Category: Technology
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Handtmann has introduced a flexible filler for sensitive paste products. The VF 850 S combines high output, gentle handling, digital production tools, and independently assessed energy efficiency across meat, alternative protein, bakery, and pet food applications.
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Shibuya Hoppmann is extending gentler transfer across packaging lines worldwide. Horizontal discharge prefeeders elevate bulk products while limiting impact and fitting around existing equipment.
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Roberts is cutting meat tempering from days into mere minutes. Refrigeration and X-ray portioning will extend improvements in production speed, yield, energy use, and scheduling.
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Made Smarter grants are putting automation onto smaller factory floors. Supported projects cover tempering, wrapping, filling, slicing, process monitoring, and internal fabrication across food manufacturing.
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Automated media preparation is targeting persistent food laboratory testing bottlenecks. InstaFlux combines dispensing, enrichment, barcode control, and digital records within one integrated microbiology workflow.
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Cloud colour management is moving deeper into packaging production systems. The platform unifies formulation, correction, quality control, and ink reuse across connected printing operations.
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TopGum is widening functional gummy development around cognition and vision. Five concepts combine botanicals, carotenoids, vitamins, fibre, and creatine.
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Fortress Technology marks three decades of increasingly connected food inspection. Automation, traceability, testing, and upstream control now shape detection systems.
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Made Smarter is accelerating practical automation across smaller food factories. Projects span chocolate, bakery, sauces, brewing, bacon, and packaging.
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Roberts is investing in faster and lower energy meat systems. Refrigeration, tempering, and X-ray portioning anchor its £750,000 programme.