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Diciembre 17, 2008

Key Technology Introduces New Online Training Program

Key Technology launches its new Online Training Program, an interactive multimedia curriculum covering Key’s optical inspection systems and vibratory conveyors. The flexible, web-based program offers a wide variety of self-paced training modules.

Noviembre 19, 2008

BMA improved range of industrial fryers for nuts

BMA / Florigo have built up many references and over more than 40 years of experience in the nuts industry. With the knowledge that the healthy benefits of regular nut consumption are becoming widely recognised, BMA / Florigo improved their present ran...

Noviembre 18, 2008

Key Technology offers help to Kettle Chips Manufacturers: the Optyx for sorting of Kettle Chips

Key Technology introduces Optyx® sorters designed specifically for kettle-style potato chips. Featuring a unique camera and lighting configuration to sense opacity as well as subtle color differences, these new Optyx sorters identify and remove objecti...

Noviembre 13, 2008

Key Technology (KTEC) Reports Mixed Q4 Earnings

Key Technology (Nasdaq: KTEC) reports Q4 EPS of $0.40, 1 cent lower than the analyst estimate of $0.41. Revenue for the quarter was $40.2 million, versus the consensus of $35.50 million.

Noviembre 06, 2008

Sormac's successful carrot topper WOS-1A solves frying colour problems in potato processing.

During the production of par-fried french fries, problems can occur if the potatoes used in the process start becoming opaque. This happens when the starch in potatoes is converted into sugars.

Octubre 29, 2008

Key Technology Introduces FMAlert™ Capability for its optical sorters to improve quality and food safety

Key Technology introduces its new FMAlert™ feature for all G6 optical sorters. As the first company in the world to offer this enhanced quality monitoring capability on its sorters, Key puts a powerful new tool in the hands of food processors and packe...

Octubre 23, 2008

Energy conservation tops list of investment plans US Food manufacturers

Productivity improvements and energy efficiency schemes will constitute the majority of new projects next year in the US food and beverage manufacturing sector, claims a report from a US market analysis firm. Industrial Info Resources predicts a scale ...

Octubre 09, 2008

Third Pack Expo Selects attracts largest field of competitors to date

Each year, PMMI invites exhibitors to submit their most innovative packages to be voted on by PACK EXPO attendees through PACK EXPO Selects. Once the finalists are identified, PACK EXPO attendees choose the packages they feel best illustrate new and f...

Septiembre 16, 2008

Key Technology Appoints Edward A. Wagner as Senior Vice President of Global Operations

Key Technology announces the appointment of Edward A. Wagner as Senior Vice President of Global Operations. Wagner is responsible for planning and managing all aspects of operations in support of the company’s overall strategic direction, including exp...

Agosto 11, 2008

Solving Sodium: Manufacturers Face Challenges and Innovation

Many of our favorite foods – French fries, bread, and potato chips come immediately to mind – contain a special, essential ingredient: salt. Also known as sodium chloride, this abundant mineral not only acts as a flavor enhancer and preservative, it p...

Packaging Machinery Manufacturers Institute (PMMI)

Julio 22, 2008

US Packaging Machinery Purchasers confirm predictions

United States Consumer and industrial goods companies have adjusted their predictions for 2008 packaging machinery spending only slightly, according to PMMI’s Spring Update to the Purchasing Plans Study. Interviews and surveys for use in the update wer...

Odenberg Integrated Peeling Line for potatoes

Julio 17, 2008

Odenberg break through ‘Peeling Process Technology’ delivers Energy and Yield savings

Odenberg Engineering, a designer and provider of Peeling Process Technology and Electronic Sorting Solutions has identified energy consumption and improving product yield as some of the greatest challenges facing low and high volume processors. Incre...

Julio 07, 2008

Key Technology Ranked Among America’s 100 Fastest Growing Small Public Companies

Key Technology, Inc. (Nasdaq: KTEC) today announced that it has been listed among America’s 100 Fastest Growing Small Public Companies in the July/August 2008 issue of Fortune Small Business magazine. Key Technology, which reports on a September 30 ...

Julio 03, 2008

NHS comments on study on package size of snacks

A study has found that “diet-sized snack portions encourage people to eat more,"The Daily Telegraph reported. The newspaper said that researchers had warned that smaller sized packets could make people believe they had already limited their food ...

Junio 30, 2008

Key Technology Joins Russell 2000® Index

Key Technology, Inc. (Nasdaq: KTEC) today announced that it was added to the Russell 2000® Index when the Russell Investment Group reconstituted its family of U.S. indexes, according to the final list of additions posted by the Russell Group on June 27...

Junio 27, 2008

Aeroglide joins the Bühler Group

Aeroglide Corporation has been acquired by the Bühler Group. Founded in Raleigh in 1940, Aeroglide is the leading global supplier of industrial driers and coolers used in the processing of, among other things, breakfast cereals, snack foods, pet food, ...

Junio 05, 2008

Aviko impressed by benefits of Ishida multihead weighers

High speeds, increased throughput, low giveaway and gentle product handling, all of which have led to fast payback, are among the reasons why Aviko, Europe’s second largest potato processor, uses Ishida multihead weighing equipment to help meet its pr...

Mayo 13, 2008

Managing Spiking Metals Prices

Scarce metals have become so expensive that thieves are literally dying to get their hands on them. To combat the effects of these prices, supply chain managers and purchasers should reassess their risk strategies. Scarce metals have become so expensi...