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Coffee capsules are booming: perfectly dosed, convenient and available in many varieties, they offer straightforward enjoyment. At the Swiss company Delica AG, these products have a solid place in the portfolio, which fittingly also includes biscuits and chocolate. Delica is now using Schubert’s third LIGHTLINE cartoner to pack its capsules into transport boxes efficiently and with a small footprint.

Food and drink brands need packaging that keeps pace with changing product ranges, seasonal campaigns and shorter promotional runs. The OKI Pro9542dn packaging and graphic arts printer gives brands, packaging teams and print providers the flexibility to produce high-quality, short-run work in-house, without waiting on external production schedules. With CMYK + WHITE capability, the Pro9542dn prints WHITE on dark or transparent media or beneath colour for greater impact on non-white substrates.

Neil Cook, Head of Strategic Marketing at Xaar, explains how digital inkjet is enabling standout decoration and embellishment alongside the personalisation, coding and traceability that brands and converters now need from their packaging. Digital inkjet is becoming an increasingly important part of modern packaging production.

Walk into many bakeries and you will still find compressed air being used to blow crumbs, flour dust and debris from production equipment, conveyors and difficult-to-access areas. It is quick, familiar and often seen as the easiest solution when deposits build up in tight spaces. However, as food manufacturers continue to focus on hygiene, dust control and operational efficiency, more sites are questioning whether blowing material around the factory is really the best and safest approach.

As awareness and scrutiny around PFAS (‘Forever Chemicals’) continues to grow, many food manufacturers are reviewing the materials used across production environments and exploring practical alternatives for the future. Pioneered by Invicta, Invirobake™ is a new PFAS & PFOA-free coating technology designed for industrial bakeware and wider food manufacturing applications.

MPS Europe Ltd is a family-owned manufacturer of plastics packaging, based in Blyth, Northumberland. Established in 2006 by industry experts Alan Charlton and Iain McLeod, the company began production in 2007 from a modest 6,000 sq ft facility in South Northumberland. With over 60 years of combined experience in polymer manufacturing, plastics moulding, and packaging, our founders created a lean and responsive operation tailored to meet customer needs.

In less than two years since launch, RA Automation Ltd. has secured a strong foothold in system integration, completing projects for major names including Amazon and Pukka while exceeding its initial growth targets. RA Automation may be a relatively new name, but the expertise behind the business tells a different story.

TOSS Machine Components, Inc., a manufacturer and distributor of impulse heat sealing components and supplies, highlights the TOSS PIREG-545 panel mount impulse heat seal controller, specifically built with the high response and precise control needed for sealing the wide variety of polymeric films used in contemporary packaging. The robust PIREG-545 offers precise temperature regulation up to 500˚C and  features programmable control for heat and cool timing, as well as a preheat capability.

Rooftop solar is becoming an increasingly important part of the energy strategy for factories, chilled warehouses and distribution centres of food and drink. A birds-eye view of any commercial estate across the UK will increasingly reveal hundreds of solar panels on the roofs of factories and warehouses, helping to produce the energy they need.

A major food manufacturer needed two new high temperature oil pumps for the transfer of vegetable oil for cooking corn-based products on their production line. At home in the kitchen, precise temperature control is the key to successful frying. It can make the difference between a crisp, golden product everyone loves and a soggy, unappetising mess nobody wants. On an industrial production line, oil temperature control is even more critical.