Since rolling out Oliver Wight’s Integrated Business Planning across its business, Simplot Australia’s service levels are up at 98% and inventory has been significantly cut. [ + ]

Spirax Sarco designed a solution that combined Affco NZ’s need for condensate return and a hot water system into a large energy-savings project. The solution paid off in just over a year. [ + ]

Heinz-Golden Circle was looking for a solution to depalletise empty PET bottles from two different-sized pallets simultaneously and provide bottles in single file to two separate filling lines. Scott PHS developed a solution. [ + ]

A new food supply mapping technique is forecast to shorten the time it takes to track down contaminated food sources by showing how product flows through the distribution supply chain. [ + ]

In this increasingly litigious country, we’re rather used to blaming someone else when things go wrong. But have we taken things too far when food processors are constantly under pressure to modify their products to improve public health? [ + ]

CoMac recently installed a keg line for craft brewer Oskar Blues Brewery. The brewery produces around 60 different branded beers from its 35,000 m² production facility. [ + ]

The Development of Food Ontologies project involves the creation of a dictionary that will be used to search a large number of scientific texts for all things food related. [ + ]

Benco Pack has recently installed a new fully aseptic packaging line for Fonti di Vinadio, manufacturer of the well-known Sant’ Anna mineral water brand. [ + ]

A leading rigid plastics packaging manufacturer is ensuring authenticity and traceability with an unusual product: invisible ink. [ + ]

The good folk from the Australian Wine Research Institute (AWRI) have come up with a solution to bottle shop angst. The PinotG Style Spectrum gives pinot gris and pinot grigio wines a spectrum rating from “crisp” to “luscious” that gives consumers a handle on what’s inside the bottle. [ + ]

Simons Green Energy has been awarded the contract to supply and install a 1200 kWe natural gas fired cogeneration system at the soon-to-be-completed Little Creatures Brewery in Geelong. [ + ]

Using a Deprag air motor along with a Moog1 TBR Compact printing press enables gravure printing specialist Moog to produce high-quality packaging for Amcor in Switzerland. [ + ]

The food and beverage industry is alive and kicking in New Zealand, if the first day of Foodtech Packtech is any indication. This show is held every two years in Auckland and will be open from 9 am-6 pm on Wednesday 26 September and 9 am-4 pm on Thursday. [ + ]

Beef City feedlot, owned by JBS Australia, recently commissioned 18 new pieces of Toyota Material Handling’s forklift range on long-term hire from TMHA’s Brisbane branch. [ + ]

Food and beverage manufacturers are interested in product quality and manufacturing efficiency but when it comes to to the driver of innovation new products are still the king. [ + ]