Opening sample vessels and pipetting liquid samples in the same workspace saves space in laboratories. This can now be achieved with the three-dimensional gantry EXCL from Festo, which has a small footprint for table-top devices and PCB-based motion control.
The role of labels continues to change every day. They need to inform users, seduce customers, be secured, track the products in a complex supply chain, be more sustainable, be produced last minute and be at more competitive costs.
SensorX can pick up bone fragments down to 2mm. The machine will detect over 99% of bone remnants and will also see hard foreign material such as metal, stone and glass.
Dosing, aspirating and controlling extremely small quantities of aggressive liquids and gases is not a problem with the media-separated solenoid valve VYKA from Festo.
The new design of the system for high-quality fried foods – like meat, fish, vegetables, poultry and especially tempura – focuses on sensitive areas in the production process and sets new technology standards with its patented oil circulation and conditioning system.
By Matthew Youngs, marketing manager at wireless telemetry specialist Mantracourt, discusses how to implement preventative maintenance programmes using wireless telemetry and shares an example where the company helped Habasit to do this in a spiral food conveyor system.
With oneBARRIER, BOBST has undertaken a design and testing project that is creating industrially viable recycle-ready mono-material ultra-high and high barrier duplex and triplex substrates for packaging designers as alternatives to non-recyclable metallized polyester film.
Scheduled to go into operation in 2025, the plant will produce up to 15,000 tonnes of sustainable insect-derived products annually. Bühler will be responsible for planning and executing the plant as well as providing solutions for the entire supply chain.