Known for its range of sun-dried fruits including tomatoes, apricots, cherries and berries, Traina Foods is poised to expand its sun-dried tomato offerings.
Vancouver-based EnWave Corporation has opened its REVworx large-scale vacuum-microwave toll processing facility, which offers on-demand contract manufacturing services for the production of high-quality, vacuum-microwave dried snack and ingredient applications for food companies of all sizes.
These mixers allow powders and granules to be gently blended by two rectangular planetary blades that rotate on their own axes while orbiting the mixing zone on a common axis.
When a cheese processor wanted to increase production capacity, its first thought was to install an additional dryer, which was an expensive and energy-intensive solution. However, as the capacity of the dryer is determined by the amount of water it can remove per hour, another way to increase overall throughput would be to reduce the water content of the cheese products before drying, so that a larger volume could be dried at one time.