A leading supplier of side channel blowers and liquid pumps for food and beverage industry applications, Elmo Rietschle’s Bad Neustadt factory in northern Bavaria, Germany, is celebrating the manufacture of its two millionth product.

Elmo Rietschle’s Bad Neustadt factory in northern Bavaria, Germany, is celebrating the manufacture of its two millionth product, while highlighting the energy saving capabilities of its new line of high-speed radial blowers, which it says can save up to 50% of energy compared to previous blowers.

With news that food manufacturing giant Mars is augmenting operations across its 160 manufacturing plants with Microsoft’s Azure Digital Twins IoT service, Stephen Hayes, managing director of Beckhoff UK, explores this and some of the other trends that he foresees in 2024.

Protecting consumers from unsafe food processing practices is a shared responsibility. Partnerships, such as that between Fortress Technology and AIB International, help to foster greater innovation, more robust safeguards and streamline processes – which in turn can reduce food waste, increase efficiency and improve customer satisfaction.

Compressed air and fluid power specialist Thorite has made four key new appointments to strengthen its sales team across the North. Andy Richardson (pictured) joins the Thorite team as a field-based capital sales equipment specialist.

With many customers in Scotland in the distilling, brewing and dairy industries, BM Engineering Solutions has been providing expert valve and instrumentation support for more than 20 years. Supporting this effort has been its partnership with Bürkert – a relationship that is now seeing its 20^th anniversary.

Supplying its liquid flow meter products into industries such as brewing and distilling, Titan Enterprises has achieved a 33% increase in sales revenue over the last two years – that growth looks set to reach a similar level by the end of the 2023/24 fiscal year.

Schaeffler headed to BrauBeviale in November, one of the leading capital goods fairs for the beverage industry to highlight condition monitoring technologies, worm gears, linear guides, hygienic bearing units and other automation solutions that can all help to increase production efficiency and drive down costs in beverage production.

In a fundamental shift in how PPMA, BARA and UKIVA can impact the manufacturing arena in a positive and meaningful way, the PPMA Group of Associations has changed its name to AutomateUK. The aim of this significant re-brand is to better represent the needs of its membership and their end user customers in the ever-changing manufacturing landscape.

When a major UK pet food producer wanted better machine utilisation with the aim of raising its OEE (overall equipment effectiveness) by 3 points, it asked experts at bearing specialist NSK if they could evaluate processes and systems to help with this improvement goal.