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Dairy producer turns disaster into opportunity for efficiency boost
Added: 9 Dec 2021
A disastrous fire destroyed milk producer Imlek’s production site but it turned back to KHS for a s…

How phased system upgrades can save on downtime and money
Added: 24 Nov 2021
While most firms working in the food processing industry want to upgrade their systems, doing so ra…

Flow technology overcomes a salty problem
Added: 10 Nov 2021
When a salt extraction plant ran into production difficulties, Celeros Flow Technology came up with…

Better pump control ensures skid accuracy
Added: 9 Nov 2021
When a specialist industrial skid builder sought to enhance accuracy and sustainability, it determi…

Steam to thermal switch produces perfect pint for brewer
Added: 25 Sep 2021
While their rivals said no, Rebellion Beer Company broke ranks with the help of Fulton’s experts to…

The four pumping ingredients for successful brewing
Added: 17 Jun 2021
While the challenges of brewing are legion, SEEPEX’s Peter McGarian provides a rundown of the four …

Landia chopper pumps provide effluent solution twice over
Added: 5 May 2021
Landia’s expertise in treating effluent and waste provided answers for two food producers and their…

When wholesale pumping automation is costly, cook up a remedy
Added: 1 Feb 2021
Meeting hygiene and food safety regulations is a challenge for any bakery but when budgets don’t pe…

External pressures drive innovation in the food and drink sector
Added: 27 Jan 2021
As the focus shifts slightly back to the post-Brexit regime, there is a flurry of interest in techn…

Testing time pays off for power plant project
Added: 10 Sep 2020
Collaboration and trust between two firms ensured careful research and testing to ensure a ground-b…

Flow sensors provide cost saving energy data
Added: 9 Sep 2020
Sensors monitoring flow velocity and temperature of mediums at critical locations in a major dairy …

Automation increases beer production capacity
Added: 11 Aug 2020
A top brewery increased production capacity by 50 percent in a fortnight with Rockwell’s virtualise…

High efficiency and low shear pumping solution
Added: 5 Aug 2020
The UK’s only sugar beet producer needed to combine high efficiency with low shear pumping and velo…

Robotics provides answer for scaling up production
Added: 10 Jun 2020
Artisan beer production often operate at small scale. Robotics offers the cost effective solution t…

WMFTG finds pumps solution for challenging foodstuff
Added: 8 May 2020
Some pumps find demanding food ingredients too hard to handle without damaging the end product. Wat…

VFDs point the way forward for tackling animal feed crisis
Added: 22 Apr 2020
Growing demand for animal and fish food protein means more facilities will need controlled, ambient…

Pumps for food and drink: Small steps enable big progress
Added: 26 Feb 2020
Both the pumps sector and the food industry are demanding efficiencies be met by innovative approac…

Latest Qdos pumphead for polymer dosing proves itself at leading brewery
Added: 26 Feb 2020
New ReNu pumphead technology from Watson-Marlow offered accurate and repeatable flow for polymer do…

Tech innovation in the food and drink sector: gains and risks
Added: 15 Jan 2020
Making more food products faster and more flexibly while remaining accountable and cyber safe stimu…

Control strategies are vital for rapid temperature changes
Added: 27 Nov 2019
Manufacturing processes that rely on rapid temperature change can easily result in bottlenecks in a…