Food Manufacturing

Stemmer Imaging wins Partnership Award 2012 from PPMA

Stemmer Imaging has won the prestigious Partnership Award 2012 from the Processing and Packaging Machinery Association (PPMA) for the provision of vision technology for use in food slicing machines manufactured by Marel, a provider of advanced equipment, systems and services to the fish, meat and poultry industries.

4th October 2012

Modified, ex-stock spiral bevel gears rise to the challenge

JBS Baking Solutions in Peterborough is continuously developing its products to achieve better performance and its selection of modified KHK spiral bevel gears from R. A. Rodriguez has helped it achieve just that with its Rollmaster system.

28th September 2012

Lean automation to increase in popularity, says IMS Research

IMS Research projects world sales revenue of operator terminals with embedded PLC hardware will rise from $99 million in 2011, to approximately $148million in 2016; a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of about 9 per cent over the period. The largest vertical sectors for these products in 2011 were estimated to be Food, Beverage and Tobacco Machinery; Machine Tools and Packaging Machinery. Collectively, these sectors accounted for approximately 35 per cent of sales revenue. The largest unit shipment growth is also forecast to come from the food and beverage machine builder sector, with annual shipments increasing by more than 5,000 between 2011 and 2016.

18th September 2012

Festo displays advanced handling and positioning concepts at PPMA 2012

Festo will be displaying some exciting new development concepts in handling and positioning at PPMA 2012, on stand B72, hall 5. In addition, Festo Training and Consulting will be sponsoring the show's 'The Ones to Watch' awards and visitors to the stand will have the opportunity to meet Festo Food and Beverage specialists, who will be on hand to discuss automation challenges in the food and packaging industry.

31st August 2012

Design & Manufacture service for packaged batch controls

Burkert UK is launching a new system service for designing, manufacturing and commissioning packaged batch control systems for use in markets such as hygienic processing, water treatment, brewing, food and beverage, pharmaceutical, medical/biomedical, chemicals and many more.

15th August 2012

New home for industrial safety and connectivity company Motion29

Motion29, the industrial safety and connectivity provider has, after 6 years in business, outgrown its original unit in Woodfieldside Business Park and moved to a larger-capacity office in Tram Road Industrial Estate in the same town of Pontllanfraith, Blackwood, Wales.

1st August 2012

Mitsubishi Electric's data communications system wins award

The Food and Beverage Industry has voted the Mitsubishi Electric C-Controller integrated communications system as the most important technological development of the year. This is the second year in a row that Mitsubishi has triumphed at the Food Processing Awards Ceremony of the prestigious Appetite for Engineering food industry event.

19th July 2012

Festo displays handling and positioning concepts at PPMA 2012

Festo is displaying some exciting new development concepts in handling and positioning at PPMA 2012, on stand B72, hall 5. In addition, Festo Training & Consulting will be sponsoring the show's "˜The Ones to Watch' awards, and visitors to the stand will have the opportunity to meet Festo Food & Beverage specialists, who will be on hand to discuss automation challenges in the food and packaging industry.

12th July 2012

New sensors for reliable detection launched by Sick at PPMA

New sensing products launched by Sick UK at the PPMA Show mean that difficult shapes, flat or transparent objects that have previously defied reliable detection can now be seen clearly. Sick has developed the new MultiLine sensor to ensure a stable and continuous detection signal from the leading to the trailing edge of a product, even when surfaces are glossy, flat, or contoured.