Work experience event gives youngsters a taste of robotics and automation careers

SEVEN youngsters aged between 14 and 16 recently spent a week with FANUC UK, gaining hands-on robotics experience as they learnt what it takes...

Meet Brian and Sam at Berlin Packaging UK

Meet Brian and Sam at Berlin Packaging UK - The World's Largest Hybrid Packaging Supplier
Roy Henderson and Lee Nixon from SP Automation

Dundee automation specialist marks 40 years of innovation

DEMAND for automation and robotics is expanding rapidly to meet the challenges of the modern world, but one Dundee-based company is this year marking...

PepsiCo looks to boost packaging at Quavers factory

A new compact packaging machine is to be installed at PepsiCo's Lincoln factory, as part of a £24 million investment in the facility. The firm...

Produce more with less: Minebea Intec harnesses the benefits of automation

PROMOTIONAL FEATURE The ‘perfect storm’ of labour shortages and the pandemic has accelerated the demand for automated equipment in factories across the country. Increased efficiencies,...

Automation can help businesses respond to future challenges

Smarter technology to help streamline operations, automate processes and provide valuable production data can deliver a critical competitive advantage to food businesses, explains Torsten...
Operatives study packaging machine data

Swanline achieves ‘world-first’ deployment of BOBST Connect across mixed equipment portfolio

SWANLINE Group, a UK-based supplier of paper-based materials, print and conversion services to the packaging and POS sectors, has become the first company to...

Hold the front page for new magazine

SIG Combibloc has introduced a new Robotic Magazine (R-CAM) for high-speed filling machines, that fills up to 24,000 carton packs per hour. The new R-CAM...

Packaging’s data evolution: from simple wrapper to sophisticated data carrier

The concept of product packaging has evolved from humble beginnings as a plain, loose wrapper, to a sophisticated, branded and data-marked means of providing...
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Beckhoff UK looks to the future at PPMA Total Show 2025

AUTOMATION and control technology specialist Beckhoff UK has revealed the MX-System -  the firm's modular automation platform - will be a central focus on...