Chemical-free cleaning technology
29 October, 2009 | Supplied by: Tennant Australia Pty Ltd
Tennant’s ec-H2O technology, which transforms water into a powerful cleaner, is now available in a handheld spray device. This application of Tennant’s electrically converted water is made possible by the company’s licensing agreement with Activeion Cleaning Solutions for use of the technology in handheld spray applications.
Interlocking guard system
29 October, 2009 | Supplied by: Treotham Automation Pty Ltd
The Eichner MGB (multifunctional gate box) is an interlocking guard system for the protection of safety doors on machines and systems. Linked to machine controls, the opening of the access door via the MGB will be prevented until the machine has safely stopped.
ERP software productivity enhancement
29 October, 2009 | Supplied by: Lawson Software Australia Pty Ltd
Lawson Software has announced the general availability of Lawson Enterprise Search for the Lawson M3 product suite. This follows the April 2009 introduction of Lawson Enterprise Search for Lawson S3 customers.
Siemens helps the beer to flow at Lion Nathan’s Auckland site
28 October, 2009 | Supplied by: Siemens Ltd
Siemens has offered the Braumat Process Control System to the brewing industry since 1980. Over the years, Braumat has evolved into a robust, reliable system taking advantage of the innovations in technology.
90 packs/min tray sealer
28 October, 2009 | Supplied by: Proseal Australia
The Proseal GT2 tray sealer is capable of sealing over 90 packs/min and is also totally portable to provide a highly flexible tray-sealing solution for the meat industry.
Container rinsers, sanitisers and cleaners
28 October, 2009 | Supplied by: HBM Packaging Technologies
The McBrady Engineering Orbit Bottle Rinser is a cleaning system that is mounted over the existing filler in-feed conveyor and is a self-supportive unit. It can be easily retrofitted to an existing filling line if required and is extremely compact.
Meat and poultry packing robot
28 October, 2009 | Supplied by: ControlVision Ltd
The Adept Technology Adept Quattro s650HS robot for high-speed food handling is USDA accepted for applications such as meat and poultry processing.
Rendering equipment choices
23 October, 2009 | Supplied by: iBulk Solutions Pty Ltd
In a recent study, Meat and Livestock Australia investigated the cost of rendering at several plants throughout Australia. The investigations revealed that the cost of producing one tonne of rendered product ranged between $130 and $253.
Microwave tempering system
23 October, 2009 | Supplied by: Food Processing Equipment Pty Ltd
Food Processing Equipment (FPE) has delivered an AMTek microwave tempering system to George Weston Foods (GWF) in Castlemaine.
New brewery for Sydney
23 October, 2009
Barons Brewing has announced a partnership with Independent Liquor Group (ILG) to build a $30m+, state-of-the-art, domestic brewing facility, with the capacity to produce 250,000 hectolitres of beer per year at ILG’s Sydney warehouse in Erskine Park.
New brewery for Sydney
23 October, 2009
Barons Brewing has announced a partnership with Independent Liquor Group (ILG) to build a $30m+, state-of-the-art, domestic brewing facility, with the capacity to produce 250,000 hectolitres of beer per year at ILG’s Sydney warehouse in Erskine Park.
Safety switching
22 October, 2009 | Supplied by: Rockwell Automation Australia
The Allen-Bradley Guardmaster 440P compact metal series of safety limit switches comprises 14 models and features a 2 m pre-terminated side- or bottom-entry cable and a rugged compact 22 mm metal housing. The safety limit switch series also boasts a broad choice of operator configurations, such as dome, roller or cross-roller plunger and short-roller lever. Each member of the 440P safety limit switch series is equipped with positively driven contacts, making them suitable for both safety and standard switching applications.
Intelligent distributed I/O and PLC system
22 October, 2009 | Supplied by: Automation Warehouse
VIPA Germany has released an intelligent, distributed I/O and PLC system named SLice IO, to cater for ‘per point’ low-density applications. The SLIO I/O system comes with a high-speed backplane that can be combined with VIPA’s 100 V, 200 V, 300 S and 500 S systems and future releases of SLIO CPUs.
Lubricants for spiral freezers, coolers and proofers
22 October, 2009 | Supplied by: Locker Group
Ashworth Spiralube range is a complete line of specially formulated lubricants, claimed to reduce maintenance and increase the operating life of spiral freezers, coolers and proofers. The line includes food-grade penetrating oil, food-grade belt oil, food-grade bearing grease and gear oil. Each product is labelled to clearly identify the defined application and, when used at the recommended intervals, spiral performance can be optimised and the operating life increased.
Mixing control for bakers
22 October, 2009 | Supplied by: SPX FLOW TECHNOLOGY AUSTRALIA PTY LTD
Baker Perkins has developed a new control system for Tweedy mixing systems - now renamed Tweedy2. Plant bakers using this definitive system for the Chorleywood process will benefit from improved consistency and quality of the baked product, plus enhanced efficiency and ease of use.
