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Food Engineering November 4, 2007 Wayne Labs |
Sustaining Your Energy Action Plan An energy action plan should start with a thorough analysis of the manufacturing facilities WAGES, that is, the five utilities water, air, gas, electricity and steam. |
Food Processing February 2005 Mike Pehanich |
Save your energy! Is energy management a priority within your company? It should be. No-cost and low-cost energy audit opportunities often are only a phone call or an e-mail away. |
Food Engineering October 1, 2008 Kevin T. Higgins |
Energy Management: Your New Competitive Edge Reclamation of thermal heat is a conspicuous example of the many energy initiatives underway as the food industry rethinks the ROI on energy management. |
Food Engineering November 1, 2008 Kevin T. Higgins |
Cover Story: How Green Was My Factory Renewable energy is becoming a factor in all types of food facilities, though it's only one part of a wider drive toward green building design. |
Food Engineering January 1, 2009 Kevin T. Higgins |
Cover Story: The Greening of Manufacturing Food plants often outlive the people working in them. No wonder more attention is being paid to their sustainability. |
Food Processing January 2007 Mike Pehanich |
New Places to Look for Energy Savings Lowering pressures, plugging air leaks and updating your motors can have a huge impact on your plant's energy efficiency. |
Food Processing February 2006 Mike Pehanich |
Electro-shock therapy Energy management suddenly has taken on grave importance. Read what Tyson, ConAgra, Publix and other processors are doing to reduce consumption and find alternatives. |
Food Engineering January 1, 2008 Kevin T. Higgins |
Water Gets Its Due The sustainability bandwagon is groaning under the weight of corporations climbing aboard. The time for water resource management has never been better. |
Food Engineering April 1, 2008 Kevin T. Higgins |
Anaerobic gas and cash Soaring energy prices and the greening of corporate America couldn't have come at a better time for mobilized film technology for wastewater. |
Food Engineering November 1, 2005 Harry Forbes |
Energy Exclusive: Powering Your Bottom Line Energy, where you get it and how you use it, may impact your bottom line more this year than ever before. With the right knowledge, food and beverage plants can dramatically reduce these costs. |
Food Processing September 2013 Kevin T. Higgins |
Food Plants of the Future: Not Bigger, Just Smarter The next generation of food and beverage production facilities will be sanitary, flexible, more pleasant to work in and self-sustaining. |
IndustryWeek November 1, 2003 John Teresko |
Power Plays Rethink energy management with distributed power generation, higher-efficiency equipment and business-continuity planning. |
IndustryWeek March 1, 2005 Jill Jusko |
Power Hungry No doubt about it, manufacturing is a powerfully hungry energy consumer. But the energy landscape is changing, and manufacturers must be ready to adapt to an uncertain future. |
Food Processing April 2012 Dave Fusaro |
PepsiCo Casa Grande Plant Reaches 'Near Net Zero' for Sustainability Frito-Lay's Casa Grande, Ariz., plant is nearly self-sustaining in water, heat and electricity. |
Food Engineering September 1, 2005 Kevin T. Higgins |
Food Plant of Tomorrow For half a century, the US food industry pursued the goal of the most food at the least cost, and its plants delivered on that goal. But today, identity preservation, waste solutions, new consumer tastes and other considerations are shaping a new breed of food plants. |
Food Engineering July 30, 2009 Kevin T. Higgins |
Water Efficiency: Don't Let Your Liquid Assets Go Down the Drain Food processors confront both financial and behavioral issues when they implement green water practices. |
Food Engineering October 1, 2008 Wayne Labs |
Tech Update: Thermal Processing In a perfect world, the amount of fuel converted into energy to heat a process would be totally applied to a product, whether it's baking bread, frying chicken or drying a cranberry slurry. Unfortunately, energy losses abound in thermal processes. |
Food Engineering November 1, 2006 |
Engineering R and D: Engineers mine brown energy Steven J. Brunner, vice president of engineering, discusses Microgy Inc.'s anaerobic digesters, which are designed to harness the energy potential in agricultural and food processing waste. |
Food Processing February 2010 Bob Sperber |
Plant Upgrades on a Budget ... With Quick Paybacks Whether your food and beverage manufacturing budget is slowly rebounding or your big projects are still on hold, lots of upgrades can be accomplished quickly to offer both rapid returns and long-term gains. |
Food Engineering December 1, 2006 Kevin T. Higgins |
Heat Transfer: advances, borrowed and new Technical improvements are occurring on several fronts, from heat exchangers, boilers and retorts to new-to-the-world pasteurizers. |
Food Processing August 2013 Kevin T. Higgins |
Cheese Processor Selects Electrical Generation As Biogas Go-To Option Ohio-based Pearl Valley Cheese converted its methane into pricier electricity. |
Food Engineering June 4, 2006 Kevin T. Higgins |
Food Automantion & Manufacturing 2006 Conference and Expo Masters of Innovation Process and product innovation - and engineering's role in mitigating its risk - formed the subtext of this year's meeting of industry professionals. |
Food Processing February 2009 Bob Sperber |
Motors' Next Big Act The Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 will mandate NEMA Premium and other efficiency bumps ... along with quicker payback. Electric motors account for nearly two-thirds of energy used in industrial settings |
IndustryWeek March 1, 2008 Jonathan Katz |
Power Shift: How to Produce More for Less Surging energy prices have process manufacturers searching for alternatives and scrambling for cost savings. |
Food Engineering October 2, 2007 Kevin T. Higgins |
Fabulous Food Plant--Gatorade: Sustainability with Attitude More than a million cubic yards of earth and rock were shifted to create a level surface for Gatorade's 950,000-sq.-ft. Blue Ridge plant. |
Food Engineering June 1, 2008 Kevin T. Higgins |
Food Automation Conference Report Best practices in food safety, asset utilization and sustainability were front and center at this year's industry idea-exchange. |
IndustryWeek April 1, 2009 |
Getting Started Begin your energy efficiency program by identifying your current power usage. Then rely on real data. |
Food Engineering June 4, 2007 Joyce Fassl |
30th Annual Construction Survey Projects Go Green New construction projects are at their highest level since 2002, as processors demand energy-efficient, environmentally friendly plants. |
Inc. July 2009 |
A Business Guide to Energy Conservation How to use less energy and lower your business's utility bills. |
Geotimes February 2006 |
Turning Trash Into Energy Global investment is growing in a variety of projects that take trash and convert it into usable energy: Turkey to oil... Poop power... From bread basket to fuel pump... Flying high on plant waste... Trash to light up New York... |
Food Engineering June 4, 2007 Kevin T. Higgins |
Food Automation & Manufacturing 2007 Conference and Expo Challenges abound for food and beverage processors, but creative solutions were the order of the day at this annual conference. |
Food Processing September 2011 Dave Fusaro |
Food Processing Awards ConAgra/Lamb Weston 2011 Green Plant of the Year ConAgra Foods' Delhi, La. sweet potato processing plant not only contributes to a healthier Earth but also to a healthier bottom line for the Omaha, Neb.-based food company. |
IndustryWeek July 22, 2009 Peter Alpern |
A New Approach to Energy Management The increasingly volatile nature of energy prices is prompting manufacturers to take a creative approach to understanding how prices are measured and optimized. |
Food Engineering May 1, 2008 Kevin T. Higgins |
Integration Projects Require a Disciplined Approach While manufacturers are getting more out of their integration projects, overall costs are not necessarily coming down. To realize future economies, upfront investments are a must. |
Food Processing April 2013 Kevin T. Higgins |
2013 Capital Spending Outlook: Processors Invest in the Tools of Production, Not Brick and Mortar Balance sheets look strong, but food companies are holding the line on capital projects, projecting only a 5.4 percent increase this year. |
Food Processing June 2012 David Phillips |
Food Manufacturing Facilities Design for Flexibility Smaller, more nimble food processing plants offer something different. |
Industrial Physicist Oct/Nov 2004 Jesse H. Ausubel |
Big Green Energy Machines Zero-emission power plants and Continental SuperGrids can multiply the power of the energy system 5-10 times while shrinking it in a revolutionary way. |
Food Engineering September 1, 2008 Kevin T. Higgins |
The State of Food Manufacturing From recall readiness to raw material and energy costs, Food Engineering readers weigh in on issues affecting workers and the workplace for food manufacturing. |
Food Engineering June 4, 2006 |
29th Annual Plant Construction Survey Measuring Up to a Higher Standard Today's food processors are focusing on the fundamentals -- clean, safe, economical -- but with a twist. The stakes -- and responsibilities -- are much higher. |
IndustryWeek March 1, 2006 John S. McClenahen |
Energy: Supply-Side Manufacturers Benefit An upsurge in power plant construction will benefit such firms as General Electric Co. and ABB Ltd., the North American unit of Zurich-based ABB Group., which make such gear as turbines, generators, transformers and controls. |
Entrepreneur April 2007 Chris Penttila |
It's Easy Being Green There are more ways than ever for your small business to save energy, money and the environment. |
Food Processing May 2005 Mike Pehanich |
How to retrofit an aging plant Food processors looking to retrofit aging facilities to get more out of their capital budgets should heed these "rules of retro" before they bring their plants into the 21st century. |
IEEE Spectrum December 2010 Seth Blumsack |
How the Free Market Rocked the Grid It led to higher rates and rolling blackouts, but it also opened the door to greener forms of electricity generation |
Food Processing April 2010 Dave Fusaro |
2010 Capital Spending Outlook: Pent-Up Demand Causes an Explosion in Projects After last year's drop in capital expenditures, budgets for the Food Processing Top 100 survey group are up 19 percent for 2010. |
Food Engineering February 1, 2009 Joyce Fassl |
Editor's Note: A New Tradition in Sustainability Food and beverage manufacturers continue to uncover innovative ways to be environmentally friendly as they increase efficiency. |
Food Processing September 2007 Mike Pehanich |
The changing fortunes of food manufacturing The food industry may not be ready for lights-out automation, but some next-generation manufacturing models are taking hold. |
Food Engineering February 1, 2008 Kevin T. Higgins |
Balancing Your Automation Standards Best practices in technology deployment and human relations distinguish food manufacturing's masters of automation. |
IndustryWeek January 1, 2008 Jonathan Katz |
Plant Blueprints Turn Green Building a new plant? Might as well design it for energy efficiency now, while you still have a choice. |
IEEE Spectrum February 2013 Peter Fairley |
Quicker Coal Power Greater agility in output may keep Old King Coal in place in a nonnuclear Germany |
IndustryWeek March 1, 2006 Jill Jusko |
Energy: New Plants, Old Problems Hundreds of new power plants are in the works in the United States, but they won't make energy cheaper or more reliable for manufacturers or consumers. |