The installation of Ishida multihead weighers and checkweighers at Barba Stathis, Greece's leading producer of fresh and frozen vegetables, has enabled the company to significantly increase output while significantly reducing product giveaway.

Our obsession with protein has proved to be a lucrative one for dairies. Whether in snack or powder form, this popular supplement is extracted from whey, a by-product of cheesemaking, and it has developed into a lucrative revenue stream. One of the largest manufacturers of dairy products in Britain is improving the efficiency of protein capture with Burkert's FLOWave surface acoustic wave (SAW) flowmeter, which provides accurate measurement of solids in liquid whey.

The safe small controller PNOZmulti 2 from Pilz was already in use in the mineral water bottling plant of Italian company ACMI, ensuring that glass bottles were handled smoothly during the filling and sealing process. Now the company has expanded its line to include the Ecopack case packer, which now enables it to pack "in cardboard".

By embracing the uEye Warp10 high speed camera from IDS Imaging Development Systems, a new particle analyser from Anton Paar enables high-precision material analysis in the micrometre range.

A new automated packaging line, featuring an Ishida CCW-RVE multihead weigher, has allowed AgroAguiar, Portuguese specialist in ultra-frozen fruits, to significantly reduce delivery times and provided the company with the flexibility and capacity to handle different packaging formats.

Samey Robotics and Rbot9 have chosen the FANUC CRX-10iA/L collaborative robot to power a game-changing cleaning system they have jointly developed for food factories.

In Modena, Italy, a software-enabled, highly efficient capping machine has been dubbed the "magic machine." The name was chosen by Tetra Pak's pilot customer, impressed by the reliability, performance and flexibility of the Tetra Pak Cap Applicator 40 Speed Hyper. But what is the source of this sorcery? Here, Mark Richards, UK sales manager at Beckhoff pulls back the curtains to reveal the clever technology that keeps the magic alive.

Food safety is critical in any market. But when producing meals that are supplied to vulnerable groups of people or preparing post-surgery meals for hospital patients and care home residents, Huuskes ensures that extra inspection, preparation and hygiene measures provide an added level of food safety assurance, thanks to Fortress Technology.

When Vital Products, a leading contract manufacturer of nutritional supplements, needed a reliable solution to check the weight and completeness of its products precisely and efficiently, it turned to Minebea Intec.

Bell Food Group has installed an X39 x-ray inspection system from Mettler-Toledo on its burger patty production line to meet increased requirements for quality control.