Practical Guide to Metal Detection-Food Industry
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Potato identity crisis
Mislabelling is leading customers to pay up to €50 per tonne more for the same quality of potato reports new findings issued by the Food...
Dairy danger
UK dairy farmers using a new cup-removal system in their rotary milking sheds are being warned to check for potentially fatal trapping points. The announcement...
Management blues
A recent study performed jointly by Invensys and Fieldbus , provides strong evidence that process industry automation users are frustrated with the low success levels provided...
Vending vitality
A major technology breakthrough that allows the remote monitoring of retail vending machines in realtime has been made possible using the Alarm Telelog from UK-based...
New control unit from SICK
The global leader in factory and process automation solutions, SICK, announced today its new control unit for safeguarding operations on larger and more complicated machinery....
Sealed with a SIS
Lancashire, UK-based heat seal machinery specialists Seal-it-Systems (SIS) have recently launched a compact vacuum chamber designed specifically for the testing of sealed containers such as...
Lock safeguards ready meals
Lock Inspection Systems has announced that ready meals manufacturer Country Chef has become the first Belgian company to invest in its triple frequency metal detector....
Foss rinses it cleaner!
Denmark-based analysis and safety systems provider Foss says it has improved the capabilities of the new rinse concentrate for its milk scanning system. The company...
Larex rated superior
The American Institute of Baking (AIB)'s international food safety auditors have given functional ingredients firm Larex a superior rating for its Minnesota manufacturing plant for...
SureBeam director resigns
Troubled food irradiation provider SureBeam has announced the resignation of Jack Henry as a director of its executive board. Henry only joined the Board on...
Pathogen prevention
US meat manufacturer Fresh Mark has selected BOC's ozone technology as the centerpiece of its pathogen reduction programme. The strategy has been implemented at the...
A dream solution
Scanvaegt has launched a new system aimed at reducing give-away in poultry processing. The DreamBatcher is said to substantially reduce wastage by enhancing the efficiency...
The importance of lubrication
A report from Dow Corning claims that billions of euros are lost each year because of unnecessary repair work which has to be carried out...
SIP cycle times reduced
A new product from Emerson Process Management is enabling steam in place (SIP) cycle time reductions of typically 20 per cent on fully monitored plant...
Ionics consolidates functions
Ionics has announced a conference call to discuss the initiation of a restructuring programme, intended to improve financial performance through a realignment of its management...
Chadwicks gets FDA approval
Chadwicks of Bury, the UK's largest heat seal, pre-cut lid manufacturer, has received approval from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for its state...
McCain get in sync with FullTilt
Frozen food giant McCain Foods has selected FullTilt's I-Accel as its Collaborative Product Information Management (CPIM) software. The firm, which is Canada's largest international food...
Safety company consolidates
Food safety giant SureBeam has announced that it will close its Vernon, California processing service centre in an effort to consolidate its processing services business....
Water ways
UK firm Waterwise Technology has developed a range of ozone generators with fully serviceable cells for use in food process water applications. When used in...
Double safe
US firm Swift has implemented a new double pasteurisation system at six of its American beef processing plants. The company believes that this will significantly...
Seal of approval
Packaging Automation , the heat-sealing equipment specialist, has installed a second of its Vision 4000 machines at a state-of-the-art salad factory in the UK. Launched in...
Italian food preservation technology bought up by US company
BioGentec has completed a definitiveagreement to acquire InnoFood, owner of proprietary rights to a food processing technology developed by Modofood of Brescia, Italy. The agreement...
Surebeam gets the nod
SureBeam, a leading provider of food hygiene technology in the US, has been awarded a US patent on an in-line processing system that is said...
Gripping stuff
Lloyd Instruments, a major company in the field of materials testing, has just published a new catalogue of grips and fixtures for its materials testing...
Better detection rates
Lock Inspection Systems is to preview its Compact Vertical Fall metal detector for the first time at the forthcoming PPMA, to be held in the...
