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Pets' food perception at Petfood Innovation Workshop

Petfood Innovation Workshop interactive workshop stations include focus groups, panel test experience and more.

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Brand Insights

Pet Food Manufacturer Thinks Outside the Box with EDL’s Double Tight Wrap Machine

EDL, as Massman Company

EDL Double Tight Wrap shrink wrapping machines use two perpendicular bands of LDPE film to tightly unitize and totally enclose a product or collation.

Pet Food Manufacturer Thinks Outside the Box with EDL’s Double Tight Wrap Machine

Drug and horse meat in Evanger’s dog food still a mystery

Evanger’s blamed meat from a human-grade supplier for the dog food recall, but FDA disputed the supplier’s status and found production safety risks.

photo courtesy FDA

Pet Food Market

Middle East and Latin America pet food markets analyzed

Those pet food markets were valued at US$239.6 million in 2013 and is expected to reach US$350.5 million by 2020.

(Raphael Pto | FreeImages.com)

Pet food company sponsors Brazil Open ball-fetching dogs

PremieR Pet, a Brazilian dog and cat food company, will sponsor a team of shelter dogs, called CãoDulas, that retrieve stray balls at the Brazil Open 2017 tennis tournament.

photo taken from PremieR YouTube video

Three day course on pet food extrusion at Texas A&M

The program will cover material handling, preconditioning, extrusion of pet foods, extruded and non-extruded treats, raw material, extrusion hardware and other topics.

Ideally, the gauges of an extruder’s pressure zone will look approximately like these, and achieving those pressures requires proper maintenance, said Gary Lierz, Extru-Tech service technician during Petfood Technology Workshop Mexico. | photo by Tim Wall

Seventh US Purina plant now sends no waste to landfills

Nestlé Purina’s Oklahoma City manufacturing facility, which produces pet food and treat brands such as Purina Beyond, Friskies, Purina Pro Plan and Beneful, has achieved zero waste to landfill status.

A Purina employee in Oklahoma City prepares discarded packaging materials for recycling. | photo courtesy Purina

Pet food protein supplier lowering ash levels

The residual ash levels are derived from animal bones and contain essential minerals such as calcium and phosphorous.

Blue Buffalo donates three years of pet food to shelter

With more than 100 animals at the Stray Rescue of St. Louis shelter, the two organizations will work together on programs that encourage animal adoption.

photo by Andrea Gantz

Pet food company launched print ad aimed at women

I and love and you launched their first-ever print ad campaign, “Love Me For Life.”

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Pet Food Market

#tbt How to innovate in pet food product development

An industry expert shared his tips for developing new pet food products at a 2013 conference.

Pet Food Market

US dominates pet food market new product launches

One-third of all global pet foods launched between September 2015 and September 2016 were US launches, according to Innova Market Insights data.

photo by Andrea Gantz | Flickr

Learn about novel ingredient research at Petfood Forum 2017

Petfood Forum 2017 attendees may learn about non-traditional dog and cat food ingredients, such as eggshell membranes, miscanthus grass, peas, sorghum, and beans.

photo by Posinote | BigStockPhoto

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