Food Manufacturing

Henkel and Engineering Solution supply low-pressure mouldings

Henkel and Engineering Solution Ltd are partnering to supply manufacturing industry with a complete low-pressure moulding service. The scope of this alliance extends from product design consultancy and mould tool manufacture through to prototype and batch production of ready-to-ship assemblies. Beyond this, Engineering Solution can supply all of the elements needed for the customer to transfer production in-house.

17th April 2013

Bolstered sector support from Siemens Industry

Siemens Industry is strengthening its commitment to UK manufacturing and infrastructure with the announcement of six new sector head roles - leading dedicated and specialist teams focusing further on the needs of key sectors.

16th April 2013

Pilz experts on hand at Total Processing & Packaging Exhibition

Visitors to the Pilz stand G16 at the Total Processing and Packaging Exhibition (NEC 4-6 June 2013) will benefit from the experience of a team of machine safety experts, on hand throughout the show to discuss functional safety-related controls, standards and training courses for process and packaging applications found in the food, beverage, tobacco, pharmaceutical and other industrial sectors.

8th April 2013

Getting to the bottom of government energy policy...

When you live with three females - in my case, the redoubtable Mrs Simms and two effervescent daughters - then finding a little bit of space in the house that's your own can become increasingly difficult. Happily, the loft is my domain: youngest daughter can't get up the ladder, wife doesn't like to, and oldest daughter has just entered teenagedom and has too many other things on her mind to worry where I might have gone, as long as I'm not invading her space. Of course, before I could occupy the loft it needed extensive boarding, which has taken me quite some time. All the joists had to be built up by four inches so that I could get in the requisite eight inches of insulation - you can see how long it's taken me; in the meantime the desirable number of inches of insulation has gone up to ten. But I'm not starting again.

3rd April 2013

Softstart UK to distribute Delta Electronics products in the UK

Softstart UK has formed a strategic partnership with Delta Electronics to supply that company's automation products. Softstart UK take on the sales and engineering support for the full portfolio of Delta Electronics products in the UK, addressing markets as diverse as textiles, food and beverage, water and wastewater, processing, marine and offshore, mining and minerals, cement and discrete parts manufacture.

28th March 2013

Optimal appoints new Sales Account Manager for SE & Scotland

As part of its continued growth and investment programme Optimal Industrial Automation has taken on a new Sales Account Manager to cover South East England and Scotland.

20th March 2013

Custom polymer parts boost performance and cut costs

Nylacast is urging machine builders to specify custom polymer components to help minimise component costs and reduce or eliminate the need for maintenance, while, at the same time, enhancing performance. By reducing the need for maintenance, end users can benefit from reduced downtime and considerable cost savings.

19th March 2013

Siemens Industry and Elite Controls offer controls one-stop-shop

Siemens Industry is announcing that its solution partner agreement with Livingston-based Elite Controls now offers customers across all industrial environments an enhanced control systems service that also extends to instrumentation.

12th March 2013

Atlas Copco celebrates 140 years of innovation

Atlas Copco is celebrating 140 years of excellence with a range of activities in more than 90 countries. At its sites in the UK & Ireland Atlas Copco will mark the 140 year anniversary with a special celebration. Alex Bongaerts, Company Secretary of Atlas Copco's UK & Ireland operations, says: "It is a great occasion to create pride among employees and to make them enthusiastic about future opportunities. Our history guarantees long-term industrial experience as well as innovative products and solutions to current and new customers, to suppliers as well as to current and future employees."

25th February 2013

Food industry growing to new levels of automation

UK food prices have risen 12 per cent in the last five years, while incomes have fallen 10 per cent. There were seasonal shortages this year and experts are predicting worldwide food shortages by 2020. Clearly the food industry needs to think hard about the future, reducing waste and increasing efficiency, as a recent food and beverage conference hosted by Mitsubishi Electric discussed.

21st February 2013

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