The Gifford’s Ice Cream processing plant is tucked into a hillside on Hathaway Street in Skowhegan, Maine. This unassuming little band box of a building gives no hint that inside, production workers are creating super premium ice cream that is sold in company-owned and independently owned scoop shops and by retailers from Maine to Maryland.
In our February column we discussed the importance of digestive health as the basis of all good nutrition and the role ice cream products could play in terms of providing probiotic (consumption of “live and active beneficial” bacteria) and/or probiotic friendly (that is, prebiotic) mix ingredients. We reviewed delivery of probiotics via active culturing and/or cold inoculation.
The Food Processing Suppliers Association (FPSA) and the International Dairy Foods Association (IDFA) today announced that they have signed an agreement to co-locate Process Expo and the International Dairy Show in Chicago, beginning in 2013. The two shows will take place November 3-6, 2013, bringing together over 800 exhibitors and 15,000 industry professionals in the North and South Halls of McCormick Place. Attendees will have unlimited access to both show floors and educational programs.
Every Gamajet CIP/COP system utilizes a patented technology, which distributes two high-impact cleaning jets along the tank interior in a precise 360-degree pattern, using a fraction of the water consumed by sprayballs, in less than half the time.
Lamican Oy sells and manufactures aseptic liquid packaging systems for the dairy, smoothie, water and juice industries. Its new innovative system is based on a fiber-containing can solution offering a new shape for the single-serving package. The company has been manufacturing these kind of cans for almost 20 years. Its production facilities are located in Valkeakoski, Finland.
In Best practices for pumps and valves in dairy processing plants, manufacturers discuss how the equipment can be used most efficiently, how to choose the right equipment and whether to buy only OEM replacement parts. In this dairyfoods.com exclusive, we include responses from other manufacturers not included in the magazine article.
As Bill Weigel navigates his Toyota Avalon down Tennessee State Highway 131 through Powell, Tenn., he points out landmarks from his boyhood. There is the house where his grandmother lived. Over there is the orchard where he went for an apple to mask the tobacco on his breath from smoking (at age 9) his homemade corncob pipe. And that’s where he boarded the bus and rode to the big city (Knoxville) all by himself before he was even 10 years old.
The VS/BL lobe fillers fill smooth products such as yogurt and juice, while the VF/SPM piston filler fills viscous products with large particulate, such macaroni and cheese and ricotta
Fluid milk processing facilities are generally the same. They all have rooms for milk intake, separating, homogenizing and filling. Broadacre Dairy has one building on the edge of its property that makes it unique among dairy processors: a log cabin where the owner was born.
I have been at the International Dairy Foods Association for 22 years, and during that time water usage and wastewater discharges have always been important issues.Discussions about water in the past were usually about wastewater. Historically, municipalities added more and more houses and businesses to their sewage treatment plants, but did not upgrade the infrastructure to accommodate the increased load.