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Food manufacturing equipment auction to be held November 14

GoIndustry DoveBid, a global provider of surplus asset management, auction and valuation services, will be conducting a one-day online auction featuring an assortment of late-model food manufacturing, packaging and processing equipment from a major food distributor, including: product blending, vacuum frying and dehydration systems. Bidding on more than 150 items opens Wednesday, November 14 at 11 a.m. Potential buyers can register online for the auction event.

Pet Food Safety

Validation of extrusion as killing step for E. faecium

Outbreaks of Salmonellosis and recalls of low-moisture foods including extruded products highlight the need for the food and feed industries to validate their extrusion processes to ensure the destruction of pathogenic microorganisms.

Symach Palletizers BV palletizer machines

Mepaco Model T4000 combo dumper

Cambrian Pet Foods to invest in new petfood production line

Cambrian Pet Foods is investing £1.4 million (US$2.2 million) to expand its petfood production line and create 22 new jobs. With help from a £500,000 (US$801,104) through the Economic Growth Fund, the petfood company will install a new petfood production line to expand into the growing market for premium petfood in convenience packaging.

Wenger Manufacturing to host petfood safety seminar

Corporate Project Services, a division of Wenger Manufacturing, will host a food safety seminar focusing on petfood processing, February 26 through March 1. A group of industry professionals will share food safety information as it applies directly to each step of the petfood production process, from plant design to sourcing raw materials, production, sanitation and packaging.

Pet Food Product Database

Charles Ross & Son Company inline, batch high-shear mixers

Charles Ross & Son Company

Pet Food Product Database

Bühler Aeroglide AeroDry

Bühler Aeroglide

Pet Food Product Database

Retail Handling Solutions Stock & Roll shelf-stocking cart

Pet Food Product Database

KSE Process Technology Bulk Batch Transport system

KSE Process Technology BV

Avure offers HPP raw meat protein on-demand webinar

Avure Technologies offers an on-demand webinar video for meat processors in the petfood industry looking to learn more about high-pressure processing of raw meat protein. The webinar, "HPP Applications for Raw Protein," demonstrates how high-pressure processing can help achieve extended shelf life, improvements in meat color and texture, improved tenderness and more.

Texas A&M University to hold petfood extrusion short course

Texas A&M University staff, industry representatives and consultants will present a one week Practical Short Course on Feeds & Petfood Extrusion on February 3-8, 2013. The program will cover information on designing new feed mills and selecting conveying, drying, grinding, conditioning and feed mixing equipment.

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