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Compressed air plus heat recovery for PET bottle production
The Schwarzwald-Sprudel PET bottle production plant produces and uses compressed air efficiently thanks to an Atlas Copco compressed air station. Heat from the system is recovered to provide heating throughout the facility. [ + ]
Fish processor selects second metal detector
White fish processor Kirwin Brothers decided on a Phantom metal detector from Fortress Technology to keep up with increased demand and its customers' requirements. Happy with the system, the company purchased a second.
[ + ]How Veuve Clicquot supervises its 400 fermentation tanks
Veuve Clicquot makes its wine in 400 tanks, each of which is monitored for up to 40 variables. The champagne house has just replacd its 10-year-old supervision system software with a new PcVue system. [ + ]
Nothing but beer leaves Erdinger brewery
To ensure no keg filled with caustic lye leaves its brewery, Erdinger Weissbräu installed a FLIR Systems A-Series thermal imaging camera that measures the temperature of every keg before it leaves the conveyor belt of the filling installation. [ + ]
Preliminary Salmonella detection in 24 hours
A newly developed laser-based detection system is able to identify Salmonella, E. coli, Vibrio, Listeria and many more foodborne pathogens in less than 24 hours.
[ + ]Hello ladies
Food crop yields and profitability soar when non-fertile flies are dropped over growing areas where they mate with the females but do not father a next generation of pests. But male pests sterilised by radiation tend not to be as attractive to the females - so what is needed is a way to "George Clooney-ise" the sterile flies. [ + ]
Scientists warn of chemical dangers in food packaging, but not without their critics
Environmental scientists have warned the long-term effects of synthetic chemicals used in packaging, food storage and processing food could be damaging our health. [ + ]
Coding solution keeps pace with expanding water bottler
As its business expanded, natural spring water company Wet Fix found that its coding equipment couldn't keep up. The company chose two Linx CJ400 CIJ coders and a 30 W e-SolarMark laser from Matthews Australasia.
[ + ]Not too wet, not too dry, but just right
Implementing the Neste Jacobs NAPCON Suite enabled Finnish whey powder processor Valio to increase its production by 10% without investing in any hardware or using any extra energy in the process.
[ + ]Make haste, use waste
The Bio-Resource Processing Alliance (BPA) has NZ$2.5 million per year available to help NZ biological-based manufacturing businesses gain maximum value from waste and by-products.
[ + ]Food safety and UV-cured printing inks
There is much to be said in favour of radiation-curing inks, as world-leading manufacturers of packaging print equipment already know. Because UV inks cure faster, work throughput is much more positive than with traditional print drying tunnels.
[ + ]NORD gearmotors get the job done for TMCI Padovan
Searching for a solution to replace a traditional vacuum filter, a well-known Italian producer tested TMCI Padovan's Dynamos machine, supplied with NORD gearmotors. Happy with the test, the company installed the Dynamos machine.
[ + ]Advances in aseptic beverage filling
Aseptics have now breached the final building block in a beverage bottling line with the incorporation of the stretch blow-moulding machine in the aseptic concept. Aseptics now extend from preform decontamination through the aseptic blow module and aseptic filler to the aseptic closer.
[ + ]Food scientist salaries
The median salary for food scientists in Australia is $102,689, according to the latest Institute of Food Technologists Employment and Salary Survey. [ + ]
Stute goes green with in-house Krones recycling system
With its bottle-to-bottle recycling capability, Stute is processing its own PET waste and in future will also use non-returnable PET containers from its customers, using the decontaminated flakes as an admixture to the preform production process on injection-moulding machines. [ + ]