Tuesday, May 13, 2008
Managing the global plant
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You can’t run foreign plants from Springdale or Buffalo, but you can put in place the proper local infrastructure to increase the chances of success.
The open road
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You can still keep your secrets while gaining new perspective and expertise by finding outside product development help.
Back to the Big Easy
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Three years after just beating Hurricane Katrina, the Institute of Food Technologists returns to New Orleans with volunteer programs to aid the city.

Food Processing's 'rich' content...

Site Selection and Plant ConstructionSite Selection and Plant Construction 
In this video, Tim Schram, director of incentive services from Grant Thornton LLP, and Food Processing editor Dave Fusaro cut to the chase and give you five tips food processors' should follow to get the most financial incentives for your new or expanded plant.

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Food Processing Multimedia LibraryMultimedia Library

View video on many topics in our constantly changing multimedia library. From interviews with industry professionals to opinon pieces on hot topics from our editors, the multimedia library has the food industry covered.

Site Highlights

Toops' Blog: World's worst cook

Are you hopeless in the kitchen? The American Egg Board wants to hear from you.

Wellness Foods Minute: Natural Products Expo

Got a minute? Food Processing's/Wellness Foods' David Feder interviewed three key executives at the Natural Products Expo. Hear what GardenBurger and Reeds Beverages, Inc. had to say from the tradeshow floor in this collection of three, brief videos.

Wellness Food Minute: Nutraceutical Ingredients Trends

Got a minute? Wellness Foods editor David Feder, R.D., will tell you what's on his mind when it comes to nutraceutical ingredients trends and the changes in how trends emerge.

The Top 100: Kraft returns to the top

Following a tough year for animal protein companies, Kraft Foods returns to the No. 1 position on our annual list of the 100 largest food and beverage processors in the U.S. and Canada.

White Papers

Traceability 2.0: Ensuring Food Safety and Achieving Competitive Differentiation through Multi-Dimensional Traceability

In response to rising food safety standards and the growing complexity of the food supply chain, food processors are assessing their ability to ensure the safety and quality of their products. Read this white paper to learn about Multi-Dimensional Traceability, a business process enabling food processors to collect and analyze information at every stage in the process.

Washing Down Drives without Washing away Profits

This white paper from Gates Corporation will examine drive system cleaning and sanitizing challenges facing the food manufacturing industry and compare wash-down considerations for roller chain and belt drives, so that food manufacturers can make informed choices about how to maintain the highest level of productivity while meeting or exceeding food safety standards.

Country of Origin Labeling in the Food Manufacturing Industry

This white paper by CDC Software explores the strategic, operational, financial and technological issues companies in the food industry face in response to the new imperatives created by growing country-of-origin labeling (COOL) requirements and provides recommendations to address these issues.

Ten Trends in Packaging Operations

Aside from the incessant drive to make packaging machinery more productive, we are beginning to see the conscious leveraging of automated packaging systems as a strategic business advantage. This is occurring on several fronts. This paper presents a number of trends to watch for, underlying business and technical strategies, and the enabling technologies that are changing the game.