Grant money for meat and poultry processing has been the most accessible federal funding in food manufacturing for several years, and it keeps coming...
FSMA 204, the FDA's Food Traceability Rule, requires anyone who manufactures, processes, packs or holds a food on the Food Traceability List to assign traceability lot codes,....
Most automation business cases stop at simple payback: divide the project cost by the annual saving and present the number of years. It is easy to follow and it is
Most plants decide what they want on the packaging floor long before they decide how to pay for it. That order is backwards, because the funding route changes...
Small manufacturers have had a better year at the SBA than almost anyone else. Fees waived, a new credit line built specifically for them, a higher guarantee,...
Until last year, a new plant building was one of the slowest assets on the books. Nonresidential real property is depreciated over 39 years, so a $20 million facility...
This question usually comes up once a capital request has been approved and someone in finance asks how the deduction will actually be claimed. Both provisions can...
Search for bonus depreciation and you will still find pages telling you the rate for 2026 is 20%. Those pages were written under the old schedule and never updated,...
A plant manager signs off on a bagging line in March, the equipment lands in October, and commissioning slips into the first week of January. That one slip moves....
