Category: Technology
-
Gazebo Fine Foods has expanded outsourced cold-chain operations with Davidson. The arrangement moves container unloading, tempering, sleeving, and date coding outside its Wembley site as the manufacturer seeks additional capacity and flexibility.
-
OSHA has cited NaturPak after two fatal industrial kettle incidents. Three workers died and two were seriously injured in separate pressure-related events at the Janesville food manufacturing operation.
-
Anheuser-Busch is investing $13 million in its Baldwinsville brewery operations. The programme upgrades can and bottle lines, adds Cutwater production capability, and expands technical skills training.
-
Hapman refines hygienic conveying systems for fragile food production materials. CablePro combines enclosed stainless-steel tubing, food-grade cable and discs, automatic tensioning, and configurable dry or wet cleaning for complex production layouts.
-
IDS cameras automate potato grading across compact farm sorting lines. Farmsort.one combines repeated optical inspection, encoder-based tracking, and electric conveying to classify washed or unwashed potatoes into as many as five grades.
-
Müller has commissioned automated cleaning infrastructure for mobile dairy tanks. The modular system handles cleaning flows up to 50,000 litres per hour and connects 16 mobile vessels through a dedicated docking arrangement.
-
Finland opens first industrial-scale liquefied biogas production facility in Nurmo. The food-industry-linked plant is designed for around 100 GWh of annual output, with liquefaction scheduled to begin this autumn.
-
Markem-Imaje has launched new connected packaging software for GS1 transition. CoLOS 2D Activate and Engage combine QR-code management, production data, analytics, and digital content as manufacturers prepare for wider 2D barcode adoption.
-
WECO has launched X-ray inspection technology for in-shell nut processors. Multiscan MXV-Bulk detects hidden defects, poor kernel fill, and dense foreign material that surface inspection cannot identify.
-
PepsiCo’s Pune snacks plant marks twenty-five years of manufacturing growth. More than ₹600 crore of investment has expanded annual capacity to 62,100 tonnes while adding automation and water-recovery technology.