• Highlights

    Meat & Poultry Processors Sharpen Innovation Focus
    Andy Hanacek
    March 4, 2025
    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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    Andy Hanacek
    June 11, 2025
    As innovation continues to drive advancement in detection and inspection, food & beverage processors also need to work on prevention of foreign materials in the product stream...
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    High-tech robots put French croissants into containers.
    Andy Hanacek
    June 9, 2025
    Robotics and automation aren’t eliminating entire workforces in the food and beverage industry, but they are following through on the promise of making hard jobs easier for the...
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    Andy Hanacek
    June 6, 2025
    Capital spending at the beef-processing facility will focus on automation and new technology to increase efficiency, yield and safety over the next several years.
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    Andy Hanacek
    June 5, 2025
    Newly renovated plant will produce 15.5 million gallons of ice cream once it's fully operational, giving the company improved capability to expand exponentially on the eastern...
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    June 5, 2025
    Food Processing senior editor Andy Hanacek shares photos he took while attending the grand opening of the ice cream plant, as well as a few images sent by the TCCA after the event...
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    Dave Fusaro
    May 27, 2025
    A government-funded demonstration project last August used the cleaner-burning fuel to power the toasting oven at the factory, lowering the plant’s carbon emissions.
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    May 20, 2025
    Food Taipei Mega Shows taps into trends driving innovation and puts advancement on display across five concurrent expos focused on food and beverage solutions.
    Thermal Processing Sausages
    Andy Hanacek
    Jan. 7, 2025
    Thermal processing remains a steadfast contributor to food quality and safety, so long as processors keep a watchful eye on the time, temperature and humidity of the products....
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    Uncooked Raw Bacon on a rustic wooden board on a white wooden background, top view.
    Andy Hanacek
    Jan. 6, 2025
    One person was treated at the hospital for smoke inhalation, as sprinkler system contained the event to one piece of machinery on the plant’s fourth floor.
    Andy Hanacek
    Jan. 3, 2025
    No one was injured, and fire was kept at bay by sprinkler system — production interrupted for approximately an hour, reports said.
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    Andy Hanacek
    Dec. 13, 2024
    Currently the EVP and president, International Development, Braun will now lead all global operating units for the company, effective Jan. 1, 2025.