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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...

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.

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.

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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 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...

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 ...

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 ...

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...

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, ...

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...

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...

TNA launches Roflo® 3, the first servo driven, totally reversible, gateless and truly modular food transfer and distribution system, at Interpack 2008.

A major patent infringement row broke out on the first day of Interpack today (24 April) after Japanese firm Ishida was granted an injunction against three rival Chinese makers of multi-head weighers. High Dream, Jinyi and Saimo were ordered to remove...