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             CONTENTS JULY/AUGUST 2020
  06
     ✷ REGULARS
05 NEWS
The top hits on Food & Drink Business’ website in June.
12 COVER STORY
How VEGA bridges customers’ needs to advanced systems in an economical and practical way.
28 FOOD PACKAGING Brought to you by HP, showcasing how its technology can be used in the F&B sector.
40 MACHINERY BUSINESS What is the $150,000 instant asset write-down, how you get it, and what it means.
44 SUPPLIER SPOTLIGHT Heat and Control celebrates its 70th anniversary | Food industry sustainability specialists Cress Consulting | Hydro Innovations on upgrading wastewater pumps
46 PRODUCT NEWS NORD Maxxdrive industrial gear units | Exair flowmeters | Treotham’s EKS | Tecpro Blue King | AMS Instrumentation & Calibration new online hygrometer | Enmin EMA range | Plasdene Glass-Pak square jar range
✷ FOCUS
14 Ready Meals
18 Bakery Business
22 BeverageProduction 28 FoodPackaging
34 Industry4.0
✷ FEATURES
18 MORE THAN
FLOUR POWER
Family-owned Manildra Group is doing “everything we can”
to meet the demands for both flour and ethanol production during the current pandemic, reports Doris Prodanovic.
        ✷ INDUSTRY INSIGHT
06 Bounce-back growth potential When a global pandemic focuses attention on protecting business, it’s hard to think about growth. Compass Group’s APAC MD Mark van Dyck says this is a time of massive opportunity.
08 Rising Star
There is more to the alternative protein category than plant-based patties. Doris Prodanovic speaks to the founders of Vow Food, George Peppou and Tim Noakesmith, about making meat from cells.
14 Theriseofreadymeals
With increased personalisation of meal choices and a pandemic at play, ready meals are seeing a resurgence with consumers. Kim Berry writes.
24ALOTOFFIZZ
At a time when people are drinking less alcohol and looking for “healthier” options, hard seltzers – alcoholic, low-calorie carbonated waters – are creating quite the buzz .
         JULY / AUGUST 2020
VOW’S CULTIVATED THE RISE OF THE READY INDUSTRY 4.0 NEWS MEAT QUEST P8 MEAL MARKET P14 FOR F&B SECTOR P34
Automation Sensors with Bluetooth connectivity
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                  38 ENVIRONMENT
MATTERS
Total Construction’s Rob Blythman explains why factories need to be individually appraised for the best environmentally sustainable and economically efficient fitout.
                              ON THE COVER: For field instrument manufacturer VEGA, being at the forefront of the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) means bridging customers’ needs and existing infrastructure to advanced systems in an economical and practical way.
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