FOOD AND BEVERAGE

Ross Digital And A*Star Establish New Programme To Drive Innovation For The Food Services Industry

Ross Digital And A*Star Establish New Programme To Drive Innovation For The Food Services Industry

ROSS DIGITAL AND A*STAR ESTABLISH NEW PROGRAMME TO DRIVE INNOVATION FOR THE FOOD SERVICES INDUSTRY The joint research and innovation programme will integrate the use of artificial intelligence, robotics and …

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Future Of Digital Packaging: Seeing Is Believing

Future Of Digital Packaging: Seeing Is Believing

Packaging made brilliant powered by a portfolio of digital solutions Sealed Air announced the introduction of prismiq — a digital packaging brand with a portfolio of solutions for design services, digital printing, and …

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Schaeffler To Exhibit Sustainable Solutions For The Food Industry And Innovations For Robotics

The food and packaging industry, and the robotics industry, are two sectors with a high global demand for innovative solutions, and will be the main focus of Schaeffler’s attention at …

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8 Automation Trends In The Food Packaging Industry

Utilising automation not only focuses on speeding up the process but also helps in achieving consistency, safety, and traceability of a product to ensure customer satisfaction.

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Intelligent Production Line For Fresh Liquid Eggs

HKPC sets up intelligent production line for local fresh liquid eggs manufacturer in Hong Kong to significantly enhance production capacity and food safety to help “Made in Hong Kong” brand …

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XAG Helps Farmers In Ukraine Cultivate Crops Using Drones In 2022 Farming Season

Farm drones are handy tools that enable cost-saving and help farmers manage crops against the background of rising fuel prices and climate change.

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igus Unveils Its First Lubrication-Free Toothed Belt Axis Fully Made Of Plastic

Easy to clean, lubrication-free and maintenance-free: the new drylin ZLW toothed belt axis is based on hygienic design principles and uses FDA-compliant materials.

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Amcor Opens Healthcare Packaging Facility In Singapore

Amcor unveils new healthcare packaging facility in Singapore to serve accelerating customer demands in Asia Pacific.

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Four-in-10 Patients Fear Pharmaceutical Supply Chain Issues Pose Risk Of Illness, Death

New Zebra study shows the pharmaceutical industry has a trust problem, but industry leaders say they’re trying to become more transparent.

Demand For Food And Beverage Air Filtration Market To Grow by 7.9 Percent CAGR Through 2031

Demand For Food And Beverage Air Filtration Market To Grow by 7.9 Percent CAGR Through 2031

According to the recent Future Market Insights (FMI) report, the sales for food and beverage air filtration market is expected to reach a value of US$ 2.75B in 2031, rising at a CAGR of …

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ABB and Zume to accelerate transition away from single use plastics

ABB To Supply Robots For Zume’s Sustainable Packaging Production

ABB Robotics has signed a framework agreement to collaborate with California-based Zume, a global provider of innovative, compostable packaging. ABB will supply robotic cells that will enable Zume’s production of …

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New Home Compostable Transparent Food Packaging Designed To Reduce GHG Emissions

The manufacturer of biodegradable plastic packaging, TIPA Corp Ltd., has announced the launch of its first home compostable, transparent laminate for food packaging.

Interview With Geert Elie From WITT To Discuss Comparison Of Leak Testing Methods

Interview With Geert Elie From WITT To Discuss Comparison Of Leak Testing Methods

Many industrial products have to be leak-tight. For example, food, cosmetics, or pharmaceutical packaging, but also products such as lights in the automotive industry, electronics, or plastic components. But how …

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Market Debut In Asia: DPO Launches “National Milk” In SIG Carton Packs With SIGNATURE Packaging Material

Dairy Farming Promotion Organisation of Thailand (DPO) has introduced a new “National Milk” product range in SIG’s on-the-go combiblocXSlim carton packs with SIGNATURE Full Barrier packaging material, where the small amount …

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IBM Introduces AI-Driven Software That Can Detect Weather and Climate Risks To Help Companies Improve Operational Challenges

The offering is the first to bring together AI, weather data, climate risk analytics, carbon accounting capabilities, operational data, and environmental performance management into a single solution.

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Analysis Of Competing Short-Wavelength Infra-Red Sensing Technologies

The widespread adoption of machine vision makes image sensors that can detect light outside the visible spectrum increasingly useful, since the aim is to augment human sight rather than duplicate it.

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ADM Expands Global Nutrition Capabilities With Advanced Flavor Production Facility in Pinghu, China

The Archer-Daniels-Midland Company (ADM) unveils the ADM Food Technology (Pinghu) Co., Ltd., a fully automated flavor production facility situated in Pinghu, Zhejiang Province, China.

Soft Robotics Launches SoftAI To Accelerate Adoption Of Robotics In Food Processing

Soft Robotics Launches SoftAI To Accelerate Adoption Of Robotics In Food Processing

The SoftAI system will address the most pressing challenge for the food industry, i.e. the inability to meaningfully automate operations.

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Food Industry Palletising Cobot With Vision System Works In Tight Quarters

Universal Robots presents a 6-axis robot’s program that can be easily customised to stack different-sized boxes in the pattern that the customer of the pallet requires, such as turning boxes …

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Food Industry Palletising Cobot With Vision System Works In Tight Quarters

Universal Robots presents a 6-axis robot’s program that can be easily customised to stack different-sized boxes in the pattern that the customer requires.

CP Group And CP Foods Deliver “Krua Pan Im” Meal Boxes To Communities In Bangkok’s Outskirts.

CP Group And CP Foods Deliver “Krua Pan Im” Meal Boxes To Communities In Bangkok’s Outskirts

The project aims to distribute two million boxes of safe and high-quality foods to people in need during the outbreak of COVID-19.

Chope Enters Strategic Partnership With Alipay To Digitalise Asia's F&B Businesses

Chope Enters Strategic Partnership With Alipay To Digitalise Asia’s F&B Businesses

Leveraging Alipay’s technology and know-how to accelerate Chope’s rapid growth and evolution into multi-service dining app. Strategic partnership to help F&B businesses across Asia recover from crisis and transform for …

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Stringent Food Safety Regulations are Driving Worldwide Food Automation Industry Growth

Stringent Food Safety Regulations are Driving Worldwide Food Automation Industry Growth

According to ResearchAndMarkets.com, the food packaging market is expected to register a CAGR of over six percent over the forecast period (2021 – 2026), citing the “Food Automation Market – …

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Farming In Singapore Goes Digital With SPTel’s IoT-as-a-Service Platform

SPTel Enables Next Generation Urban Farms With Fast And Scalable IoT Deployments On An IoT-a-a-S Platform.

TriMas Packaging’s Affaba & Ferrari™ To Introduce Tethered Cap Solutions

TriMas Packaging’s Affaba & Ferrari™ To Introduce Tethered Cap Solutions

In 2024, a new European Union (EU) directive will be introduced to reduce the number of discarded plastic closures in nature, and it is already becoming apparent that other countries …

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Metal Detector For Tablet Products

A metal detector is a mandatory tool for foreign body inspection in food factories. In Japan, HACCP guidelines will be fully institutionalised from  June 2021, so the metal detector—which is a …

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How Procurement Accelerates Digitisation In Food And Beverage

How Procurement Accelerates Digitisation In Food And Beverage New-Generation Industries

While the scale of the pandemic and its effects on society and the economy is unique, for procurement planning, it represents only one of many external factors.

The Top 5 Technologies Transforming Food And Agriculture In The Next Decade

The Top 5 Technologies Transforming Food And Agriculture In The Next Decade

It’s harder than ever before to be a food or agriculture company.

Ensuring Optimal Food Safety With Uninterrupted Cold Chain Management

Ensuring Optimal Food Safety With Uninterrupted Cold Chain Management

This article is an Interview with David Yang, Intelligent Logistics SRP Product Manager, Advantech on the implementation of an uninterrupted cold chain management solution at Taiwan’s Hypermarket Leader.

SIG Reduces Environmental Impact Of Filling Machines With New Upgrade

SIG Reduces Environmental Impact Of Filling Machines With New Upgrade

With innovative technical upgrades, SIG have reduced water consumption up to 50 percent on new and already installed third generation filling machines.

BreadTalk Partners ADERA To Develop Digital Solutions For SME

BreadTalk Partners ADERA To Develop Digital Solutions For SME

BreadTalk Group and ADERA have established a joint venture to develop innovative fintech and digital solutions targeted at SMEs.

JJ-Lurgi Debuts Its Twin-Track Sliding Cell Extractor In Its Largest Extraction Plant Project

JJ-Lurgi Debuts Its Twin-Track Sliding Cell Extractor In Its Largest Extraction Plant Project

JJ-Lurgi has successfully commissioned its largest oilseed crushing and solvent extraction plant for Sinograin Oils & Fats Industrial Dongguan Co. Ltd.

Microsoft Partners Beverage Giant, PepsiCo For Product Innovation And Operational Agility

Microsoft Partners PepsiCo To Accelerate Cloud Infrastructure and Operational Agility

PepsiCo and Microsoft have announced a five-year partnership to accelerate PepsiCo’s infrastructure, ERP, and data estate consolidation and modernisation.

Bringing Digital Transformation Within Reach Of Customers (1)

Bringing Digital Transformation Within Reach Of Customers

Schneider Electric explores some of the practical ways its integrated Modicon and AVEVA solutions are already bringing benefits to Industry.

Leuze: Specialised Packaging Machines For Confectionery And Baked Goods

Leuze: Specialised Packaging Machines For Confectionery And Baked Goods

Sensors must continuously and reliably detect a wide range of products and films on the conveyor belts of primary and secondary packaging machines for confectionery and baked goods

Food Safety: 4 Technologies Changing The Game

Food Safety: 4 Technologies Changing The Game

Four technologies are explored that improve food safety across the global supply chain.

5 Ways Technology Is Changing The Food & Beverage Industry

5 Ways Technology Is Changing The Food & Beverage Industry

Five technology developments will be looked at that improve the bottom-line as well as upping efforts in quality control and traceability in the supply chain for manufacturers.

How Factories Are Tackling Traceability In Food Production

How Factories Are Tackling Traceability In Food Production

Traceability remains a major concern in the food production industry and thus the MES is being introduced into factories to track and record the production process.

First Aquaculture 4.0 Closed Containment System For Tropical Fish Launched In Singapore

First Aquaculture 4.0 Closed Containment System For Tropical Fish Launched In Singapore

Singapore Aquaculture Technologies (SAT) has launched its commercial Smart Floating Fish Farm, with the help of Siemens.

Tetra Pak Collaborates With Hexagon In Smart Plant Engineering Platform

Tetra Pak Collaborates With Hexagon In Smart Plant Engineering Platform

Tetra Pak is collaborating with Hexagon’s PPM Division to enhance its Smart Solutions Platform.

F&N To Open S$80 Million Smart, Sustainable Facility In Singapore

F&N To Open S$80 Million Smart, Sustainable Facility In Singapore

F&N is investing more than S$80 million to build its new smart and sustainable food and drinks facility in Tuas, Singapore.

Flexicon Opens Jakarta Location

Flexicon Opens Jakarta Location

Flexicon Singapore Pte Ltd has opened a new office in Jakarta, Indonesia, to provide factory-direct sales and applications engineering services throughout Southeast Asia

DHL Supply Chain Partners Tetra Pak To Implement First Digital Twin Warehouse In Asia Pacific

DHL Supply Chain Partners Tetra Pak To Implement First Digital Twin Warehouse In Asia Pacific

DHL Supply Chain has successfully implemented an integrated supply chain solution for Tetra Pak’s warehouse in Singapore, one of its largest globally.

Food equipment manufacturers will have to embrace new ways of working by investing in new capabilities such as advanced data and analytics, robotics...

Automation And Customisation Needed In The F&B Processing & Packaging Equipment Market

Food equipment manufacturers will have to embrace new ways of working by investing in new capabilities such as advanced data and analytics, robotics and automation.

Tetra Pak And ABB Pioneer Digital Energy Assessment Programme To Help Food Producers Reduce Environmental Impact (1)

Tetra Pak And ABB Pioneer Digital Energy Assessment Programme To Help Food Producers Reduce Environmental Impact

Tetra Pak has announced that it is developing an energy assessment programme in collaboration with ABB to help food and beverage producers lower their environmental impact and cut costs.

AVEVA and Cognizant Expand R&D Partnership to Build Next-Gen Industrial Software

AVEVA and Cognizant Expand R&D Partnership to Build Next-Gen Industrial Software

Cognizant has announced that it has expanded its research and development (R&D) partnership with AVEVA to develop cutting-edge industrial software that will help shape the future across a range of industries, from water and energy, to food and infrastructure.

Interroll Introduces New Oil-Free Drum Motor For Food Manufacturers

Interroll Introduces New Oil-Free Drum Motor For Food Manufacturers

Interroll is introducing a new version of its oil-free drum motor based on the new and improved Drum Motor Platform.

Tetra Pak unveiled its “factory of the future” where digital technology revolutionises the way food manufacturing plants operate. ​

Factory Of The Future For Food Manufacturing

Tetra Pak unveiled its “factory of the future” where digital technology revolutionises the way food manufacturing plants operate. ​

Reduce production down time, off-spec product and time-consuming manual grab sampling in food plants with inline instrumentation.

Supplementing Lab Analysis With Inline Measurements

Reduce production down time, off-spec product and time-consuming manual grab sampling in food plants with inline instrumentation.

Industry as a whole is utilising technologies and solutions enabled through the industrial internet of things (IIoT). Gartner predicts that 25 billion...

What do your motors really do?

Industry as a whole is utilising technologies and solutions enabled through the industrial internet of things (IIoT). Gartner predicts that 25 billion…

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F&B Manufacturers Turn To Technology As Business Challenges Mount

Hygiene and food safety are serious business for companies in the food and beverage (F&B) industry and they are often faced with tremendous pressure.

Industry Outlook 2019

Industry Outlook 2019

In this annual market outlook, we find out from executives on what they have in store for the coming year and their thoughts about the trends and opportunities in the market.

Remote Monitoring For The Industrial Supply Chain

Remote Monitoring For The Industrial Supply Chain

Globalisation has created sprawling supply chains, often encompassing multiple production sites and several countries.

Four Ways Technology Is Helping F&B Producers Increase Efficiency And Profitability

Four Ways Technology Is Helping F&B Producers Increase Efficiency And Profitability

So how can the sector face these pressures and protect brand reputation, employee safety and profitability? The answer lies in digital transformation.

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Bringing End-to-End Traceability to the F&B Industry Supply Chains

F&B industry supply chain efficiency is critical to both corporate profits and to the well-being of the customers who consume the manufactured processed foods.  By Michael Jamieson, Segment President for the Consumer Packaged Goods Industry, Schneider Electric.

Exploring The World Of Virtual Commissioning

Exploring The World Of Virtual Commissioning

In 1895, pioneer of astronautic theory, Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, developed the concept of the space elevator, a transportation system that would allow vehicles to travel along a cable from the Earth’s surface directly into space. While early incarnations have proven unsuccessful, scientists are still virtually testing new concepts. Here Robert Glass, Global Food And Beverage Communications Manager at ABB explores the concept of virtual commissioning and how system testing can benefit the food industry.

Digital Disruption For Smarter Food Manufacturing In Asia

Digital Disruption For Smarter Food Manufacturing In Asia

Eric Lai, regional business director of industry at Grundfos Asia Pacific, posits that a new wave of heightened consumerism today has great implications for the food manufacturing industry — a paradigm shift is needed. Fast-growing economies, increasing spending power and greater awareness of health and nutrition are driving up domestic consumption. This is expected to continue, with the size of the global middle class forecasted to reach 4.9 billion by 2030. The bulk of this growth will come from Asia, representing 66 percent of the global middle-class population in 2030.

A Path To A Successful Digital Transformation In F&B Manufacturing

A Path To A Successful Digital Transformation In F&B Manufacturing

When food and beverage companies look to begin their digital transformation in manufacturing operations, often the first question is, ‘where do I start?’ By Keith Chambers, Director of Operations & Execution Systems, Aveva.

Three Ways To Extract Value From IIoT In Food And Beverage

Three Ways To Extract Value From IIoT In Food And Beverage

How can food and beverage manufacturers leverage the IIoT to achieve business value? By Keith Chambers, Schneider Electric. The food and beverage industry is building up an appetite for the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT). Cloud, mobility, big data, predictive maintenance, Smart Manufacturing and Industrie 4.0 are more than just buzzwords – they are technologies and concepts being used today to improve quality and safety, reduce costs and increase recipe agility to remain competitive in the market.

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Why Food And Beverage Manufacturers Should Embrace The IIoT

According to LNS Research, two of the top three strategic objectives for food and beverage companies are ensuring consistent quality and increasing production capabilities to meet rising demand. At the same time, limited capital expenditure budgets means these goals are ideally met using existing equipment.

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Case-Study: Making Labelling Machines Run Smoothly

From A for aquavit to Z for Zinfandel wine—whenever something is bottled in the beverage industry, it needs to be labelled as well. Krones AG looked to igus GmbH for a lubrication solution for its labelling machines. By Lars Braun, industry manager, packaging industry, Igus Germany

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Optimising The Supply Chain For Global Uncertainty

Mark Johnston, from Industrial Automation Asia (IAA), spoke with Dr Bo Zhou, founder and CEO of FuturMaster, on supply chain management, the company’s plans for 2017, its growth strategy and the global economic and technological developments impacting its business in the years ahead.

SPX Flow: Double Seal Valves

SPX Flow: Double Seal Valves

SPX Flow’s APV SD4 Double Seal valves are designed for safe media separation applications. Their hygienic characteristics and long seal.

Nourishing Industrial Productivity With Robotic Automation

Nourishing Industrial Productivity With Robotic Automation

Robotic technology is increasingly being employed by companies to improve efficiency and productivity.

Indonesia’s SaveMax Shortens Checkout Queues With Zebra Technologies

Indonesia’s SaveMax Shortens Checkout Queues With Zebra Technologies

Singapore: Zebra Technologies Corporation has announced that SaveMax has adopted its 2D Point of Sale (POS) imagers in the retailer’s 60,000-square-foot store located in Cibubur.