Posing the right questions at the beginning of a heat exchanger procurement and design process can prevent future misunderstandings, and ensure that you arrive at the optimal product or system for your specific requirements, as Matt Hale, Global Key Account Director at HRS Heat Exchangers, explains.

The food industry is facing a digital transformation. Going forward, it will be necessary to digitalise processes and procedures for food safety in such a way that they can be audited and monitored online. Ian Scott-Mance, Technology Manager at Mettler-Toledo Product Inspection, describes the processes that food manufacturers should go through to reach that point.

Stephen Harding, managing director at material handling specialist Gough Engineering, explains how vibratory linear screens support pet food manufacturers in yielding protein's benefits and harnessing waste sources of protein.

Thermal processing is critical to the success and safety of food and beverage manufacturing. Yet often, thermal control is not up to scratch, causing inefficiency, loss of profit and detriment to products. David Sarhok, Account Manager Europe for food and beverage processing and equipment at Watlow, unpacks how modern temperature controllers can overcome seven of the most common efficiency problems in food and beverage thermal processing.

Chris Johnson, managing director at specialist bearing supplier SMB Bearings, explains the vital role of lubricated bearings in diversified manufacturing.

With artificial intelligence (AI) technology developing faster than ever, can the packaging sector afford to ignore it - and should it be concerned? The experts at Easyfairs, organiser of London Packaging Week, talk to Evelio Mattos, creative director of packaging at IDP Direct, about where the technology has its uses.

Does the packaging industry need to evolve what it already does well, or tear up the rule book and blaze a new trail? According to Easyfairs' Senior Marketing Manager James Montero-MacColl, in this industry, there's room for both.

Food safety specialist Fortress Technology explores the benefits of staying ahead of an unannounced inspection by an external party, and the value of monitoring everyday risks by performing regular internal and external audit reviews.

The handling of dry bulk materials used to be a completely manual process, but it is now being increasingly automated in a drive to reduce both the costs and the risks of injury, while also increasing throughput and accuracy. The experts at Sensor Technology explore some of the new technologies behind these developments.

Highlighting the example of the Celarevo brewery in Serbia, owned by the Carlsberg Group, Christoph Dorigatti, Vice President of global business development at COPA-DATA looks at how companies can progress toward sustainability with an automated energy data management system (EDMS).