President of Deli Brands of America Jeff SavalSearch discusses changes his company has made in the search for efficiency, trends pushing toward efficiency, and side benefits of efficiency like food safety.

Vince Nasti, VP of Operations for Nation Pizza and Foods, discussed major issues facing the food and beverage industry.

Butterball’s Corporate Project Manager Matt Giroux discusses line efficiency, technological advancements of line design, automation of lines and robotics on packaging lines.

Tree Top, an agricultural cooperative with eight processing facilities, installed robotics to its packaging line.

Gerald Lessard of West Liberty Foods discusses repurposing of space within an existing plant and what trends are driving this as well as the pros and cons of repurposing existing space versus new construction.

Robert Brackett of Illinois Tech discusses the Food Safety Modernization Act, the Preventive Controls for Human Food rule and the ABCs of Food Safety.

Bernd Jablonowski of Messe Düsseldorf discusses the SAVE FOOD Initiative.

Gerald Lessard discusses the major challenges of retaining technicians and the FIT Program.

Watch BNP Media’s video with Megan Cherry about why the Food Processing Education Consortium is just what the food and beverage industry needs.