Current Headlines

1. Hearthside Food Solutions, RYT-Way Industries Merge
   5/15/2013

   Wind Point Partners, a private equity firm, will merge two of its portfolio companies—Hearthside Food Solutions and Ryt-way Industries to create a leading contract food manufacturer in North America with more than $1 billion in sales and 19 manufacturing facilities across seven states. The merger is expected to become effective in late May

2. Cognex To Showcase Line-Up Of Vision Solutions At Total
   5/15/2013

   As the global leader in machine vision technology, Cognex vision systems, sensors and ID readers provide solutions for a huge range of application possibilities in the packaging industry, from product inspection and verification through to full traceability using advanced 1-D and 2-D code readers

3. Air Monitors Targets UK Food Sector
   5/14/2013

   The specialist instrumentation provider, Air Monitors, has launched a new division to cater specifically for the air monitoring requirements of the food industry. Sales Manager Colin Craggs says “This initiative has been taken in response to a recent rise in enquiries from the food and beverage markets, combined with advances in measurement technology

4. Motorola’s New Freezer-Rated Solutions Deliver Better Cold Chain Efficiencies
   5/14/2013

   Freezers and the end-to-end cold chain present some of the most extreme and unforgiving environments for computing hardware. Motorola Solutions, Inc., a leading provider of mission-critical communication solutions and services for enterprise and government customers, today announced three new products that will withstand the demands of extremely cold environments

5. Celsis And CoValence Recognized for Transformative Supply Chain Project
   5/14/2013

   The collaboration ofCelsis International and Covalence Laboratories has been named to the 2013 Supply & Demand Chain Executive (SDCE) Top 100 – “100 Great Supply Chain Projects” for delivering measurable gains in ROI through cost reductions and increased efficiencies in the supply chain. CoValence Laboratories significantly improved its product release process by implementing a rapid screening system from Celsis, a global leader in rapid microbial testing. 

6. Odyssey Investment Partners Acquires Fischbein
   5/13/2013

   Odyssey Investment Partners, LLC announced recently that it has acquired Fischbein LLC, a leading supplier of packaging machinery and material handling equipment, from a group of investors led by MSouth Equity Partners, LLC. Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed

7. Ecolab Introduces New EPA FDA Cleared Antimicrobial Fruit And Vegetable Treatment
   5/13/2013

   Ecolab Inc. introduces Antimicrobial Fruit and Vegetable Treatment (AFVT) -- a breakthrough product to help reduce the risk of foodborne illness outbreaks related to ineffective produce washing in foodservice operations. AFVT is the industry’s first no-rinse produce wash to earn both Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) registration and Food and Drug Administration (FDA) clearance for pathogen reduction in the water for whole produce and on the surface of cut fruits and vegetables1. Ecolab's Antimicrobial Fruit

8. Eriez Introduces Pull Test Kit With Digital Scale
   5/12/2013

   Customers can now order an Eriez Pull Test Kit with an NIST traceable digital scale, which provides easier-to-read, more accurate results.

9. CI-Vision Launches High-Speed Vision Inspection Technology For Fresh Food Industry
   5/11/2013

   Producers of both large and small packaged fresh food products can now benefit from high-speed, high-precision product package and label inspection with CLS Series vision inspection technology from Mettler-Toledo CI-Vision. The series comprises three machine sizes developed specifically for the fresh food industry to inspect labelling of packs of varying widths and heights for the correct best-before date, lot number and barcode at high throughput rates

10. New Equipment Helps NDSU Researchers Study Plant Disease, Food Safety
    5/10/2013

    New cutting edge equipment at NDSU will improve food safety and disease research on wheat and barley