profiles
Iceland couple creates total tomato experience with greenhouse, restaurant
It’s hard to believe that a remote Icelandic agritourism business could draw 180,000 visitors in a year, but in 2019 it did. With a national pop... continue reading »
Chatting with TOMRA CEO Tove Andersen; company expands 5C sorter to frozen
In August 2021, Tove Andersen became the CEO of TOMRA, a global supplier of recycling, mining and food production equipment. With a history with c... continue reading »
Revolution Farms continues to expand, provide locally grown leafy greens to Midwesterners
Michigan is known for many crops, but leafy greens isn’t one of them. Consumers in the Great Lakes region who rely on store-bought produce have trad... continue reading »
GAB Operations leaders talk cold chain, traceability and building new facility
Jaime Usabiaga and Miguel Usabiaga rarely give interviews. The president and vice president, respectively, of international produce distributor GAB Op... continue reading »
Kansas clan turns old family sauerkraut recipe into budding regional food producer
Ray Rome, the patriarch of the Rome family, began gifting homemade Bavarian-style sauerkraut in the mid-1980s. He followed the Rome family recipe pass... continue reading »
Heat and Control has evolved, expanded over 70-year history
Heat and Control was founded in 1950 for the purpose of building and servicing industrial furnaces in the burgeoning San Francisco Bay Area, where nat... continue reading »
PACK EXPO’s Jim Pittas talks sustainable packaging and other topics
For the better part of nine decades, PMMI, The Association for Packaging and Processing Technologies (formerly Packaging Machinery Manufacturers Insti... continue reading »
Idahoan exec says packaged dried potatoes made just like they would be at home
The practice of dehydrating potatoes for later consumption started during World War II as a way to give soldiers in the field a more stable means of f... continue reading »
United Fresh food safety head Jennifer McEntire calls produce industry ‘most cooperative’
Jennifer McEntire is vice president of food safety and technology at United Fresh Produce Association. A food microbiologist by background, she has a... continue reading »
Naturipe’s Janis McIntosh focused on packaging reduction
Janis McIntosh has been a big part of Naturipe for nearly 15 years, but she recently took on a new role — director of marketing innovation and sus... continue reading »
