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The State of Food Manufacturing in 2024 | Food Engineering
Oct 14, 2024 · Between our 47th Annual Plant Construction Survey and our 2024 Top 100 Food and Beverage Companies, we’ve been able to put together a mostly complete picture of what’s going on with the food and beverage industry regarding how it’s spending money.Through the reports of members of the AEC industry, we’ve seen that many companies are currently holding off on larger projects as they await ...
The State of Food Manufacturing in 2022 | Food Engineering
Jul 6, 2022 · Michael Costa is the Former Editor-in-Chief of Food Engineering, and the former Editor-in-Chief of Refrigerated & Frozen Foods.Previously, he was Editorial Director of Hotel F&B magazine for 12 years, covering the business of food and beverage in lodging, including restaurants, bars, catering and more, for readers working in hotels, casinos and cruise ships.
The State of Food Manufacturing in 2023 | Food Engineering
Aug 11, 2023 · Overall, 36% of respondents said that the size of their workforce increased in 2022-2023, and 77% said that increase was because of growth. Conversely, 19% said that their workforce has decreased, with the top reasons cited as being unable to find qualified replacements as people leave, budget cuts or a decrease in output.
The State of Food Manufacturing | 2021-07-05 | Food Engineering
Jul 5, 2021 · In 2020, respondents to Food Engineering’s annual State of Food Manufacturing survey were focused on responding to the COVID-19 pandemic, with it affecting everything from current operations to long-term planning to supply chains to staffing levels. One year later, not much has changed. While processors have seen demand normalize and supply chains stabilize, the pandemic still dominates ...
Predicting Food and Beverage Manufacturing Trends for 2024
Jan 23, 2024 · During FE’s State of Manufacturing webinar in September of last year, I posited that the level of investment in automation didn’t jive the level of importance respondents to our survey were putting on it. Well, the good people at CAT Squared, a provider of smart-factory solutions, were in attendance that day and called me out. The following is from Kathy Barbeire, senior marketing manager ...
2020 State of Food Manufacturing Survey | Food Engineering
Sep 29, 2020 · Layered on top of all of the COVID-related demands processors face on the production side is how the crisis is shaking up consumer demand. The trend toward single-serving, grab-and-go-style food and beverages has suddenly reversed as consumers are working from home, eating family dinners in the evenings instead of having multiple events on the calendar, and buying more frozen and nonperishable ...
Food Engineering’s 44th annual plant construction survey
May 25, 2021 · June of last year saw some pretty grim responses to the COVID-19 pandemic: Shut-down plants, broken supply chains, input shortages to food plants, scattered protein outages, closed restaurants and food service facilities—and people working at home, placing an unfathomable demand on grocery and big-box stores, their distributors and supply chains.
Unlocking Supply Chain Resiliency and Sustainability for Food and ...
Aug 18, 2023 · Sponsored Content is a special paid section where industry companies provide high quality, objective, non-commercial content around topics of interest to the Food Engineering audience. All Sponsored Content is supplied by the advertising company and any opinions expressed in this article are those of the author and not necessarily reflect the views of Food Engineering or its parent company ...
New technologies and concepts save energy in food and …
Feb 11, 2021 · Recent developments from energy providers and equipment suppliers are providing new ways to reduce energy usage and costs. We look at developments on the AI (artificial intelligence) front from Constellation (an Exelon company) and integrating process with heating/cooling systems from GEA, supplier of manufacturing equipment to the food and beverage industry.