Food Manufacturing

Schneider Electric partners with ELSS group to improve aquarium sustainability

Schneider Electric has partnered with ELSS Group, which specialise in the design, construction and operations of largescale aquariums and marine parks, to maximise the efficiency of and utilise precious resources, such as energy and freshwater, sustainably within the Bahrain Aquarium, located inside the Mall of Dilmunia, Bahrain.

9th February 2022

Intertronics supports rapid development of sustainable fishing device

Potting process for pressure-resistant device proves quite a catch

3rd February 2022

Livestock sorting machine relies on stepper drives from Heason Technology

Heason Technology has integrated Novanta IMS integrated stepper drives into a custom designed positioning system for Pharmweigh. The company’s Draft Master automatic livestock drafting machine which includes four MDrive Plus integrated drives programmed and configured with Heason supplied gearboxes to operate belt driven gates during animal weighing and sorting.

1st February 2022

British Encoder Products reinforces commitment to its users

Solutions figure strongly in automation systems across several industries

17th January 2022

Emerson Named "Industrial IoT Company of the Year" in 2022 IoT Breakthrough Awards

Emerson has been named the ‘Industrial IoT Company of the Year’ by IoT Breakthrough – an honour awarded to the company in four of the past five years. IoT Breakthrough, which received nearly 4,000 nominations for the 2022 competition, recognises Emerson’s technology and software innovation that is helping customers in essential industries realise safer, more efficient and sustainable operations.

14th January 2022

Kempston Controls becomes Midlands distributor for BÃ¼rkert valves

Electrical component distributor Kempston Controls has become Bürkert’s official distributor for the Midlands region. Based in Northamptonshire, Kempston Controls now supplies end users across the region with Bürkert’s range of process valves and flow control components. Main sectors of coverage include food and beverage as well as hygienic applications.

13th January 2022

New online shop combines user convenience with international weighing know-how

Minebea Intec is taking an important step with its online shop for single point load cells, with the online presence not only offering customers the opportunity to access the company’s single point portfolio quickly and easily, but also providing further specialist information on applications and areas of use.

13th January 2022

Vacuum conveyor transports coffee capsules

mk has helped a coffee capsule manufacturer find a way to achieve stable transportation of lightweight products. When coffee capsules are manufactured, they must be transported out of the filling system in such a way that they cannot tip. 16 capsules each in 2 rows are discharged by a multi-gripper on a linear axis with a cycle of 2.4 seconds.

7th January 2022

Protecting premium food and beverage brand integrity

Counterfeiting in the luxury food and drinks industry has long been a multi-million pound industry. The pandemic added to these pressures, with high demand for premium products coupled with interrupted supply chains and fewer physical audits amplifying the risks of opportunists and illicit bootleggers taking advantage of the disruptions.

6th January 2022

Manufacturer turns to Delta for machine vision robotic solution

Metal LS, the Bulgarian manufacturer of door locking systems, door and window handles and building hardware, started planning the new automated assembly of door locks in 2019. The robotic systems that the company already used for other applications were too large for the planned production site, so the new solutions needed to be as compact and precise as possible, in addition to being state of the art.

4th January 2022

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