Minimizing capital cost is a common strategy for purchasing packaging line equipment. But, operating costs can offset that strategy. This article details the full picture of purchasing packaging line equipment.

Tulip, one of Denmark’s leading producers of processed food for the domestic and export market, produces around 90 tons of sausages each day. A large proportion of these – about 60 tons a day – is packaged under a modified atmosphere of carbon dioxide and nitrogen to keep the product fresh and improve its shelf life. This case study shows how the company improved its efficiency by installing a Modified Atmosphere Packaging (MAP) system.

Bye-bye manual testing: Replaced by new on-line gas analyzer. This case study examines how a meat processing company made the switch from manually and randomly testing of its packages five times each day to an on-line headspace analyzer for its Modified Atmosphere Packaging (MAP) products.

In 2004, Mariscos Linamar, a Spanish seafood company, began to investigate the innovative idea of packaging a proportion of its product in a modified atmosphere, with the aim to extend the product shelf life and improve its appearance. Years of research followed. After extensive research and trials, the optimal gas mixture, comprising oxygen and carbon dioxide blended in a ratio that depends on the product and the format of the package, had been decided upon as well as the best packaging approach. This case study illustrates the process the company used to implement Modified Atmosphere Packaging (MAP) with thermosealed trays.

Hellenic Quality Foods (HQF) is a leading food company in Greece, packaged its products on trays with stretch film until early 2014. This case study shows how the company made the move to Modified Atmosphere Packaging (MAP) to improve its products shelf and extend its customer reach.

Omnibar, a small Montana-based company that produces a unique, high-nutrition food bar, was seeking new markets for the high-grade, grass-fed cattle reared on the family ranch in Montana’s Blackfoot River Valley. This case study examines how the company overcame the packaging challenges associated with its unique product.

Food production is a precise, process-oriented industry. For today’s food manufacturing companies, finding ways to improve operations, make better decisions, and leverage innovative technology is essential to growth and remaining competitive. This whitepaper takes a deep dive into how AI is transforming your business for the better by using imaging, forecasting, prediction, and language learning.

Some of the industry’s biggest losses stem from faulty inventory management procedures; it can be easily overlooked, but it’s as essential to a healthy supply chain as employee education or mechanical upkeep. With right tools and mindset in place, inventory management can be a properly integrated aspect of any manufacturer’s supply chain operations and the cost savings will help companies be more proactive in other aspects of their business.

The numbers are staggering. In three decades, the global population is expected to grow to nearly 10 billion. Feeding all those people — which includes 3 billion or so added since 2010 — won’t be possible unless food and beverage producers embrace a variety of solutions in the march toward sustainability.

Traditional food and beverage buying habits — where the public gravitates toward large companies with a long history — are quickly evaporating. For food and beverage companies, this means making continuous adjustments — finding the right balance of new product offerings while scaling back legacy products — to both stay competitive as well as gain market share. However, the approach can only be successful if it revolves around the ability to rapidly scale up operations if a product is selling well and scaling down as demand declines. Using the proper tools, this flexibility is possible without an intense capital investment.

The Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) is fundamentally reshaping many industries. This interconnectivity of equipment, sensors, and instrumentation, also known as IIoT, offers businesses a way to increase their competitiveness by optimizing nearly every step of each process.

The point at which a customer complains is often the greatest test of the relationship between the customer and their service or product provider. So it is surprising that even today many companies fail to recognize the value complaints can deliver to their organization. This paper explores how companies should begin to look anew at the role and value of complaints and feedback to their organization and to consider complaints no longer as a costly inconvenience but as a key opportunity to develop more profitable and sustainable relationships with their customers.