All Food & Beverage

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…

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…

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…