JBT Corporation, Chicago, said its JBT FoodTech business will supply $5.5 million in portioning equipment to a "major North American-based poultry company."

Material Transportation Company’s (MTC) new SmartCooker™  substantially increases  production by operating seamlessly.

Citing feedback from its members and food processors, the Food Processing Suppliers Association (FPSA) McLean, Va., said that it will transition to biennial convention, starting in November 2011.

Citing increased sales to food processors, business enterprise and on-demand software supplier AFS Technologies Inc., Phoenix, said it named Lance Anderson as vice president, national sales-food manufacturing.

Packaging equipment supplier Kliklok-Woodman, Decatur, Ga., said its flagship endload cartoner, the CELOX, earned one of the packaging industry’s most coveted awards: the StarPack Gold Award for “packaging machinery of excellence.”

Think of it as the new "baseline" or "standard" for food processing equipment in today's market. Blentech Corp. says it has taken the very best aspects of its well-known Blentherm technology and developed a high output, lower cost model.

Love reality TV? We may never see a series about life inside a food processing company. Even so, there is a fast-growing refrigerated dips company, Fresherized Foods Inc., that deserves the spotlight.

What would food processing operations officials do when sampling a new piece of food equipment?

Reiser began construction of a new state-of-the-industry Customer Center at its Canton, Mass., headquarters.

Global food processing equipment supplier JBT FoodTech, Sandusky, Ohio, promoted Chad Goecke to business planner-market services.