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Sixth Purina plant achieves zero-waste-to-landfill status

Nestlé Purina’s pet food and treat manufacturing facility in Dunkirk, New York, USA has achieved zero waste to landfill status as part of a sustainability initiative.

Recycling at the Dunkirk pet food facility | Courtesy Nestle Purina

Brand Insights

Plasma: A Multi-Faceted Ingredient Supporting Health, Formula Functionality, and Nutrition in Pet Food

APC Inc

Discover how plasma protein supports pet health, boosts palatability, and improves pet food functionality and processing performance in modern formulations.

Plasma: A Multi-Faceted Ingredient Supporting Health, Formula Functionality, and Nutrition in Pet Food

#tbt Pet food extrusion safety, innovation and costs

Pet food manufacturers can learn from research and previous reports on extrusion about how to maximize important factors, such as costs, safety and new product innovation.

A recently extruded pet treat | Courtesy Extrutech

Pet Food Product Database

Ross portable high shear mixing system

Ross Portable Mixing

Pet Food Market

Reiser expanding US headquarters and pet food test center

Reiser, a food processing and packaging equipment company, has begun construction on an expansion to its Canton, Massachusetts headquarters, where pet food product development can be performed.

Courtesy Reiser

Novel protein science at Petfood Innovation Workshop

Topics included protein properties, shelf-life and sensory experiment results, and potential uses for chemicals derived from African spotted hyenas.

Photo by Debbie Phillips-Donaldson

Pet Food Product Database

Nyle Systems indirect fired dehydrators and dryers

Nyle Systems LLC

Pet Food Product Database

Donaldson Company LifeTec filtration line

Donaldson-filtration-line

Pet food extrusion: specialty processing flexibility is key

As trends such as specialty ingredients and high-meat formulations grow in the pet food market, extruders are innovating to ensure success for themselves and their customers.

Extrusion in pet food continues to put innovation and flexibility at the forefront of its success. | iStockPhoto.com/Sasha Radosavljevic

Kahl pellet mills

Amandus Kahl GmbH & Co KG

Sentry Equipment HPR point and strip samplers

Why fiber in dog food increases extrusion energy costs

In an experiment, pet food extruder energy use increased when insoluble fiber was added to dog food recipes.

Photo by melis | bigstockhoto.com

3 natural pet food preservatives from fungi and bacteria

Naturally occurring preservatives extracted from bacteria and fungi can protect dog and cat food from pathogenic microorganisms and slow spoilage from oxidation.

Aspergillus niger colony on an agar plate | Pelooyen | BigStockPhoto

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