News on Processing Equipment from the United States

Key Technology announces the promotion of Bert Switten as Area Sales Manager for Central and Northern California. Switten is responsible for bringing Key’s high performance digital sorting, conveying and process automation systems to food processors and other manufacturers.

Volm Companies held a groundbreaking ceremony on August 10 for their new manufacturing and distribution facility in Pasco, Washington.

Key Technology introduces its VERYX® belt-fed digital sorters. Like the chute-fed VERYX sorters introduced in 2015, the new belt-fed VERYX sorters set new standards of performance.

Vanmark Equipment has announced that Kris Hearst has been promoted to General Manager of the Vanmark Boise operation.

Ishida’s, Atlas Ultrasonic snack food bagmaker uses significantly less packaging film and improves seal quality. See it for yourself in booth #419 of Heat and Control.

At SNAXPO, processing and packaging solutions provider, tna will demonstrate its complete solutions for the snack industry, using the all-new tna innovation station - a fully interactive experience.

The Swiss Food Processing Equipment Company Hoegger is showing its latest implementation of their (potato) separating technology at the Potato Expo 2016 in Las Vegas

TOMRA Sorting Food is set to demonstrate one of its innovative potato sorting systems at this year’s Potato Expo in Las Vegas, Nevada, January 12-14.

Key Technology announces the launch of its new mobile-friendly website in French to support its many French-speaking customers around the world.

Snacks manufacturer and co-packer Keystone Food Products has dramatically expanded production capabilities at its Easton, Pennsylvania site by adding three new tna packaging lines.

Key Technology anuncia el lanzamiento de su nuevo sitio web en español para teléfonos móviles para ayudar a todos sus clientes por toda Latinoamérica y España.

Key Technology announces the launch of its new mobile-friendly website in Spanish to support its many customers throughout Latin America and Spain.

tna, leading provider of processing and packaging solutions, has expanded its North American service team with the appointment of Gus Papageorge as senior project manager.

tna announces the expansion of its family of brands with the acquisition of Unique Solutions®, a leading provider of value-added inserts and onserts which are dispensed and/or applied using Unique Solutions’ full range of inserting and labeling equipment.

A fire in a centrifugal cooking vat in the Kettle Foods potato chips factory in Beloit caused no injuries but about USD 170.000 damage in contents

Ashley Hunter, head of TOMRA Sorting Food, comments on TOMRA Sorting Food announcement that performance has been ‘positive’ for the first nine months of the year.

Easily integrate a CEIA metal detector with any checkweigher or other in-line equipment with the new CEIA THS/RB-800 system from Heat and Control, Inc.

Cambridge Engineered Solutions has introduced PacLite, a new lighter weight, flatwire conveyor belt with variable openings that is ideally suited for three segments of the food processing industry: Packaging, baking and rock traps used for root crops.