Innovation
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: DTU project to study consumer traffic in food court
By monitoring mobile phones searching for Wi-Fi signals, students from the Technical University of Denmark (DTU) are testing a tracking system to show how...
Europe: Sensor technology on shelf life of fish
A sensor that can register smoke from a fire can also be used to register even the faintest odor of bad fish.
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Asia Pacific: GEA on building an earthquake-proof plant
GEA has built a whole milk drying plant for Fonterra in earthquake zone Pahiatua in New Zealand that produces at 15 tons/hour and is designed to...
Europe: Gebo Cermex receives award for Industry 4.0 initiatives
Gebo Cermex receives the Vitrine Industrie du Future mark from the Alliance Industrie Du Futur (AIF) in recognition of its efforts to introduce, develop...
Europe: Competition honors 7 start-ups
Seven companies, from a short-list of 75 start-ups selected for a four-month acceleration program this summer by MassChallenge Switzerland, have been selected to receive...
Americas: CrownSmart engages consumers with cans
Crown Holdings and Zappar have released CrownSmart to deliver augmented reality (AR) to brands and consumers, as well as other services like gaming, couponing...
Europe: Gebo Cermex exhibits smart machines at show
Sidel's Gebo Cermex is exhibiting at interpack 2017 with a focus on smart equipment for beverage and food, home and personal care (FHPC) customers...
Middle East: Steak made from the lab
Israeli company Aleph Farms has kicked off the first cell-grown minute steak, delivering the full experience of meat with the appearance, shape, and texture...
Europe: Researchers develop bacteria quick test for beer, milk
Researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Polymer Research IAP in Potsdam and company GEN-IAL from Troisdorf have developed a polymer powder that significantly...