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News from Suppliers

Carter

VEMAG recently opened its Customer Center in Verden, Germany.
The new facility is designed to
provide customers an environment
to develop new food products and
production processes. Customers'
raw materials can be used for preparing product samples to develop
new technologies and to present the
trade with samples for listing.
Spanning more than 10,000 square
feet, the Customer Center also provides a professional environment for
training and conducting seminars.
It is divided into several areas, including an extensive showroom and
complete production lines with. The
technology area features two large
workrooms for food production under realistic conditions, a packing
and tasting area, meeting rooms and
offices. Reiser International, Canton,
Mass., owns VEMAG Maschinenbau
GmbH, Verden.
Stork Foods Systems, Naarden, The
Netherlands, and Townsend Engineering, Des Moines, Iowa, signed a letter
of intent for Stork to acquire Townsend
by Jan. 1. The acquisition of Townsend
represents the next step toward Stork's
strategy of strengthening its position as
a system supplier in the further processing of meat.
Silliker, Inc., Homewood, Ill., opened
a new testing facility in Omaha, Neb.,
Oct. 1, expanding its U.S. laboratory
network to 11 operations in 10 states.
Jodene Jurgens, laboratory director of
the organization's testing facility in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, will add the manage68

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ment of the new facility
to her responsibilities.
In other news, the
company
appointed
Mark Carter as general
manager of its research
center in South Holland, Ill. Dr. Erdogan
Ceylan was promoted
to director of the research center in South
Holland. Phil Ihrke
was named laboratory
director of Silliker in
Madison, Wis.

portion of its food business, which
is included in Avure's Fresher Under
Pressure food segment. The businesses
have been acquired by an affiliate of
Gores Technology Group, LLC, a Los
Angeles-based private equity firm.
Motion Industries, Birmingham, Ala.,
has promoted both Tom Miller and Bob
Summerlin to executive vice president.
Miller will be responsible for all U.S.
branch operations, while Summerlin
will oversee the entire company's sales
and marketing.

Wolf-tec, Inc., Kingston, N.Y., has
hired Brandon Stegall as Midwest regional sales manager. He is responsible
for sales-related activities in Illinois,
Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa, Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska, South Dakota
and North Dakota. He will be based in
Kansas City, Mo.

Orkin Commercial Services and the
IPM Institute of North America recently announced seven winners of
the 2005 Gold Medal IPM Partner
Awards, which honor commercial facilities that have shown extraordinary
commitment to Integrated Pest Management. Schneider Foods, Kitchener, Ont., was the only meat processor
to be awarded.

Koch
Equipment,
LLC, Kansas City,
Mo., has appointed
Dr. Wigberto Núñez
as processing equipment specialist. Along
with his meat science
Núñez
expertise, Núñez is
known for his knowledge in plant operations, product safety, HACCP and
sanitation.

Two auditors with ASI Food Safety
Consultants, St. Louis, Mo., have recently completed training through Dr.
Temple Grandin concerning humane
slaughter audit and consultation programs. ASI auditors David Simmler and
Al Leidig trained under Erica Voogd, an
associate of Grandin, to study the latest
innovations in humane slaughter.

The Cryovac CN-530 TBG bag from
Sealed Air Corp. won a 2005 AmeriStar award from the Institute of Packaging Professionals at P.M.M.I.'s Pack
Expo International in Las Vegas.

Cryo-Trans Logistics has hired
Dwight Price as director of sales and
marketing. He will be responsible for
continuing the growth of Cryo-Trans'
rail car fleet and its cold chain rail car
network of services, which includes
proactive fleet management.

Multisorb Technologies, Buffalo,
N.Y., has received a "Spirit of Excellence" award for the second consecutive year from Hormel Foods.
Flow International Corp.. Kent,
Wash., has completed the divestiture
of its General Press operations, which
consist of the North America Press
and the International Press segments,
as well as the non-ultrahigh-pressure
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Loders Croklaan has expanded its
Channahon, Ill., facility. The 10,000square-foot expansion doubles throughput, increases storage capacity and
further enhances the quality of its palmbased products. The expansion increases
storage capability by 200 percent. The
new facility also incorporates a state-ofthe-art bleaching line that boosts capacity by 400 percent.

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