Food Engineering

10/20/2026

GEA Group is introducing the ProCoater, a wet coating machine developed to help food processors achieve stable batter flow, more consistent coating pickup and higher line efficiency.

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📸: GEA

10/20/2026

ICYMI: Food and beverage manufacturers face many challenges beyond their main goal: delivering product to customers and consumers.

Tightening regulations, rising costs and deepening concerns around labor availability intensify pressure on manufacturers to operate as efficiently and safely as possible. This is often easier said than done.

However, food manufacturers continue to invest in their operations with consideration toward food safety, traceability, automation and sustainability.

Check out the story: https://brnw.ch/21x6ynV

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10/19/2026

Panzani Group and Cerealis have entered into exclusive negotiations to combine with the aim of creating an independent, diversified European food group.

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10/19/2026

PACK EXPO International returns to Chicago’s McCormick Place this week to serve packaging and processing professionals seeking solutions to workforce shortages and rising safety and sustainability demands.

Check out some of the equipment offerings exhibitors will introduce or highlight at the show: https://brnw.ch/21x6wD4

📸: tna, Regal Rexnord, Schubert

10/18/2026

While there are multiple hygienically designed machines and sanitation methods available to the industry, labor shortages and new or changing regulations pose hurdles for food and beverage manufacturers, writes PMMI: The Association for Packaging and Processing Technologies's Jorge Izquierdo.

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While there are multiple hygienically designed machines and sanitation methods available to the industry, labor shortages and new or changing regulations pose hurdles for food and beverage manufacturers.

10/17/2026

For food and beverage manufacturers, AI readiness begins with gaining visibility into the plant that exists today, identifying the risks and constraints that matter most, and establishing a practical roadmap for modernization, write E Tech Group's Eric Medecke and Casey Noonan.

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For food and beverage manufacturers, AI readiness begins with gaining visibility into the plant that exists today, identifying the risks and constraints that matter most, and establishing a practical roadmap for modernization.

10/16/2026

Provisur Technologies has relaunched the Hoegger CookChill System, designed to provide automated, traceable in-package cooking, sous-vide cooking, pasteurizing and chilling.

Read more: https://brnw.ch/21x6tj8

📸: Provisur Technologies

10/16/2026

Lynn Dornblaser, client advisor at Mintel, offers a look at how major food manufacturers are investing in new product innovation during the webinar “An Inside Look at 2026’s Top 100.”

Check out the on-demand presentation: https://brnw.ch/21x6tdG

10/15/2026

Primo Brands has opened its new factory in Hot Springs, Garland County, Arkansas.

The approximately 200,000-sq.-ft. facility is the company's first new factory since its formation following the 2024 merger with BlueTriton Brands.

Read more: https://brnw.ch/21x6rwr

📸: Primo Brands

10/15/2026

Bragg has launched Tropical Zing Sparkling Apple C***r Vinegar beverages, which combine real fruit juices and one tablespoon of organic apple c***r vinegar in each 12-oz. can.

Read more: https://brnw.ch/21x6rs4

📸: Bragg