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Multi-Conveyor, Winneconne, Wis., built a single-lane, off-line accumulation, Alpine-style conveyor to detect and accept various sizes of bottled salad dressings.

Perdue, Salisbury, Md., introduced PERDUE SIMPLY SMART Organics, a line of frozen, fully-cooked breaded and certified-organic chicken products.

Today’s supply chains has many “edges” –locations where real-time monitoring and intelligence can be deployed to help improve food safety, quality and integrity, production efficiency or all of the above.

Bettcher Industries, Inc., Birmingham, Ohio, introduced Quantum Flex meat trimmers, which are handheld powered trimmers that deliver improved cutting efficiency.

Rosati Italian Water Ice, Clifton Heights, Pa., introduced a fruity icy dessert that’s available in the freezer section of retailers in Texas.

The P4 Roll-On Leveler with Turntable from Presto ECOA Lifts, Norton, Mass., features a platform that, when fully lowered, sits flush to the floor, allowing users to place or remove pallet loads with an ordinary hand pallet truck.

So Delicious Dairy Free, Eugene, Ore., developed new So Delicious Dairy Free Frozen Mousse.

A new TIP-TITE Drum Dumping System from Flexicon, Bethlehem, Pa., automatically rolls drums containing bulk material into position, dumps the material into downstream equipment and rolls empty drums out of the dumping station, allowing safe, high-capacity transfer from drums of sizes weighing up to 750 pounds.

Chick-fil-A, Atlanta, launched Mealtime Kits, designed to make it easy for customers to cook their own meals at home using fresh, pre-measured ingredients.

The new heat exchangers from HRS Heat Exchangers, Marietta, Ga., incorporate corrugated tubes, which provide a number of advantages over flat plate or smooth tube types.