PPMA Show, the UK’s largest processing and packaging machinery exhibition, will be back in September

The PPMA Show is gearing up for another tremendous processing and packaging machinery event when it returns to the NEC in Birmingham on 24-26 September 2024. Established over 35 years ago, this is the UK’s largest event of its kind, bringing together well-known brands to showcase their innovative cutting-edge processing equipment, packaging machinery, industrial robotics […]

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Precision Without Limits: MWS Delivers Lifetime Scale Assurance

Micro Weighing Solutions (MWS Ltd), a renowned UK-based manufacturer of industrial weighing equipment, is setting a new industry standard by becoming the first scale manufacturer to introduce a lifetime guarantee on all their British-made weighing scales. MWS is a trusted name in the world of weighing equipment, working with some of the largest food and […]

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70 jobs as MYCO moves to former food site in Leeming Bar

MYCO Holdings aims to transform a former food manufacturing plant in Leeming Bar into a vertically farmed production unit – the first site of its kind in the UK. MYCO is expecting that moving into the purpose-built 20,000sqft site will launch an exciting period of growth, amid an expected boom in sales of plant-based meat […]

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Helping businesses with their food waste management

In any kind of processing, waste is almost always inevitable. However, we should aim to reduce as much waste as possible. As we know, waste costs money and impacts the environment negatively. A large amount of commercial waste in the food and drink sector is, of course, food waste, which can have a significant financial […]

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Compact and powerful, energy-saving palletising robots

Where an EOL-packaging, distribution, or other similar application requires powerful all-round high-performance palletising robots, the MOTOMAN PL series is the ideal solution. Available from Robotics and Motion Control specialists YASKAWA, these robots offer   excellent speed-payload combinations, stacking heights and simple installation. MOTOMAN PL robots include newly tuned kinematics and the latest generation of Sigma7 drive […]

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Heat regeneration should be key consideration

By Matt Hale, International Sales and Marketing Director, HRS Heat Exchangers Many industrial processes require energy, but only a portion of that energy input is used for each operation such as pasteurisation or evaporation. Unused energy is wasted, often passing to the environment as hot gas or liquid. However, by using heat exchangers, it is […]

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HRS welcomes progress on separate food waste collections

By Matt Hale, International Sales & Marketing Director, HRS Heat Exchangers Along with others in the anaerobic digestion (AD) and biogas sector, HRS Heat Exchangers welcomes the recent announcement by the Government that weekly collections of food waste will also be introduced for most households across England by 20261. Defra’s ‘Simper Recycling’ plans also state […]

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