The 3 C’s behind the UK’s acceleration towards automation

Tom Bouchier, MD of robotics and automation specialist FANUC UK, explains why there has never been a better time for UK firms to invest...
Food featuring advanced packaging materials

How material selection can help fulfil your responsibilities

There are some obvious ways in which materials selection helps companies to reduce their environmental impact and therefore their pEPR obligations. However, there are...

Distillery raises a glass to new inspection solution

EVOLUTION Bottling & Packaging Solutions recently worked with Logics & Controls to supply the Logilook HP advanced camera inspection system to Islay-based spirits producer...

Loma appoints new Scottish sales manager

IVOR Milne has been appointed regional sales manager for Scotland at machinery specialist Loma Systems. He was most recently a sales engineer with coding and...
L-R: Isidore Leiser, Owner, Stratus Packaging Europe and Matt Burton, Global Sales Director, ABG

DigiLite installation aims to boost efficiency and automation

A B Graphic International (ABG) has announced the latest installation of its DigiLite converting line at Stratus Packaging’s site in Feytiat, France. Stratus Packaging is...

Don’t leave it too late to automate

Unlike many of our European counterparts, the UK has been slow to automate. But a perfect storm of Brexit and Covid-19 is set to...
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Meat manufacturer is not down in the dumps with new weigher

THE investment in a new Ishida multihead weigher at Wierzejki, a Polish meat manufacturer, is said to have 'considerably' improved line throughputs and resulted...

Time to tackle food fraud

INSPECTION specialist Mettler-Toledo has warned that the rise in sourcing more of our food online could “open the floodgates” for more unsafe counterfeit products...

Systems provider joins in the fight against plastic pollution

AUTOMATED Packaging Systems has announced it will 'do its bit' for the environment by pledging to reduce plastic pollution. The business has signed up to...

Packaging machinery specialist appoints new MD

PACKAGING machinery specialist Hugo Beck has appointed Timo Kollmann as managing director. He succeeds company owner Dieter Beck, who is retiring after almost 30 years’...