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Packaging safety is a key issue for snack and bakery producers who strive to safely maximize product shelf life. Innovations such as modified-atmosphere packaging (MAP) and active packaging technologies are leading the way, along with tamper-resistant materials. Also, marking and coding technologies improve traceability.

Traceability is more than a buzzword: it’s increasingly a “must” for food and beverage manufacturers seeking to provide greater visibility to their customers, consumers and government regulators. 

ProFood Tech took place March 26 to 2018, 2019, at McCormick Place West in Chicago.

SNAP Resources (SNAP), a Motion Controls Robotics’ affiliated company, will join READY Robotics in their Automate 2019 booth #7571 to display the mobile SNAPMate Station featuring a FANUC CR-15iA collaborative robot.

To meet rising demand for fast delivery, snack and bakery warehouse operations have little room for error. Thus, many look to technological advances, including automation, to minimize the risk of unexpected delays, and to find new ways to streamline inventory management.

Multi-Conveyor recently built a super sanitary stainless steel welded, plastic belt conveyor to merge plastic wrapped bulk cheese using brand new FIFO (first-in, first-out) technology.

Heat and Control has chosen SNAXPO 2019, their 55thyear as an exhibitor, to introduce their latest snack processing innovation, the new Rotary Dryer Roaster (RDR).

Bundy Baking Solutions recently released Shaffer Select Series Single Sigma Arm Mixers, Triple Roller Bar Mixers, and American Pan TabLock Baking Screens.

To address ever-present and continuously growing sanitation-related concerns across the snack and bakery industry, equipment manufacturers are working to provide machinery that's easy to wipe down, doesn’t provide harborage for moisture or stray ingredients, and is simple, ideally tool-less, to disassemble and reassemble as needed.

Food processing and packaging solutions provider tna has appointed Matthew Walters as branch manager to head up its African operations.