Food Manufacturing

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.

12th July 2012

Industrial networking and communication devices study

Improved efficiency, increased productivity and cost reductions are the main factors that will drive the European industrial networking/communication market. There is a trend in industrial operations to interconnect systems, equipment, machinery and devices via networking, in order to provide real-time data and information for better decision-making, control and management and - by extension - improved performance, quality and production.

10th July 2012

Free Select Catalogue provides faster fluid control deliveries

Burkert's new Select Catalogue is a short-form publication covering premier, fast-moving products in Burkert's range of fluid control products. The free publication provides a quick and easy aid for selecting valves and sensors for use in the food processing, pharmaceutical, water, petrochemical, medical, bio-medical, beverage and general process control industries.

3rd July 2012

Manufacturers must unite on priorities for growth says report

New research has revealed divided opinion within the manufacturing sector, which could compromise the future growth of UK industry. The Siemens Industry UK report, Industry Pulse - Challenges and Outlook for Manufacturing, reveals a lack of consensus on the economic climate, the appetite to invest and on the need for greater government support for the sector.

28th June 2012

Automation catalogue has 500+ pages containing 5000+ products

LC Automation has published its biggest ever automation product catalogue containing more than 5000 products from 26 leading suppliers. Within the 500+ pages there are products for automation, motion control and machinery safety.

14th June 2012

Mourning the demise of the humble vol au vent...

It's been pointed out to me - more an observation than a criticism, I like to think - that I tend to spend quite a lot of time banging on about UK manufacturing. So for a complete change this month, I think it's worth asking whatever happened to the vol au vent, once the king of the buffet table but now seemingly consigned to the culinary annuls of history. I gather that through the 50s and 60s it was impossible to visit a buffet table without finding all manner and varieties of vol au vents, in different shapes and sizes and with a delightful assortment of fillings. As a youngster, I distinctly remember family gatherings through the 70s where vol au vents took pride of place on the buffet table, and were frequently the centre points of the post-lunch discussion.