Boekels upgrades weighers
Germany's Boekels group has upgraded its WS 30 kg B and WS 60 kg B heavy duty weighers, giving them a new weighcell designed by parent company Sartorius and an EWK 2000 weighing electronics unit.
Archives for April 15, 2002
Armfield partnership extends oil equipment range
Armfield, the UK processing equipment manufacturer, has teamed up with US counterpart RBD Technologies of Los Osos, California, and compatriot Ebortec, to offer a full range of small scale edible oil processing equipment.
Ivex acquisition broadens Alcoa's food presence
Alcoa, the US packaging group which makes the Reynolds and Baco food wrap brands, is to buy the Chicago-based Ivex Packaging Corporation for around $790 million, broadening its presence in the food packaging sector.
Food, beverage to drive automation growth
The worldwide market for automation products and services for process industries, worth more than $44 billion in 2001, is expected to grow at the compounded annual growth rate (CAGR) of just over 5 per cent over the next five years, reaching close to...
George Adams opts for ERP
UK-based meat processor George Adams is planning to roll out an enterprise resource planning (ERP) system in five of its factories in a £1 million bid to improve its production procedures.
Rexam sells flexible packaging business
Rexam, the world's leading producer of beverage cans, has sold two flexible packaging plants in the UK to Australian group Amcor for A$30 million (€17.9 million)