Calbee Group Products
Plant Operations and Engineering

Meeting Consumers’ Snack Fix Through Innovation in the Plant

Feb. 7, 2025
Creating craveable snack foods requires investment in technology that drives processing plants, data systems that inform decision-makers and product development that introduces...

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Equipment Products

New Equipment Products: March 2025

Efficient motor from ABB Motion; compact non-contact level measurement from Endress+Hauser; PLC cables and modules from Automation Direct; precise airflow for ventilation from...
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Regulatory Compliance

A Year of Regulatory Deadlines

Time is running out on meeting rules from both food safety agencies; here’s what you need to be working on this year.
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Regulatory Compliance

Tariffs on Food: A Cascading Threat to Food Safety, Quality and Legitimacy

Processors will need to redouble their efforts to provide safe, high-quality, unadulterated products in the face of the financial burden and subsequent temptation to cut corners...
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Ingredients

New Ingredients: March 2025

Cost-effective chocolate flavor from Butter Buds Inc.; apple flavor from T. Hasegawa; orange oil replacements from Flavorchem; persimmons for fat loss from Euromed.
Meat & Poultry Processors Sharpen Innovation Focus
Technology

Meat & Poultry Processors Sharpen Innovation Focus

Challenges and pressure persist, but the meat and poultry industry has emerged from the post-Covid era with plenty of opportunities to innovate and improve.
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New Food Products

Rollout! New Food Products March 2025

Organic snack bites; gluten-free cookie dough; salad kits; frozen fruit lollies; kosher hot dogs; tropical-flavored milk.
Protein Ingredients: Research & Success
Ingredients

Protein Ingredients: Research & Success

Proteins are still hot, so R&D continues to improve protein ingredients, even creating new ones.

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Equipment Products

New Equipment Products: February 2025

Motion control servo from Siemens Digital Industries; finer-mesh conveyor belt from Bosch Rexroth; cobot transfer unit from Thomson Industries; fast packing capabilities from ...
Nord Gear Corp
Equipment Products

New Equipment Products: January 2025

Industrial gear units from Nord Gear Corp; automated metal detector verification from Fortress Technology; recyclable cardboard-plastic cup from Greiner Packaging Corp; metal-...

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On the Plant Floor

Thayer Scale Weighing Solutions for a Wide Range of Food Segments

Looking for durable measurement solutions that survive sanitation? Learn about Thayer Scale’s broad range of built-to-survive flow rate measurement and control solutions for in...

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Plant Expansion

Pickled Product Company Bay View Packing Doubles Throughput With Equipment Upgrades

Milwaukee, Wis.-based Bay View Packing adds a rotary chuck capper and new label applicator, allowing it to cap as many as 90 jars per minute, versus its former maximum of 40 per...

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Legal Issues

Michigan Pork Plant Could Lose 400 Workers After Trump Decision to End Haitian Protected Status

The future of about 400 workers at Clemens Food Group's Coldwater, Mich., plant is up in the air due to President Trump’s revoking of Temporary Protected Status, which allowed...