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Every snack food processing plant wants to ensure its production output is continually operating at maximum efficiency, while maintaining standards for quality, safety, and cleanliness. Unfortunately, there are three potential problems that can throw a wrench in your snack food production. By properly maintaining your…

Working with automated processing equipment can be dangerous. In fact, in 2014 the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported the manufacturing industry as having 125,990 nonfatal occupational injuries and illnesses involving days away from work. As an employer, it is your responsibility to ensure the safety…

Ensuring the safety and nutritional value of animal feed, mixed feed, medicated feed, aqua feed, pet food, treats, and chews is the number one priority of animal feed manufacturers and is necessary when producing consumable goods. Here’s a detailed look how this priority is met…

Mincing, macerating, liquefying, emulsifying, cooking, pickling, pasteurizing, preserving, and packaging. Those are all tasks done by processing equipment in the transformation of raw ingredients, by physical or chemical means, into snack food that is fit for consumption. Let’s take a look back through the history…

The last thing you want is to lose efficiency and money with downtime caused by broken equipment. Instead, learn how to prevent problems by making wise purchases and properly maintaining your animal feed processing equipment. Buy High-Quality Equipment The most important way to prevent a breakdown…

The manufacturing industry has faced enormous challenges over the last 50 years, and has been forced to adapt. For example, over the last two decades the industry has shifted largely toward manufacturing of computers and electronics. Advances and innovation in technology has largely facilitated this…

The digital age has brought monumental advancements in the way we live our lives -- many of which we take for granted every single day. However, the pet food processing industry hasn’t advanced quite as rapidly since extrusion technologies were developed in the 1950s. That’s been changing…

Your processing equipment can make or break your success. The downtime that comes from a breakage (not to mention the secondary issues like spoiled raw materials) is enough to make any business owner or manager see red. How can you avoid this scenario? How can…

When it comes to your processing plant, even a small improvement in efficiency can reap big rewards. Being more efficient means you can do more with less - which translates into increased profits with lower overhead. And the magical part is that there’s always a…

There’s a growing trend in the pet food industry toward healthy products, with specialty pet food products appearing on supermarket shelves worldwide. According to Packaged Facts, growth in natural, organic, and eco-friendly pet food is expected to be near-exponential, with predictions that sales will eclipse traditional…