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KRONES OPENS BREWING PILOT PLANT
Leading brewing equipment supplier Krones Group has invested in a brewery of its own at its facility in Freising. The Steinecker Brew Center provides both clients and Krones itself with an option for collaborative brewing, conducting trials, and testing new technologies.
The heart of the new brewing pilot plant is a five-hectolitre brewhouse with five different vessels.
TNA EXPANDS IN MEXICO
Global food processing and packaging machinery specialist provider tna Solutions has opened a new office and training centre in Mexico to give new services and extra support to local food manufacturers.
Located in Santiago de Querétaro, the office enables tna to accommodate its growing sales and technical support team and better respond to regional business growth.
The new office also incorporates a new training centre with technical support, helping manufacturers maximise the performance of their tna equipment.
Nadia Taylor, director of tna Solutions attended the opening and commented: “Our business and team in Latin America have grown immensely over the last few years.
“We’ve experienced a 31 per cent increase in sales in the last three years alone, and have doubled the size of our local sales and technical support team,” she said.
“The system is small, that’s true, but it offers maximum flexibility all the same: here we can combine different technologies, and are able to demonstrate the large bandwidth of solutions offered by Krones. We can, for example, reproduce an ultra-wide range of internationally employed processes on the one hand while also familiarising our own commissioning engineers and clients’ staff with the technologies concerned on the other,” explained Dr. Konrad Müller-Auffermann, who was responsible for this project, at the inauguration ceremony held in June.
The high-tech facility has been networked using the most advanced IT available, Krones says.
Both customers and Krones staff can now run practical trials to find out which process- engineering solutions are most efficiently suited to beverage production and how digital interfacing can assist the brewer in his daily work.
“Our new site is almost three times bigger than our previous office, which means we’re not only able to accommodate our growing team of experts, but can now also offer customers a dedicated training area.”
The new training centre of excellence offers detailed insights into the functions of tna’s equipment in a live operational environment.
JET TECHNOLOGIES LAUNCHES ‘NEXT STEP’ IN FILLING MACHINERY
Jet Technologies has launched a new high- productivity filling and dosing machine in Australia and New Zealand.
The Ilpra Fill Seal R12/4 Tronic rotary filler and sealer features up to 12 stations that precisely fill denestable cups, making it suitable for applications including dairy, dips, desserts, soups, condiment sauces and yoghurt products.
“Supermarkets are demanding new products each and every year, and food manufacturers now need to find ways to innovate. However, with a fixed production profile this can be difficult,” said Daniel Malki, general manager, Jet Technologies.
“The Ilpra R12 filling machine is the next step towards achieving a flexible future-proofed technology with the speed to produce efficiently.”
The Ilpra R12 can process up to 9000 cups per hour with an accuracy of plus or minus one per cent, and its modular design means it can be customised to suit each manufacturer’s individual needs.
“Ilpra has a strong reputation for cup-fill-seal supply in Australia through Jet Technologies, and this new machine is the strongest offering for the local market to date,” said Malki. “Jet Technologies has high expectations that this machine will allow food manufacturers to build solutions to meet the rapidly changing tastes of Australian consumers.”
David Crossley: “Exciting time for SICK as Industry 4.0 takes hold.”
Global leader in the manufacture of sensors, safety systems and automatic identification products, SICK has appointed David Crossley as its new managing director for the Australasian business.
Crossley replaces David Duncan who will lead the Asia Pacific region as senior vice president, APAC, commencing 1 January 2019.
Crossley’s experience prior to joining SICK includes heading up the Environmental and Industrial Process business for Australia and New Zealand at Thermo Fischer
Scientific and senior leadership roles at ABB, Headland Machinery and Amcor.
Crossley said he was honoured to lead SICK Australia and New Zealand.
“It’s a very exciting time for SICK globally as Industry 4.0 takes hold,” he said.
“The requirement for quality smart sensors to capture data will accelerate and the outstanding team at SICK across Australia and New Zealand are here to support our existing and new customers to be competitive on the global stage.”
SICK AUSTRALIA ANNOUNCES NEW MANAGING DIRECTOR
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