Food Engineering

Designed as secondary packaging for confectionery products, the bags aim to deliver machine performance, material strength and print quality that meets pladis’ production standards.

Carlos Abrams-Rivera will step down Jan. 1 and serve as an advisor to the company until March 6, 2026, to ensure a seamless leadership transition.

The new facility – which will replace the current 90-year-old production plant in Denver – will allow the company to provide its employees with a modern working environment, meet rising customer demand and advance its sustainability goals.

The company has purchased 39 acres in Jefferson, Wisconsin, located between Madison and Milwaukee.

We’ve compiled the Top 10 processing and packaging equipment solutions FOOD ENGINEERING’s readers were most interested in this year.

The Hayssen X850 cycles up to 300 packs per minute with over 1 second of dwell time and detects and clears product jams without stopping.

Compliance will require not only formulation changes but also process redesign, supply chain realignment and organizational adaptation.

Manufacturers continue to advance the design of vibratory feeders to evolve and meet the food industry’s needs and regulatory challenges.

This compact, portable system combines liquid and dry seasoning in a single plug-and-play unit for continuously coating snacks, nuts, confectioneries, cereals, vegetables, fruits, frozen foods and more.

Braun will succeed James Quincey, who will transition to executive chairman after serving as CEO for nine years. 

DrinkPAK will lease a 1.4 million-sq.-ft., build-to-suit facility on 74.8 acres in the Bellwether District of Philadelphia — serving as the company’s flagship manufacturing facility on the East Coast.

Manufacturers that are shifting their views and approaches to waste reduction — seeing it as a critical driver of performance — are also seeing the greatest gains despite a shaky economic outlook.

Given the pivotal role pH plays in many aspects of food production, choosing the right pH electrode and meter is an important step in solving top pH testing concerns.

To make good decisions, people, automation and AI systems need quality data — but to let an AI agent make an autonomous decision without input from operators and key decision makers means a processor needs to have lots of accurate data based on real and known sensory inputs, which may not exist in many plants and enterprises.

Dust in the food and beverage industry is much more than a housekeeping nuisance — it’s directly tied to food safety, product quality, worker safety and regulatory compliance.

The X3 Series has been developed for unpackaged, loose-flow bulk products on conveyors.

The HPSX is a hygienic soft gripper engineered to handle delicate, irregularly shaped and hygienically sensitive products.

Sourcing milk directly from local dairy farmers, the Georgia facility will process and bottle a variety of milk options Walmart’s Great Value and Sam’s Club Member’s Mark brands.

While maintaining its fan-favorite logo and design, the tin aims to bring back the user experience of years past.

The agency says agentic AI deployment will enable its staff to further advance the use of AI to assist with more complex tasks, such as meeting management, pre-market reviews, review validation, post-market surveillance, inspections and compliance and administrative functions.