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Machinery Technology

New systems see through common inspection and detection roadblocks

Technological advancements pave the way for faster speeds, better sanitation, lower costs and more versatility.

May 8, 2013

X-Rays get a power boost: Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. (www.thermoscientific.com) has upgraded its popular Thermo Scientific Xpert C400 X-ray system for detecting metals and other foreign objects in food. By adding an X-ray source with twice the power of the original model, the system is better suited for thicker, denser products and high speed production. The system targets a broad range of food applications including challenging wet and semi-frozen products, as well as metalized packaging structures that do not lend themselves to metal detection.

CoverStory: Beverage Breakthroughs - Case Study

Beverage Breakthroughs: Creating lighter champagne bottles

Verallia uses simulation and optimization to help reduce bottle weight while preventing breakage.

May 8, 2013

When Dom Pérignon—French Benedictine monk and winemaker—was asked to look into why sparkling wine bottles were unexpectedly bursting in the cellars of his abbey in northern France three hundred years ago, he decided to investigate the bubbles. Fermentation, it turns out, continued after the beverage was bottled, producing additional carbonation and increasing pressure. By experimenting, so the story goes, Pérignon was able to control the refermentation process and reduce breakage and loss of the bottles’ contents.

Case Study

Inspection/detection

The inspection of hot sauce bottles ensures proper labeling 360-degree inspection of Tabasco bottles aids in quality control.

May 8, 2013

Tabasco® brand products have been made by McIlhenny Company on Avery Island, LA, since 1868. The company is extremely quality-minded about everything from aging its product for up to three years to making sure every label is correct, straight and in the right position on the bottle.

Packages of the year

2013 Packages of the year

Food and Beverage Packaging highlights nine attention-worthy packages.

Liz Cuneo

April 12, 2013

Our Packages of the Year coverage includes some of the most innovative and unsurpassed new packages that have rolled onto store shelves.

Case Study: Conveyors

Robotic palletizing is improving packaging efforts.

Liz Cuneo

March 20, 2013

The use of robotics in packaging is becoming increasingly popular as packagers demand faster and more precise operations from the front of the packaging line all the way to the end.