MBF technology hailed over product integrity

PEEBLES-based Evolution Bottling and Packaging Solutions has revealed MBF filling technology is at the heart of its work with premium whisky producers. Marketing manager Susan...

Heinz-Glas invests in new glass melting furnace

HEINZ-GLAS Group has said that it is able to react 'extremely flexibly' to a wide variety of market and customer requirements thanks to its...
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Emmepi Group completes acquisition of Avanti Conveyors

ITALY-based Emmepi Group, a supplier of material handling solutions, has completed the acquisition of UK-based Avanti Conveyors. Emmepi Group said the objective is to further...
Ralph Mbanefo

Loma Systems appoints new UK sales & service director

LOMA Systems has appointed Ralph Mbanefo as its new UK sales & service director. Ralph has a background spanning 15 years in the engineering and...

Injection moulding machine manufacturer reports rise in orders

INJECTION moulding machine manufacturer Sumitomo (SHI) Demag has revealed the value of orders for machines produced in Germany during the first six months of...
Kate Rattigan

Empowering the workforce of the future with employee-centric approach to robotics and automation

In manufacturing, as in other industries, advances in robotics, automation, and artificial intelligence (AI) have brought with them concerns over worker displacement, job loss,...

Dimaco ahead of the curve on OCR

MACHINE vision label inspection system supplier Dimaco has launched the latest version of its optical character recognition (OCR) algorithms, described as being able to...

Education can help alter perception that robots are the ‘enemy’

A report last year suggested the UK ranks just 24th in the world robot density league with 101 units per 10,000 employees, far outpaced...

Multi-line palletising system is sweet solution for food specialist

SCOTT Automation has revealed details of a project to design and install an automated multi-line palletising system at Poco Loco, a Belgian producer of...

Bringing clarity to industry buzzwords

By Peter Spring, product manager ProdX, Mettler-Toledo Product Inspection Artificial Intelligence (AI) has become a buzzword, however it is often misunderstood and misrepresented in its...