automation
Robots on the rise
Sales of robots to UK food manufacturers beat those to every other sector in 2009 for the first time, according to British Automation and Robotics Association (BARA) records. In what was the worst year for investment in the sector since BARA’s records began in 1997, food manufacturing accounted for 20% all commercial robot sales – […]
Virtual winner for food and drink industry
UK-based food robotics and automation centre CenFRA has launched new computer simulation technologies that will enable businesses to evaluate and quantify the benefits and implications of integrating different automation techniques into new or existing production lines on a ‘virtual’ scale, without disruption to current manufacturing operations. CenFRA says one northern-based food giant has already taken […]
M&S boss opens new food manufacturing centre
Sir Stuart Rose, chief executive of Marks & Spencer, has officially opened the National Centre for Food Manufacturing at the University of Lincoln’s Holbeach campus. The new £3.5 million centre in southern Lincolnsire is a state-of-the-art food packaging and processing training factory for food sector employees. The centre will also support the university’s developing agenda […]