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Pet Food Processing

4 steps to optimize extruder maintenance and reduce costs

Focusing on continuous maintenance is the number one way for processors to ensure reliable, long-lived extrusion equipment.

Focusing on continuous maintenance is the number one way for processors to ensure reliable, long-lived equipment. | Courtesy Clextral

Pet Food Processing

Fresh meat in pet food No. 1 trend affecting extrusion

As the high-protein trend in pet food continues to expand, sending more fresh meat formulations through the extrusion process presents challenges to current technologies.

There are multiple challenges inherent in addressing the “high-meat” trend in pet food formulations, but extrusion technologies are keeping up. (Courtesy Clextral)

UAE’s largest food and beverage show includes pet food

Pet food supplier companies exhibited at Gulfood Manufacturing 2019, the largest food and beverage show in the Middle East, Asia and Africa, held in Dubai.

At Gulfood Manufacturing 2019, DC Norris won an award for its Jet Cook system for heating and emulsifying wet pet food. l Courtesy of Gulfood Manufacturing 2019

Pet Food Processing

Mars Petcare to close New Zealand cat food factory

Mars plans to move production to Thailand. Mars Petcare cited a desire to be close to Asian markets and reduce operating costs as the reason for the move.

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Pet Food Market

Petfood Industry launches Chinese-language newsletter

Each newsletter will contain articles in Chinese.

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Flexibility, adaptability key in pet food extrusion

With so many different pet food industry trends flooding the market, properly extruding pet food formulas requires more focus and more ability from experts than ever before.

Today’s pet food extrusion solution providers must remain innovative, focused, flexible and realistic about current technologies. (D_BANK | iStock.com)

2 things to know about the future of pet food extrusion

With pet food trends continuing to evolve, here’s what industry experts think is in the future of pet food extrusion.

Today’s pet food extrusion solution providers must remain innovative, focused, flexible and realistic about current technologies. (D_BANK | iStock.com)

6 ways computerization and AI improve pet food extrusion

Computerized data collection increases pet food manufacturers’ ability to trace and correct problems.

A workshop participant examines a Clextral extruder during the Animal Feed Extrusion Course on October 16, 2018 in Saint-Etienne, France. | photo courtesy Clextral

Pet food course explored Clextral twin-screw extruders

Thirty-eight people representing businesses in 14 countries attended, including Australia, Russia, Romania, England and Saudi Arabia.

photo by Andrea Gantz

4 ways filters can limit pet food plant contaminants

Contamination doesn’t originate only in raw or spoiled pet food ingredients; it can enter in the utilities used to operate a manufacturing process.

Placed at the top of a product storage tank, this vent houses a sterile-grade filter to screen out particulates and bacteria from inflowing air.

Man crushed to death at American Nutrition pet food plant

A 33-year-old man was crushed to death at an Ogden, Utah, USA, pet food manufacturing plant operated by American Nutrition.

Market Trends and Reports

How the pet food industry is leveraging new technologies

LIVE FROM PFF: Technologies like virtual reality and the cloud are enabling the pet food industry to be more transparent and helpful to customers.

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