Global drinks company Foster’s Group is deploying a Cisco collaboration and unified communications solution including IP communications to increase productivity and to drive operating efficiencies across its global enterprise.

Callidan Instruments has been approached by a Dunedin-based confectionery company interested in trialling the MoistScan MA-700 in-pipe moisture analyser.

Patties Foods is a leading Australian manufacturer, supplier and marketer of branded frozen savoury and dessert products. Founded by Peter and Annie Rijs in 1966 in a small cake shop in Lakes Entrance, Victoria, the company is now ASX listed and owns a portfolio of iconic Australian brands including Four’N Twenty, Patties, Herbert Adams, Nanna’s, Creative Gourmet and Chefs Pride.

A large US-based multinational food product manufacturer has awarded JBT FoodTech a $4.8 million contract for an automated batch sterilisation system. The system will provide the processor with leading technology to process a wide range of packaging configurations while reducing labour costs and improving energy efficiencies versus traditional equipment.

Beneo-Palatinit presented tooth-friendly beverage applications with Palatinose at this year’s Drinktec in Munich.

Fresco Systems Australasia recently installed a gypsum blending system for a South Australian brewery in Adelaide. Specifically designed to replace an ageing manual process, the new system needed to reduce manual handling and achieve the highest levels of weight accuracies, dust control and mixer homogeneity. Fresco designed, manufactured and commissioned the system to ensure it met requirements. Adding to the complexity of retrofitting a system into an existing building was the old system, which was still operating and being feed from 20 kg bags, leaving limited space available.

Producing household names, such as Tooheys Draught XXXX, James Squire, Boag’s and a host of other famous brand names, Lion Nathan has a vested interested in keeping its product in top-quality condition.

In the UK, the Food Standards authority is trying to improve public health by asking manufacturers to reduce portion sizes, reformulate to minimise saturated fats and added sugars, and to focus their marketing on their healthier options.

Food is a vital component of trade and a considerable contributor to APEC member economies and food safety has to be addressed in a global context as a shared responsibility.

Should the NSW state government ban the sales of commercially bottled water or should consumers have the right to choose what they want to drink?

An Australian-manufactured tough, light and recyclable pneumatic reticulation system has been selected for use in an AU$20 million expansion by the largest fish oil manufacturer in the world.

When Australian cannery SPC Ardmona switched its palletising system, it found other advantages than just packing more pallets. The new system also opened up opportunities for new business.

In April 2009, the privately owned Licher Brewery ceremonially inaugurated its new showcase brewhouse from Krones.

Fresco Systems has just completed a bulk ingredient batching system for a Sydney bakery. Consisting of five bulk bag unloaders, each feeding a mini weigh hopper via a flexible conveyor, the system needed to be accurate and hygienic to suit the clean room environment.

A partnership of Australian and global leaders in environmental engineering has been chosen to provide an extended wastewater treatment system for Pacific Beverages’ new Bluetongue brewery in New South Wales.