Making butt welds in small diameter metal tubes presents problems not experienced with other applications. Control over consistency of deposit, particularly with diameters less than 15 mm, is difficult even when using a mechanised process. Perhaps more significantly the issue of adequate internal weld purging with inert gas can become a real headache.

Most food processors require a metal detector to comply with food safety standards and ensure complete product safety and quality. Although your metal detector may be “ticking all of the boxes”, if it’s not working to the optimum sensitivity specification, then metal contamination could be passing through your production line undetected.

EIT International is one of foremost suppliers of preventative controls and detection systems to the regulated food, brewery, nutrition, pharmaceutical and petrochemical industries.

Seymour Manufacturing International (SMI) is using its decades of ‘thermal protection perfection’ expertise to help food processing companies navigate the fallout of the Covid-19 crisis.

Specim Hyperspectral Imaging Cameras are available exclusively in the UK and Ireland from Quantum Design UK and Ireland

The difficulty of checking the presence, location and legibility of print, barcodes and specific artwork on packaging can not be underestimated and the launch of 4Sight last year addressed some of these issues.  Working with SICK, we have been able to show how customers can avoid expensive reworks, packaging waste and, worse case scenario, retailer fines by ensuring all products leave the factory with legible codes in the correct location.

COVID-19 has given us a glimpse of a cleaner and greener world. Even in the most polluted cities, people have witnessed the possibilities of clear blue skies, cleaner water, and fresher air. To make this temporary respite permanent, everyone has a role to play. 

Gard Viraclean is an independently tested highly concentrated formulation for cleaning, disinfecting and sanitising across all industries and institutions. 

How lab managers can truly ensure the sterility of items in the autoclave.

The importance of microbiological testing in the food and beverage industries is in the public eye now more than ever. While current advice from the UK government suggests the transmission of COVID-19 via food is very unlikely, the heightened public awareness of microbiological safety gives organisations in this sector an extra reason to be vigilant in quality control and testing procedures.

For over 100 years, Horne Engineering Ltd has pioneered the development of thermostatic control technology using steam and hot water for a variety of applications: rapid (steam) heating of vented storage vessels, temperature control of steam calorifiers, temperature-controlled process water and non-storage hot water wash-down.  Industries utilising these technologies include food and drink production and processing, brewing, dairy, chemical manufacturing, pharmaceutical and cosmetics production and also packaging manufacture.