Richard Mitchell

Flexible packaging adds functionality

Stronger market interest in convenience and the environment is triggering the development of more functional flexible packaging designs

Richard Mitchell

April 17, 2020

Flexible packaging is living up to its name. As convenience and sustainability become increasingly important to consumers, packaging suppliers are responding with more malleable designs.

Pumps and valves play a big role

An efficient and safe dairy processing operation is dependent on the proper selection and maintenance of pumps and valves

Richard Mitchell

March 18, 2020

Detecting foreign objects and other contaminants in dairy products is perhaps the most crucial part of the production process. Without the ability to effectively scan for adulterants, processors can compromise food safety and risk costly recalls, product waste and damage to their reputations.

Sustainability informs new rigid packaging innovations

A greater market focus on sustainability is leading to the development of more environmentally sound rigid packaging

Richard Mitchell

February 18, 2020

Rigid packaging is undergoing a makeover. With consumers and product manufacturers putting pressure on packaging suppliers to develop designs that are eco-friendly, alternatives with biodegradable elements and less bulk are becoming more prevalent and helping to fuel greater sector activity.

New inspection technologies enhance adulterant detection

Evolving inspection technologies are enabling dairy processors to better detect adulterants, but selecting the optimal machinery can be tricky.

Richard Mitchell

January 13, 2020

Detecting foreign objects and other contaminants in dairy products is perhaps the most crucial part of the production process. Without the ability to effectively scan for adulterants, processors can compromise food safety and risk costly recalls, product waste and damage to their reputations.

Inside the plant: Straus Family Creamer's formidable foundation

Inside the plant: Straus Family Creamery's formidable foundation

The quest for greater efficiencies and worker welfare are prominent in Straus Family Creamery’s manufacturing strategies.

Richard Mitchell

January 4, 2018

As the company prepares to build a new processing facility, one that will more than double its current 16,000 square feet to approximately 40,000 square feet, it is working to maximize production rates and efficiencies at the Marshall, Calif., plant in which it has been operating since the company’s inception in 1994.