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A major Canadian dairy food processing plant recently found itself struggling with odor issues. The plant, which makes a wide range of cheese products for all of Canada, resides in a planned community; careful consideration was given regarding the balance between residential, industrial and commercial usages of the area. Problems with odor destabilized that balance, making local residents and businesses unhappy.  

 The CSS system (corrugated shrink and sleeve) from Polypack forms a corrugated sleeve/belt around products, and glues and tucks a single tab. 

The Artis Evo from GEA Procomac uses a patent-pending system of layer handling to save space, reduce maintenance cost and maintain high-speed production.

 Dyco has made improvements to its bagged bottle bundle cart with the new Super Stacker bundle cart.  

Braskem expanded its portfolio of high-density polyethylene resins with the launch of the HD7600 family, which is designed especially to meet the needs of the shrink-film segment, such as secondary packaging for unitizing cans and bottles.

 The Swing machine from Blueprint Automation is a versatile robotic cell that can pack bags and other packages either standing up or laying down, into cases, crates and other secondary containers.  

The Apex Sleever from Douglas Machine provides new package options for producers since it improves package integrity for multipacks of bottles and cups.

Potassium chloride has been explored as a salt replacer. Other approaches include adding flavor enhancers, using fermentates and trying selected starter adjuncts.