Toll Manufacturing Minute

Discover the innovative world of toll manufacturing with Custom Processing Services. Toll Manufacturing Minute brings you expert insights on particle size reduction, jet milling, blending methods, and more—all designed to help you overcome manufacturing challenges and optimize your processes. As a trusted partner in food, pharma, advanced materials, and beyond, CPS combines state-of-the-art technology with industry expertise to deliver tailored solutions for your unique needs. Subscribe now for actionable insights, and reach out to the experts at CPS to learn how we can help you turn your toughest challenges into opportunities.

Toll Manufacturing Minute is a business podcast hosted by Custom Processing Services, with 22 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80.

Custom Processing Services hosts Toll Manufacturing Minute, a business show with 22 episodes published.

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  Toll Manufacturing Minute: Navigating the Shift to Natural Colorants

  Sep 28, 202618 min

  Food and beverage companies are racing to replace synthetic dyes before regulatory and retail deadlines catch up with them. In this episode of The Toll Manufacturing Minute, CPS Director of Quality Jen Smith and Quality Systems Manager Brita Levengood explain what that shift actually requires — from FDA timelines and state-level pressure to the plant-floor realities of processing a natural colorant. They cover the mistakes that derail reformulation projects and what CPS does to help manufacturers scale up without losing color, consistency, or customers. With deep experience across food safety, quality systems, and plant operations, Jen and Brita discuss: Why the FDA's synthetic dye phase-out is a supply chain decision as much as a regulatory one What changes on the plant floor when a formula switches from synthetic to natural color The most common mistakes food and beverage companies make when they rush reformulation How CPS helps manufacturers prioritize and de-risk the transition Custom Processing Services partners with manufacturers to deliver high-quality toll processing solutions that exceed industry standards. Connect with us: https://www.customprocessingservices.com/ Follow us on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/custom-processing-services-inc-/ Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CustomProcessingServicesInc/

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  CPS Toll Manufacturing Minute: Solving Powder Scale-Up Challenges in Food & Beverage

  Aug 4, 202636 min

  In this episode of Toll Manufacturing Minute, CPS Director of Quality Jen Smith breaks down one of the most frustrating problems in product development: powders that behave perfectly in the lab and then fall apart once they hit production-scale equipment. Jen works alongside CPS's internal teams and customers to ensure dry ingredients, functional blends, and particulates meet quality and compliance standards, with deep experience across the food and beverage industry. With a background rooted in quality assurance and hands-on scale-up troubleshooting, Jen discusses: Why powders that pass every lab test can still fail at production scale The core mechanisms behind scale sensitivity, from mixing energy to ingredient addition order How powder behavior at scale shows up in consumer-facing issues like texture, flavor, and dissolution What food and beverage teams should nail down before moving a formulation from bench to plant Custom Processing Services partners with manufacturers to deliver high-quality toll processing solutions that exceed industry standards. Connect with us: https://www.customprocessingservices.com/ Follow us on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/custom-processing-services-inc-/ Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CustomProcessingServicesInc/

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  Toll Manufacturing Minute with CPS: What to Include in a Tolling RFQ — And Why the Details Drive the Cost

  Jul 13, 202629 min

  In this episode of the Toll Manufacturing Minute, Charlie Casale, Senior Business Development Manager at Custom Processing Services, breaks down exactly what a complete RFQ for tolling looks like — and what’s almost always missing. Charlie draws on years of quoting and project development experience to walk through the most common gaps he sees: packaging format, particle size specification depth, bulk density, testing frequency, labeling requirements, and hazard classification. He also explains how a single detail like incoming feed packaging can change labor costs dramatically, and why even technically sophisticated customers routinely leave it out. Whether you’re submitting your first tolling RFQ or you’ve been working with contract processors for years, this episode gives you practical insights into the details that matter and the reasoning behind them. Connect with us: https://www.customprocessingservices.com/ Follow us on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/custom-processing-services-inc-/ Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CustomProcessingServicesInc/

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  Toll Manufacturing Minute with CPS: Throughput Without Tradeoffs: Scaling Advanced Powder Processing for Energy Materials

  Jun 22, 202647 min

  In this episode, CPS President Gregg Shemanski breaks down one of the most persistent challenges in advanced powder processing: how do you push throughput on high-performance materials — battery-grade powders, functional additives, and precision particulates — without letting your specs slip? With 44 years of processing expertise, Gregg walks through the science and systems behind scaling production while maintaining tight particle size distributions, density, shape, and surface area. He covers where drift really happens (hint: it's usually the raw material), why batch optimization is a whole-ecosystem problem — not a single-variable fix — and how CPS's installed capacity, engineering depth, and process knowledge help energy materials customers go from R&D to repeatable commercial production faster than going it alone. Gregg and host Jen Lepore also explore: Why energy storage materials demand such unforgiving specs, and what variables matter most The most common self-optimization mistakes process engineers make How CPS uses real-time data collection (up to 3x per second) to catch drift before it becomes a failure The benchtop-to-pilot-to-production pathway that de-risks scale-up What a tolling partner brings to battery materials customers that in-house manufacturing typically can't Custom Processing Services partners with manufacturers to deliver high-quality toll processing solutions that exceed industry standards. Connect with us: https://www.customprocessingservices.com/ Follow us on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/custom-processing-services-inc-/ Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CustomProcessingServicesInc/

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  Toll Manufacturing Minute with CPS: Why Lab-Proven Processes Fail at Scale (and How to Fix It)

  May 11, 202625 minS0

  <p>What works in the lab doesn’t always work in production, and that gap can be costly.</p><p>In this episode of Toll Manufacturing Minute, CPS Vice President of Business Development Albert Medoro breaks down one of the biggest challenges in manufacturing: scaling a process from lab to full production. Drawing from real-world experience, Albert explains why scale-up is inherently non-linear and where companies most often run into trouble.</p><p>From material flow and equipment differences to throughput, yield, and cost constraints, this conversation highlights what separates successful scale-ups from expensive failures.</p><p>You’ll learn:</p>Wh...

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