Food Automation Conference Report Best practices in food safety, asset utilization and sustainability
were front and center at this year’s industry idea-exchange.
by Kevin T.Higgins, Senior Editor
Tech Update: Post-Production Solutions The integrated-plant concept works great, up until the finished product
is filled. Machines may do the repetitive tasks, but coordinated activity
remains elusive.
Industry & People Mars, Inc. announced a merger agreement with Chicago-based Wm. Wrigley Jr. Company in a transaction valued at approximately $23 billion. Under the terms of the agreement, Wrigley will become a separate and standalone subsidiary of Mars.
Regulatory Watch With the US and South Korea now exploring a possible free trade agreement, Cal Dooley, president and CEO of the Food Products Association, says a deal between the two countries could be beneficial to the food industry.
Space station greens Rocky Mountain inventors and engineers have guided aeroponics technology into niche applications around the globe and into outer space. Now they’re targeting commercial crops.
by Kevin T.Higgins, Senior Editor
Keeping sugar’s cool New heat exchanger provides safe and adequate cooling less expensively.
Heart healthy and business savvy La Tortilla Factory kicks product innovation and efficiency up a notch with new business software.
AC motor brakes Featuring a simple design with fewer moving parts for stop/hold applications, Warner’s Unibrakes AC spring-applied motor brakes have an external manual release lever that allows a driven load to be moved without energizing the motor; the lever resets automatically when the brake is re-energized.
Acrylic flow meters Dakota Instrument’s ACR clear acrylic flow meters have direct reading dual scales.
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