Clonmel, Tipperary-founded company Trustwater has won a major sustainability award at the International Dairy Federation Innovation Awards at the Dairy World Summit in Parma, Italy, for its pivotal chemical technologies
Quality Assurance
Water activity is a remarkably versatile quality metric in the food, pharmaceutical and cosmetic industries, and is applicable at several different points within the production process. Water activity measurements can
Instrumentation specialist Ashtead Technology has witnessed a growing trend towards the deployment of entry level infrared cameras for predictive maintenance purposes. General Manager Alan Hasson says: “In the past, most
Probiotic bacteria are rapidly gaining ground as healthy food supplements. However, the production of this “functional food” has its pitfalls: only few probiotic bacterial strains are robust enough to survive
The Office of Fair Trding (OFT) has referred the completed acquisition of the frozen ready meals business of Headland Foods by Kerry Foods to the Competition Commission for further investigation.
Ecolab last week received an Innovation Award at the annual IFT Food Expo, stating to be the industry’s first and only cleaning program designed to address zero trans fat oil
Based at the company’s global marketing office in Dublin, Damien Heary leads innovation and planning teams in Ireland, the UK and US. He assumes responsibility for generating and applying consumer insights
The high performance, fixed-mount barcode reader, DataMan® 500 from Cognex Corporation (NASDAQ: CGNX) is now available for factory automation applications. DataMan 500 is the first ID reader to be powered
Youth Train CTC Wexford and MKRMS Food Safety have teamed up in an exciting project to provide unskilled young people with basic food hygiene training (FSAI Level 1). In a
Cognex Corporation, the world’s leading supplier of machine vision systems, has released a new version of In-Sight® Explorer 4.5 expanding the capabilities of In-Sight vision systems and giving In-Sight the
Health and safety is a vital part of any business, but when it comes to food manufacture and processing, one of the most frustrating problems is foreign body contamination,
HACCP International has endorsed Activeion and its ionator EXPä as a tool recommended for use in food facilities as part of a food hygiene program. The endorsement is aimed at
HACH LANGE’s new automated laboratory robot, the AP3800, is the ultimate labour-saving laboratory device; enabling the unattended multiple parameter analysis of up to 24 samples, the AP3800 performs the analysis
Innovative LIMS developer, Two Fold Software Limited, is releasing new user-friendly software that enables the company’s intuitive Qualoupe LIMS user interface to display results parameters with a clarity and flexibility