Category: Technology
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TraceGains is expanding its European presence through compliance-led industry events. The programme spans Berlin, Birmingham, Düsseldorf, and a UK customer forum, with food safety, supplier data, and faster NPD at its core.
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A cheese-ripening inspection system built around AI, machine vision and mobile robotics is showing how dairies can push defect detection and traceability deeper into long-maturation processes without expanding manual inspection.
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COPA-DATA is using interpack 2026 to press the case for modular, standards-based automation in packaging and process lines, with zenon demonstrations focused on data integrity, HMI flexibility and legacy integration.
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WDS has launched detectable machinery components for food lines. The range targets contamination control requirements across processing, bakery, dairy, and packaging equipment.
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Frozen food inspection tightens as speed, density, and cold converge. Adam Green, Market Manager at Mettler-Toledo Safeline X-ray, explains how x-ray systems handle overlapping products, thawing risks, hygiene demands, and false rejects on frozen lines.
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Energy efficiency is rising on food plant engineering agendas. Processors are looking beyond component ratings and focusing more closely on pumps, thermal control, digital monitoring, and system-level performance.
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GEA is expanding dairy AI development with a Belfast lab. The new site adds 20 R&D roles around CattleEye and DairyNet as the company deepens software capability in digital herd management.
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The BPA is pressing Brussels on oxo-plastics policy once again. Its submission to the Commission’s Single-Use Plastics Directive review asks policymakers to distinguish oxo-biodegradable materials from oxo-degradable plastics already covered by the ban.
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Bakers Basco is digitising bakery-equipment recovery operations across the UK. Intel 360 gives investigators mobile case logging, faster stakeholder alerts, and cleaner operational data as the organisation steps up protection of reusable baskets and dollies.
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FPS widens utilities engineering reach through a new QES partnership. The deal adds ventilation, MEP, refrigeration, and process-piping design capability to its food processing portfolio.