Smart material handling system optimizes manual sack dumping
Scottish confectionary maker Hannah’s Sweets produces an array of sweets including its well-known Jazzies and Snowies, chocolate discs covered in coloured candy pieces. Each week, the company processes 50 to 60 t of sugar, milk powder, whey powder, wheat flour and other dry ingredients received in ...
Safe handling of sensitive pralines
Piab is proud to introduce a new smaller size of the soft gripping tool PiSoftgrip, developed especially with the food/chocolate industry in mind. The vacuum-based soft gripper will grip sensitive and lightweight objects of odd geometries and/or an unusual surface. The gripper has three fingers ...
Smart load carriers for transparent logistics
Thanks to the interconnectivity of objects within production and logistics, the Internet of Things (IoT) is encompassing increasingly widespread segments of industry. Equipped with modern sensor technologies and digital services like Cloud solutions, real-world objects are connecting with virtual applications. This means that load carriers ...
Greater choice of printing solutions onto flexible packaging
Linx Printing Technologies has launched a new series of TT (Thermal Transfer) overprinters, designed to deliver a low total cost of ownership and to increase customers’ production line output with an easy to use coding and marking solution. The TT Series printers are particularly suitable ...
