The high-capacity system identifies and removes undesirable product defects and foreign material (FM) such as shells, shell fragments, rocks, and wood sticks.

The two companies plus others from Duravant's Food Sorting and Handling Solutions group have formed the Northern California Nut Processing Group.

Key debuts new conveyor solutions to help processors streamline operations and reduce labor.

When selecting belts and conveyors, snack and bakery producers prioritize automation and sanitation.

The sorter is suitable for individually quick frozen snacks and other items.

The companies are consolidating their sales, service organizations in the Americas region.

Snack food and bakery companies are looking for a number of features and benefits from seasoning and coating equipment, but machines that keep those seasonings and coatings evenly spread on their products probably top the list.

Like all types of food operations, snack food, and wholesale bakery plants need to monitor and maintain quality control, which prompts the need for inspection and detection equipment and technology to ensure that particles of glass, stone, and other contaminants don’t inadvertently get mixed into their formulations.

RemoteMD enables Key service technicians to securely connect to a customer’s sorter for real-time remote monitoring, as well as technical support.

Key designs, builds and then tests every integrated conveying system to identify the optimal speed, stroke, lane widths, and step sizes to consistently present the processor’s products to the robot’s end-of-arm tooling.