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Protein Insights  Newsletter Planterra / JBT Partnership JBT® Corporation is pleased to add Planterra, a plant-based protein company underneath the JBS Foods / Pilgrim’s family of companies, as a new customer in our alternative meat initiative. By aspiring to change the future of protein with flavorful, plant-based choices, Planterra’s goal is to delight vegans, flexitarians, and meat-eaters by producing additional tasty options in the plant-based protein market. The uniqueness of Planterra’s products and processes presented testing challenges at their own pilot plant facility in Greeley, Colorado. Early stages of planning and testing were therefore executed at our Sandusky Food Processing Tech Center. The talented JBT crew provided expert support in the research & development process through equipment selection, product optimization, and sample creation for Planterra’s photoshoots, foodservice, and retail environments. In order to execute this JBT “win”, Account Manager, Tricia Harlan relied on her prior sales rapport with one of the JBS Foods engineers. The relationship they built brought Planterra into the Sandusky Tech Center where our JBT team was able to present Planterra with our vast processing knowledge and assistance in order to field questions, brainstorm, and most importantly, provide solutions. The JBT Team proved our expertise is second to none! This new product launch (an extruded plant-based protein) has led Planterra to rely on their new preferred suppliers Buhler™, a global extruder manufacturer, and JBT for solutions in injection, portioning, coating, cooking, and freezing. Additionally, JBT was able to provide oil holding tanks and a melter from our sister division, Diversified Food & Health, into the equipment package Planterra purchased. “Congratulations” and “Well Done” to the entire JBT team (from production to final installation) involved in this newly formed partnership. Secondary Processing Equipment Purchased • HVB Injection • DSI Portioning System Further Processing Equipment Purchased • Coating & Cooking Equipment • Charmarker Diversified Food & Health Equipment Purchased • A&B Oil Holding Tanks NEW PRODUCT LAUNCHES On January 25, 2021 JBT launched its new NEOCAT Chiller and Automated Chiller Clean-In- Place Offering. The NEOCAT Auger Chiller System is a revolutionary design that allows customers to achieve 30% more throughput within a given length. This means that customers can either obtain the same throughput as a traditional chiller in 30% less space or they can realize a 30% increase in capacity within the footprint of their existing chiller. This means we can help our customers greatly increase their capacity and profitability. NEOCAT is also the first immersion chiller with an unloader that can be turned off during employee breaks without overloading the machine. This design feature results in increased uptime and fewer damaged birds for a better yield. The JBT weblink shows a great video of JBT WELCOMES Paul Pirozzola the chiller’s functions for a poultry production facility. to the company as Vice President of Sales and Marketing for the Protein North Along with NEOCAT, we are debuting our new Clean-in-Place technology, which automates the America (PNA) team in the JBT FoodTech chiller cleaning process to reduce labor costs, improve safety and ensure a more consistently division. In this position, Pirozzola will sanitary environment. Typically, chiller cleaning requires an average of four employees and several lead the sales teams targeting new hours each day. By automating cleaning with Clean-in-Place technology, processors will only need equipment opportunities in the United one employee to operate the system. This provides smaller footprint, increased yield and less maintenance in addition to improved food and worker safety. Clean-in-Place technology can also States, Mexico, and Canada for protein be added to any legacy JBT chiller in operation and can be customized to meet plant specifications. processing customers. He will support the strategic growth initiatives for JBT Most recently, JBT launched the latest in freezing technology with the Northfield CleanFREEZE™ Foodtech across various end markets and Spiral Freezer. An ‘alpha’ unit is almost complete residing in the Sandusky Tech Center. This freezer applications including primary, secondary is built for high-volume freezing, chilling, and cooling for a wide range of food products like bakery and further processing as well as new and items, trayed ready-meals, handheld snacks and even frozen pizzas. It boasts an uncomplicated emerging business opportunities outside design with new hygienic aspects to make customers’ maintenance easy and quick. of JBT’s core customer base. Pirozzola will work across key brands within JBT’s diverse product offerings and will also serve to manage the Customer Technical Center Team based in Sandusky, Ohio and collaborate closely with JBT’s Aftermarket Customer Care Division, Product Marketing and other Global Operations. Paul Pirozzola began his professional JBT Northfield CleanFREEZE™ JBT C.A.T. NEOCAT Auger JBT C.A.T. Automated career with Cargill Foods as a QA Chemist Spiral Freezer Chilling System Clean-in-Place (CIP) in their Corn Milling Division. Later in Technology his career, Pirozzola led sales, product management and marketing teams at various equipment manufacturers and technical solution providers, including, LECO Corporation, The Lubrizol Corporation, and Bettcher Industries. PHOTO CONTEST! In his most recent role at Bettcher Industries, he served as Vice President of Marketing and was instrumental in the creation, incubation and execution of new business opportunities within their core WE WANT TO SEE JBT PRODUCTS AND PEOPLE! business and adjacencies through new products, new services, sales partnerships Send us your high-resolution pics of JBT equipment and acquisitions. He has over 25 years of B2B experience serving global customers, …Being made, being used, food produced on them, driving process and new product or even employees and customers. See a cool photo innovation and leading organizational op? Take it and send it in! We’ll feature a new winner growth within small to large organizations. every newsletter. Please include your name, product or In addition to his extensive professional person featured, location and description. Winner will experience, Pirozzola holds a Bachelor of receive a JBT backpack. Science in Chemistry from the University of Pittsburgh and a Master of Business Administration from Indiana University. Email to [email protected]. Open to all JBT In addition, he served for many years Corporation employees. All photos entries become the on the Meat Industry Suppliers Alliance property of JBT and may be used in other promotions (MISA) Council and Marketing Enrollment Committee for Lake Ridge Academy. without further permission or compensation to the He is a proud husband and father of photographer or representing companies. two children currently living outside of Cleveland, Ohio. His hobbies include playing guitar, coaching youth basketball and spending time outdoors. Safety Announcments PNA SALES MEETING SEPT 20 - 24, 2021 Fatigue – You’re More Than Just Tired Sandusky, Ohio Fatigue at Work, on the Road Can be Deadly People often make light of how little sleep they get on a regular basis; an over-worked, over-tired condition has SAFETY become the norm for many. But a good night’s sleep is not just a novelty, it’s a necessity. The effects of fatigue are far-reaching and can have an adverse impact on all areas of our lives. Work often requires us to override those natural sleep patterns. More than 43% of workers are sleep-deprived, and those most at risk work the night shift, long shifts or irregular shifts. CUSTOMER VISIT 2020 Safety in Review – PNA • Total Recordable Incident Rate (TRIR) = .90 Employees of Crider Foods of • 2019 = 1.54 Stillmore, GA were in Sandusky • Near Misses Reported = 563 this week training on DSI • 2019 = 838 equipment. Application Sales Support, Erik Nordgren, instructs 2020 Safety Milestones trainees on the DSI™ S Series 800 • This Sandusky facility (including Service group of freezer, Stein and DSI) went the Portioning System. entire calendar year without a recordable incident. This achievement hasn’t happened in over 10+ years. • A celebration and gift to commemorate the milestone is in planning. Thank You and Congratulations in reaching this milestone! Tara Wilburn joined JBT as HR Director for Protein North America (PNA) in the JBT FoodTech division. In this position, Tara will lead the PNA HR team in talent selection, performance management, succession planning and safety. She will support strategic growth initiatives for PNA by aligning HR processes and practices. Tara will work with the leaders for each segment of the business to ensure HR is providing the necessary tools to support their areas of focus. Tara will be based in the Alpharetta office but will travel to each location within PNA frequently. Tara Wilburn has over 25 years of experience leading high functioning HR teams and aligning HR with the business. She began her professional career with a non-profit organization and after ten years, Tara joined BorgWarner Automotive as an HR Specialist supporting compensation and benefits for 5000 across five plants. Two years later, she was promoted to her first HR Generalist role as HR Supervisor supporting a 500-employee plant in Frankfort, Illinois. Tara then joined Merisant US holding various managing HR roles over 10 years there. In her most recent role, she served as VP of HR for New World Van Lines. Tara holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Marketing Communications from Columbia College of Chicago and a Master of Science degree in HR Management and Development from National Louis University. Tara is from Chicago and relocated to the Georgia area in August 2020 with her husband. In her spare time, Tara enjoys traveling, roller skating and spending time with her large extending family. MARK YOUR CALENDAR! Pack Expo 2021 – Las Vegas, NV Mon, Sep 27, 2021 – Wed, Sep 29, 2021 Booth# 5244 Process Expo – Chicago, IL Tue, Nov 2, 2021 – Fri, Nov 5, 2021 Booth# 22025 IPPE 2022 Jan. 25-27, 2022 We look forward to being with you in-person for IPPE 2022 at the Georgia World Congress Center in Atlanta — You won’t want to miss it! Protein Insights  Newsletter For more news check out the JBT Protein Blog: jbtprotein.blog