Lyco Manufacturing, a North American manufacturer of commercial cooking and cooling equipment, is sponsoring a two-day Leading-Edge Food Machinery Technology Open House incorporating seminars and state-of-the-art equipment demonstrations on its cooking and cooling systems for vegetables, pasta, rice and dry beans.The event will profile Lyco’s latest technical developments in high-throughput equipment for cooking, cooling, blanching, re-hydrating and pasteurizing: incorporating its quick-changeover clean-in-place (CIP) systems which can reduce clean-up times between runs from hours to minutes; its latest systems for dry bean hydration using continuous pressure cooking/blanching; and its rapid continuous pouch cooling systems for vegetable and meat products, including soups, which can process throughput volumes as high as 10,000 lbs. per hour. The open house will be held May 13th and 14th, 2009 at the company’s facilities in Columbus, Wisc. Reservations are required. For more information please contact Judy Sullivan; Phone 920-623-4152; [email protected]; 115 Commercial Drive, Columbus, Wisc. (USA) 53925; www.lycomfg.com.