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The high rate MACH II ultrasonic cheese cutter, designed by Coprodev Plus, was created to produce precise cuts of long cheese bars.

MWV partnered with Danone to create promotional packaging that coincided with the release of the Century Fox children’s movie, Ice Age 4, in Brazil.

Harpak-ULMA offers Rama retail ready secondary solutions that use less material than traditional RSC packaging with unlimited graphic possibilities

For nearly 20 years, the world had accepted the PDCAAS (Protein Digestibility Corrected Amino Acid Score) as the gold standard for measuring protein quality. The dairy industry has long argued that this method has flaws and limitations.

Everyone in dairy companies, including corporate management, has increased their focus on food safety over the past two years.

Consumers want sustainable food packaging. Food manufacturers want to use sustainable packaging. Many packaging suppliers are striving to meet marketplace demands. But we live in an imperfect world and we can’t always get what we want. That said improvements are being made and have been made over the years.

Perhaps the unprecedented warmer fall weather in much of the United States was to blame for the melting of unit sales for frozen novelties and ice cream. Whatever the cause, only a few ice cream brands saw increases at the end of 2012.

Eagle Packaging Machinery introduces Boxxer, an all-in-one case erector loader sealer system.

Finding a foreign object in dairy foods is every plant manager’s nightmare. Detecting these objects quickly and efficiently is key. That’s where X-ray and metal detection systems come into play. Checkweighers guard against short counts in packages or underweight volumes. Dairy Foods invited leading suppliers of detection systems to talk about what’s new. Here’s what they had to say.

Sustainability is not solely focused on environmental impact but also includes economic and social impact — the triple bottom line that creates healthy people, healthy communities and a healthy planet. If a solution is good for the environment but not economically feasible, it is not sustainable from a business standpoint.