While there are myriad solutions, one way is to upgrade the thermal processing equipment to an airless dryer system.

A manufacturer of hygienic shutter valves and pigging systems turned to surface hardening to meet the safety demands of the food industry.

Cypress Brewing, a three-year-old brewery based in Edison, N.J., produces several different varieties of beer, including IPAs, stouts and porters. Best sellers include Insane in the Grain, 17 Mile and Runway Model.

A rental program allows food, chemical, plastics and other processors to test a continuous processor in actual operating conditions prior to purchase. The continuous processors can be used to mix, compound, crystallize, encapsulate and chemically react liquid and dry materials, including in sanitary environments requiring USDA- and 3A-compliant designs.

Tremaine Hartranft was promoted to director of technical sales for bakery and snack-food production equipment maker Reading Bakery Systems (RBS), Robesonia, Pa.

After a 20 months of construction, Bühler Group opened its Cubic innovation campus with eight Application Centers in Uzwil, Switzerland. The ideas of customers and prototypes are tested in the Application Centers, where they are refined to the point of market maturity.

Here is a handy index of the year in Process Heating, 2018.

HJF, a Korean supplier of meat and sauces, invested in cooking equipment manufactured by Belgium’s Infrabaker International. The industrial oven was purchased to meet demand for grilled chicken breast.

London-based Lloyd’s Register issued its first certification of a part produced through additive manufacturing for the oil-and-gas industry.

Industrial and sanitary steam heating solutions maker Hydro-Thermal Corp., Waukesha, Wis., reorganized its staff into industry-specific teams.