Cover photo by Meagan Parrish

20 Cover Story: Denali Ingredients is a leading manufacturer of chocolate coatings, fudge sauces, fruit variegates, extruded products and other ingredients for the ice cream industry.

7 What's the Buzz? — Insiders reflect on the latest news

10 Food Safety Update — Preparing for SQF Code Edition 8

34 Product Review — Latest product releases
Christy Draus, Marketing Manager at Eagle
Product Inspection, explores the challenges quality
managers face when justifying an investment in
X-ray technology, and highlights the many benefits
X-ray can deliver.

12 Exclusive Feature:

Enterprise Technology

• Food Manufacturers: Becoming Best-in-Class • Creating a Smarter Factory Floor with Industry 4.0

14 PACK EXPO Las Vegas

• An Inside Look at the PACK EXPO

Las Vegas Show Floor

• Packaging Materials, Process and

Hygiene Deliver Extended Shelf Life for Dairy

• Keeping it Real for Health-

Conscious Consumers

• Packaging Technologies Fight Food Waste

24 Exclusive Feature: Operations

Changing the Organizational Structure and Evolving C-Level Roles to Keep Pace with Modernization

26 PROCESS EXPO 2017

• The Event for Food and Beverage Processors • Product Review

30 Exclusive Feature: Track-and-Trace

The Smooth Implementation of Discrete Asset Tracking

32 Exclusive Feature: Sanitation

Cleaning Up the Sanitation Process in Food Manufacturing

35 Industry Insider: Operations

Plant Steam vs. Culinary Steam vs. Pure Steam: What Food
Manufacturers Need to Know
The Advertising Index is provided as a reader service. Although every attempt has been made to make this index as complete as

possible, the accuracy of all listings cannot be guaranteed. AD INDEX

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Dorner Manufacturing Corp . . . . . . 25

Dynamic Conveyor Corporation . . . 19

Electro-Steam Generator Corp . . . . 29

Leem Filtration Products Inc. . . . . . 34

Lyco Manufacturing Inc . . . . . . . . . . . 9

Material Transfer & Storage. . . . . . . . 2

Midwestern Industries, Inc. . . . . . . . 23

Motion Industries Inc . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

Motion Industries Inc . . . . . . . . . . . . 36

Powder Solutions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34

Ralphs-Pugh Co Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

Total Specialties USA. . . . . . . . . . . . 27

Unifiller Systems Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

Xchanger Inc .................. 34

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