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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 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 …

Corrugated-tube heat exchangers cut costs at dairy AD plant
Added: 26 Jan 2012
Dorset, UK – Renewable energy company Clearfleau has installed heat exchangers from HRS Heat Exchan…

System integrators in demand in India
Added: 25 Jan 2012
London – Manufacturing companies in India are increasingly turning to system integrators to impleme…

GAMBICA details 'Automated Britain' event
Added: 24 Jan 2012
London – GAMBICA and Intellect have issued more detail about their jointly organised conference eve…

Three big issues in 2012
Added: 23 Jan 2012
London – In the run-up to the recent holiday period I got to quiz a good number of UK engineers, fr…

Cheese company adds pump, macerator at AD plant
Added: 4 Jan 2012
Börger’s installation for Carrigbyrne

Newly Weds Foods opts for Mainsaver CMMS
Added: 29 Nov 2011
Corby, UK – Newly Weds Foods has selected Mainsaver CMMS (computerised maintenance management softw…

Guttridge equipment for Heidi Chocolat.
Added: 11 Nov 2011
Bucharest – UK manufacturer of bulk materials handling equipment Guttridge Ltd has recently supplie…

Digester mixing system advances biogas production at Heinz Bakenhus
Added: 11 Nov 2011
Grossenkneten, Germany – Landia’s digester mixing system, which combines sludge recirculation with …

Premier Foods switches to infra-red on sauce production line
Added: 8 Nov 2011
Bury St Edmunds, UK – Premier Foods has reported efficiency gains of more than 10% following the in…

Honeywell scoops automation contract at Finland's largest milk producer
Added: 3 Nov 2011
Kuopio, Finland – Valio, the largest milk producer in Finland, has selected Honeywell to provide a …

Creaming off the cost
Added: 1 Nov 2011
One of the UK’s ten largest food companies, Dairy Crest has started up two biomass boilers at its D…

Why energy-saving plans are failing to go the distance
Added: 1 Nov 2011
Depending on the relative cost of enery at the time, energy-efficiency programmes and capital inves…

Getting off the beaten track
Added: 1 Nov 2011
Professor Mike Bradley asks: Why don’t solids processing plants work properly?

Apps ease maintenance woes
Added: 1 Nov 2011
While CMMS (computerised maintenance management system) software helps maintenance managers to trac…

Pump technology provides rapid drum unloading at Britvic
Added: 7 Oct 2011
Rugby, UK — The Britvic plant in Rugby is able to unload 45 gallon drums of fruit juice concentrate…

GE 'green' power kit for William Grant distillery
Added: 5 Oct 2011
Girvan, UK - GE is to supply a combined heat and power system, with a Jenbacher J620 gas engine, to…

Fast food mixer for TSC
Added: 5 Oct 2011
Scunthorpe, UK — Prior to its launch a new range of products, called ’Glorious! ’Skinny Dip’, TSC F…