The medium is the message
Automating packaging and coding not only streamlines the process but also checks all of the boxes – efficiency and transparency, material traceability and sustainability.
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Information is power: pan tracking
In the world of industrial baking, maintaining line efficiency and ensuring the longevity of bakeware and their coatings are paramount to delivering high-quality products consistently. American Pan’s SMART Pan Tracking® System helps protect the product and the pan, with actionable information.
Syntegon launches vertical bagging series
Syntegon announced the launch of four machines for common vertical form, fill and seal applications at interpack. Two SVX variants, SVX Agile and SVX Duplex, were presented at the interpack booth, which will be launched this year along with two other SVX models.
Keeping a promise of quality
Wooden Bakery of Lebanon has maintained the product quality its customers are accustomed to, throughout several, sometimes overlapping challenges over the years. To cope with the latest struggles due to material availability, the use of flour and dough rheology technologies has helped the business manage flour quality.
Modern solutions to modern problems: Cepi Silos
From the reception of ingredients to their storage, handling and recipe management, precise tracking of the raw materials going into formulations is best kept automatically
The steps to dough consistency: Zeppelin Systems
Automated continuous mixing delivers real-time process assessment and consistency round the clock.
Knowledge pays off at the RTC
The Rademaker Technology Center (RTC) features several pilot lines, full-scale, certified production lines that meet the latest standards, which are available for testing. The company believes knowledge is an investment worth making, and invest it did: over the past two years, the RTC has been developed to more than twice its starting size, to its current 2,400sqm.
Plastic versus paper: life cycle analysis
Recycling has a significant role to play in our environmental efforts, but it isn’t always the best way to prevent or alleviate major environmental concerns.
Using algorithms for better planning
The more accurately baked products sales can be forecast in advance, the lower are the returns losses. The Geiping Bakery relies on self-learning software to push down the proportion of returns, while also discovering sales opportunities that remain unused.
Automation and digitalization – who will be the technology leader?
As might have been expected, machine and plant controller automation and digitalization were one of the major topics at the iba trade fair.
