Hinds-Bock’s new servo motor stroke adjustment mechanism interfaces with a checkweigher for automatic on-the-fly deposit volume adjustment for increased accuracy.
Built into the side of a hill, OSI Group’s Oakland Foods processing plant looks deceivingly small as you approach it along U.S. Highway 59. That’s because the bulk of this 350,000-square-foot protein processing facility’s roof is flush with the grass that meets the highway - giving the building’s exhaust stacks the appearance of coming straight out of the ground.
Can a company actually expand its horizons by narrowing its focus?
While it seems counterintuitive, executives say this strategy is reaping major rewards for the OSI Group, Aurora, Ill.
Last year, OSI executives committed to continue to focus on what this company does best - working hand-in-hand with a core group of customers to create long-term, strategic partnerships.
On MTV’s hit reality TV show “Made,” coaches and mentors help teenagers set lofty personal goals and attain them through hard work, training and dedication.
Put together one very flat fresh-cut salads category, a deserving group of consumers and several opinionated processors - what do you get? The answer is “Extreme Makeover: Home (meal) Edition.”
Sweet, natural and cheesy with a healthy dose of indulgence could describe the new cultured and cheese products that hit retail shelves this past year - or it could sum up an episode of “The Hills,” MTV’s reality show that follows twenty-something Californians through their love lives, friendships and careers.
On MTV’s Road Rules, a group of strangers is stripped of its money and loaded into an RV to embark on a mysterious journey. The team receives messages about where to go and what to do while in transit.
Refrigerated & Frozen Foods turns
to American Frozen Food Institute President
and CEO Leslie Sarasin for a Washington, D.C., insider’s view of ethanol
subsidies and the “food-versus-fuel” debate.
Market researcher Packaged Facts, New York, recently projected that the U.S. market for ice cream and related frozen desserts will grow by $4 billion and reach $27.6 billion by 2012.