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December 2023
Provisur leads the way in sustainable meat and poultry processing equipment
Provisur is a leading industrial food processing equipment manufacturer headquartered in Chicago, Illinois, with a global network of sales and service more...
February 2023
How Reclosable Packaging for Deli Meats Keeps Your Brand Competitive
The deli meat market is expected to reach $27.4 billion by 2030, per an Allied Market Research report. As packaged deli meats continue to grow in popularity more...
October 2022
The Future of Food Safety: Intervention Technologies That Save Water and Chemistry
Meat and poultry processing consumes massive amounts of water daily—for some processors, the number of gallons reaches well into the millions. Heavy more...
Resistance is Futile: After-Sales Service & Maintenance is Essential to Production
Your packaging equipment needs service, maintenance, and repairs to meet increasing production demand. Resistance is futile. As a modern producer, you more...
AirGas
September 2022
Automation… Bringing Predictability Back to Meat Processing
New Visual Inspection Capabilities Boost Detection of Hard to Find Foreign Materials
Added Line of Defense Delivers Proven Return on Investment BY Olga Pawluczyk Avoiding foreign material (FM) contamination is an ongoing challenge for more...
The Benefits of Buying OEM Parts for Food Processing Equipment.
When your food processing equipment performs at its best, you maximize throughput, profits, and peace of mind. To achieve maximum uptime requires routine more...
July 2022
NOVADRY: The Vacuum Pump Made to Optimize Food & Packaging Processes
The demands placed by manufacturers and consumers on the quality, shelf life, and resource efficiency of food and packaging processes are constantly increasing more...
May 2022
Phage Technology: A Valuable Tool in Your Multi-Hurdle, Multi-Technology Approach
Dr. Alvarado is a Poultry Technical Services Manager at Arm & Hammer Animal and Food Production Innovation can be a real game-changer when it comes more...
April 2022
New research review identifies The Gilt Gap and how much it’s costing the swine industry
University researchers recently completed a literature review and identified clearly defined performance gaps between barrows and gilts in growth performance more...
How Major Meat Producers are Using AI to Improve Retention and Productivity
AI (artificial intelligence) is transforming many industries. AI is contributing to the record-fast development of safe, effective vaccines for COVID more...
December 2021
Spoiler Alert! There are more ways to find spoilage microorganisms than you think
The estimated economic impact due to food waste and spoilage amounts to a loss of a third of all more...
November 2021
Indulging today’s meat snack lovers with natural ingredient solutions
For a growing number of people, snacking is a way of life. Snacks are no longer limited to specific parts of the day, and consumers are snacking more more...
October 2021
Clean Label Meat Insights Report
We’re helping you learn what consumers want by sharing our proprietary consumer research on clean label meat. Then, we’re helping you deliver more...
September 2021
The Elite 360: The Future of Food Safety
Every poultry processor loses sleep over Food Safety Inspection Service (FSIS) designation of Category 3. Whether follow-up inspections, corrective actions more...
August 2021
Corbion – Plant Extracts
For years, processors have depended on synthetically produced sodium nitrite for creating cured meat products cost-efficiently, and synthetic antioxidants more...
MAKE YOUR CLAIMS
Claims-based meats kept pace with the red-hot meat market in 2020, growing 18.1% to $9 more...
May 2021
Boost Your Defrosting Yields
The global frozen meat market size is projected to reach over $22 billion (US) in 2021 and grow to over $33 billion (US) by 2026. Frozen meat helps with more...
April 2021
Indulging today’s meat snack lovers with natural ingredient solutions
For a growing number of people, snacking is a way of life. Snacks are no longer limited to specific parts of the day, and consumers are snacking more more...
February 2021
Indulging today’s meat snack lovers with natural ingredient solutions
Differentiation in can shape your success in creating meats with natural ingredients. For a growing number of people, snacking is a way of life. Snacks more...
November 2020
Meat processing technology: Keeping dollars … and sense … always at the forefront.
Here’s how one equipment company does it. The meat processing industry is always in the process of reinventing itself – in term of technology more...
September 2020
Let us help you with perfect plant-based proteins
For plant-based alternative proteins, moving beyond frozen formats brings new preservation challenges in terms of safety, shelf life and spoilage. Solving more...
August 2020
Keeping Contamination at Bay
In today’s climate of health hyper-awareness, the need to ensure food safety has never been more critical. It starts on the slaughter floor. There’s more...
Beef Processing in the Pandemic: Prepare for Heavier Steer Carcass Weights
Article written by Mark Swanson, CEO, Birko Meat shortages. COVID-19 outbreaks in meat processing plants. Backups in the supply chain. These are the stories more...
November 2019
A new integrated company… with a heritage that dates back decades
Cantrell and Gainco join forces to deliver more customer options than ever before. Earlier this year, a significant development in the U.S. poultry processing more...
June 2019
More effective debone/trim systems make their mark in poultry processing
The YieldPlus system from Gainco helps processors maximize yields and improve product quality while measuring the productivity and performance of more...
October 2018
Taking trimming technology to the next level
How do you improve on a proven product like hand-held powered meat trimmers? As it turns out, there are numerous ways, and Bettcher Industries is demonstrating more...
March 2018
Do you want to improve inconsistent white meat yield? Why not use a vision system?
Manual poultry cone lines and automated deboning operations have the potential to deliver some of the best sales and profit margins in the industry, due more...
October 2017
Consistency in processing: When small errors become a big deal
If processing hot dogs is so easy, why is that so often it just doesn’t work out right? Have you ever made a batch and thought, “Wow, this more...
September 2017
From mesquite to cedar-planked — BBQ flavors are hot!
BBQ means a lot of different things to different people. In Alabama, BBQ means charred chicken smothered in a white, creamy BBQ sauce. In Texas, BBQ means more...
What a sous vide cooking system could do for you
For 30 years, sous vide processing has notably improved the quality of RTE foods. Food processors can consistently produce guaranteed safe food product more...
August 2017
Improving food safety inspection of pumped products
Contamination detection in liquids, slurries and pastes that pass through pipelines can prove challenging. Discover how X-ray inspection and metal detection more...
June 2017
FALCON evolution: Subtle Changes, Major Results
The NEW FALCON evolution is the latest addition to the TREIF FALCON line and the next generation in portion cutting machines. Responding to a need for more...
April 2017
Meat processors are heeding consumers’ call for convenient, high-protein snacks
According to the "2016 Snacking Occasion Consumer Trend Report" from Technomic, Inc., the percent of consumers snacking between meals has risen sharply more...
January 2017
Foodservice focus + vendor collaboration = category growth
When Amazon decides to delve into a new category, it signals that category is ripe with opportunity. It also is a sign the category probably is primed more...
November 2016
A Natural Shift: What they won’t tell you about liquid smoke and why
Liquid smoke is created by heating hardwood sawdust or chips in a tank until they smolder. The gases and particles are cooled so that they condense and more...
September 2016
Why air exchange is so important to your smokehouse & what some manufacturers won’t tell you
With such a variety of smokehouse designs and different methods of smoking, it’s difficult to know what to look for. We spoke with some of the industries’ more...
August 2016
What effect does tar, creosote build-up have on air exchange?
Processors that use sawdust and log smoke generators know the importants of thoroughly cleaning their system to help prevent issues such as tar dripping more...
June 2016
Cooking bacon: Challenging but achievable
Although bacon may not appear very complex to cook, it’s actually quite challenging to achieve a product that is consistent in size and shape with more...
April 2016
Answering the need for case-ready processing
With growing grocery and consumer demand for case-ready meats, processors are tasked to offer the highest quality case-ready products while doing so at more...
September 2015
High-pressure pasteurization “made in Germany“
Whether freshly squeezed fruit juice or smoothies, sausage or milk products, consumers increasingly demand fresh and natural food without chemical additives more...
September 2012
Photo Essay: DuPont Teijin Films Opens Product Innovation Kitchen
From the outside, it doesn’t exactly scream, “Product Innovation Center!” It’s in a small shopping center in Richmond, VA more...
May 2011
Cook-in-Pack Technology
All Ready-To-Eat (RTE) sausage producers share a concern for food safety compromised by pathogens. In the last 20 years, the industry has made great strides more...
October 2010
PHOTO ESSAY: Reiser customer center offers turn-key solutions
REISER’s modern, new 6,600 sq.-ft. Customer Center is designed to help customers develop processes and products in an environment that replicates more...
September 2010
White Paper: More effective poultry dark meat deboning processes
It’s common knowledge that the popularity of dark meat poultry in the United States is growing. And why not? Chefs and consumers alike agree on more...
April 2010
Improving sustainability through packaging solutions: Reduction of food waste
Throughout the distribution system, food producers, processors and retailers are identifying ways to increase efficiencies to reduce costs and create more...
Handtmann opens new Forum R&D and training center
Bringing customers from North America to Biberach, Germany, isn't exactly a day trip. But according to Tom Kittle, Handtmann Inc.'s president, based in more...
April 2009
The benefits of MAP technology in bulk transfer packaging
Multiple benefits accrue from Modified Atmosphere Packaging (MAP) technology in bulk transfer of beef grinds. Using combo liners for bulk transfer of more...
September 2008
Triple benefit technology: High pressure processing delivers safety, extended shelf life and all-natural benefits
According to the latest "US Grocery Shopper Trends" survey from Food Marketing Institute (FMI), from 1996 to 2006, 82% of consumers reported they were more...
Special handling for RTE product safety
With the exception of equipment destined for the Ready-To-Eat market, productivity usually is the prime engineering criteria for meat processing automation more...
August 2008
Simpler is better
In yield-critical skinning operations, simplicity is a key to greater profitability. In fact, simplification is the prime directive in Stork Townsend's more...
January 2008
PHOTO ESSAY: An inside look at Vemag's new R&D center
Vemag's ultra-modern customer R&D center, Verden, Germany, attracts processors from around the world. The new facility is the latest addition to Vemag's more...
December 2007
Extracting greater value from trimmings through suspension technology
Meat and poultry processors have long used traditional injection systems to add flavor and moisture in their products. But few realize that even while more...
November 2007
Assessing the impact of tenderization on slicing yield
One of the major changes in the meat industry over the past decade has been the rapid development of sliced, packaged products. Changes in lifestyle, more...
October 2007
Safety, clean labels and shelf-life extension: High pressure pasteurization takes center stage
Have you noticed? Driven by consumer demand for all-natural, minimally processed products, almost all major North American meat processors have now introduced more...
September 2007
Understanding and maintaining airflow within your smokehouse
Thermal processing ovens — known as smokehouses, Batch ovens or forced air convection ovens — utilize many of the same variables. Some of more...
April 2007
Ham manufacturing: Applying the Cozzini FastHam™ process
The two most important attributes for all cooked ham products are their intra-muscular bind and their water retention (water holding and water binding more...
January 2007
Effectiveness of Spectrum Antimicrobial Agent as an intervention strategy in immersion chill applications
Salmonella continues to be a leading cause of food-borne illness in the United States. Because salmonella is often associated with poultry, new Food Safety more...
Controlling Listeria in ready-to-eat meat products
Listeria bacterial contaminations in ready-to-eat meat products can not only be hazardous to people who consume the product, but recalls due to such contaminations more...
November 2006
The rating game: Consumers weigh in on enhanced ground beef patties
Perhaps owing to the recent confluence of ethnic dining trends, or perhaps because they dine out more frequently, today's consumers are more attuned to more...
August 2006
The rating game: Consumers weigh in on enhanced steaks
Palatability is the key to any successful meat manufacturing enterprise. Indeed, study after study shows that if a meat product fails to please in the more...
NCBA brings knowledge, expertise to market through Beef Innovations Group
The National Cattlemen's Beef Association is proud to introduce the check-off funded Beef Innovations Group. The Beef Innovations Group, or BIG for short more...
June 2006
What's next for Beef Value Cuts?
In 1999, as part of an effort to create more options for consumers at the meat case, the checkoff-funded National Cattlemen's Beef Association's (NCBA) more...
May 2006
Shredded beef holds the key to profit potential
From sourcing raw materials to researching consumer-purchasing habits, introducing new beef products to the marketplace can be challenging and costly more...
Engineering the next generation of scales and weight indicators
Revolutionary new scale and weight indicator designs are the product of carefully researching meat & poultry plant operators' concerns. Problems with more...