Food Bev Asia

  SPONSORED CONTENT Food and beverage producers invest in eye-catching, unique, and extraordinary packaging designs to attract consumers to their products.  For this, shrink sleeve film is an essential tool and carrier. And as label designs and bottle shapes are becoming more diverse, these all require higher standards when it comes to equipment, accuracy and technical capabilities. The i-Vision peripheral device, for example, is one that DASE-SING uses on its Auto Shrink Sleeving machine to ensure the smooth flow of bottles and containers on the conveyor. This orientation system is specially designed for a variety of containers in a production line, and is suitable for all kinds of bottle shapes. When a container or bottle shifts from its position, i-Vision guides it back to the right track in order to reach the next stage in the process. Steering can be done before or after filling. During the course of operation, the bottles can be steered without stopping the mechanism; af...

Robotics have been improving the processes in F&B production and packaging lines, from speeding up the work to ensuring safer products.   Recently,  Soft Robotics Inc ., Quest and Ossid said they are already offering a robotic handling and packaging solution powered by Soft Robotics' m GripAI TM technology. This solution includes: Quest's primary product handling system utilising a FANUC robot designed to load, orientate, stack and group products into a wide variety of primary packaging machines, Ossid's flexible and tray packaging solutions, ideal for fresh proteins, produce, baked goods, and more and Soft Robotics' m GripAI platform that uses ultra-fast 3D vision, artificial intelligence, and soft robotic grasping to enable picking of irregular and delicate food items directly from bulk. Key benefits of the integrated packaging solution: Combats workforce shortages by reducing dependency on labour Increases available floor space by eliminating the...

Ringier Events invites food & beverage manufacturers to its latest virtual conference: ASEAN Food and Beverage Ingredients Summit 2022 | Enhancing Taste, Flavor and Functionality  will be held on 31  May 2022 (13:00-17:00 SGT).  As with all of Ringier's conferences for the industry, this event aims to help F&B manufacturers sift through the trends that matter, to understand and quickly adapt to the region’s consumer needs, and to innovate with knowledge of the latest ingredients and their applications.  To be sure you get the best information, Ringier has a line up of speakers from established and up-and-coming companies serving the F&B sector, as well as experts from industry, government, and the academe.   If you want to know more about this event, you may contact Ms Yumi Chen, conference planner, at yumichen@ringier.com.hk.