Dairy Foods announced the return of its Plant of the Year award. Dairy Foods will be judging this year’s program based on specific outstanding achievements outlined in the entries.

CitraPac introduces Triple Berry as the newest variety of Nature’s Premium Fruit Pearls. One of the top flavor profiles in frozen fruit, Triple Berry will be available in the frozen fruit sections of major retailers in June. 

The MDVA division bought a location previously owned by HP Hood.

Since expanding operations and moving from New Gloucester, Maine, 120 miles Northeast to Bangor, home of world-famous horror author Stephen King, Pineland Farms Dairy Co.’s growth and reputation has been anything but scary.

Considering that Wooster, Ohio-based Green Field Farms is run by a cooperative of Amish and Mennonite farmers who still use traditional on-farm methods, you might think that the company’s milk processing plant would also harken back to older times. 

Wonderware MES/Quality helps dairy processors reduce the cost and increase the efficiency and accuracy of capturing quality information on the shop floor.

You can’t run your plant without it. Compressed air opens and closes pneumatic valves, evacuates product lines and conveys packages. Make sure it is clean and uncontaminated.

Mike Hardy is showing me an aseptic filler. “There are only two speeds to this — 0 and 600 bottles a minute,” he says. I watch a blur of bottles enter one end of the machine from an overhead conveyor, whirl from carousel to carousel and exit the other end. In a matter of seconds, the bottles have been sterilized, filled and capped.