Food and beverage processors rank in the top three for industrial water usage.

The company also eliminated 61,000 tons of waste.

Of the six prestigious award winners, Frito-Lay was the only manufacturing plant.

Attention to use of the humble hydrogen-oxygen molecule is producing sometimes-surprising operational improvements and cost savings at food plants.
 

As many of you who read this column each month are well aware, Food Engineering’s Food Automation & Manufacturing Conference and Expo is held every year in Florida during April.

The combination of membrane bioreactor filtration with a zoned anaerobic digester resulted in unprecedented COD reductions in a cheese plant’s high-strength effluent.

Crops still use the lion’s share of resources in the overall farm-to-fork process.