Case Studies - Refrigerated & Frozen Foods

Oven lets processor do more with less Intevation Food Group uses high-capacity spiral oven technology to cook a wide range of products at higher speeds with more control, consistency, and 85 percent less space.

Road warriors – at your service USCS Logistics offers full-service supply chain solutions to help food processors go the last mile.

It's a blast New blast freezing warehouse technology reduces energy, labor.

Really Cool Food takes Safeline approach When The Really Cool Food Company built a $24 million plant in Cambridge City, Ind. last year, officials were very picky about inspection systems and checkweighers.

Dorner delivers for Palermo's Pizza You don't succeed in a tough, competitive frozen pizza category without paying attention to the details. That why -- when it came to taking the next step forward in operations -- Milwaukee, Wis.-based Palermo's Pizza took time to make the right decision with conveyors.

Real world solutions Love reality TV? We may never see a series about life inside a food processing company. Even so, there is a fast-growing refrigerated dips company, Fresherized Foods Inc., that deserves the spotlight.

Kitchen aid New technology helps Amy’s Kitchen keep processing, reduce peak energy use by 44 percent.

From 190˚F to 40˚F in 60 to 90 minutes Pouch cooling system speeds up production for Mexican food maker.

What lies beneath Concrete flooring in today’s industrial freezer spaces should easily outlast all other parts of the facility. A typical serviceable lifespan can reach 50 years or more. by Johnny Johnson

	Quantifying the Environmental Impact of Secondary Packaging The term “sustainability” is heard in boardrooms everywhere these days because it is a concept that embraces both environmental and bottom-line business concerns. by Peter Fox

Barber Foods Puts SEEBURGER on the Menu to Align EDI & EAI with New SAP Installation

For frozen chicken products purveyor Barber Foods, migrating to SAP R/3 put several related projects on the IT team’s plate. For one thing, the company’s legacy AS/400-based EDI system needed to be replaced with a SAP-friendly Windows platform. For another, several core enterprise applications had to be integrated with SAP on an aggressive schedule.

Hershey Creamery's high density AS/RS: 10 years and zero days downtime In more than 10 years the Automated Storage and Retrieval System installed at Hershey Creamery Company, York, Pa., has not had a single down day.

	Joseph’s Gourmet Pasta: Staying true to the product while scaling up production Meeting the demands of rapid growth as well as maintaining original product quality and safety requirements can be challenging when your products have a reputation for being handmade, artisan items. by Ed Sullivan

Great Kitchens relies on Mettler-Toledo Safeline to ensure product quality and food safety Quality rules in the growing “take and bake” pizza market, where Great Kitchens, a private label manufacturer of frozen pizzas, takes great care to produce only the best.

	Pure Pacific Organics assures product quality and food safety with Optyx with FluoRaptor Pure Pacific Organics, a processor of organic fresh-cut products such as baby spinach and spring mix, installed Optyx with FluoRaptor, the new fluorescence-sensing laser sorter from Key Technology.

Minimizing energy usage and improving efficiency in cold storage warehouses with ASRS The vast majority of cold storage warehouses in the United States are large, cavernous buildings with ceilings that are approximately twenty feet high and multiple 12-foot-wide aisles with fork trucks riding in and out of them moving product up and down from the racks. by Jim McMahon

Pork processor relies on X-ray inspection and metal detection systems to maximize food safety and product quality As an exporter to Japan, one of the most quality-conscious markets in the world, a leading processor of boneless pork products constantly looks to maximize product quality.

Food-friendly automation creates successful team

by Marilyn Manzoni

Streamlining pasta cooking and cooling

by Jim McMahon

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