New Web Site Offers Food for Thought

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: March 31, 2005 Chicago, Illinois, USA, March 31, 2005 -

The food and beverage processing industry has a new informational and educational resource to embrace thanks to the debut of FMC FoodTech’s completely redesigned Web site. Available at www.fmcfoodtech.com, the site has been enriched with 60 percent more content and a variety of new features that help food processing professionals get the information they need more efficiently.

“FMC FoodTech’s vision is to provide solutions for our customers that are relevant to every aspect of their business,” said Jerrod Larson, webmaster for FMC FoodTech. “We designed the new site with this vision in mind, making it easy for customers to find the right product and providing them with a wide range of informational and educational resources that help them run their businesses more successfully.”

The new Web site organizes FMC FoodTech’s products by industry and application so users can locate the right product to meet their specific need more quickly. New enhancements enable users to e-mail any page on the Web site to colleagues, and the “Contact a Specialist” function on every page puts users in touch with an FMC expert at the touch of a button.

Complementing its informational brochures and videos on a variety of products, the site features a growing number of instructional articles targeted at specific industries, such as meat and poultry processing, and Web seminars on topics that include food safety. Additionally, information on FMC FoodTech's hands-on customer training program—one of the industry’s most comprehensive program of its kind—helps industry professionals gain the knowledge they need to succeed in today’s competitive marketplace.

Among fmcfoodtech.com’s other new features is an animated walkthrough of one of the company’s Food Processing Technology Centers that helps demonstrate how these world-class facilities can assist processors in developing innovative new food products. The site is also home to current and back issues of The FoodTech Report, the food processing industry’s foremost informational e-newsletter distributed by a manufacturer.

“We’ve designed the site to be more than just somewhere customers can go to find out about our latest products,” said Larson. “It’s a place food processing professionals can visit to learn about industry advances and trends from an industry thought leader.”

About FMC FoodTech

FMC FoodTech is an operating group of the FMC Technologies, Inc. and is headquartered in Chicago, Ill., USA. A market leader in the supply of technology solutions for the global food industry, FMC FoodTech offers integrated solutions across the entire food processing continuum from meat, seafood and poultry, to fruits and vegetables, beverages and milk and convenience foods.

Wherever food is harvested, processed, portioned, squeezed, cooked, sterilized, frozen, preserved or packaged, FMC FoodTech helps customers by providing superior technologies and services to the world's largest food processors. The company represents more than 30 highly respected product brand names including FrigoScandia Equipment, Stein DSI, Citrus Systems, Food Processing Systems, FranRica, Allen Systems and PPM.