News and Insights

If you could wave a wand and create more uptime in your facility, what could you do with it? The answer is plenty, and probably more than you think (no magic required). We’ve identified two areas of opportunity to help you increase your plant’s uptime.

Richard Brouillette was named the recipient of the 2021 International Association for Food Protection (IAFP) Sanitarian Award. Brouillette, Food Safety Director of Commercial Food Sanitation, an Intralox company, received the award at the annual IAFP meeting in Phoenix, Arizona.

Commercial Food Sanitation announced expanded services to food processors in Brazil with the addition of two new employees. The newest members of the CFS team will provide sanitation and hygienic design consulting and in-plant training sessions in Brazil.

Over the course of our white paper series “Flexible or Direct?”, we’ve addressed how to choose the right line layout for your packaging operations and the key tools and processes for evaluating line layout design options. In “Part 3: Determining Your Package Handling System Design,” we identify the key indicators to assist in deciding when to use flexible or direct package handling systems.

While tensioned belt systems remain in use today, conveyor technology has evolved. But in what ways has the technology evolved beyond tensioned systems? We outline the many operational efficiency and food safety benefits that low-tension and tensionless systems can deliver in your facility.

Celebrating 50 years of transforming movement for food processors, manufacturers, e-commerce, and beyond.

Recalls, customer complaints, and industry trends can all drive changes to food safety regulations. But why do some companies struggle with new regulatory demands while others meet or exceed them with relative ease? How are they setting themselves up to be food safe and future ready? Here are the steps our experts have seen successful companies take.

Besides bearing the enormous responsibility of delivering safe products, food processors and equipment manufacturers must also rise to all sorts of challenges brought by the market. Today, two such issues that affect packaging line operations are changes in consumer preferences, and macroeconomic shifts. We’ve identified the most common examples, their implications to your lines, and how to prepare for them successfully.