Since 2014, respondents to Food Engineering’s annual State of Food Manufacturing survey have ranked automation as the No. 1 trend affecting the industry—until this year.

When constructing its plant in McIntosh, Ala., Tate & Lyle required custom-designed distillation columns, pressure vessels and heat exchangers.

Keeping your packaging machines running can be a tricky task, but better design leads to improved uptime.

Successfully incorporating cannabis into edibles that are delicious, safe and consistently dosed is not an easily achieved feat. Add in the complexities of chocolate, and it becomes a real challenge, particularly for new and small edibles manufacturers.

Rivacold announced plans to open a $5 million manufacturing facility in Buford, Ga., the company’s first U.S. location.

The LTM-DUO is a flexible, twin-station machine for wrapping products like chocolate bars in foil at speeds of up to 215 packs per minute, with bar sizes ranging from 20 to 300 grams.

The Viking-8S-235, for packaging edibles like candy, confections, snacks and more in pouch formats, is for bags up to 235 mm wide at speeds up to 60 cycles per minute.

The Microlab STAR uses air displacement pipetting to achieve superior cannabis product assay accuracy.

This high-performance liquid chromatograph (HPLC) is designed for quantitative determination of cannabinoid content.