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Pet Food Product Database

WeighPack Systems Inc. SpinDexer container filler machine

WeighPack Systems Inc

Brand Insights

The 2 AM Formula Crisis: Why Pet Food Professionals Are Burning Out

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What keeps pet food professionals up at 2 AM? It’s not just Salmonella, ingredient shortages, or missed deliveries. It’s the rising pressure from a new generation of pet owners who expect perfection and demand it fast.

The 2 AM Formula Crisis: Why Pet Food Professionals Are Burning Out

Kendall Packaging Corp. to expand packaging facility

Kendall Packaging Corp. will break ground on a 56,000-square-foot expansion to its Jefferson, Wisconsin, USA,packaging facility on April 26. The expansion will double the packaging plant’s production and storage capacity, and it is expected to be completed in late summer 2013.

Market Trends and Reports

Partner in Pet Food: Innovating to the top of the market

Hungary-based Partner in Pet Food (PPF) has made some significant changes as a company since its last Petfood Industry profile in 2008 (seewww.petfoodindustry.com/3977.html), beginning operations as an independent company in January 2009 with a separate management and a new strategy. Growth was accelerated and internal processes were improved to provide customers with better products and service, according to the company, and PPF is now the second largest private label petfood producer in Europe.

How to: Using new product development to build brand success

Consumer packaged goods companies spend an average of US$15 million per product per year guiding some 30,000 concepts to the shelf, knowing full well they are likely to fail. These new products have a meager 10% probability of achieving new product success. So what makes a new petfood or treat not only novel and innovative, but a 'must-have' for a pet parent?

The product launch of new petfood and treats is a process of testing, evaluting, analyzing, designing and implementing.

Steel packaging sustainability campaign to be launched

Packaging sustainability is viewed as a high priority for 65 percent of decision makers at Fortune 500 consumer product companies, according to an independent research study commissioned by the Steel Market Development Institute. As a result, the Institute is launching a national education campaign about steel packaging.

Hill’s Pet Nutrition integrates new petfood packaging closure technology

Petfood manufacturer Hill’s Pet Nutrition has partnered with Velcro Industries to integrate its Press-Lok closure technology into its Science Diet petfood packaging. The Press-Lok closure, designed to be more consumer friendly, has an alignment that allows the hooks to engage without precise lineup.

Pet Food Safety

The importance of mycotoxin management in dog food

While the potential for recalls due to contaminated product is not new, they remind members of the petfood industry of the need for an integrated mycotoxin management plan to keep mycotoxins at bay. In 2012, the US corn harvest presented challenges for the country's farmers. In spite of testing every load coming in and rejecting many of them, some of the end products were tainted with aflatoxin, a naturally occurring poison that can cause serious illness or even death if consumed.

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Pet Food Product Database

Piab C series vacuum conveyor upgrade kit

Pet Food Processing

ABC Packaging Machine Corp. model 108 depalletizer

A-B-C Packaging Machine Corp

Pet Food Packaging

TPC Wire & Cable Corp. Defender antimicrobial cable jacket

Pet Food Processing

Charles Ross & Son Company 42B model ribbon blender

Charles Ross & Son Company

Pet Food Market

What do you need to know about petfood ingredients?

Do you have questions about retaining the nutritional viability of certain ingredients during processing? Are you struggling to obtain a steady, sufficient supply of a key component of your latest formulation? Have you hit a roadblock in finding the latest novel protein or other new ingredient to expand your line?

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