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Milk production factory

Biosensor detects one-billionth of a gram in minutes

Added: 1 Jun 2012

A new class of biosensor can detect exceptionally small traces of contaminants in liquids in 40 mi…

Agri Energy opens Liverpool biodiesel plant

Added: 31 May 2012

Liverpool, UK – Agri Energy has opened a multi-million plant to produce biodiesel from waste cookin…

Cell adhesion

Oil-in-water solution to improve consumer products

Added: 29 May 2012

A method that models cell-to-cell adhesion could have industrial applications

Wanson hesters

Heaters raise productivity at Moy Park

Added: 23 May 2012

Craigavon, UK – Food company Moy Park has installed two additional thermal fluid heaters at its pou…

Torrance Pepsi HSE

Pepsi's global safety standard

Added: 21 May 2012

Chicago, Illinois – In the process industries, most people today operate in caring working environm…

Molson Coors tower

Molson Coors gears up at Burton-upon-Trent plant

Added: 18 May 2012

Burton-upon-Trent, UK - HES Tractec has supplied 20 Comer gearboxes to Molson Coors, the UK’s bigge…

Robots protect jobs at Premier Foods

Added: 14 May 2012

London – That automation can protect, rather than destroy, jobs by improving the productivity, comp…

Crumbs problem Mitz

Crumbs problem solved at last

Added: 14 May 2012

London – A process that has reportedly defied automation for decades has been resolved by systems i…

Bumble filters

New filters take pressure off Bumble Hole Foods

Added: 11 May 2012

Bromsgrove, UK - Worcestershire-based Bumble Hole Foods recently faced production issues with its m…

GM crops

Keeping track of GM crops

Added: 3 May 2012

New bioluminescent technology can track and monitor GM crops in the food processing chain.

Pepsi Siemens water saver

Pepsi plant to cut fresh water use by 70%

Added: 19 Apr 2012

Nuremberg, Germany - PepsiCo has installed advanced water reuse technology as part of a wastewater …

PDM to establish UK anaerobic digestion network

Added: 19 Apr 2012

Doncaster, UK – SARIA Bio-Industries has acquired a majority stake in Doncaster-based food-waste re…

Wolfson power flow problem

One lump or two?

Added: 2 Apr 2012

A cautionary tale by Mike Bradley of The Wolfson Centre for Bulk Solids Handling Technology

Glanbia cheese plant

Glanbia improves safety of cleaning procedures at NI cheese plant

Added: 2 Apr 2012

Magheralin, UK – Glanbia Cheese has changed the isolation and lockout tagout procedures at its mozz…

Contracts & Projects Tracker: February 2012

Added: 5 Mar 2012

Virtalis has designed and installed two virtual reality systems for the new Nuclear AMRC, which was…

Milk

GEA scoops Euro33m order in Australia

Added: 23 Feb 2012

Milton Keynes, UK – GEA Process Engineering has received an order for the delivery of a production …

Pilot plant produces biogas from food waste

Added: 20 Feb 2012

Stuttgart, Germany – Researchers from the Fraunhofer Institute for Interfacial Engineering and Biot…

Food Greencore

Real-time TOC tightens effluent control at Greencore

Added: 10 Feb 2012

Article by Dr Patsy Rigby, HACH LANGE, UK:

Selby, UK – A food manufacturing facility in Selby has in…

Heinz

Heinz generates energy savings at Irish plant

Added: 10 Feb 2012

Dundalk, Republic of Ireland – The first steam generators to be used with the HJ Heinz Group have b…

Automation settles microbrewery nerves

Added: 6 Feb 2012

Stroud Brewery, an organic craft microbrewery based in Gloucestershire, has moved from making beer …