Energy efficiency, food safety and the impact of government regulations are among the factors to consider when deciding to invest in cold storage units or use third-party providers.
There are concerns that open-date coding of foods has increased food waste. The food industry and consumers use the dates printed on food packages to manage stock rotation from food manufacturing plants to the consumer’s kitchen. Variation in terminology associated with open dates on consumer packages can result in the disposal of good food.
Due to rising demand in the Middle East and Africa for its biscuits, Mondelez International is building a $90 million production facility in the Kingdom of Bahrain.
Savings-savvy Capistrano’s Bakery combined two small baking operations and renovated a larger, 38,000-sq.-ft. production facility in Phoenix that features a used, multizone, traveling-tray oven it had rebuilt with state-of-the-art features.