Buhler Aeroglide Teams Up With Big Heart Pet Brands for Webinar, Introducing One Voice Guidelines for Hygienic Equipment Design and Food Safety
Buhler Aeroglide, a global leader in thermal process engineering and technology for food, feed, and industrial materials, will help introduce One Voice, a new approach to equipment innovation and hygienic equipment design for the food and feed industry.
- (1888PressRelease) May 19, 2015 - A free webinar is scheduled for Thursday, May 21 at 12 p.m., EDT. Go here to register: https://vts.inxpo.com/scripts/Server.nxp?LASCmd=AI:4;F:QS!10100&ShowKey=25281.
Buhler Aeroglide's Food Safety Manager Steve Blackowiak and Randy Cotton, Senior Project Engineer with Big Heart Pet Brands will be discussing collaboration and how original equipment manufacturers and consumer packaged goods companies can achieve results by adopting new guidelines that offer a uniform approach to non-proprietary sanitary equipment designs meeting a base food safety requirement for the manufacture of low-moisture foods.
"Food processors and equipment suppliers all want to ensure that food and feed is processed safely," said Blackowiak. "We've agreed there are three design levels that address critical components of hygienic equipment design and we are working with our suppliers and the industry to acknowledge these as standards. We want to help everyone be One Voice ready as we all work together to improve food safety."
The webinar is part of the Ask the Expert series facilitated by the Packaging Machinery Manufacturers Institute's (PMMI) Alliance for Innovation & Operational Excellence (AIOE). The AIOE was founded in 2011 to improve the performance of CPG manufacturers and their suppliers by developing non-proprietary solutions to common production operations challenges. A solutions group comprised of more than 100 CPG companies and over 30 OEMs identified the most pressing needs, with particular consideration to manufacturing, sustainability, product safety, total cost of ownership, workforce development, packaging management and operational liability. Buhler Aeroglide and Big Heart Pet were two participants in this solutions group.
A free copy of One Voice for Hygienic Equipment
Design for Low-Moisture Food can be downloaded at http://www.opxleadershipnetwork.org/.
Blackowiak's discussion will be based on Buhler Aeroglide's own collaborations, including work related to the soon-to-be-announced next generation petfood dryer. He will explain how established collaboration parameters can be used to assess risks related to low-moisture foods, cleaning methods for both wet and dry, as well as the surface type for both food contact and non-food contact areas.
Recent work by Buhler Aeroglide's Food Safety Team and the development of the revolutionary RTE Ceres dryer innovation shows how the best practices developed in the AIOE collaboration can be integrated.
"Industry collaborations led our team to recognize and address cleanability needs that helped us im-prove hygienic machinery design without increasing production costs," said Blackowiak. "The evolution of the Ceres demonstrates how important the collaborative, industry best practices identified in the AIOE work products can be."
About Bühler Aeroglide
Bühler Aeroglide manufactures dryers, ovens, roasters, toasters, and hot air expansion systems for the food, feed and industrial product markets. Since 1940, the company has been providing innova-tions for a better world in the form of high-quality thermal processing equipment. As a business unit of Bühler, Aeroglide is headquartered in Cary, NC, and provides sales and service for its industry-leading equipment in more than 140 countries around the world. For more information about Bühler Aeroglide, call +1 919 851 2000, or visit www.buhlergroup.com/drying.
For more information, please contact:
Nick Manley, Marketing Communications
Bühler Aeroglide, 100 Aeroglide Dr., Cary, NC USA
Phone +1 919 278 2864, Fax +1 919 851 6029, E-mail nick.manley ( @ ) buhlergroup dot com
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