All Food & Beverage

Spiroflow conveyors for Africa drinks maker
Added: 13 Jun 2012
Clitheroe, UK – Spiroflow’s ‘aero-mechanical’ conveyor is being used to load sugar into a tank in w…

HSE serves 'legionella' notices on two process companies
Added: 13 Jun 2012
Edinburgh, UK – The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has served two process companies, North Briti…

£1bn to be invested in Scotch whisky production
Added: 7 Jun 2012
Diageo has unveiled plans to invest over £1bn in Scotch whisky production over the next five years

Food & drinks sector must address energy challenges
Added: 7 Jun 2012
Article by Chris Evans, marketing & operations group manager of Mitsubishi Electric UK:
Many custome…
Ship technology could enhance process-water safety
Added: 7 Jun 2012
A technology used for treating ballast seawater on ships is now being offered as an alternative to …

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…

Oil-in-water solution to improve consumer products
Added: 29 May 2012
A method that models cell-to-cell adhesion could have industrial applications

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…

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 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 solved at last
Added: 14 May 2012
London – A process that has reportedly defied automation for decades has been resolved by systems i…

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…

Keeping track of GM crops
Added: 3 May 2012
New bioluminescent technology can track and monitor GM crops in the food processing chain.

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…

One lump or two?
Added: 2 Apr 2012
A cautionary tale by Mike Bradley of The Wolfson Centre for Bulk Solids Handling Technology

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…