Pet Food Extrusion: Page 6

Biomapping watches for Salmonella-susceptible pet food

As opposed to trying to find the Salmonella needle in the food plant haystack, biomapping looks for conditions that make those needles more common.

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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

Pet food extrusion and drying courses offered in 2018

The annual three-day short course on Petfood Extrusion Technology will be held again at FôrTek (Centre for Feed Technology) in Norway on May 2-4, 2018.

Photo by Debbie Phillips-Donaldson

The future of pet food processing: adaptive technologies

Drying and cooling equipment suppliers must provide solutions for the complex pet food diets today’s manufacturers are producing.

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CPM Holdings acquires Proline Engineering

Proline Engineering was based in Manchester, UK.

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4 limited ingredient diet pet food options analyzed

Limited ingredient diet (LID) dog and cat foods use a minimal number of ingredients, but must still provide complete nutrition.

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Pet Food Market

Mexican superpremium pet food workshop speaker announced

In Mexico, superpremium dog and cat foods continue to grow in popularity, taking market share from established premium brands.

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Feed and pet food extrusion short course at Texas A&M

Texas A&M University will host its 28th annual practical short course on feeds and pet food extrusion.

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Gelatin binds high-meat pet food kibble, boosts protein

Kansas State University researchers found that low-Bloom gelatin reduced extruded-kibble breakage better than other forms of gelatin.

Gelatin may deserve another look as a tool in pet food formulation. | landio | Bigstock

Pet Food Ingredients

Byproduct protein digestibility may rival fresh chicken

Poultry meal and raw chicken may provide similar levels of essential amino acids after extrusion. Fish by-products were the most digestible in wet dog food.

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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

Pet Food Market

Global dry pet food production increases over 10 percent

Production of dry pet food worldwide reached 24.98 million metric tons in 2016, according to Alltech, with some pet food markets showing robust increases.

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Pet food extrusion course offered in Europe

A food and feed drying technology program is offered the previous week. Participants can choose to attend extrusion or drying courses individually, or in combination.

A recently extruded pet treat | Courtesy Extrutech

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