Food Manufacturing

FA Chief Executive Martin Glenn to headline PPMA Show 2017

Martin Glenn, Chief Executive of the Football Association (FA) has been announced as the keynote speaker at the PPMA Show 2017 - the UK's unmissable trade event for the processing and packaging machinery industry, which takes place at the NEC Birmingham between 26-28 September.

1st September 2017

Bürkert UK extends customisation and assembly service

Bürkert offers a wide range of high-quality, innovative flow control products that can be used to create tailored measurement and control systems. For customers that are not already panel builders or system integrators these products need to be connected together to create process assemblies and mounted onto panels or into cabinets. Hence, Bürkert UK is extending its customisation and assembly service to take care of anything from a single valve manifold to a series production run of fully populated cabinets.

1st September 2017

Video demonstrates extreme durability of igus lead screw module

igus has produced a short video that demonstrates the extreme durability of its stainless steel drylin SHT lead screw module. The video shows how well the module withstands heat, chemicals and water.

28th August 2017

Reliance appoint Life Sciences Business Development Executive

Reliance is appointing Dr Ruth Brown as Business Development Executive within their Life Sciences business. Ruth will be responsible for introducing Reliance's products to the Life Sciences industry.

9th August 2017

Optimising machine automation in food and beverage manufacturing

Lenze has published a new technical article explaining how to optimise automation in machinery for food and beverage manufacturing. The technical article is available as a free PDF download from the Lenze website.

9th August 2017

RS teams up with Crowdcube to help bring DesignSpark ideas to fruition

RS Components has announced that it is collaborating with Crowdcube, the leading UK-based online equity crowdfunding platform, to help members of its DesignSpark engineering community realise their product and business ideas.

3rd August 2017

Meteor: UK premiere of 4-arm Delta punnet loading line at PPMA

Brillopak (stand C24) has chosen PPMA 2017 as the setting for the UK premiere of its new fresh produce punnet loading line, Meteor. It is the first food packing end-of-line system in the UK to integrate Omron's new four-arm Delta robot, Quattro - described as the fastest and most dexterous robot in the world.

2nd August 2017

Nexperia sponsors University Robotics & AI team

Nexperia is announcing it is to be the main industry sponsor for the University of Twente's RoboTeam, a multidisciplinary student group that aspires to innovate in both robotics and artificial intelligence. One channel that the team is using to achieve this ambition is by competing in RoboCup 2017, the world championship of robot soccer in Japan (July 25-31). www.robocup.org. RoboTeam Twente will participate in the Small Size League, which focuses mainly on artificial intelligence.

27th July 2017

Lenze presents recipes for the processing and packaging industry

Lenze is serving up innovative drive and automation concepts for a virtual world on Stand J56 at PPMA Show in September. Demonstrations show how Virtual Reality can give engineers an insight to the operation of complex mechanics and software, leading to faster machine development. Visitors who participate in a demonstration can take away their personal VR viewer. Lenze engineers will also explain new options for data acquisition, analysis and storage of a machine's operating data in the Cloud along with remote support communication technologies for predictive maintenance.

25th July 2017

Innovation Day B&R UK & Ireland

As the world becomes more and more connected, machine and factory automation solutions from B&R are empowering manufacturers to new levels of productivity. Join B&R for a day to experience these solutions and technologies first hand and discover how you can apply them to your machine or factory as we journey through the fourth Industrial Revolution.

24th July 2017

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