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You really need to attend Foodtech Packtech
New Zealand's largest three-day food manufacturing, packaging and processing technology event is worth putting into your calendar as a 'must attend'.
[ + ]Pasta, present and future
The biggest branded food producer in Argentina stacks delicate bags of pasta faster and more efficiently with robotic automation.
[ + ]Flexibility the key ingredient in production overhaul
British Bakels looked to Matcon to improve their production flexibility in order to accommodate their broadening portfolio of bakery ingredient premixes. [ + ]
Real-time PCR for food testing
Real-time PCR methods are ideal for fast investigations when urgent answers are needed (eg, contamination of a production plant). The recent E.coli O104:H4 German outbreak being a perfect example.
[ + ]Size matters - Australia's largest food palletising solution
The new George Weston Foods production facility in Castlemaine, Victoria, is now home to Australia's largest robotic palletising system, featuring 16 ABB palletising robots. [ + ]
The pursuit of perfection
The pursuit of perfection led Pasta Montana to install an Optyx digital sorter from Key Technology to eject foreign material (FM) and defects from the product stream. [ + ]
Making a meal of GM food labelling
In this final instalment of GM in Australia - a series looking at the facts, ethics, regulations and research into genetically modified crops - Heather Bray and Rachel Ankeny explore the murky world of food labelling. [ + ]
Suck it up - vacuum packing fresh meat
The vacuum pump remains at the heart of every packaging machine. The quality of the vacuum pump largely defines the quality of the packaging machine and, therefore, the quality of the packaging.
[ + ]Sweet or sour? The forecast ups and downs of the Australian sugar industry
Wilmar International and MSF Sugar's announcements that they will no longer export through Queensland Sugar Limited is likely to have a significant impact on the Australian sugar supply chain - but it's not all bad news for the sugar industry. [ + ]
Compressors supply pure, oil-free air to nutritional supplement manufacturer
Atlas Copco compressors provide nutritional supplement manufacturer with the pure, oil-free air required during fermentation.
[ + ]Sparkling success in the Hunter Valley
Peterson House turned to Raymax Applications to offer their customers the ability to trace every bottle of sparkling wine throughout the distribution process right to the end consumer.
[ + ]After three-year saga, health star rating labels finally ready to go
Assistant health minister Fiona Nash has announced that Australian and New Zealand ministers responsible for food policy and regulation have signed off on the health star rating system for front-of-pack labelling. [ + ]
If only they used HACCP - US food safety moving from reaction to prevention
In the US, the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) will fundamentally change food safety for food processors as the focus will shift from reacting to contamination incidents to preventing such incidents.
[ + ]Traffic light labels get the green light
The embattled Health Star Rating (HSR) system has received yet another blow to its credibility after new research has suggested that not only is the HSR system confusing to consumers, so too is the existing Daily Intake Guide system. [ + ]
Enhanced wholegrains: nature's best superfood
With consumers becoming increasingly health conscious, the demand for cereal and bread products with wholegrains will continue to increase - placing pressure on food manufacturers to incorporate new superfoods in their products to keep up with consumer demands.
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