JLS Automation can now see and hear exactly what its customers are experiencing thanks to mixed reality. The company’s JLS View uses Microsoft’s HoloLens 2 technology and connects customers with support needs whether they are around the corner or the world from JLS technicians.

We R Food Safety!, the only provider of food safety software supported by a full-time, top-tier industry consulting staff, invites attendees at the 2021 AAMP Convention in Oklahoma City to visit Booth #225 to see our new look and learn about the newest software offerings from the Trusted Advisors to the Industry.

Chiquita's Great White Fleet has acquired 850 new Carrier Transicold PrimeLINE refrigerated containers to support banana and pineapple export operations from Central America. The new PrimeLINE units acquired by Great White Fleet will replace older, less efficient units and will be installed on new 40-foot high-cube containers to ship bananas and pineapples from Central America to Europe and North America.

Colmac Coil is pleased to announce that Bruce I. Nelson, P.E., the firm’s past president and current Director of Innovation received the International Institute of Ammonia Refrigeration (IIAR) Member of the Year and Honorary Life Member awards. The two prestigious awards were announced at the 2021 IIAR Online Natural Refrigeration Conference & Expo at the opening Business meeting on June 21st.  

More than 2,000 food and beverage professionals from 60 countries participated in HPP Innovation Week 2021, an online conference on High Pressure Processing (HPP). The five-day event was organized by Hiperbaric, the global leader in manufacturing high pressure processing equipment.

GEA has built a new cheese making plant for dairy brand Madeta in the Czech Republic. The new plant, which has a staff of 150, can process up to 400,000 liters of milk a day – twice the capacity of the company's former facility. 

GEA Refrigeration Technologies, the GEA division specializing in industrial refrigeration, has joined the Cool Coalition led by the UN Environment Programme (UNEP). By fostering dialog between governments, business, finance and civil society, the initiative aims to drive the use of efficient, climate-friendly cooling in urban environments, buildings and industrial processes worldwide.

Starfrost has hired Liz Harris as Aftercare Manager, a role focused on business development and customer support for Starfrost's clients across the worldwide food processing industry.

When Tippmann Group introduced the QFR Zone blast freezing alternative more than 10 years ago, the industry changed the way it looked at freezing their palletized products. Now, with more than 16,000 QFR Zone pallet positions sold, a new, patent-pending addition to the QFR Zone is the Pallet Fit door, which provides more flexibility than ever for freezing palletized product fast.

Fortress Technology has unveiled its newest conveyor innovation and overcome the longstanding industry challenge of loosening belt tension when regularly sanitizing food inspection machinery and equipment.