Processing Equipment & Systems, Automation, Control

Better quality snack food drives Allpax retort machinery sales

27-Mar-2017 By Jenny Eagle

Allpax has seen a rise in demand for its retort machinery, thanks to a trend towards better quality shelf-stable products and convenience packaging.

Fox’s Biscuits responds to daily retailer forecasting

20-Mar-2017 By Jenny Eagle

Fox’s Biscuits has faced the challenge of daily retailer forecasting by installing FuturMaster software, which measures the Mean Absolute Percent Error (MAPE) of its orders.

US fueling bakery processing equipment growth: MarketsandMarkets analyst

15-Mar-2017 By Douglas Yu

Market research firm, MarketsandMarkets, reported the global bakery processing equipment industry is expected to reach $13.62bn by 2020 with the US being a key growth-driving region.

Hershey looks to upgrade chocolate confectionery lab upon visiting AAK’s new innovation center

06-Mar-2017 By Douglas Yu

AAK has opened an innovation center in Edison, New Jersey, during which it highlighted some of the most up-to-date product making technologies to partners, including Hershey, Mondelēz and Barry Callebaut.

JBT Corporation acquires Avure Technologies for $57m

28-Feb-2017 By Jenny Eagle

JBT Corporation has acquired Avure Technologies, which provides high pressure processing (HPP) systems, for $57m.

ABB launches investigation after misappropriation of funds

22-Feb-2017 By Jenny Eagle

ABB has launched an investigation after its former treasurer allegedly stole money from its South Korean subsidiary.

tna looks back on the evolution of the snack industry as it celebrates 35th anniversary

20-Feb-2017 By Jenny Eagle

tna was founded by Alf and Nadia Taylor, in Sydney, Australia, in February 1982, transforming the snack food industry by launching a high-speed vertical form fill system (VFFS) called the tna robag in 1985.

Kreyenborg introduces infrared germ reduction technology

20-Feb-2017 By Gill Hyslop

Kreyenborg Plant Technology has developed an infrared machine that destroys germs in dried foodstuffs that require gentle treatment, such as tea, spices, dried herbs, nuts, kernels and seeds.

Three dead in Packaging Corporation of America paper mill explosion

09-Feb-2017 By Jenny Eagle

Three men died and six workers were injured after an explosion at a paper mill owned by Packaging Corporation of America (PCA) on Wednesday (February 8).

Mesutronic introduces entry level foreign body detector

09-Feb-2017 By Gill Hyslop

Mesutronic Gerätebau has released its new X-Ray inspection system for packed food products, called easySCOPE.

Snack safety

Snack firms need x-ray inspection as metallized film becomes popular

08-Feb-2017 By Douglas Yu

Food inspection equipment supplier, Eagle Product Inspection, has voiced its concern that using only metal inspection method might put snack food safety at risk due to the growing popularity of metalized film in the packaged food industry.

Neogen tests Reveal mycotoxins

02-Feb-2017 By Joseph James Whitworth

Neogen Corporation has launched a line of tests for detection of six mycotoxins using a water-based common extraction.

Mondelēz union workers’ leader welcomes demise of TPP decision, remains silent on job loss by automation

31-Jan-2017 By Douglas Yu

The president of the Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Miller’s International Union (BCTGM), David Durkee, has welcomed the demise of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) as a "significant victory for the American middle-class."

Exact Mixing creates higher hydration levels of flour and water for bakery manufacturers

27-Jan-2017 By Jenny Eagle

Exact Mixing, part of Reading Bakery Systems (RBS), has launched a Hydrobond Technology for even hydration of a dry ingredient stream (such as flour) before it enters a continuous mixer.

Ruparel Foods: Previously, only 1 in 8 rejected nuts were bad

25-Jan-2017 By Joseph James Whitworth

Ruparel Foods has said only one in eight nuts rejected by its previous sorting systems were actually bad, prompting a move to machines from Tomra Sorting Food.

Dinant snack manufacturer generates electricity from African Palm fruit

19-Jan-2017 By Jenny Eagle

Dinant, which produces snacks, cooking oils, processed foods, fruits and vegetables, for Central America, the Dominican Republic and other global exports, has built a biogas plant using waste from the African Palm fruit.

Entrepreneur sees demand for bakery processing equipment following eCommerce Hub success

17-Jan-2017 By Jenny Eagle

Entrepreneur George Spears, of ePurchasing Network (ePN), has created an eCommerce Hub for resellers (dealers) and distributors.

Poindexter Nut Company adds second Napasol pasteurization line

10-Jan-2017 By Joseph James Whitworth

Poindexter Nut Company has increased its walnut pasteurization capacity with a second Napasol pasteurization line.

Beef jerky facility sued over finger cutting incident

09-Jan-2017 By Douglas Yu

The US Department of Labor (DOL) has filed a lawsuit against the owner of Lone Star Western Beef, John Bachman, after he fired an employee who called 911 to help a co-worker with a severed thumb.

General Colin Powell & David Cameron headline ISM2017

06-Jan-2017 By Jenny Eagle

The Institute for Supply Management (ISM) has announced General Colin Powell and former UK Prime Minister David Cameron will headline ISM2017 as keynote speakers.

‘As US diets change, so will sauces, filling and packaging methods’

05-Jan-2017 By Krys Beal

‘Liquid filling machines are used in a range of industries, but one of the biggest industries to utilize this equipment is the food industry. Many different types of foods and sauces need liquid filling machines that are capable of handling liquid products...

Neogen launches test for ochratoxin

03-Jan-2017 By Joseph James Whitworth

Neogen Corporation has developed a test for ochratoxin that uses a water-based extraction solvent.

Mergers & acquisitions: Innovia, Linde, Duravant, Egli, Saica Group

22-Dec-2016 By Jenny Eagle

CCL Industries (CCL) has entered into an agreement to acquire Innovia for approximately $1.13bn, expected to close Q1, 2017.

‘CRM is going mobile, CRM is turning social – how the F&B industry can benefit’

19-Dec-2016 By Matt Keenan

Food and beverage is one of the UK’s fastest moving, most dynamic industries: market trends can change rapidly, and the desires and tastes of customers can be difficult to predict.

‘It’s a Keeper!’: Preziosi Food launches batch-fried potato chips

09-Dec-2016 By Jenny Eagle

Italian snack manufacturer Preziosi Food (Mitica) has partnered with FOODesign, part of tna, to launch a line of batch-fried potato chips called Keep’s.

Reading Thermal aids with FSMA kill step validation compliance

09-Dec-2016 By Joseph James Whitworth

Reading Thermal has introduced software to help users/bakers comply with the Food Safety Modernization Act’s kill step validation requirements.

Baker Perkins combines cookie dough and filling in one machine for first time

05-Dec-2016 By Jenny Eagle

Baker Perkins has developed an encapsulating system bringing cookie dough and its filling together in one machine for the first time.

Napasol AG acquires licensee Napasol North America

Napasol to start 3 projects in walnut industry

01-Dec-2016 By Joseph James Whitworth

Switzerland-based Napasol AG has acquired its licensee Napasol North America (NNA) which commercializes pasteurization equipment to the nut, seeds, herbs and spices industry.

New Mill Capital Holdings acquired former Kraft bakery in Maryland

30-Nov-2016 By Douglas Yu

New York-based asset disposition firm, New Mill Capital Holdings, has acquired the former Kraft Heinz bakery in Federalsburg, Maryland, according to a news release.

Interpack preview 2017

Confectionery and bakery ‘snackertainment’ on the rise

21-Nov-2016 By Jenny Eagle

With the latest trend for confectionery and bakery including videos and commercials to promote products, Germany’s top industry associations discuss ‘snackertainment’, energy-efficiency, packaging costs, vegan diets, halal, and industry 4.0, ahead of...

Pack Expo 2016

ADCO Manufacturing’s new case packer to reduce 30% of corrugate uses

14-Nov-2016 By Douglas Yu

One of the major US manufacturers of packaging machinery, equipment and systems, ADCO has launched its latest wraparound case packer at the recent Pack Expo in Chicago. The new machinery is able to direct and load around 20 wraparound cases per minute.

Pack Expo 2016

AEK Packaging Equipment to relocate after seeing a 25% inventory value increase

11-Nov-2016 By Douglas Yu

Aaron Equipment Company-owned AEK Packaging Equipment will relocate to a standalone, state-of-the-art facility in Belvidere, Illinois, by January 1, 2017, BakeryandSancks learned at Pack Expo recently in Chicago.

Pack Expo 2016

Packaging industry cautious on Trump’s US manufacturing promise

09-Nov-2016 By Douglas Yu

Automation and increased profitability may make US President-elect Donald Trump's promise to bring manufacturing jobs back to the US empty, say some food packaging and processing industry leaders at Pack Expo in Chicago.

Gulfood Manufacturing 2016

Cake Concepts takes Japanese idea to develop Fun Cakes and sponge pancakes

08-Nov-2016 By Jenny Eagle

Cake Concepts has taken an idea from Japan and adapted it to American and US tastes to create a niche market in the bakery industry.

Florigo launches first chip fryer with built-in opti-flow to limit the formation of acrylamides

02-Nov-2016 By Jenny Eagle

Florigo, part of tna, has launched its first potato chip fryer with built-in opti-flow technology to limit the formation of acrylamides and reduce the amount of rejects by up to 10%.

Cibus Tec 2016

Italian packaging & processing industry sees €6.2bn turnover in 2015

28-Oct-2016 By Jenny Eagle

The Italian food packaging & processing machinery industry rose to €6.2bn turnover in 2015, according to Antonio Cellie, MD, Fiere di Parma.

CIBUS TEC 2016

Gorreri to focus on US after success in China, India & the Middle East

27-Oct-2016 By Jenny Eagle

Gorreri, which supplies lines and equipment for layer cakes and mini rolls, among others, is about to focus on the US market after success in China, India and the Middle East.