Intralox, CFS open customer-centric training facility

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Intralox, CFS open customer-centric training facility

3 Oct 2025

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NEW ORLEANS — Commercial Food Sanitation (CFS), an Intralox company, celebrated the grand opening of the CFS Institute North America at Intralox’s global headquarters in New Orleans. The facility marks the first stand-alone training facility for CFS, and it was designed to help food processors worldwide implement programs that mitigate and prevent critical food safety challenges.

The 13,700-square-foot facility will host trainings and certifications, including sessions for sanitation essentials, hygienic design, and advancing sanitation impact. The site also has three laboratories that provide plant environments for training participants, with additional spaces for learning and cross-functional collaboration among food manufacturers in engineering, quality assurance, sanitation and operations roles.

“Food safety isn’t just learned in a classroom or from a handbook … It’s learned elbow-to-elbow, in real-world environments, with hands-on access to the very equipment used in production.” — Nicole Cammarata | global training manager | CFS

“At CFS, we know that food safety isn’t just learned in a classroom or from a handbook … It’s learned elbow-to-elbow, in real-world environments, with hands-on access to the very equipment used in production,” said Nicole Cammarata, global training manager at CFS. “At our institute, that vision becomes reality. Our new facility isn’t just a building, it’s a living, breathing classroom equipped with realistic food production environments and equipment, state-of-the-art training tools, and well-thought-out activities and breakouts to simulate real-world challenges.”

CHS Institute North America is equipped to test food processing equipment for cleanability and hygienic design, supporting food manufacturing risk assessments and innovation. The facility is part of a global network, with training offered in Amsterdam, São Paulo, Shanghai, Monterrey, Mexico and Melbourne, Australia. To date, CFS has trained more than 5,300 participants at its global training centers.

“Intralox’s commitment to provide safe and reliable conveyance drives everything we do, and CFS is a critical part of Intralox’s FoodSafe Platform,” said Killian Lapeyre, president of Intralox. “Our engineers work in partnership with our customers to develop products that optimize food manufacturing. Our application experts are on plant floors mitigating risks, and we provide hands-on training — like what will happen here at the CFS Institute North America — to create safer food processing operations.”