The JBS Principe facility is FOOD ENGINEERING’s 2024 Plant of the Year for its daring modern take on traditional Italian-style dried meat production.

To unlock the next level of process improvements, food producers need to leverage the technology revolution to simplify their operations, deploy smarter machinery, attain connectivity on the production line and integrate the entire production process.

Adopting automation on a modular basis may be a way to implement technology incrementally, making it more affordable and easier to learn and deploy.

Polystyrene opens the door for a circular plastics economy where materials are recycled for reuse, again and again.