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Beverage plants concentrating on technology
An optimally conceived beverage plant needs state-of-the-art technology with the best possible material flows in a responsively tailored building, with comprehensive IT networking and perfectly matched utilities. The owners of these production and bottling facilities prioritise not only flexibility and expandability, but also and primarily low capital investment and operating costs, coupled with qualitative and quantitative excellence, so as to achieve maximised profitability.
Read ArticleKimberley Clark seeing smart packaging
In a recent interview with Dr Harry Zervos, Mr. Thomas Ales of Kimberly Clark Corporation said his company was seeking smart packaging applications.
Read ArticleSIG attempts to improve delivery performance
SIG Combibloc, one of the world’s leading system suppliers of carton packaging solutions and filling machines for beverages and food, has opted for Quintiq software. A major project is now under way to implement Quintiq software solutions across all the company’s planning horizons. The globally integrated solution will support planning decisions, improve customer service and optimally process resources.
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Print industry examines carbon footprint
The PrintCity Alliance completed a successful first Graphic Industry Supply Chain Workshop on the subject Carbon Footprint & Energy Efficiency during February 2010 in Munich.
Read ArticleMetal detection system introduced
Mettler Toledo Safeline introduces the Tablex-PRO metal detection system, which combines the company’s advanced metal contaminant detection technology with new software to allow pharmaceutical manufacturers to strengthen compliance while improving product safety and productivity. Tablex-PRO may be the only available metal detection technology equipped with a unique Condition Monitoring feature which contributes to the prevention of unscheduled downtime.
Read ArticleTracing meat from the field to the supermarket
Himmerlandskød (Himmerland Meat) is a Danish meat processing company. The employees are reasonably happy, and sales are high. All this results from a mix of visionary business management and advanced production technology focused on traceability. This small Danish meat cutting facility processes 150 beef carcasses every day. These are usually sold to large supermarket chains in Denmark. When a carcass arrives at the Himmerlandskød plant, it is registered in a Marel monitoring system by scanning the CKR number (the ”animal registration number”) on the ear tag , providing key information about where the animal was born and raised.
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Mould time down sizing technique developed
Krones AG, Neutraubling, Germany, has developed a system called MouldXpress Advanced, which downsizes the change-over time for moulds in the Contiform, thus improving the availability levels of the stretch blow-moulding machine. The semi-automatic system integrated into the blowing wheel shortens the change-over time from about 3.5 minutes to less than one minute per blow-moulding station.
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Integration platform may optimise some processes
PakFormance® by Sealed Air Cryovac® is a combination of IS software and hardware, equipment and modules, and services. This integration platform delivers a means of controlling and supervising food packaging processes when the equipment is working correctly.
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Loading system designed to complement end and top loading cartoning equipment
A fully automatic ‘Cascade’ Loading System (C.L.S.) has been designed & built by Kliklok to complement their wide range of end load and top load cartoning equipment.
Read ArticleProtection for packaged apples devised
There are more sensitive fruit than apples at the fruit counter. But when it comes to processing, this robust and tasty fruit is extremely fragile. Fresh apple slices turn an unappetising brown within 10 minutes. This is a real problem for the fresh cut and convenience sector, because the apple is increasingly being promoted by the retail trade as a packaged snack.
Read ArticleVisual inspection system to be shown
Symetix and Proditec will co-exhibit at Interphex NY 2010 where Proditec is introducing InspeCaps 150, a new single-file vision inspection system for two-piece hard-gelatin capsules, which removes foreign capsules and capsules with cosmetic defects and shape irregularities. As the world’s first inspection system that handles every type of capsule, including opaque, transparent and translucent whether empty or filled with powder, granules or liquid, InspeCaps 150 could in ideal conditions have some improvement in production versatility for those currently using old equipment.
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