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Spray dryer dust explosion
The spray dryer has been in service for many years and had never had any trouble before. It is used to dry an agricultural product with dust indices in the low 100 bar m/s, and 7 bar range, numbers that are typical for many similar operations
[ + ]Shaken, not stirred cranberries
Producing sweetened dried cranberries (SDC) is a science that Ocean Spray has been working to perfect
[ + ]Asset management for Golden Circle
Golden Circle is to implement an information system based on Mainpac's Mainet, the Microsoft .NET-based enterprise asset management software package.
[ + ]Saving water
iBulk has developed water-saving solutions for a broad cross-section of industry segments including agriculture, minerals and pharmaceutical to name a few, but the most impressive results have been achieved in both laundry and food preparation areas
[ + ]Early promise in NZ's fight against Campylobacter
New Zealand has been acknowledged for some time as having among the highest recorded cases of campylobacteriosis in the developed world
[ + ]Don't let your HACCP procedures let you down
If you want to ensure that your plant meets all its food safety requirements, you should consider attending the Australian HACCP Conference Series.
[ + ]Guidelines for the food-medicine interface
The Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) recently released the set of guidelines they use to clarify whether products fall under food or therapeutic goods regulation.
[ + ]Dairy research pays off
The milk composition of each of the four-million-odd cows making the NZ dairy herd was screened in 2000-2001. A single cow, Marge, was thoughtfully purchased for $300 when it was found that her milk was particularly low in saturated fat
[ + ]Wet and steamy coding
Coding plastic pouches in a wet steamy environment has proved no problem for the latest small character ink jet printer from Videojet
[ + ]Bag-in-box beer
In a partnership with Bavarian brewer Ankerbrau, Rapak has launched a bag-in-box system for the keg beer market
[ + ]Non-pasteurised beer
For several years now, Royal Grolsch NV and Simonazzi have been working together on a project aimed at making the packaging process for non-pasteurised beer increasingly reliable in terms of hygiene
[ + ]Fighting fatigue in manufacturing
An increasing number of employees in manufacturing industries are working in a state of sleep deprivation and/or circadian desynchrony. An increase in shiftwork and extended hours are being blamed for the growing incidence of worker fatigue.
[ + ]Auspack is over for another two years
I spent four days at the show and for me it wasn't long enough. The exhibition exemplified the robust state of food manufacture and processing in Australia - as it should as food is the largest manufacturing sector in the country.
[ + ]Front of package nutritional labelling
A new nutritional food and beverage labelling scheme is set to aid Australians in the fight against the country's current overweight and obesity epidemic
[ + ]Fresh look at EDI
Australian financial software developer, JIWA Financials, has announced completion of the first implementation phase of its financial software solution at Harvey Fresh (1994) Ltd
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