Food Pacific Manufacturing Journal

Advances in snack production

IT MAY BE that most end consumers take for granted processes that go into the making of their favourite snack food products. But then again the satisfaction for manufacturers is the rate at which their products are selling, of course. After all, the global market for snacks is currently valued at US$100 billion, according to Innova Market Insights.
In this issue, we take a look at more designs that boost efficiency not only in snacks production, but in other categories as well. In automation, tna offers expert advice on the benefits of investing in a total solutions package. Baker Perkins launches a 16-stream die which allows producers to add new flavours, sizes and shapes to their co-extruded snacks, whilst Bühler Aeroglide highlights the capabilities of convection drying technology for dehydrating potatoes, in processing.
For a totally low-sodium snack, Salt of the Earth recently unveiled an ingredient using Dead Sea salt that provides the same salty taste in nuts and chips, but with less sodium.
In boardroom connection, our correspondent in Viet Nam visits Phuoc Tien General Trading Company, a seafood snack maker in Da Nang City.
Our report on beverage covers Australia’s dairy industry, which is pulling through after last year’s price wars and poor weather conditions, according to officials from the national service organisation, Dairy Australia.
In support of beverage production, Serac enhances the food safety features on its aseptic filling system featured on page 18. Other recent launches, including Treiff’s slicing and tray solutions for raw and processed foods as well as Eagle Product Inspection’s state-of-the-art “do-it-all” analysers for packaged meat products, are featured in this issue.
Finally, our special reports on logistics and distribution spotlight Efacec, the Portugal-based electrical and electromechanical engineering group, for our topic on warehouse automation, and Cognex for vision inspection systems.