CURRENT HEADLINES

• General Mills Plans Major Expansion At Pizza Snack Production Facility In Ohio

  General Mills, a leading global food company, will undertake a major expansion of its production center in Wellston, Ohio. The company plans to create 900 jobs in the southeast part of the Buckeye State.

• Charles Ross And Son Announces New Skid System Capable Of Mixing And Pumping Viscous Products

  ROSS recently designed a new skid system capable of mixing and pumping low to moderately viscous products. The Model VSL-400 design is a custom conical vessel on a movable skid with a progressive cavity pump rated for 10-30 gallons/minute.

• Nestlé Purina PetCare To Add New Processing and Packaging Lines with PA Expansion
• Ireland-Based Ornua Plans $10 Million Expansion At Hilbert, Wisconsin, Cheese Plant

  Ornua, Ireland’s largest premium dairy cooperative, will make a $10 million investment and major expansion of its North America division with the upgrading of its cheese production center in Hilbert, Wisconsin. Expansion plans for Hilbert will add 22,000 square feet of warehousing and cooling infrastructure to the operation.

• Avebe, Global Producer Of Potato Starch Products, Leverages Mendix Low-Code For Efficiency Gains In Factory Planning And Logistics

  Mendix, a Siemens business and the global leader in enterprise low-code, announced today that Avebe, the leading global cooperative of potato starch varieties and potato-based food derivatives, has developed Internal Starch Flow, a software solution designed to streamline logistical and planning processes for Avebe plant facilities and their cooperative farmers.

• GODIVA Joins Earthworm Foundation To Promote Sustainable Change In The Cocoa Sector

  GODIVA, the global leader in premium chocolate, is proud to announce a partnership with the Earthworm Foundation to make sustainable improvements to the cocoa supply chain and support farming communities beginning in Côte d'Ivoire, where approximately 40% of the world's cocoa is sourced.

• New Metal Detector Enhances Foreign Object Identification For Food Processors

  Detection of foreign objects such as metals is a high priority for food processors, especially when in 2019 alone the United States Department of Agriculture reported that 17 million pounds of food were impacted by recalls due to “extraneous material.” The Thermo Scientific Sentinel 1000 Selectscan Metal Detector system features two technologies intended to help food and personal care manufacturers achieve a higher level of safety and quality.

• Inhibiting Germination Requires Highly Accurate Cooling

  Potatoes must be kept at a consistent temperature throughout the batch as soon as possible once they have been stored. This requires an effective ventilation system. Mechanical cooling ensures added value whenever a highly accurate storage temperature must be maintained.

• The Coronavirus Pandemic Requires Us To Understand Food’s Murky Supply Chains

  Six months ago, you may not have thought much about where your groceries were produced. But chances are you’re thinking about it now. The COVID-19 crisis has put food supply chains under incredible stress, and stories on shortages of everything from meat to baking ingredients have been plentiful.

• Test Results Show Lettuce Grown In GrowPods To Be Pathogen Free

  GP Solutions, Inc. (OTC: GWPD), developer of GrowPods – innovative controlled environment indoor micro-farms, released test results showing lettuce grown in their systems to be free of dangerous pathogens.