-standard machinery. This strategic collaboration ensures that businesses across multiple sectors can obtain the latest and most efficient equipment for their production, packaging, and processing needs. Frain boasts an impressive inventory of new machinery, spanning categories like food processing, packaging, and end-of-line systems. From filling machines and labeling equipment to conveyors and palletizers, Frain supports industries such as pharmaceuticals, cosmetics, and food and beverage with comprehensive production line solutions.
Flexible Rental Options for Scaling
For businesses looking to address short-term needs or scale quickly, Frain offers a rental fleet of 2,500 New machines across 100 equipment categories. This flexibility allows companies to manage temporary projects, pilot new products, and adjust to fluctuating demand without the financial commitment of purchasing new machinery.
Rapid Delivery for Quick Market Response
One of Frain’s unique advantages is its ability to deliver equipment in as little as 48 hours, significantly reducing lead times. While traditional equipment procurement can take months, Frain’s plug-and-play-ready machinery helps companies remain agile, minimize downtime, and maximize productivity.
Comprehensive Support and Customization
In addition to a wide range of equipment, Frain provides value-added services like engineering support, installation assistance, and equipment customization. This ensures businesses receive tailored solutions that integrate seamlessly into their existing operations, allowing them to streamline processes and respond swiftly to market changes.
Fristam Pumps USA
2410 Parview Road Middleton, WI 53562
Phone: 800-841-5001
www.fristam.com/usa
Email: fristam@fristampumps.com
Fristam: Engineered for Excellence in Fluid Handling
Fristam is a global leader in high-quality sanitary pumps, blenders, and mixers designed for precision, durability, and reliable performance, delivering dependable operation with exceptional support for even the most demanding applications. Proudly made in the USA, our portfolio includes:
Blenders & Mixers: Fristam offers Powder Mixers for efficient blending of wet and dry ingredients, handling viscosities up to 1,000,000 cps; Colloid Mixers for precise liquid-particle integration; and Shear Blenders that eliminate agglomerates, reduce ingredient waste, and cut processing time. Our new PL Series Powder Dissolver is designed for fast, lump-free powder incorporation, improving batch consistency while reducing operator intervention and cleanup time.
Twin Screw Pumps: Our FDS Series twin screw pumps handle both product and CIP transfer, eliminating the need for additional pumps and piping. They gently process a wide range of products, from thick to thin and chunky to smooth.
Positive Displacement Pumps: Fristam’s FKL Series is one of the most durable, high-performance pumps on the market. With heavy-duty, high-pressure models and gentle, low-pulsation options, the FKL ensures easy CIP, simplified maintenance, and reliable operation for demanding applications.
Centrifugal Pumps: Our centrifugal pumps set the standard for quiet, efficient, low-maintenance operation and are available in standard-duty, heavy-duty, highpressure, front-loading seal, and self-priming models.
Why choose Fristam? Every application is unique. That’s why we offer a comprehensive range of pumps, blenders, and mixers, backed by experienced application experts who deliver the right solution from the start.
1050 Nepperhan Avenue, Yonkers, NY 10703
Phone: 914/968-8400
www.graphalloy.com
Email: sales@graphalloy.com
FDA Acceptable GRAPHALLOY® Bushings eliminate maintenance and frequent replacements in food applications. Graphalloy is self lubricating and requires no grease or oil, performs in temperatures from –400°F (-240°C) to +1000°F (535°C), works submerged in low viscosity and corrosive liquids, and there is no lubricant loss in steam or pressure wash.
A bakery oven OEM was using rolling element bearings on the conveyor circuit of a tunnel oven with a temperature range from 450°F to 650°F. To reach these bearings, mechanics would have to crawl over the oven belt when the machine was shut down, thus causing damage and presenting a safety risk. Another issue was caustic washdowns that rusted the ball bearings. In some applications, bearing life was as little as 2 weeks. They were researching solutions when they discovered GRAPHALLOY. Graphalloy self-lubricating bushing materials thrive in high temperature environments, handle caustic washdowns, and are maintenance-free. These Graphalloy bushings in stainless steel pillow block housings have been running in this application for several years with no issues.
A seafood processing plant in the Southeast was running a conveyor in their freezer area to “flash-freeze” fresh seafood. The environment is a difficult one: The temperature is cold (28°F/-2°C) and wet and the system requires frequent washdown. The conveyor bearings were being replaced every month. The plant maintenance superintendent contacted GRAPHALLOY about the problem. It was determined that the current bearings could not hold lubrication under these conditions and, as a result, breakdowns were occurring frequently. Graphalloy 4-bolt flange block assemblies were installed and have been running successfully for more than five years!
Harpak-ULMA Packaging, LLC
85 Independence Drive, Taunton, MA 02780
Phone: 800-813-6644
www.harpak-ulma.com
Email: info@harpak-ulma.com
Harpak-ULMA Packaging is the North American arm of ULMA, a $1B industry leader in complete automated packaging line solutions for food, medical, and industrial products. Harpak-ULMA provides smart, connected packaging systems including tray sealing, thermoforming, horizontal ffs, vertical ffs, flow wrapping, multihead weighing, wet and dry filling systems, robotic loading and unloading systems, metal detection, x-ray, checkweighing, labeling, vision inspection, cartoning, sleeving, case packing, and palletizing.
These systems form the backbone of complete, integrated lines that reduce customers’ total cost of ownership, address the challenges of an aging, scarce workforce, and improve maintenance and operations via Harpak-ULMA’s extensive service offerings and 24/7 support, and competitive parts sourcing with sameday shipping. In addition, Harpak-ULMA represents G. Mondini tray sealers and Cabinplant’s advanced weighing systems and complementary processing solutions in the United States and Canada.
Since joining the Rockwell Automation Partner Network in 2018, Harpak-ULMA has leveraged Rockwell’s controls and information platforms to deliver greater efficiency, uptime, throughput, and package quality — while reducing waste.
Heat and Control, Inc.
www.heatandcontrol.com
Heat and Control® provides food industry leading equipment solutions and service– Raw Produce Preparation, Processing, Conveying, Weighing, Packaging, Inspection, Controls & Information, and Training. Established in 1950, we have 12 manufacturing, warehouse, and associated facilities, 12 testing centers, and more than 30 offices around the world.
Our brands include FastBack® (horizontal motion conveyors and on-machine seasoning), Spray Dynamics® (coating and seasoning application systems), Mastermatic (fryers), and we partner with Ishida (weighing, packaging, and inspection), and CEIA® (metal detection).
Food Processing–From frying and baking to raw produce preparation, water saving, energy-saving, and pollution control.
Seasoning Application–Our comprehensive range of seasoning solutions for on-machine or process area deliver top performance, efficiency, application accuracy, reduced waste, higher yield, and improved working environment for operators.
Conveying and Product Handling–Everything you need to move your product from start to end. We provide a wide variety of conveying and product handling systems.
Our broad range of solutions lets us design the most appropriate machine or combination for your application. We assist manufacturers with equipment for all types of food products, as well as provide pre- and post-sale technical support, including applications assistance, engineering, installation, parts, service, and training.
High Tek USA
Equipment
High Tek USA designs and manufactures advanced weighing and packaging equipment trusted by leading food producers worldwide.
From bulk goods to delicate specialty items, our machines deliver precision, speed, and reliability across industries. Operating out of our 15,000-square-foot facility in Northern California, we offer a full line of automated solutions, including combination weighers, baggers, conveyors, and integrated packaging systems engineered to keep your production competitive.
Service
Our commitment to customer success extends far beyond installation. With 24/7 technical service and support, global emergency assistance, and highly trained service personnel, High Tek ensures your equipment runs at peak performance. Our team delivers preventive maintenance, in-person service and training, and on-site support tailored to your production environment.
Parts
To minimize downtime, we maintain one of the most comprehensive inventories of replacement parts in the industry. From critical components to wear-and-tear spares, our stocked warehouse ensures fast delivery when you need it most. We also specialize in refurbished Ishida scales, fully inspected and ready to perform.
Hiperbaric - High Pressure Processing
2250 NW 84th Ave. Unit #101, Doral, FL 33122 USA
Phone: 305-639-9770
www.hiperbaric.com
Email: marketing@hiperbaric.com
High Pressure Processing - Food Safety. Extended Shelf Life. Clean Label.
Hiperbaric is the world’s leading supplier of High Pressure Processing (HPP) equipment for the food and beverage industry.
HPP technology is a non-thermal processing technique by which products are subjected to a high level of isostatic pressure to inactivate foodborne pathogens such as Salmonella, E. coli and Listeria, extending the shelf life considerably, without the need for preservatives.
HPP also preserves the quality of fresh food, opens opportunities to new markets for clean label products due to the extension of shelf life and protects brands against recalls.
HPP is a highly versatile technology that can be applied to a wide range of foods: juices and beverages, meat, fish and shellfish, fruits and vegetables, wet salads, dips, and sauces, pet food products and Ready-To-Eat products.
Hiperbaric industrial High Pressure Processing (HPP) units are designed to be the most reliable systems in the market, with the widest throughput range of industrial HPP machines meeting the requirements of start-ups, small-medium enterprises and large corporations.
Its horizontal layout and ergonomic design simplify installation and operations. Each machine can reach up to 6,000 bar / 600 MPa / 87,000 psi. In addition to the HPP In-Pack equipment (post-packaging process), Hiperbaric offers HPP Bulk equipment for the processing of large volumes of HPP liquids before packaging.
Hydro-Thermal® Corporation, a global leader in fluid heating for 90+ years, offers patented DSI technology for precise heating in industries like food, beverage, chemicals, and more. Based in Wisconsin, USA our ISO:9001-certified facility delivers custom solutions for operational excellence and meet high sanitation standards.
What Sets Us Apart:
We understand the importance of precise temperature control in manufacturing. Our tailored solutions include installation scheduling, training, preventative maintenance, and replacement parts, ensuring a seamless experience.
Dedicated Support Team:
Our Service Team backs every installation, providing expert assistance in-house to maintain reliability and peace of mind.
Efficiency Through Innovation:
Our DSI technology ensures superior heat transfer, significant energy savings, enhanced process control, and the ability to handle high-viscosity slurries without burn-on.
Exceptional Product Range:
• ydroheater etcooker eliable solutions or continuous cooking and heating.
• ydron - certi ied sanitary heaters or lexible, stable, high-quality processes.
• E eater Compact, e icient heaters or rapid water heating.
• O recision heaters or demanding applications re uiring fine-tuned control.
• Solaris ower ul solutions or large-scale heating with precision and energy efficiency.
At Hydro-Thermal, we are committed to efficiency, innovation, and customer support. Partner with us to optimize your heating and processing systems while saving time, energy, and money.
Industrial Magnetics, Inc
Phone: 800-662-4638
Industrial Magnetics is a leading force in the magnetics industry, known for its strong emphasis on customized craftsmanship, quality, and performance. Since 1961, IMI has delivered exceptional solutions to meet customer needs, resulting in the widespread adoption of magnetic equipment in manufacturing processes worldwide.
IMI provides magnet options to purify your product from ferrous metal contamination and defend downstream equipment. Gravity-fed magnetic separators like the Drawer-In-Housing contains rows of round 1”, 2” or 3” magnetic tubes assembled into drawers and contained within a housing. Specialty units like The Ox® can handle magnetic separation in difficult processing conditions, such as high or low ambient temperatures, high humidity, bridging, abrasive, corrosive, or galling tendencies. IMI Magnetic Grates separate ferrous tramp metal in bins, chutes, drawers, hoppers, and enclosures. Plate Magnets are the optimal solution for angled chute applications.
IMI offers the best options for liquid line production needs. The Plate Style T-Trap is ideal for carrying viscous or fibrous products through the housing without plugging. The Tube Style T-Trap is optimal for heavy-duty flow systems. Our Multi Tube Style is now offered in our Patent Pending Radius Plate Design, which features double-welding, preventing tube breakage and enhancing durability.
Our Exposed Pole Tube protects pneumatic line system machinery and ensures purity when installed before processing equipment and bulk load outs. The Bullet® Magnet is shaped with a solid stainless steel nose cone diverter. This magnet maintains uniform velocity in line flow, allowing it to be used anywhere in your system.
When it comes to making things better, Industrial Magnetics is a magnetics industry leader.
At Jabil Packaging Solutions (JPS), headquartered in Florida (US), we empower leading CPG brands in food & beverage, home care, personal care, and professional care to create standout packaging across intelligent, active, rigid, and sustainable formats. Through purposeful innovation, advanced conversion capabilities, material science expertise, and world-class manufacturing, we co-develop transformative solutions that drive performance and differentiation.
With a strong focus on source reduction and circularity, our brand Ecologic Brands enables JPS to deliver scalable molded fiber packaging through a fullservice development approach—from concept to industrialization. This empowers CPG brands to achieve ambitious sustainability goals without compromising on quality or scalability. In today’s packaging landscape, innovation must go hand-in-hand with environmental responsibility. Ecologic Brands by JPS is at the forefront of this transformation, offering molded fiber solutions that are not only high-performing and scalable but also environmentally conscious. With decades of experience and a pioneering spirit, Ecologic helps global brands reimagine what packaging can be.
From concept to commercialization, Ecologic and JPS provide a seamless, endto- end packaging development journey. Whether refining an existing product or launching something entirely new, our team supports partners through design, validation, technology scouting, and high-output manufacturing—all under one roof. The result? Streamlined execution and accelerated time-to-market.
Our integrated team of fiber and plastic experts eliminates silos and handoffs, we take a holistic view of packaging—considering every element across the product lifecycle. Our in-house design teams, packaging assessment processes, and global material sourcing network make us uniquely equipped to support your next project. Ready to lead the change with us? Let’s build the future of packaging together.
JAX INC.
N59
Phone: 262/781-8850
Since 1955, JAX has been at the forefront of industrial and food grade lubrication innovation. We offer hundreds of fluid, grease, and aerosol solutions for hydraulics, gears, compressors, conveyors, chains, and more.
For the food processing industry, JAX delivers specialized, high-performance lubricants tailored to the needs of bakeries, meat packers, beverage bottlers, and other plant environments. All JAX lubricants are manufactured in ISO 9001:2015-certified facilities and developed in accordance with ISO 21469:2006 principles for hygienic lubricant design and manufacturing.
Our team of technical service representatives, scientists, and chemists is dedicated to helping your equipment perform at its best. From in-plant service and training to product application support, we work with you to keep your operations running smoothly and efficiently.
Innovation drives everything we do. In our RPM Innovation Center, we design and test products to meet your precise needs, combining research with realworld insights. Our in-house used oil analysis program helps you monitor performance and address potential concerns before they impact your operations.
We’re passionate about solving tough challenges and creating lubrication solutions for your business. Contact JAX to discover how we can help you achieve optimal performance and long-term success. www.jax.com Email: info@jax.com
Key Technology Inc.
150
Avery Street, Walla Walla, WA 99362 United States
Phone: 509-529-2161
www.key.net
Email: product.info@key.net
Key Technology, a member of Duravant’s Food Sorting and Handling Group, is a global leader in designing and manufacturing automation systems including optical sorters, vibratory conveyors, and other food processing equipment. With 75 years of experience serving industries from confectionery and produce to meat, poultry, and nuts, Key delivers solutions that elevate product quality and processing efficiency.
Drawing on deep application expertise, Key partners closely with processors to understand challenges and deliver seamlessly integrated, customized systems that drive measurable improvements and strong ROI.
Optical Sorting
Key’s optical sorters help processors enhance product quality, increase yield, and reduce labor. These systems inspect every object for color, size, shape, and structural characteristics to identify and remove product defects. They also effectively detect and eliminate foreign material—such as plastic, metal, glass, and paper—to protect brand integrity and food safety.
Food Handling
Key’s food handling solutions—including horizontal motion and vibratory conveying systems—are engineered to match each processor’s unique product characteristics and line requirements. These conveyors improve throughput by aligning, singulating, feeding, collecting, and distributing product for downstream processes such as packaging, while also performing tasks like dewatering, deoiling and more.
7000 High Grove Boulevard, Burr Ridge, IL 60527
Phone: 1-844-44LINDE
www.lindeus.com
Email: contactus@lindeus.com
Rapid heat removal with cryogenic liquid nitrogen or liquid carbon dioxide offers processors a variety of options that meet their processing needs. Customers working with Linde’s industrial gas and equipment systems can boost productivity and maintain high product quality targets in freezing, chilling and cooling operations. Tunnel, spiral, flighted, snowing and in-line cooling systems provide cost saving benefits to our customers.
For Linde and the food processing market areas we serve, there are three unique competencies to address the needs of our customers. The focus on 1) product temperature through precise heat removing properties of cryogenic gases, 2) the scientific application knowledge of the gases and gas atmospheres acquired by servicing thousands of customers, and 3) the system support coupled with engineering experience that allow our customers to rely on Linde to help improve productivity.
Linde is a leading global industrial gases and engineering company. We live our mission of making our world more productive every day by providing high-quality gases, application technologies and services which are making our customers more successful and helping to sustain and protect our planet.
The company serves a variety of end markets including chemicals & refining, food & beverage, electronics, healthcare, manufacturing and primary metals. Linde’s industrial gases are used in countless applications, from life-saving oxygen for hospitals to highpurity & specialty gases for electronics manufacturing, hydrogen for clean fuels and much more.
For more information ... please visit www.lindeus.com/food
Layton Systems
From One Conveyor to Fully Integrated Turnkey Systems
Layton Systems designs custom conveying and material handling solutions for food processors, from single conveyors to turnkey systems, built for high throughput, sanitation, reliability, accessibility, and long-term maintainability.
Key capabilities include:
1. Horizontal, incline, vertical, spiral, and platform conveying
2. Custom layouts designed to match specific process requirements
3. Scalable solutions from single conveyors to full plant systems
4. Belt, electromagnetic, and brute-force conveying systems
5. High-volume, long-distance single conveyor solutions
6. Seasoning, blending, and weighing applications
Processing markets and applications served:
Snack foods, Bakery, Confectionery, Proteins, Prepared foods, Fruits, Produce, Pet foods, and more
Project execution approach:
• n-house engineering, abrication, and installation
• Single-source accountability rom design through commissioning
• Shorter delivery timelines
Whether addressing a specific conveying need or delivering a fully integrated turnkey system, Layton Systems provides practical, customized solutions that support efficient and reliable processing operations.
Lubriplate Lubricants Company
Newark, NJ 07105 / Toledo, OH 43605
Phone: 800-733-4755
www.lubriplate.com
Email: LubeXpert@lubriplate.com
Lubriplate Lubricants Company
Advancing Lubrication For 156 Years.
Back in 1870, Lubriplate’s founders set out to make the highest quality, best performing lubricants available. In doing so, they helped pioneer the use of antiwear additives that significantly increased lubricant performance through the years. Today, that innovative tradition continues with their complete line of ultra high-performance, 100% Synthetic, NSF H1 Registered, Food Grade Lubricants. Manufactured under strict NSF/ ISO 21469 Certified and ISO 9001 Registered quality control standards, these lubricants are formulated to deliver a number of significant, cost effective advantages, including; extended lube and fluid change intervals, multiple application capability, lubricant inventory consolidation and improved performance. Clean, safe and non-toxic, their use can eliminate lubrication as a critical control point in HACCP programs.
All Lubriplate Lubricants come with Lubriplate’s ESP Extra Services Package at no additional charge. Services include; a complimentary plant lubrication survey by a factory direct representative, color coded lubrication charts and machinery tags, a toll free technical support hotline and email, and follow-up lubricant analysis.
Frick delivers industry leading refrigeration solutions engineered for unmatched reliability, efficiency, and long-term value. With nearly 150 years of expertise, Frick designs and manufactures high quality air handling units, ammonia refrigeration compressors, and advanced system technologies that help you stay focused on your core operations—not your cooling equipment.
Our engineers continuously refine and enhance Frick products, integrating new capabilities and offering upgrade paths for existing installations to keep your systems current and performing at their best. Every solution is tailored to the unique demands of your industry, ensuring optimal reliability, energy efficiency, and total cost of ownership.
Whether you’re navigating regulatory requirements, lowering maintenance costs, or improving operational efficiency, Frick delivers refrigeration systems that meet—or exceed—your performance expectations.
M&M Carnot delivers safe, efficient, and sustainable refrigeration solutions designed to meet the demands of modern industrial and commercial operations. As a North American leader in design, manufacturing, service, and controls, we provide natural refrigerant systems that help customers achieve their performance and sustainability goals.
Since 1969, M&M Carnot has commissioned thousands of installations worldwide, building a reputation for excellence in safety, innovation, and on time delivery. Our mission is to “cool the world” with environmentally responsible refrigeration, and our vision is to advance natural refrigerant technology across the globe.
From standard packaged solutions to fully engineered, field erected systems, M&M Carnot designs, manufactures, builds, and services complete refrigeration and controls tailored to every industrial need.
Massman Companies
Phone: 320/554-3611 2800
Massman Companies builds automated packaging machinery for Food and Beverage manufacturers, helping deliver efficient, reliable, and scalable packaging lines.
Driven by a mission to provide the BEST-RUNNING MACHINES IN THE FACTORY, our brands have the collective expertise to offer critical packaging technologies spanning the beginning to the end of your production line and everything in between – all while working with a single partner. This coordinated approach helps simplify procurement, machine integration, and ongoing service for food packaging operations.
Working closely with customers allows us to understand production goals, facility/space needs, and your product specifications. This is how we design the exact machine to meet your food safety requirements while also providing equipment that exceeds operational efficiency and long-term performance.
- MASSMAN AUTOMATION builds Case Packers, Vertical Cartoners, Pre-made Pouch Fillers, Palletizers, and more.
- EDL builds LDPE film Shrink Bundling, Wrapping systems, and more.
- IDEAL PASE and DTM PACKAGING build Liquid Filling Solutions across multiple package sizes and formats.
- NEW ENGLAND MACHINERY builds Unscramblers, Orienters, Cappers, and more.
- ADCO MANUFACTURING builds Horizontal Cartoners, Sleevers, Tray Forming systems, and more.
Together, we have the unique capability of offering a single agreement for all the machines needed on your production line. www.Massman.com
MATERIAL TRANSFER
1214 Lincoln Road Allegan, MI 49010
Phone: 269-673-2125
From food ingredients and specialty chemicals to pharmaceuticals and industrial powders, Material Transfer has spent more than 35 years solving complex bulk material handling challenges. We design and engineer systems for demanding industries, moving materials safely, efficiently, and in full compliance with industry standards.
Solutions for Every Material, Every Industry
Material Transfer designs and manufactures a complete range of bulk material handling equipment, including precision bulk bag fillers and dischargers, automated bag conditioning systems, airtight vacuum conveying (ConveyX™), dusttight bag dump stations, and ergonomic drum and container handling systems. From free-flowing granules to cohesive powders, fragile ingredients to abrasive compounds, our systems are engineered to match each material’s unique properties.
Industry-Specific Expertise
Our experience spans food and beverage processing, pharmaceuticals, chemicals, plastics and resins, agriculture, and specialty materials. We understand sector-specific requirements such as sanitary design, explosion-proof construction, and corrosion-resistant finishes. As a UL508A and 698A certified panel builder, we design control systems for Class I and Class II environments, ensuring compliance in the most stringent applications.
Custom Engineering, Nationwide Service
Every system is engineered to order and designed to integrate seamlessly with existing processes. We provide nationwide support from consultation and engineering through installation, commissioning, and ongoing service, partnering with you to solve today’s challenges and scale for tomorrow’s growth.
Driven by excellence. www.materialtransfer.com
Matthews Marking Systems
What We Do
We deliver precision marking and coding systems that ensure every product, carton, and pallet leaves your facility clearly marked, compliant, and protected. Our solutions are built to be intuitive and reliable, helping manufacturers maintain brand integrity and meet regulatory standards without disruption.
Why Work with Us
We make it easy to do business with us. Our systems are designed to simplify operations and instill trust, so you can focus on growth, not guesswork. Whether you’re navigating complex compliance requirements or scaling production, we’re your dependable partner in product identification.
Who We Are
We are Matthews Marking Systems, your trusted marking and coding partner. With decades of experience and a commitment to operational excellence, we empower manufacturers worldwide to operate with confidence. Every solution we offer is backed by a promise: to protect your brand, your customers, and your production flow.
Matthews Marking Systems is a global leader in marking and coding solutions. Manufacturers trust us to ensure every product leaves their facility clearly marked, compliant, and protected. With over 170 years of experience, we deliver intuitive and precision-engineered systems that simplify operations and build confidence across packaging and industrial applications. Our MPERIA automation platform centralizes control of marking processes across primary, secondary, and tertiary packaging, regardless of equipment or vendor. This helps customers maintain brand integrity and meet regulatory requirements. Supported by
Phone: (888) 364-7272
Email: mailbox@meadhunt.com
Founded as a consulting firm in 1900, Mead & Hunt is a full-service national engineering, architecture, and construction firm. Since 1949, we have been providing planning and design services for capital projects in the food & beverage industry.
By listening closely to your project needs and goals, we become an extension of your team to develop a sound business case for your project. Our comprehensive, in-house service offerings allow us to execute projects from planning through construction and start-up. We specialize in:
• rchitecture
• Civil
• Commissioning
• Construction management
• Environmental
• Electrical
• Fire protection
• nstrumentation and controls
• aster planning
• echanical
• ackaging
• lumbing
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• Sanitary design
• Structural
• echnology systems
• Water wastewater www.meadhunt.com/markets/food-beverage
200 Somerset Corporate Blvd., Suite 7000, Bridgewater, NJ 08807, USA
Phone: 800/755-9277
Email: sales@messer-us.com
www.messer-us.com/food-beverage
Messer is a leading innovator in cryogenic solutions for the food and beverage industry. From boosting freezing and chilling capacity to reliably delivering beverage-grade gases for bottlers and brewers, Messer has a proven track record for supporting your production goals.
Proven Freezing and Chilling Solutions: Our experienced team develops solutions that have a direct impact on the bottom line for protein, bakery, and prepared food processors. Since the early ‘70s, Messer’s team has designed and installed nearly 2,500 pieces of cryogenic application equipment for food customers.
Our new KwikChiller technology delivers high-capacity chilling or freezing in a compact footprint—can remove up to 30% more heat than traditional freezers. By providing rapid and uniform temperature control, the versatile KwikChiller improves yield for chilling poultry in combo bins or boosts throughput for both full and crust-freezing. It even fits through a standard dock door for easy installation.
Messer’s full portfolio of spiral and tunnel freezing technologies can boost production on new and existing lines for raw products, individually quick frozen (IQF) products, hot products or cryo-assisted mechanical freezing applications. Messer’s propriety nitrogen and CO2 bottom injection chilling systems improve production, appearance, yield and batch-to-batch repeatability.
Critical Beverage Grade Gases that Meet your Quality Requirements: Messer delivers a reliable supply of beverage grade CO2 and nitrogen with a responsive and knowledgeable service. Our award-winning team continues to be recognized by some of the world’s leading beverage brands by offering: Tailored application solutions to protect product quality; Quick service response during demand challenges; and Turnkey beverage gas installation.
We continue to invest in our people and gas network to provide the support you need to protect product quality and keep your lines running. Speak with our experienced team to learn more.
Metsä Board
Phone: (203) 229-7480
Email: americas.metsaboard@metsagroup.com
www.metsagroup.com/metsaboard
Metsä Board is a leading European producer of premium fresh fiber paperboards, recognized for its lightweight, high-quality folding boxboards, food service boards, and white kraftliners. With a strong focus on sustainability and performance, the company is helping shape the future of packaging for the global food and food service industries.
Effective food packaging is essential - It must protect the product, ensure safety, and make handling and consumption convenient—all while serving as a powerful branding tool. Our fresh fiber paperboards deliver on these requirements, combining functionality with superior printability to create packaging that stands out on the shelf and supports brand identity.
Metsä Board’s lightweight paperboards are ideal for a wide range of food packaging applications, including dry foods, refrigerated and/or frozen foods, confectionary, bakery and more.
Our product is also an excellent material for food service applications. When enhanced with barrier properties, the boards resist moisture, water, and grease—making them suitable for demanding food service environments, including hot and cold drink cups, single-use plates and bowls, trays and takeout containers.
This versatility makes Metsä Board a trusted partner for food manufacturers seeking packaging solutions that balance performance, safety, and sustainability. These solutions combine practicality with environmental responsibility, offering alternatives to traditional plastic-based packaging.
As consumer expectations evolve and regulatory pressures intensify, Metsä Board remains at the forefront of change—helping shape a packaging industry that is safer, smarter, and more sustainable.
METTLER TOLEDO
1571 Northpointe Pkwy, Lutz, FL 33558 USA
Phone: 813-889-9500
Email: pi.marketing@mt.com
The METTLER TOLEDO Product Inspection division designs and manufactures both standard and customized inspection solutions, prioritizing product safety, brand protection and quality assurance for food, pharmaceutical and chemical brands. Its solutions help to empower businesses to optimize operations, reduce costs and embrace digital transformation while meeting regulatory compliance. With a focus on safety and precision, our innovative solutions help deliver measurable results, enabling manufacturers to maintain the highest standards of product integrity and consumer trust. By partnering with METTLER TOLEDO, manufacturers will have the opportunity to navigate the challenges of the modern business landscape and achieve sustainable growth.
With cutting-edge foreign body detection solutions, METTLER TOLEDO provides advanced holistic technologies that automate critical processes and help to mitigate recall risks. Metal detection and x-ray inspection technologies detect and reject contaminated product, plus support product quality and brand protection. Precision checkweighing technologies help manufacturers identify costly over-fills and/or avoid potentially brand damaging under-fills, improving production line efficiency. Vision inspection solutions detect label defects, reducing the risk of rework and product recalls. To facilitate real-time monitoring and digitalize food safety compliance on a global scale, METTLER TOLEDO provides the proprietary and innovative data management software, ProdX™.
The range of METTLER TOLEDO product inspection solutions are more than just technological innovations – they’re strategic assets that support business success by helping to enhance productivity, reduce costs and embrace digitalization. As a trusted partner, METTLER TOLEDO is focused on delivering value and driving industry excellence for its clients worldwide.
Miura America Co., Ltd.
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Phone: 678-685-0929
www.miuraboiler.com/mi
Email: us.info@miuraz.com
Optimize Without Oversizing: The Power of Miura’s Multiple Installation (MI) System
In today’s industrial landscape, efficiency and adaptability are essential. Miura’s Multiple Installation (MI) System transforms steam boiler operations with a modular, on-demand design that boosts efficiency, cuts fuel consumption, and reduces NOx emissions.
Unlike traditional oversized firetube boilers, Miura’s MI System uses smaller, modular boilers that operate independently. This flexibility ensures steam production matches real-time demand, minimizing fuel waste, extending equipment life, and enhancing precision.
Why Choose Miura’s MI System?
• Optimi ed E iciency - iura’s System activates boilers only when needed, cutting fuel waste and saving up to 20% annually.
• Compact Design - With less than hal the ootprint o traditional boilers, Miura’s modular units free up valuable space for operations or expansion.
• eliability - he System distributes steam loads across multiple boilers, creating built-in redundancy. If one boiler goes offline, others seamlessly maintain operations.
• Sustainability - iura signi icantly reduces CO and Ox emissions, helping facilities meet environmental regulations and lead as eco-conscious industry players.
Discover the iura di erence optimi ed e iciency, adaptability, and sustainability for your operations.
Contact Miura today to learn more!
MSKTD & ASSOCIATES
1715 Magnavox Way, Fort Wayne, IN 46804 - United States
Phone: 260-432-9337
www.MSKTD.com
Email: Brent Doctor - BAD@MSKTD.com
MSKTD & ASSOCIATES PROVIDES SPECIALIZED, EXPERT DESIGN SOLUTIONS FOR THE HIGH-PERFORMING DEMANDS OF THE FOOD PROCESSING INDUSTRY NATIONWIDE.
Our in-house team of architects, engineers, interior designers, and landscape architects will work closely with you to deliver what’s important—customized design solutions, performance expectations, stringent hygienic design requirements, confidentiality, growth flexibility, managed budget constraints, and cohesive, efficient project execution. With decades of experience and a history of repeat clients, our proven track record is built on established trust and extensive expertise in food processing facility types, including:
• Dairy li uid, solid, powder
• rotein poultry red meats
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• Baked Fried Foods
• Cold Box coolers ree ers
• Con ectionary Sugar
• Controlled Environments
• ce Cream
• ow-Ox
• aw ngredients
• Sanitary
• Soups Sauces more
Our designs comply with SD , FD , S F, B C, B, and other industry standards. And with professional licenses in over 30 states, we have successfully completed hundreds of large-scale projects across the United States, always prioritizing our clients’ unique needs and goals. AT MSKTD, WE DESIGN FACILITIES THAT PERFORM.
Munson Machinery Co., Inc.
Phone: 315-797-0090
Email: info@munsonmachinery.com
www.munsonmachinery.com
LEADERS IN MIXING, BLENDING AND SIZE REDUCTION MACHINERY SINCE 1823
Munson Machinery Company is a leading manufacturer of mixing, blending, size reduction and separation equipment serving the food, dairy, coffee/tea, nutraceutical and hemp industries.
Munson offers the industry’s widest selection of equipment for mixing and blending of bulk food products (with or without liquid additions) including: Rotary Batch Mixers, Ribbon/Paddle/Plow Blenders, Cylindrical Plow Blenders, VeeCone Blenders, Fluidized Bed Mixers, Rotary Continuous Mixers, and Variable Intensity Blenders.
For size reduction of spices, herbs, nuts, dates, roots, grains, beans and other bulk food products, Munson manufactures Lump Breakers, Pin Mills, Attrition Mills, Screen Classifying Cutters, Knife Cutters, Shredders, and Hammer Mills.
For solids separation, the Munson’s Centrifugal Sifter can sift and scalp bulk food materials at high rates with virtually no product degradation.
Munson equipment is available constructed of #304 or #316 stainless steel and finished to food, USDA dairy or pharmaceutical standards, with optional CIP systems.
The exceptionally broad selection of full size equipment in Munson’s laboratory allows side-by-side testing of your actual material, and documents precisely how effective—or ineffective—any given machine would be at meeting your specific performance requirements. This assists you in specifying a machine at no cost or obligation and takes the risk out of purchasing bulk food processing machinery.
MXD Process
Reliable Equipment, Tailored for Your Needs
We provide dependable liquid processing equipment for industries like specialty chemicals, food & beverage, and personal care. From mixers and tanks to complete process systems, we help manufacturers tackle their unique production challenges with practical, effective solutions.
Products That Fit Your Process
Our product range includes industrial mixers, high shear mixing equipment, stainless steel tanks, and turnkey systems. Whether you’re scaling up production or improving an existing process, we offer both standard and custom equipment to match your specific needs.
Focused on Your Success
At MXD Process, we work directly with customers to understand their goals and provide equipment that works seamlessly within their operations. Our team supports you from design and manufacturing to installation and beyond, ensuring long-term performance and reliability.
Why Work With MXD Process?
Paxton Products, an ITW Company
Phone: (513) 891-7485 10125
Paxton Products manufactures high efficiency centrifugal air blowers and custom-engineered pneumatic air delivery devices and systems that are used for drying, air rinsing, and blow-off, in order to improve the quality of drying, air rinsing, labeling, date coding, and other packaging processes.
NEW CONTROL PANEL
The new Control Panel from Paxton Products offers manufacturers a simplified solution to manage Paxton’s Centrifugal Blowers in a turnkey manner. Designed for easy installation and scalability, Paxton’s Control Panel is ideal for simply controlling your Paxton Blower System while upholding safety standards and ensuring the highest of quality during operation. With the Paxton Control Panel, there’s no need for third party motor starters or VFDs; it provides a comprehensive solution for your blower system with features like a Variable Frequency Drive (VFD), centralized control, washdown compliance and more.
IONIZING RINSING SYSTEMS – STATIC ELIMINATION
Coupled with Paxton’s own Centrifugal Blowers, Paxton’s Ionizing Rinsing Systems are designed to dissipate the static charges that cause dirt and debris to adhere to surfaces, and then blast the contaminants away using ultra-efficient, blower-driven air. Using a specially designed Air Knife or Nozzle Manifold, Paxton’s Ionizing Systems are available for can or bottle rinsing and eliminate the need for compressed air or water rinsing.
HIGH EFFICIENCY CENTRIFUGAL BLOWERS
Paxton’s own PX-Series line of high efficiency centrifugal blowers use state-ofthe-art impellers and scroll designs to achieve efficiencies as high as 80%, to generate 33% more air flow than a standard centrifugal blower. Paxton’s beltdriven, Centrifugal Blowers are available in 2-20 hp, providing air flows from 100–1500 cfm, and come with an industry-best 3-Year Warranty.
Perfex Corporation
Phone: 315-826-3600
www.perfex.com
Email: perfex@perfex.com
Perfex Corporation is a leading manufacturer of innovative cleaning tools for food and pharmaceutical manufacturing environments. Established in 1924, our founder believed cleaning tools should be designed to eliminate associated safety issues, to this day we develop each product with the same idea in mind. Reliable tools, made from quality materials, to meet and exceed the demands of today’s hygienic concerns.
PERFEX fused fiber design eliminates premature fiber fall-out and areas for contaminants to collect. Easily isolate work areas and prevent dangerous crosscontamination with PERFEX Color-Coded Brooms, Brushes, and Squeegees. Made in the USA!
We are also the home of TruCLEAN® mopping systems, a first-of-its-kind design specific for ultra-high sanitation areas, cleanrooms, laboratories, and controlled environments. TruCLEAN mopping systems include autoclave compatible stainless-steel components and temperature-resistant polypropylene buckets. Capture and isolate contaminants to ensure the delivery of pure cleaning agents, NO more dirty water or weakened solutions. Multiple configurations and colorways available, suited for large or small area cleanrooms of any grade.
TruCLEAN mops incorporate specialized materials to promote economical and consistent cleaning methods without leaving residual contaminants. TruCLEAN Sponge Mop is the first mop designed specifically for use in controlled environments and remains the benchmark for critical cleaning professionals worldwide.
Our experienced team is committed to providing you with the most effective cleaning equipment available in the industry today. Perfex representatives are readily available for on-site evaluations, product support, and technical advice. We keep our cleaning tools and supplies well stocked to ensure the safety of your workplace in emergency situations!
Pick Heaters, Inc.
Phone: 262/338-1191
www.pickheaters.com
Email: sales@pickheaters.com
Throughout the food plant, from process heating to plant sanitation, Pick Heaters provide instant, unlimited hot water at a precise temperature. When compared to indirect heat exchangers, Pick can cut energy costs as much as 28% without the maintenance and operational headaches.
Pick offers two types of water/liquid direct steam injection heaters, the constant flow and variable flow models. The constant flow heater mixes medium-to-high pressure steam with cold water and delivers instant hot water. It is ideal when the water flow is fixed or varies over a narrow span (3:1). The variable flow heater is used to accommodate wide variations in demand and frequent start-stop applications and is ideally suited as a central heating system for multiple use points such as hose wash-down stations or plant sanitation.
Pick’s 3A-certified sanitary steam injection heater is the preferred choice for inline product cooking, CIP heating or nitrogen gas injection. It heats/cooks any water-miscible liquid or slurry instantly on a continuous straight through basis. It can handle slurries containing bite sized particulate such as salsas or stews with particulate integrity retained!
Pick Heaters’ products are trusted by many food manufacturers around the world, who value quality, reliability, and performance. Learn more about Pick Heaters and our products at www.pickheaters.com or call 262-338-1191.
PPM Technologies Holdings LLC
500 E.Illinois St. Newberg, OR 97132
Phone: 503-537-5319
www.ppmtech.com
Email: nisch@ppmtech.com
PPM Technologies is a globally recognized manufacturer of industrial foodprocessing equipment for conveying, frying, seasoning, and cooling applications. For over a century, PPM has combined passion and expertise to provide uniquely engineered solutions with new and innovative products designed to improve quality, increase efficiencies, and reduce costs.
Our equipment can be found across industries, including snack foods, cereals, nuts and seeds, fruits and vegetables, meats and plant-based meat alternatives, seafood and poultry, confectionary products, and more.
PPM understands that the food industry is ever-evolving and shaped by dynamic consumer preferences; therefore, we offer a standardized range of products with flexible customization options to meet the unique and specific needs of each customer.
Our portfolio of material handling equipment features a range of high-performance, energy-efficient technology that includes vibratory, horizontal motion, and belt conveyors, as well as bucket elevators and tote dumpers.
Our state-of-the-art seasoning systems ensure your products are accurately and consistently coated or flavored and can be used to apply an array of ingredients, including oils, tacs, gums, slurries, powders, and other particulates.
Our industrial thermal processing line, which includes customizable designs for batch and continuous fryers, offers a selection of reliable safety features, efficient heating systems, and advanced filtration technology to protect oil quality, reduce downtime and save costs.
Premier Tech Systems and Automation
920, Industrial Park Blvd, Montgomery, Alabama, United States, 36117
Phone: 1-866-571-7354
Email: www.ptchronos.com/email-us
www.ptchronos.com/solutions-for#nutrition-section
Premier Tech Systems and Automation designs and delivers automated packaging and palletizing solutions that help manufacturers improve performance while prioritizing the safety of their team members. In the nutrition sector, packaging and handling products requires precision, reliability, and a disciplined engineering approach. Premier Tech Systems and Automation provides food-safe automated solutions aligned with industry requirements: strict hygiene standards, repeatable quality, and reliable performance in high-demand environments.
Premier Tech Systems and Automation especially stands out in powder applications. Decades of engineering and continuous innovation have led to a new air valve bagging technology, developed to address the day-to-day challenges of powder handling in nutritional and industrial plants—where dust control, filling accuracy, and stable output are critical. To maximize line efficiency, Premier Tech Systems and Automation also offers fully integrated configurations combining bagging with downstream automation, including robotic case packers, robotic or conventional palletizers and pallet wrapping systems, enabling consistent, shipping-ready pallets and dependable warehouse operations.
About Premier Tech Systems and Automation
As a world leader in packaging and processing equipment manufacturing, Premier Tech Systems and Automation harnesses the full potential of robotics and automation, helping manufacturers optimize their operations while prioritizing the safety of their teams. With over 100 years of expertise and know-how in the automation industry, the Systems and Automation Business Group of Premier Tech always goes above and beyond to exceed client expectations in weighing, feeding, bagging, palletizing, and load securing.
Driven by a commitment to enhancing client experience and fostering growth, the Premier Tech Client Solutions team offers services such as training, field service, spare parts, upgrades, and 24/7 technical support.
Quickdraft, Inc.
Quickdraft has more than 70 years of experience delivering pneumatic conveying, exhaust, and patented exhaust filtration systems to the food processing industry. Designed to improve food safety, employee safety, and operational efficiency, Quickdraft solutions help processors eliminate persistent production challenges while supporting continuous high-volume packaging operations.
Packaging environments generate significant trim waste, especially in facilities operating multiple packaging lines. Traditional trim handling methods—such as canisters, trim rolls, and manual transport—interrupt production flow, increase labor costs, and create safety concerns. Traffic to compactors can also cause congestion. Quickdraft’s Packaging Trim Removal Systems continuously convey trim waste out of the packaging room without labor, without canisters, and without interrupting the packaging process.
At the core of the system is Quickdraft’s venturi-powered conveying technology. Trim is conveyed without an impeller in the material path, eliminating a common source of wear, plugging and maintenance. With no moving parts in the conveying duct, the system is highly dependable, low maintenance, and capable of 24/7 problem-free operation. The blower handles ambient air and is located outside the processing room, reducing noise while preserving conditioned air.
Trim cutters index directly with packaging machines, cutting continuous trim into smaller pieces to eliminate any probability of plugging, especially in multi-line operations. Stainless steel construction and open, cleanable designs support sanitation goals while minimizing loss of conditioned air.
Trim is continuously conveyed to an outdoor compactor without labor input, while overhead ductwork preserves floor space. The result is increased uptime, reduced labor, improved safety, and a cleaner, more efficient packaging operation. For more information, visit Quickdraft.com or call 1-855-VENTURI.
ROSS, Charles & Son Company
710 Old Willets Path. Hauppauge, NY 11788 USA
Phone: 800/243-ROSS
Serving all the process industries in virtually every industrialized country, ROSS offers experience and production capacity that no other manufacturer of specialty mixing and blending equipment can match. In the US, ROSS operates five plants dedicated to engineering, R&D, manufacturing, and process testing. Overseas, ROSS equipment is manufactured in state-of-the-art plants in China and India.
The ROSS Test & Development Center in Hauppauge, NY, is the industry’s best equipped laboratory for process testing. Hundreds of ROSS customers visit the test center each year to confirm their equipment selections and optimize processes.
Ribbon Blenders – High quality and available in customizable configurations. Laboratory sizes to 1000 cu. ft. Many models in stock.
Batch and In-Line Rotor/Stator High Shear Mixers – Single-stage and multi-stage models for fine emulsions and dispersions.
SLIM Solid/Liquid Injection Technology – Eliminates the persistent clogging of conventional eductor-based systems.
Multi-Shaft Mixers – Multiple independently-driven agitators work in tandem to ensure fine solids dispersion, efficient turnover and uniform heating/cooling. In-Plant Trial/Rental – The industry’s largest fleet of rental mixers and blenders. Meet short-term demand or test equipment in your process prior to purchase.
Control Systems – From single-axis to multi-axis designs, ROSS control systems offer unprecedented accuracy and flexibility in the mixing and blending process.
Sani-Matic, Inc.
2855 Innovation Way, Sun Prairie, WI. 53590 - USA
Phone: 800/356-3300
www.sanimatic.com
Email: hello@sanimatic.com
Quality products start with clean equipment. Let Sani-Matic help you optimize your equipment cleaning processes with our portfolio of automated cleaning, hygienic components, and data recording solutions. Our team of experts will work with you to determine the best product for your specific needs. Our Product Offering Automated Cleaning Technology:
• C Clean-in- lace systems, custom designed or your speci ic process needs.
• CO Clean-Out-o - lace automated systems or process parts. ncluding the CyClean® 35, and Buggy Washer BWX-600-S from our CleanWorx® brand. Hygienic Component Solutions:
• rocess strainers, spray devices, system accessories, and spare parts
• anks, tank components, and transportation tanker sprays
• Centrali ed washdown systems or Open lant Cleaning O C . Digital Solutions:
• Digital rocess ecorder D digital replacement or traditional paper chart recorders.
• Sani rend ocal or cloud-based automated data recording and OEE optimization platform. Service Solutions
• Field service engineers provide onsite audits and optimi ation, preventative maintenance, system start-up, and a termarket services.
• Customer Success team specialists stay in touch and make sure processes are running smoothly with periodic visits a ter ield service has occurred.
Sani- atic has been improving ood and beverage processors’ production uptime and sanitary results since 1943. Today, we continue our commitment to sanitary cleaning results or a diverse range o industries.
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Phone: (864) 439-7537
www.seweurodrive.com
Email: cslyman@seweurodrive.com
For nearly 100 years, SEW-EURODRIVE has been the driving force in machine automation, powering the movement, precision, and reliability behind industries around the world. What began in 1931 as a family-owned engineering company has grown into a global technology leader trusted for its sophisticated German engineering, unmatched product breadth, and a solutions-oriented approach that puts customer needs at the center of everything it does.
SEW-EURODRIVE’s technology portfolio is one of the most comprehensive in the drive and automation industry. It includes a wide range of sizes of highefficiency right-angle, inline, and parallel shaft gear units and integral gearmotors; an expanded line of stainless-steel gear units and motors for hygienic and corrosive applications; servo gear units for high-precision, dynamic motion, and heavy-duty Industrial Gear (HIG) units engineered for the world’s most demanding environments. The company also offers a full line of decentralized solutions included MOVIGEAR – the all-in-one mechatronic drive, motion controllers, and energy-efficient inverter technologies.
The MOVI-C® automation platform reduces complexity and startup time with controls, components and software all designed to work together seamlessly – from a single source. MOVI-C unifies engineering, controls, components, communication, and safety into a single, easily scalable ecosystem. Together, these technologies enable customers to design complete, flexible solutions—from simple conveying lines to fully automated, networked production facilities.
A defining strength of SEW-EURODRIVE is its global presence paired with deep local accessibility. With operations in more than 50 countries, 17 manufacturing plants, and more than 85 Drive Technology Centers, SEW-EURODRIVE delivers world-class support with regional expertise and responsiveness. As the company approaches its 100-year milestone, SEW-EURODRIVE remains focused on shaping the future of motion and automation.
Established in 1994, Sharpe Engineering & Equipment has provided imaginative concepts to more than 10,000 projects, with over 1 million hours worked exclusively in the food and beverage industry. Sharpe recognized the need for a “do it all” approach, serving both equipment manufacturers and food packagers alike. As technology and innovations evolve, so have we – expanding our proficiencies and personnel in key production areas such as sanitary processing, equipment fabrication, equipment integration, and installation. Sharpe proudly provides custom solutions tailored to clients seeking to modernize and optimize their facilities.
- Maximized Throughput Within Your Available Footprint
Reengineering layouts that boost capacity without costly construction
- Right-Sized Automation for Your Production
Tailoring equipment agnostic solutions to your unique needs
Utilizing innovations in food processing technology, reducing consumption and health hazards
- One Partner, Total Accountability
Leveraging in-house capabilities in process design, equipment sourcing, controls, fabrication, installation, and commissioning, giving you piece of mind
Why Sharpe Engineering & Equipment? We’re more than a system integrator or engineering firm; we are your Partner for Better Production Tomorrow. Let’s discover your operation’s future together.
Silverson Machines, Inc.
Phone: 413-525-4825
www.silverson.com
Email: sales@silverson.com
For more than 75 years Silverson has specialized in the manufacture of quality high shear mixers for the food and beverage industries.
Whether you’re concerned with reducing production times, sanitary processing, powder/liquid mixing, producing stable emulsions, dissolving sugar, disintegrating solids, blending liquids of different viscosities, or dispersing and hydrating gums, thickeners, and stabilizers, Silverson has a mixing solution for you.
Time after time, companies specify Silverson mixers as the “standard” equipment for their manufacturing process, with a single Silverson high shear mixer able to perform a wide range of mixing applications with speed and consistency.
With the exceptionally rapid mixing action of a Silverson high shear mixer, process times are substantially reduced compared to a conventional agitator. Silverson Machines offer the largest capacity range from a single manufacturer, from our most popular L5M-A Laboratory mixer all the way up to in-tank mixers that can process batches of up to 8000 gallons. These mixers are advantageous when:
• ydrating and deagglomerating gums and thickeners
• eclaiming waste or out-o -spec product
• Dissolving
• omogeni ing
• educing particle si e
• ixing igh iscosity products
• Blending li uids o varying viscosities
• Forming stable emulsions
If you’d like to discuss your food/beverage application or find out more about high shear mixing could benefit your mixing process, get in touch with Silverson Machines today.
Sleeve Seal
SHRINK SLEEVE LABELERS
Sleeve Seal is focused on a new era of repeatable labeling performance. Builtto-last American manufacturing expertise and modern engineering combine to produce speeds from 25 to 1600 CPM on robust machines equipped with intelligent Allen Bradley controls. Heavy weight construction and the fastest, most durable drive train in the industry provide countless hours of high efficiency runs. Sleeve Seal machines are engineered to provide quality-labeling performance with simple, tool-less changeovers between container formats. Other patented innovations, such as a multi-blade cutter assembly with quick-change blades have been developed for ease of maintenance.
ROLL-FED LABELERS
The RFL Series range of roll fed labelers was born from the same need as our shrink sleeve labelers - a need for faster, more efficient, more robustly built machines with Allen Bradley controls. In a market where efficiencies and cost of ownership are everything, Sleeve Seal has a proven history of fast, precise label application with minimal maintenance costs. Our engineers have an unparalleled depth of knowledge that has been applied to a new style of label application for today’s market. Sleeve Seal is proud to present our new range of RFL Series of roll fed labelers.
PRESSURE SENSITIVE LABELERS
Our range of PSL label stations apply labels with a positional precision of +/-1mm on all container surfaces without creases or bubbling. Servo driven container platforms supported by optical orientations give our labelers precision and flexibility in managing current and future application. The use of servos and sealed gearboxes on all driven axes eliminates the cost and maintenance headaches of traditional mechanical labelers.
Starview Packaging Machinery, Inc.
Phone: 888/278-5555
www.starviewpackaging.com
Starview Packaging Machinery, Inc. is a primary manufacturer of tray sealers for food tray packaging with over 25 years of supplying standard and custom packaging systems to our customers and distributors.
Providing the Processed Food Industry with Innovative Packaging Machines for:
• Fresh Foods
• Fro en Foods
• eady to Eat eals
• Customi ed ackaging E uipment
• Systems with utomation and ntegration
We design, engineer, and manufacture a comprehensive line of manual, semiautomatic, and automatic tray sealing machines. vailable in shuttle, rotary, and inline conveyor configurations, a variety of standard and custom sealing areas are available to meet the speci ic re uirements o customers and maximi e productivity. Machines are configured to suit specific applications with a focus on efficient, easy to operate, safe to use, and cost effective to run.
Starview’s distinct competitive advantage is in providing a range of both standard and customi ed uality packaging systems backed by solid machine designs, robust machine construction, and superior service.
Starview offers many value-added features for our machines such as auto tray loading, fillers, product sensing, printing and/or verification, automatic packaging materials loading, automatic lid placement, finished package unloading with reject feature for noncompliant packages.
Statco-DSI Process Systems
7595 Reynolds Circle, Huntington Beach, CA 92647
Phone: 714-375-6300
www.statco-dsi.com
Email: info@statco-dsi.com
Statco-DSI has a longstanding reputation in the industries we serve. We offer an extensive portfolio of sanitary equipment, systems and services to provide start to-finish support for your processing facility.
We’re recognized as one of the largest process equipment distributors and systems integrators for the sanitary processing market in North America. With eleven sales and engineering offices strategically located throughout the United States, our nationwide network of more than 150 seasoned sanitary process professionals are in your backyard and ready to get to work.
Our project engineering and design team is second to none. Your project will benefit from working with some of the most experienced and well-rounded engineers in the industry. The tenure of this team is evidence of its cohesiveness. Open lines of communication and willingness to share information helps ensure that every project and every challenge is handled effectively.
Our sales staff has a vast knowledge base and taps into the technical expertise of our engineering staff when needed. Many of our sales team have in-plant experience working for various factories within the industry. They are factory trained on a regular basis to keep up-to-date on the latest products, innovations and specialty applications.
Our technical service team is well versed in preventative maintenance and critical breakdowns, available 24/7/365 to keep your facility running. Trust StatcoDSI for servicing not only blending skids, but pumps, valves, homogenizers, rotary fillers, and both scraped surface and plate heat exchangers.
Call our spare parts team for all of your critical spares, MRO and consumable items like charts and pens, as well as pump and valve seal kits. We represent over 100 of the top brands in the sanitary process industry.
Swift Sensors
Swift Sensors
Swift Sensors scalable wireless sensors pair with a powerful cloud analytics platform, instant mobile alerts, and on-demand reports to provide 24-hour inventory protection and real-time, audit-ready compliance—at a fraction of the cost of manual inspections or legacy monitoring systems. Measure temperature, humidity, voltage, current, vibration, indoor air quality, water presence, and more.
Wireless Temperature Sensors
Swift Sensors are smaller than a credit card and have a battery life of 6-8 years. The sensors communicate via Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE5) to the gateway. The gateway then transmits the data to the cloud-based Swift Sensors Console via ethernet, Wi-Fi, or cellular network. Swift Sensors offers NIST calibration services prior to sensor delivery and ensures seamless annual calibration renewal.
Real-Time Analytics
The cloud-based Swift Sensors Console is an intuitive analytics platform enabling trend analysis, compliance reporting, and real-time insights. The Console is purpose-built for enterprise IT environments, featuring robust security protocols and 24/7 availability on any device.
Instant Mobile Alerts
Swift Sensors configurable instant alerts enable immediate corrective actions. Escalating alerts are delivered via voice, email, or text, so the right person is notified, at the right time, in the most effective manner. Minimize the loss of expensive raw materials, food stock, and finished goods.
Easy Compliance Reports
Stay audit-ready with on-demand reports and instant data downloads. Quickly, generate a variety of built-in reports from daily spot values to equipment utilization. Or take advantage of our API to integrate with 3rd-party applications.
TechniBlend
Phone: (262) 484-4090
TechniBlend is a leading supplier of beverage and liquid processing equipment & systems utilizing cutting edge technology, innovative components and optimal design features to serve the food & beverage industry, as well as the consumer products, and household & personal care industries. TechniBlend continues to develop new & innovative technologies aimed to deliver quicker changeovers, greater flexibility, higher yield and improved product quality while producing a great rate of return on investment.
Beverage and Liquid Blending Systems
Our blending systems incorporate many of TechniBlend’s exclusive technologies into a simple, reliable processing solution. The system includes integrated deaeration, product cooling, in-line blending, carbonation, CIP On-Demand, and other customizable options to meet your production needs.
Beverage and Liquid Batching Systems
TechniBlend offers a wide variety of continuous stream and batching systems. Utilizing our patented injection and dispersion components, alongside high accuracy mass flowmeters, we are able to provide precise blending of ingredients in unlimited streams. Our controls offer exact recipe control and high-quality, repeatable results that save you time and money.
TechniBlend batching systems utilize specialized powder mixing pumps for precise timing and injection management of dry ingredients commonly used in personal care & chemical products.
True Turnkey Solution
TechniBlend’s skilled engineering team focuses on providing turnkey services for both new and upgrade projects. With an expansive list of industries served, our process provides a true turnkey solution, built for your entire line.
353 Ivyland Road, Warminster, PA 18974
Phone: 877-379-8258
ThermOmegaTech® is a leading designer and manufacturer of thermostatic valves and actuators. With decades of experience across industrial sectors, ThermOmegaTech® delivers self-powered solutions that solve critical temperature control and fluid management challenges. Founded in 1983 and headquartered near Philadelphia, ThermOmegaTech® supports essential food and beverage applications including washdown, freeze protection, mechanical seal support, industrial tempering, and pump thermal relief.
For food processors, maintaining product quality and protecting equipment are essential. ThermOmegaTech’s thermostatic freeze protection valves prevent costly downtime and product loss by safeguarding piping systems exposed to cold environments. Our industrial tempering valves automatically cool hot effluent from autoclaves, boilers, and humidifiers before it reaches the drain, preventing damage to piping materials such as PVC while ensuring plumbing code compliance.
To support the demanding requirements of pumps and pump seals, ThermOmegaTech® offers thermal relief and mechanical seal water support valves that regulate temperature to prevent overheating and extend seal life. Steam and water washdown stations provide precise temperature control for effective, sanitary cleaning of processing equipment while improving operational efficiency and reducing maintenance time and costs. Our STVM® washdown station designs deliver exceptional durability without compromising employee safety.
With a focus on safety, efficiency, and performance, ThermOmegaTech® partners with food processors to deliver dependable thermal solutions that keep operations running, equipment protected, and production on schedule.
Phone: 260/490-3000
Email: tippsales@tippmanngroup.com
Tippmann Group is a unique combination of two companies, Tippmann Construction and Interstate Warehousing, which are dedicated to safe and efficient design, construction and operation of multi-temperature processing and distribution facilities for the food industry.
In business since 1968, our refrigeration expertise and owner/operator experience make Tippmann Group your single-source provider for all your temperature-controlled facility needs.
Tippmann Group’s QFR Zone® utilizes enhanced airflow to provide an energy and labor-efficient blast freezing solution, freezing products faster and more efficiently than traditional blast systems.
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TNA North America Inc.
680 S. Royal Lane, Suite 100, Coppell, TX 75019-2800
Phone: (972) 462-6500
www.tnasolutions.com
Email: gustavo.mendez@tnasolutions.com
TNA Solutions: helping food producers succeed responsibly in a changing world. TNA is a complete processing and packaging solutions partner for confectionery, bakery, snacks and french fries producers. TNA’s end-to-end solutions are designed for high output, minimal downtime and reduced total cost of ownership.
For snacks, this includes receiving, destoning, washing, peeling, inspecting, slicing, blanching, dewatering, continuous vacuum and batch frying, deoiling, sorting, distribution, seasoning and packaging. For confectionery processing, the range spans from kitchen operations, starch conditioning, mogul tray handling, de-moulding, product cleaning and finishing to depositing, distribution, packaging and case packing.
With an in-depth understanding of the balance required to satisfy consumers and retailers while keeping brands profitable, TNA delivers true end-to-end expertise. The company supports customers at every stage of the journey, from consulting and planning through project management, commissioning and installation, to comprehensive aftermarket support. Through a global network across 30 countries, TNA provides real-time access to experts and reliable availability of spares, technicians and services, helping customers keep production lines running smoothly and efficiently.
With over 42 years of industry experience and more than 16,000 systems installed in over 137 countries, TNA’s consultative and customer-centric approach goes beyond equipment delivery. It focuses on providing high-performing, integrated solutions backed by a responsible ethos. This commitment to sustainable growth in the food sector is part of the TNA DNA and extends beyond business through the humanitarian initiatives of the Nadia and Alf Taylor Foundation. Customers become part of a forward-thinking organisation committed to operational excellence and positive social impact.
URSCHEL
Phone: 219/464-4811
Email: info@urschel.com
As the #1 Global Leader in Food Cutting Technology, Urschel continues to successfully lead in the manufacturing, selling, and support of industrial cutting machinery to partner and assist food processors everywhere. Globally known for producing rugged dicers, slicers, shredders, and particle size reduction machinery, Urschel has extended its product offerings into processing lines and commercial processing options as a stakeholder in KRONEN Systems.
Urschel now offers KRONEN commercial processing systems in key international markets. Urschel customers benefit from exploring KRONEN-based food processing solutions including washers, dicers, slicers, dryers, and conveyors backed by the solid support from Urschel.
“Urschel has always partnered with food processors to explore more options and support our customers. Through providing KRONEN systems, the Urschel network of sales and support extends even more processing solutions that work with Urschel precision cutting machinery. Invention and innovation are part of who we are as a company. We are always moving forward to discover new cutting methods and new ways to help our customers. These goals remain at the forefront of what we do,” said Alan Major, Chief Sales Officer, Urschel.
About Urschel Laboratories, Inc.
Founded in 1910 and headquartered in Chesterton, Indiana, Urschel is the global leader in food cutting technology. With a legacy of innovation and quality, Urschel designs and manufactures precision cutting equipment for food processors worldwide.
About KRONEN GmbH
Based in Kehl and Rhein, Germany, KRONEN GmbH is a leading developer and manufacturer of machines and systems for the food processing industry. With decades of expertise, KRONEN specializes in equipment for washing, peeling, cutting, mixing, and conveying. Popular systems include: the PL 40K gentle, abrasive peeler, the AMS 220 versatile peeler, the AS 6 for fresh and fast apple processing, the Tona V controlled, multi-use cutter, and the DECONWA Prep decontamination system.
VAC-U-MAX
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Phone: (973) 759-4600
www.vac-u-max.com
Email: info@vac-u-max.com
VAC-U-MAX is a worldwide leader in the design and manufacture of bulk material handling systems that convey, weigh, and batch over 10,000 various powders and bulk materials to food processing and packaging lines. With strong application expertise in the food industry and being a subject expert on conveying powders and granular bulk solids, VAC-U-MAX food ingredient handling systems incorporate pneumatic, aero-mechanical, and flexible screw conveying technologies designed to handle many types of materials including powders, flakes, granules, pellets, fibers, tablets, seeds, coatings, sugar, and other granular bulk materials.
Since 1954, VAC-U-MAX has been a pioneer in pneumatic conveying, developing the first air-powered venturi unit, advancing technologies for directcharge loading of vacuum tolerant process equipment, and the first to design vertical-wall “tube hopper” material receivers for difficult to convey materials. A vacuum receiver represents the heart of a food ingredient handling system, conveying materials from drums, bins, totes, bulk bags, super sacks, and bag dump stations for dust-free material handling.
VAC-U-MAX product range includes vacuum receivers, bulk bag loading and unloading systems, aero-mechanical and flexible screw conveying systems, bag dump stations with integrated dust collection and empty-bag compaction, diverter valves, feed bins, and vacuum pump packages. VAC-U-MAX is a UL-listed manufacturer and supplier of control packages that are easily integrated into existing plant PLC’s. Product range also includes a full line of portable, continuous- duty, and central vacuum cleaning systems for plant wide clean-up of many types of materials including combustible dust.
VAC-U-MAX systems focus on waste reduction as in topping and coating applications that require placement of seeds, flavorings, sugar, salt, and coatings onto finished food product. For more information or RFQ, visit www.vac-u-max.com.
VDG (Van der Graaf)
13771 Cavaliere Drive, Shelby Township, MI 48315, USA
Phone: (888) 326-1476
www.vandergraaf.com
Email: info@vandergraaf.com
VDG is the world’s leader in the design and manufacturing of drum motors for belt conveyors, with a strong focus on safety, reliability, and longevity. Manufacturing in-house in the USA and Canada for over 40 years, using cuttingedge production technology and automation, and with continuous improvements through research and development, VDG ensures product quality, short lead times, and after-sales service.
The VDG Drum Motor is a one-component conveyor drive. It has all drive components, including the new premium-efficiency (IE4) electric motor, gear reducer, and bearings, enclosed within the drive drum, increasing mechanical and electrical efficiency, optimizing space, and promoting operator safety. Designed for 80,000 hours of continuous operation before maintenance, VDG Drum Motors reduce maintenance and operational costs and increase productivity.
For modular, wire mesh, and monolithic thermoplastic conveyor belts, the allstainless steel SSV Drum Motor can have the belt profile machined either directly on the drive drum, or on an exchangeable profiled sleeve to drive the belt without using sprockets. SSV Drum Motors can also drive these types of conveyor belts with the new-generation VDG Sprockets mounted on the drive drum. The innovative flow edge profile and open geometry of the new VDG Sprockets allows for complete debris and byproduct removal during high-pressure washdowns.
All SSV Series Drum Motors feature an IP69K-rated sealing system, withstand up to 3,000 psi washdown pressure, and eliminate crevices that trap food byproducts and bacterial harborage, reducing washdown time and water usage by 50%. Belt profiles are available for all major belt manufacturers. SSV Drum Motors deliver exceptional cleanliness, reliability and durability in caustic and washdown environments, providing the most hygienic drive solution for food and beverage sanitary belt conveyors applications.
Vibra Screw Inc
755 Union Blvd., Totowa, NJ 07512 USA
Phone: 973-256-7410
Email: info@vibrascrew.com
Vibra Screw Incorporated was founded in 1955 by Eugene A. Wahl, whose experience in solving problems in the process industries led to revolutionary ways to discharge and meter dry solids.
Today, with a staff of experienced and talented engineers and technicians, Vibra Screw is the leader in dry solids processing, with high quality equipment to store, discharge, meter, convey, size and blend.
Vibra Screw serves its markets through a world wide network of sales representatives, licensees and subsidiaries. Vibra Screw is staffed with experienced, professional engineers who solve problems. From initial study, through testing & design, our goal is to satisfy our Customer’s unique requirements efficiently & cost effectively. Our modern facility in Totowa, NJ handles every aspect of equipment manufacture from sandblasting, fabrication & assembly to full electronic control production.
The most trusted name in dry solids processing. Vibra Screw Inc. prides itself in being able to bring ground-breaking solutions to your solids processing challenges. Vibra Screw currently manufactures: bulk bag unloaders, volumetric feeders, bin activators, vibrating feeders/vibrating conveyors, flexible screw conveyors, loss-in-weight feeders, storage pile activators, live bottom bins, screeners, continuous blenders, and process controls.
No other Industry source stands behind its products with the confidence & assurance of Vibra Screw, because no other company engineers & manufactures to our uncompromising standards: www.vibrascrew.com
Wire Belt Company of America
(603) 644-2500
Wire Belt Company is a global leader in manufacturing top-quality stainless steel conveyor belts. With over 100 years of expertise, we design and deliver solutions that meet the highest standards of performance.
Wire Belt Company has a global presence, operating manufacturing plants in the USA, UK, and Germany. This ensures reliable delivery wherever you are.
Our conveyor belts support food processing applications such as:
• Baking
• Coating
• Cooling
• Frying
• Breading
• Dusting
• and more
Customer Service Excellence - When you contact Wire Belt, you’ll speak directly with a knowledgeable representative. Our technical engineers are also available to help optimize your application and select the right conveyor belt.
Comprehensive Solutions - We offer a wide range of conveyor belts tailored to improve process efficiency—from simple designs to specialized solutions.
Global Distribution - Our customer service and worldwide presence ensure seamless distribution to keep your operations running smoothly. Call us if you need help with an efficient conveyor belt system for your process. www.wirebelt.com Email: sales@wirebelt.com
ABOUT WITTE
The Witte Company is a leading manufacturer of vibratory process equipment used in the food processing industry. The company’s core products include Fluid Bed Dryers and Coolers, Vibratory Conveyors and Screeners.
MORE INFO ON WITTE
The Witte Company designs and manufactures drying, cooling, classifying and related vibratory process equipment at its headquarters in Washington, New Jersey. Family-owned and operated since its founding in 1938, the company has earned an outstanding reputation for engineering expertise, craftsmanship and personal service.
Featuring innovative machine design at a competitive price, Witte has established a track record for operational dependability, earning the trust of Fortune 500 companies worldwide. Dependable customer service, prompt onsite engineering support and readily available spare parts are always a phone call away.
The Witte Company looks forward to learning about your processing needs and having the opportunity to earn your trust as a valued customer.
Xchanger manufactures custom heat exchangers and blower aftercoolers to control temperature and humidity in almost any application. We have over 25,000 installations worldwide. Our mechanical engineers will provide affordable, custom-designed units by optimizing 1 of 10 field-proven models. Computer modeling assures optimal performance, proper sizing, and prevents expensive over-building.
We guarantee the engineering, workmanship, and performance of every heat exchanger we ship.
AA Series heat exchangers cool low pressure gas streams with ambient air. These compact units are ideal for locations with limited access to cooling water and have significantly lower operating costs than liquid cooled heat exchangers. They can cool conveying air close to ambient temperature.
C Series liquid cooled heat exchangers cool and/or heat low-pressure gas streams. Their modular design makes it easy to customize for your specific application. They have a finned-tube core with numerous channels through which the conveying air passes. Their design provides significant heat transfer surface area, so units are smaller, less costly to manufacture, and easier to ship. Additionally, gas side pressure loss is typically below 6 inches of water column (0.2 PSI), so there’s no significant increase in pumping power or operating costs.
D Series heat exchangers can heat, cool, dehumidify and filter low pressure gas streams. They’re specifically designed for dairy applications and are available with HEPA filter and/or fully clad insulation. Their modular design can be easily customized for most applications.
Yaskawa America, Inc.
2121 Norman Drive South, Waukegan, IL 60085
Phone: 847/887-7457
www.yaskawa.com
Email: marcom@yaskawa.com
Whether you are a machine builder or equipment user, you know the daily struggle with limited resources and tight deadlines. You can’t afford to settle for less than the right products and services to solve urgent problems, delivered with reassuring consistency and reliability you can trust.
Yaskawa’s global expertise is unmatched and unquestioned, with 100+ Years of manufacturing excellence, 14,000+ worldwide associates, 30 countries with sales, service, and manufacturing locations, and $4.5 billion in global sales per year. Since 1915, Yaskawa has produced 25 million servo motors, 35 million variable frequency drives, and 600,000 robots. We provide both standard products and tailor-made solutions, all backed by proven quality and reliability.
AC Drives: Yaskawa offers a variety of low and medium voltage AC drives that support every application in the industrial plant, offering size and performance options from fractional HP to 16,000 HP. Our latest variable frequency drives provide simple motor setup with highly flexible network communications, embedded functional safety, no-power programming, and easy-to-use tools featuring mobile device connectivity with our DriveWizard® mobile app.
Motion Control: Yaskawa AC Servo Systems come to a precise position with speed and consistency that is unmatched in the automation industry. Connect our rotary, linear, and direct drive motors (outputs from 3W to 55kW) to an advanced Yaskawa iC9200 machine controller to manage motion, logic, kinematics, safety, security, and more from a single EtherCAT-based controller utilizing our iCube Control™ platform.
Robotics: Over 600,000 Yaskawa Robots are at work worldwide, with 150+ models to choose from and the strength of decades of application expertise. Our industrial robots increase efficiency, provide consistent quality, and boost productivity to deliver outstanding ROI.
Acrison, Inc. 103 www.acrison.com
Admix, Inc. 59, 104 www.admix.com
Advanced Equipment Inc. 105 www.advancedfreezer.com
Aerzen USA, Inc 106 www.aerzen.com
Airgas, an Air Liquide Co 107 www.airgas.com
Air Products 20, 108 www.airproducts.com
Ampco Pumps Company49, 109 www.ampcopumps.com
AmTrade Systems, Inc. 73, 110 www.amtrade-systems.com
Statco-DSI Process Systems87, 179 www.statco-dsi.com
Swift Sensors 54, 180 www.swiftsensors.com
TechniBlend 91, 181 www.techniblend.com
ThermOmegaTech, Inc. 93, 182 www.thermomegatech.com
Tippmann Group 84, 183 www.tippmanngroup.com
TNA North America, Inc.95, 184 www.tnasolutions.com
Uline 68 www.uline.com
Urschel Laboratories, Inc.23, 185 www.urschel.com
VAC-U-MAX 9, 186 www.vac-u-max.com
VDG (Van der Graaf) OFC, 187 www.vandergraaf.com
Vibra Screw Inc 3, 188 www.website.com
Witte Company 66, 190 www.witte.com
Wire Belt Company of America 19, 189 www.wirebelt.com
Xchanger Inc 4, 191 www.xchanger.com
Yaskawa America, Inc 65, 192 www.yaskawa.com
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