International FoodTec Awards 2015
DLG (Deutsche Landwirtschafts-Gesellschaft/German Agricultural Society) has announced the winners of the International FoodTec Awards 2015. The prestigious accolades are being awarded to 18 innovations in the international food production and supplier industries – nine will receive the award in gold and nine in silver at a special ceremony at the Anuga FoodTec trade fair in Cologne on 24 March 2015.
Among the award-winners are companies from Denmark, Canada, the Netherlands, Austria and Germany.
The International FoodTec Awards are organised every three years.
The Gold Medal winners are:
* German Institute of Food Technologies (DIL, Deutsches Institut für Lebensmitteltechnik) (Quakenbrück/Germany) – High Moisture Extrusion
* Fritsch GmbH (Markt Einersheim/Germany) – Multitwist twisting machine
* GEA Food Solutions (Bakel/Netherlands) – GEA MultiDrum
* Insort GmbH (Kirchberg/Austria) – Sherlock food analyser
* Krones AG (Neutraubling/Germany) – Deaeration of fruit juices
* Perfo Tec BV (Mijdrecht/Netherlands) – Respiration control system
* Sealpac GmbH (Oldenburg/Germany) – Easy Lid
* Stadtwerke Murau (Murau municipal utility company) (Murau/Austria) – Transformation of thermal energy systems
* VEMAG Maschinenbau GmbH (Verden/Germany) – AML273 meatball loader.
The Silver Medal winners are:
* ALPMA Alpenland Maschinenbau GmbH (Rott am Inn/Germany) – ALPMA RO HighTS membrane system
* Bruker Optik GmbH (Ettlingen/Germany) – MPA/LSM analysis system
* Danish Meat Research Institute (Taastrup/Denmark) – 3D derinding of pork loin
* Döinghaus cutting and more GmbH & Co. KG (Salzkotten/Germany) – Universal Ultrasonic Cutter
* Intralox L.L.C. Europe (Amsterdam/Netherlands) – DirectDrive System
* K+G Wetter GmbH (Biedenkopf-Breidenstein/Germany) – MW 200 mixer-grinder
* Kuchenmeister GmbH (Soest/Germany) – Deodorisation and heat recovery
* Linde AG (Pullach/Germany) – CRYOLINE®SI – IQF immersion freezing
* Smart Skin Technologies Europe GmbH (Gammelsdorf/Germany/Canada) – Smart Skin Quantifeel©.
They will all be on view at the DLG stand at Anuga FoodTec (hall 5.2, D 041).
The award winners were selected by a panel of expert international judges representing various disciplines, which included: Professor Emmerich Berghofer (University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna/Austria), Professor Michael Gänzle (University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada), Dr Kees de Gooijer (Food & Nutrition Delta, Wageningen/Netherlands), Professor Dietrich Knorr (Technical University of Berlin), Professor Alexander Kolesnov (Moscow State University of Food Production MGUPP/Russia), Professor Horst-Christian Langowski (Fraunhofer Institute for Packaging and Packaging Technology, Freising-Weihenstephan), Professor Helmy T. Omran (Suez Canal University, Ismailia/Egypt), and Professor Achim Stiebing (Ostwestfalen-Lippe University of Applied Sciences, Lemgo/Germany).
