Round-Up: Processing

Here is your weekly round-up of processing news. Next week’s round-up will focus on Shelf Life news. To submit an item for inclusion, please contact Carly Wood at [email protected].

• Suitable for fine grinding of heat sensitive products, Hosokawa Micron’s Micron Glacis GC fine grinding mill is ideal for the high volume grinding of green tea, which is popular both as a beverage and for use in confectioneries.
• A new checkweigher line for dry applications has been added to the Thermo Fisher Scientific Versa range.
• Designed by Lontra, the Blade Compressor delivers air at 1 barg and offers oil-free, energy efficient and reliable air compression.
• Spiroflow has launched the Chainflow tubular chain drag conveyor, which conveys dry powders and granules – particularly fragile materials such as coffee beans, cereals, nuts, dried fruit, grains, dry soup mix and baby formula powder.
• Returning to the PPMA Total Show 2016 (27-29 September), the PPMA Group Industry Awards will once again celebrate the best that British manufacturing has to offer, following a record number of entries submitted.