Thorite has created a new team offering bespoke expertise to the aggregate, concrete and mining (ACM) sectors. It is the latest development in a £3.6 million investment programme by the Bradford based company, aimed at enhancing its customer service offer.

Recognising how traceability has evolved due to the implementation of technology, Omron has produced a Whitepaper that explores the evolution of traceability and explains why the latest phase, Traceability 4.0, is not just about tracking products throughout the supply chain but also optimising productivity, quality and brand reputation within the manufacturing operation by tying product to process parameters.

Icelandic firm Samey Robotics has driven a revolution in the international supply chain for fresh fish, and at the heart of its tailored solutions is M-410 series industrial palletising robots from Fanuc.

An industrial bakery has increased product quality and reduced production costs after installing high accuracy ball valves. Bürkert’s high speed ball valves and actuators have increased flow control accuracy and repeatability of the ingredient dosing process.

One of Yamaha’s customers in food production, an established brand of baked sweets with a history stretching back over 100 years, recently installed an array of SCARA robots to optimise production capacity when packing the sweets into boxes of various sizes.

Atlas Copco has acquired Precision Pneumatics and Wearside Pneumatics, two compressed air distributors and service providers in the UK.

Tesa says its new 60412 is not only a universal packaging tape that is more sustainable thanks to the high recycled content in the backing material, but it also features a strong performance.

Egypt’s largest potato processing factory has installed MNS LV switchgear from ABB to guarantee reliable, high-quality power to its two production lines, which process 10 tons of fried potatoes and two tons of mashed potato per hour.

Variable-speed vacuum pumps from Atlas Copco are used to create vacuum conditions at two central stations on packaging lines at Tönnies Beef, saving energy in the vacuum-packing of the cuts of beef in thermoforming and shrink-wrap machines.

Igus will exhibit the world’s first all-plastic urban bicycle at The Engineering Design Show from 12-13 October. The bike was first launched at Hannover Messe on 30th May.