Food Manufacturing

3DEXPERIENCE platform in chocolate mould design

Many products are designed to appeal to our senses. Chocolate is no exception. Although taste is one of the reasons chocolate is so popular, its visual appeal also is important. Switzerland-based Max Riner AG makes sure chocolate looks appetising.

20th January 2016

WEG motors and drives play key wastewater treatment plant role

Complying with EU standards is one of the key challenges that wastewater treatment plants face. For this reason, more and more water treatment facilities across Europe are investing in ambitious optimisation projects aimed at enhancing energy efficiency and productivity. One example of this is the new wastewater plant that serves the city of Lille, France. To maximise the new facility's efficiency, Veolia Water Solutions & Technologies turned to Atlas Copco's blowers equipped with WEG's state-of-the-art motors and drives.

15th January 2016

Endoline systems rise to the occasion for Olympic artisan baker

A baker and supplier of artisan breads has recently opened a £3 million state-of-the-art factory on the back of their Olympic 2012 success and Endoline Machinery has helped them reach gold production standard with their fully automated turnkey packaging line - which now sees an output of around 1000 cases per day.

11th January 2016

CC-Link keeps up with demand for water in Denmark

Consumers generally take their water supply for granted, giving barely a thought to how it is extracted, filtered and delivered. One issue that arises for many distribution networks is the fluctuation in demand, which can be particularly marked when the local population temporarily increases, such as in holiday areas. Another is ensuring the control system works reliably over the wide geographic area of the whole network. CC-Link's long-range capability, along with its robustness and simplicity made it the natural choice for a water supply network upgrade in the Danish region of Jutland.

5th January 2016

Electric handling unit ensures precision in DNA extraction

Festo has developed a high-level handling system for use in the new oKtopure DNA extraction robot from LGC. The fully automatic robot has been developed for plant and animal breeders, and molecular biologists who often face technical challenges when analysing DNA.

26th November 2015

Custom screw jacks used in dough sheeters and gauge rolls

Baker Perkins, a leading manufacturer of machinery for the bread, biscuit and confectionery sectors, has selected Kelston cubic screw jacks for its new TruClean sheeters and gauge rolls.

17th November 2015

Sensor flies conservation into new levels of control

An innovative device that simultaneously senses a helicopter's position and weighs the load it is carrying has helped a 50-year landscape conservation project successfully reach its first 5-year milestone. The HeliNav TrackMaster is a simple and accurate system that simultaneously monitors underslung loads and logs actual flight paths while also providing navigational guidance.

13th November 2015

Robot keeps Newtech at the cutting edge of cake slicing

When automation OEM Newtech looked to design a new ultrasonic cutting machine for the bakery industry, it turned to Mitsubishi Electric for a fast, efficient, flexible and clean robotic system. The result is an innovative machine design that can cut cakes to the highest levels of precision, working flexibly for different portion sizes and quantities, and eliminating problems of damaged product.

6th November 2015

Offline coder enhances food producer's efficiency and quality

The purchase of an offline RF2 coder from Rotech has transformed the sleeve-coding operation at Holt-based Heaven Made Foods, eliminating inefficiencies and quality issues. With the Rotech system, which typically runs off 80-100 sleeves per minute, date coding is done in 10 per cent of the time that it was taking.

8th October 2015

FANUC robots have a way with waffles

Sugar, vanilla, chocolate coated, soft or crispy; Belgian waffle house Biscuiterie Thijs knocks out thousands of batches of the batter snack every day. What started as a family business in 1976 has grown into a waffle empire supplying the likes of Aldi, Lidl, Carrefour, Jumbo and other European supermarkets. Catering to this growth, in 2013 the company's waffle plant in the Flemish province of Herentals acquired six new FANUC delta robots to perform the task of packing. With retail orders on the rise, it was an intentional move towards automation by Biscuiterie Thijs, with the six FANUC M-2iA robots packing over 150 more waffles per minute than human hands.

5th October 2015

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