A pneumatic feeder built by Vibration Systems & Solutions (VSS) in July 1999 is about to celebrate its 13th birthday. Luckily, VSS isn’t at all superstitious - and with good reason. The feeder continues to give great performance delivering fruit and nuts to a multi-head packing machine, just as it has done since it was installed in 1999. Read more »
Ocean Spray Cranberries and Complete Phytochemical Solutions have joined forces on a project to develop a cranberry-specific PAC standard. Read more »
Grupo Modelo has installed a complete keg line from CoMac, an established global supplier of kegging and bottling equipment, in its Piedra Negras brewery in Mexico. Read more »
Local food manufacturer Patties relies on Bizcaps BRM Recipe manager to help them stay on top of changes in the development of new products. Read more »
In response to rising costs and labour shortages, many cherry packers are turning to automated inspection to increase throughput and reduce costs. To this end, cherry packer Stemilt Growers has recently installed an Optyx sorter in its plant in Wenatchee, Washington. Read more »
Established beef export company EC Throsby (ECT) has increased its productivity with a new conveyor system manufactured and installed by Sydney-based Adept Conveyor Technologies. Read more »
Xenos Aseptic Beverage Systems has recently installed an X500PP aseptic bottle filling machine and a tubular UHT pasteuriser at the new Manukau Food Innovation Centre in Auckland, New Zealand. Read more »
British retail giant Tesco has selected a Dematic Multishuttle automated materials handling system for its latest ‘dotcom store’. Going live in January, the system is set to double Tesco’s pick rates for grocery home delivery. Read more »
Self-cleaning Russell Eco Filter provides a more efficient filtration solution for Norwegian honey processor and distributor Honningcentralen. Read more »
Glanbia Dairy Ingredients has upgraded its cheddar processing capacity by simply adding Tetra Tebel OST vats and more Tetra Tebel Blockformers. Read more »
Pfizer (formerly Wyeth Pharmaceticals) has invested over US$700m in capacity upgrades of its nutritional formula operations in Asia. Australian packaging machinery manufacturer Fibre King secured all the end-of-line packaging work across the three separate projects in Singapore, the Philippines and China. The latest installation at Pfizer China’s Greenfields Plant established four infant formula can and carton lines including a depalletiser, lowerator-air rinser, WAP50 dual layer continuous motion wraparound case packers, WAP25 case packers, and CP50 and CP30R palletisers. Read more »
Australian company A&G Engineering beat off international competition to win the contract to fabricate 10 x 100 hectolitre stainless steel beer fermenters for Casella Estate. [The finished tanks are beautiful. - Editor] Read more »
Ovivo Australia has designed and constructed a cutting-edge advanced water treatment plant using membrane bioreactor (MBR) and reverse osmosis (RO) technology at Viterra’s Tamworth malt facility. Read more »
Kompass Milan has successfully installed three of its PF 6-head capper machines for plastic pre-threaded and plastic pressure caps at the Sydney plant of Sanofi Aventis, a specialist in pharmaceuticals, consumer healthcare products and vaccines. Read more »
For over 20 years Bakery Du Jour has established itself as one of the highest quality patisseries of French pastries and breads in Australia. Proudly Australian owned and family operated, the bakery supplies its unique and innovative range of frozen, uncooked, par-baked and frozen-baked products to cold stores and distributors nationally. Read more »
Owens-Illinois (O-I) has helped Carlton United Brewers (CUB) introduce an innovative bottle for its new Victoria Pale Lager. Read more »
Wrigley has implemented JDA Software’s Space & Category Management solutions to manage its large volume of retail planograms, fixtures, floor plans, store/cluster data, product attributes and performance information. Read more »
A joint venture between Frucor NZ and Slade’s Beverages in Victoria to increase the production of water supply by installing a nanofiltration system was supplied and installed by Ovivo in just 12 weeks. This has allowed for the production of a new range of V Energy drinks and other products using water directly from the potable supply. Read more »
Roxset SE1 is suitable for wet processing zones such as food manufacturing, food preparation areas and chemical processing plants. The coating delivers an easy-to-clean and -sterilise antislip surface which offers good thermal protection. In the coldroom areas Roxset SE4 was applied. Read more »
Kockums Bulk Systems has installed Tawi vacuum-assisted lifting systems at Zetco. The systems have resulted in improved handling of boxes and cartons of valves with improvements in productivity and safety. Read more »