Automation
Europe: Tetra Pak’s standardization unit reduces ‘cream giveaway’
To produce milk with a specific percentage of fat content, an important step in dairy production is to separate fat from milk.
Fat is then...
Asia Pacific: Zebra Technologies unveils mobile computers for warehousing
Toll Global Logistics reported significant productivity gains after implementing the TC8000 — the latest enterprise mobile computer from Zebra Technologies Corporation.
The mobile computer is...
Asia Pacific: Veolia wins Indonesian wastewater contract
PT Veolia Water Technologies Indonesia has won a contract to design and build a wastewater treatment system integrated into a new greenfield oleochemical production...
Asia Pacific: Cobots, operators can work together in the factory, states Universal Robots
The COVID-19 pandemic has hit the world with more than just a healthcare winter.
It is also impacting thousands of businesses worldwide with closures and...
Americas: Refres Now installs Sidel solution for 40% more capacity
Following a significant investment in the biggest-ever Sidel Combi for carbonated soft drinks in 2011, Refres Now, the Argentinian producer of the Manaos brand...
Europe: Optimizing plant performance with new service, Tetra Pak
The newly launched Tetra Pak Plant Secure is a total plant management service that is poised to boost customer profitability.
Ian Hughes, director service operations,...
Europe: Potato processor saves QC labor with digital sorters
Ireland's Keogh’s Crisps and UK's Burts Chips have found Key Technology’s Optyx digital sorters useful in the production of batch-fried potato chips/crisps.
Identifying color and...
Americas: Kuka’s Swisslog exhibits at MODEX 2016
Intralogistics specialist Swisslog will demonstrate picking technologies integrated with advanced robotics at MODEX 2016 in Atlanta, Georgia, US from April 4-7.
Some the exhibits include:
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Asia Pacific: Kerry Logistics, Sutherland open meat processing plant
Kerry Logistics Network Limited and luxury meat purveyor in Hong Kong and Macau, Sutherland Company Limited, have set up a meat processing facility, MeatLab.
The...
Asia Pacific: Infor shares ways digital transformation help food factories stay ahead
Digital transformation is a topic well overdone.
But little is actually understood of the topic, especially when contextualized within the food and beverage (F&B)...