Food Manufacturing

RS Components celebrates "˜Pi Day' with Raspberry Pi prize draw

RS Components (RS) is celebrating "˜Pi Day' by running a prize draw via the company's DesignSpark community website. Entrants to the draw can win a Raspberry Pi-powered photo selfie frame signed by Eben Upton, co-founder of the Raspberry Pi Foundation, featuring many of the Raspberry Pi product variants since its launch in 2012.

15th March 2017

Wonderware UK announces new dates for Next Generation Roadshow

Wonderware UK is hosting a series of regional special events, where it will give manufacturers and system integrators an exclusive look at the company's new developments. The Next Generation Roadshow will explore Wonderware's innovations, providing delegates with a greater understanding of the future of the industrial landscape and how they can ensure they are prepared for it. The day-long events will take place on 25 April at the Madejski Stadium in Reading, and on 17 May at Old Trafford's Evolution suite.

14th March 2017

Essential guide to all motion and control products from Parker

Parker Hannifin has released its latest Motion Control Products catalogue. This essential guide for engineering and manufacturing businesses features servo drive, motor, planetary gearbox and controller products. The new catalogue is available as a download or can be requested as a hard copy resource.

9th March 2017

Aventics focuses on promising key sectors at Hannover Messe

Poland is an attractive market for the pneumatics specialists at Aventics. With non-stop growth in the food industry, a trend towards automation, and a flourishing shipbuilding industry, this year's partner country to the Hannover Messe is seeing an increasing need for pneumatics components. With a company-owned sales organisation in Warsaw, Aventics has provided its Polish customers with support since 1991, first as Rexroth Pneumatics, then as Aventics (since 2014).

6th March 2017

Keynote speakers announced for UKIVA Machine Vision Conference

Dr Mike Aldred from Dyson Ltd and Dr Graham Deacon from Ocado Technology have been announced as the keynote speakers for the UKIVA Machine Vision Conference and Exhibition to be held at Arena MK on 27th April 2017. Both keynote addresses will illustrate how vision technology has relevance to everyday life such as household cleaning and shopping.

2nd March 2017

Visit Mouser at Embedded World 2017 for a chance to win

Mouser Electronics will extend a warm welcome to all visitors to the Embedded World event (March 14-16, Nuremburg) to join the company on booth 4A, Stand 101. Once again, Mouser will be emphasising how it supports the design process in a number of ways.

2nd March 2017

BVM creates new Business Development Manager position

BVM Limited has appointed Dave Ripley, who comes with a wealth of BDM experience in the Embedded Computing sector. Working with both end users and distribution channel partners, the newly created position of Business Development Manager is a role Dave is relishing. Dave's key task is to continue the company's strong growth by promoting BVM's expertise in standard and customised industrial computing to existing customers, distributors and new prospects throughout the Western Europe territories.

28th February 2017

Henkel announces "Food Safe Packaging" webinars 2017

Today, across the globe, consumers are better informed than ever before. This leads to increased consumer awareness about safety issues – and it is influencing the selection of products from the supermarket shelves. What they demand is obvious: clean packaging materials that protect the food from any external contamination.

28th February 2017

ABB announces details of Food and Beverage day in Texas

ABB will be exploring the changing nature of the food and beverage industry at its ABB Customer World show at the George R. Brown Convention Center in Houston, Texas from March 13-16, 2017. The second day of the event, dubbed the ABB Food and Beverage day, will feature several keynote speeches and panels to discuss the technological challenges and developments in food manufacturing, processing and packaging.

24th February 2017

Parker to showcase sealing materials for sensitive processes

The Engineered Materials Group of Parker Hannifin Corporation will focus its presentation at the 2017 Hanover Fair on new developments and evolutions in the diverse range of pure to ultra-pure Parker Prädifa materials for sensitive production processes. Besides food and pharmaceutical production, this includes drinking water applications and uses in biotechnology and medical device technology. In addition, the products to be showcased will include XXL-size elastomer, PTFE and metal seals, multi-component composite parts for diverse industrial applications and an extensive range of fluid power sealing systems.

9th February 2017

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