Both X-ray and metal detection machines can prevent a lot of headaches. But if this is your first time purchasing a system, determining which is right for your operations can be confusing.

In the previous parts of this series, we considered the aspects of land, locale and logistics. This edition will discuss the top trend in the food and beverage processing industry—automation, and how this is affecting site selection decisions.

Simpsons Malt Ltd., a malt producer in the UK, turned to Eclipse Magnetics to provide a magnetic separation system for its malt production.

Even as food and beverage manufacturers are learning to look on the bright side of FSMA, new regulations keep taking effect, and they all require more than just a good outlook to comply with them.

Snyder’s-Lance, which markets nearly 20 leading snack food brands, builds and maintains routes for nearly 3,000 independent owners of equity territories across the US. The company has implemented the Appian FinalMile routing and scheduling solution to dramatically enhance its route engineering and territory planning capabilities.

There’s a LEED for Schools. LEED for Hospitality. Retail. Data Centers. Warehouses & Distribution Centers. Healthcare. What there is not—at least not yet—is a LEED for Food Manufacturing.

To increase capacity, a production line was installed to fill Prolom bottled water, sourced from the Planinka health spa and resort.

A Jet Precooler has helped Organically Grown Company cut its precooling time, bringing produce down to the required temperature in about a third of the time of the previous cooling system.

JTM estimates that adding a Butler Automatic splicer reduced film changeover time from 15 minutes down to 10 seconds.

A double-drum spiral freezer from Food Process Solutions increased production capacity without needing additional floor space.