When the COVID-19 pandemic hit the U.S., shoppers began to frantically stock up on select food products. Due to its convenience and comfort-food appeal, frozen pizza was a top choice, and retailers soon found themselves with dwindling supplies as American society braced for the worst.
Apex Motion Control, specialists in robotics and automation for the baking and food industry, has collaborated with Unifiller to create the perfect solution for this labor-intensive and skilled task.
IMA DAIRY & FOOD, whose equipment solutions comprise the long-established brands Gasti, Hamba, Hassia and Erca, has introduced two new packaging machines.
Designed for emerging brands, the M2000 case packer is a user-friendly, small-footprint machine, yet has one of the highest throughput rates in the industry.
Dow (NYSE:DOW) has introduced DOWSIL 8024 Food Contact Release Emulsion, a waterborne silicone emulsion that brings improved performance levels to food processors and suppliers across a wide range of direct and indirect food contact applications.
The trend to reduce End-of-Line production cost in low-speed lines by replacing manual palletizing operations with compact and user-friendly cobotic palletizers continues to rise—especially due to the very fast Return on Investment of these solutions.
Bühler has paid tribute to inventor and highly-respected engineer Herbert Max Fraenkel, who helped to design the world’s first Sortex Sorter known as the SORTEX G1, launched in 1947.