The week of Father's Day is the perfect time to meet Matt Billings, farmer, father and founder of Ayo Yogurt. Billings has spent his life growing up on his family’s farm in California’s San Joaquin Valley and brings a passion for innovation, healthy living and sustainability to his role as founder of Ayo Almond Yogurt.

People and industry news in food and beverage manufacturing for June 2021.

If you’ve ever baked bread or sweet breakfast rolls at home, you know how wonderful that fragrance can be, ramping up your appetite for a fresh slice out of the oven. But, that friendly fragrance from your kitchen—or early in the morning from the local bakery down the street—may not be what a community wants from an industrial-scale food plant, especially if it occurs around the clock.

Corona has become the first global beverage brand with a net zero plastic footprint, meaning the brand recovers more plastic from the environment than it releases into the world. This achievement is part of the brand's vision to be a sustainability leader in consumer packaged goods.

Plant openings and expansions in food and beverage manufacturing for June 2021.

Prairie State Group (PSG) provided guidance for Split Nutrition on its proprietary and innovative snack packaging to help them grow their brand. 

Mondi, a global leader in packaging and paper, partnered with SILBO, a Polish leading producer of compostable packaging, to create a high-strength, paper-based packaging for the Irish farm potato business Meade Farm Group. 

Pelton Shepherd debuts Enviro Ice, a cold-chain pack for refrigerated and frozen foods. 

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration launched a challenge to push the development of affordable, tech-enabled traceability tools to help protect people and animals from contaminated foods by enabling the rapid identification of their sources and helping remove them from the marketplace.