Rockwell Automation reports that Irish baked-goods company, West-Bake, has adopted the Plex Smart Manufacturing Platform as a company-wide management suite for its growing operations.

To increase the capacity of a packaging line for individually packaged cheese portions, a manufacturer required a robust, reliable solution to detect the presence of each cheese portion to control the speed of in-line buffering units. These feed a packaging machine, in a high-volume, hygienic production facility. The company turned to Contrinex for a solution.

HRS is providing heat exchangers for pasteurisation solutions for two of Spain's most iconic culinary soup creations: gazpacho and salmorejo.

A food packaging machinery manufacturer trusts ReeR Safety to meet the demanding reliability and performance requirements of machines which perform high-speed processing tasks between a slicer and a thermoforming machine.

The wafer machine specialist Buhler relies on the burner version of the small controller PNOZmulti 2 to safely control and monitor its ovens.

Lyckeby's new full potato starch production line includes 28 Sulzer single-stage overhung process pumps in duplex material and double mechanical seals.

Veolia Water Technologies Ireland, a long-established provider of water treatment solutions and services for municipal, industrial, scientific and healthcare markets, recently opened its Life Science Centre of Excellence near Dublin in Ireland. Designed to provide training for internal engineers as well as customers, the new facility is fully equipped with the latest cutting-edge technology for water purification and distillation, including a water analysis system from Burkert.

With an output of up to 45,000 rolls per hour, the KGV-H industrial bread roll line from the Austrian manufacturer Koenig sets new performance standards - including a 50 per cent higher throughput than the usual commercial bread roll lines. Koenig chose low-voltage motors from WEG and geared motors from WEG's subsidiary, WEG Gear Systems, to keep the dough moving.

One of the largest premium flour and ingredient companies in North America, Ardent Mills, recently implemented automatic testing on several of its conveyor Fortress Technology metal detectors. A number of the company's packaging lines are now also using digital reporting to enhance efficiency, food safety and traceability.

A wine harvester has designed an autonomous 'steep slope' harvesting vehicle with igus energy chains.