An award-winning biogas plant which pioneered food waste collection and treatment in New Zealand has benefitted from using a dedicated pasteurisation system supplied by HRS Heat Exchangers.

Rockwell Automation has been selected by Middleby Food Processing to help develop the food industry's first fully automated bacon production line, which was unveiled at the IFFA tradeshow Frankfurt, Germany earlier this year.

In the fast-paced world of confectionery production, efficiency and accuracy are paramount. Ensuring every product is correctly labelled isn't just about aesthetics; it's critical for traceability, quality control, and ultimately, customer satisfaction. This is where advanced factory automation, specifically smart sensing technology from Contrinex, is playing a pivotal role.

A leading UK producer of dairy desserts has cut its electricity costs by £117,000 a year after upgrading its compressed air system with Atlas Copco's latest oil-free compressor technology.

The installation of Ishida multihead weighers and checkweighers at Barba Stathis, Greece's leading producer of fresh and frozen vegetables, has enabled the company to significantly increase output while significantly reducing product giveaway.

Our obsession with protein has proved to be a lucrative one for dairies. Whether in snack or powder form, this popular supplement is extracted from whey, a by-product of cheesemaking, and it has developed into a lucrative revenue stream. One of the largest manufacturers of dairy products in Britain is improving the efficiency of protein capture with Burkert's FLOWave surface acoustic wave (SAW) flowmeter, which provides accurate measurement of solids in liquid whey.

The safe small controller PNOZmulti 2 from Pilz was already in use in the mineral water bottling plant of Italian company ACMI, ensuring that glass bottles were handled smoothly during the filling and sealing process. Now the company has expanded its line to include the Ecopack case packer, which now enables it to pack "in cardboard".

By embracing the uEye Warp10 high speed camera from IDS Imaging Development Systems, a new particle analyser from Anton Paar enables high-precision material analysis in the micrometre range.

A new automated packaging line, featuring an Ishida CCW-RVE multihead weigher, has allowed AgroAguiar, Portuguese specialist in ultra-frozen fruits, to significantly reduce delivery times and provided the company with the flexibility and capacity to handle different packaging formats.