Q: What products, technologies, or live demonstrations will visitors be able to see at your booth during PACK EXPO International 2026, and which applications or manufacturing challenges do they address?

A: Visitors can find ITT Flow Technologies in Booth LU-8500, where we’ll showcase the strength of our integrated processing portfolio across APV, Waukesha Cherry-Burrell, and Bornemann. This year is especially meaningful as we attend with Bornemann as a newly integrated sister brand, expanding the solutions we can offer customers across hygienic, industrial, and complex processing applications.

In the booth, APV will feature a homogenizer, and our team will present on larger-scale ultra-high-temperature (UHT) and microparticulation systems, while Waukesha Cherry-Burrell will showcase positive displacement pumps, centrifugal pumps, and valves. Together, these technologies reflect our focus on helping customers improve product quality, efficiency, uptime, and process flexibility through trusted equipment, deep application expertise, and lifecycle support.

Q: What are the biggest processing or operational challenges your customers are facing today, and how are your latest solutions helping manufacturers improve efficiency, product quality, flexibility, safety, or sustainability?

A: Customers today are navigating a more complex processing environment, from higher-protein and more variable formulations to shorter production campaigns, fouling, rising utility costs, and increasingly rigorous food-safety expectations. Across Waukesha Cherry-Burrell, our global distribution network helps customers access advanced process and product expertise, along with the right parts and equipment when and where they need them, supporting faster response times, reduced downtime, and maximized uptime.

Through APV, we help address these challenges with application testing, optimized homogenization, tailored UHT technology, hygienic design, and precise control of time, temperature, flow, and pressure to protect product quality and improve operational consistency. Solutions such as efficient heat recovery, SteamRecycle technology, and automated monitoring also help manufacturers reduce steam, water, and energy use while gaining greater flexibility and reliability in production.

Q: What technology or industry trends are having the greatest impact on processing equipment design and investment decisions today?

A: One major trend shaping equipment investment is the need for processors to increase throughput while operating within smaller facility footprints, which is driving demand for larger processing lines. For Waukesha Cherry-Burrell, that means helping customers select the right pumps and valves to meet higher flow and pressure requirements while maintaining hygienic cleanability, including cleanable valve options, piggable valve designs, and MixProof valves that support simultaneous product flow and CIP in space-constrained plants.

Q: If a process engineer, operations manager, or plant executive visits your booth, what are one or two key insights, best practices, or innovations you hope they take away from the conversation?

A: The key takeaway for visitors is that successful processing starts with the product itself, because composition, rheology, heat sensitivity, packaging format, and shelf-life goals should all guide the process design. Across APV, we help customers address that complexity through a broader range of UHT infusion technologies, microparticulation capabilities that can tailor proteins to specific product goals, early product trials, and close collaboration to reduce scale-up risk and shorten commissioning.

Through Waukesha Cherry-Burrell, Bornemann, and APV, our teams help solve complex processing applications with positive displacement pumps, centrifugal pumps, twin screw pumps, homogenization, heat treatment, and system solutions selected for efficiency, hygienic performance, and robust operation. Visitors should leave with practical ways to improve product quality, extend production runs, recover more value from proteins, reduce energy and water consumption, and make smarter equipment decisions with support from our experienced engineering teams.