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A new, protein-packed healthy food brand has launched, targeting shaking up the convenience meal market with a collection of high-quality, delicious meals. Relo is a range of quick, healthy and high protein meals available in a selection of tasty options such as Katsu Style Chicken Curry and Mexican Style Beef Chilli which put the focus…
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Image courtesy 123rf As blackouts become more common due to the severity of climate change, sources of continuous battery backup power can be one less headache—and a life-saving advantage—to fire departments and emergency services already faced with rising costs and operational challenges, explains Lance Honea of Swell Energy. Extreme weather events due to climate change—hurricanes,…
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Outside of fantasy novels, nobody has a crystal ball to see into the future. However, postal services and logistics companies are building digital twins to achieve just that. Powered by data-driven virtual models that can simulate real-world operations, digital twins are allowing the sector to predict the future and plan for it. Alexandra Ballestrem, Key…
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Professor Deepa Kundur (ECE), third from left, attends a recent ECE event, along with Dean Christopher Yip (second from left). Image: University of Toronto / Neil Ta A project is underway to explore cybersecurity defences for utilities under a quantum threat, led by researchers at the University of Toronto. Just as quantum computing is opening…
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From l. Mandy Meehan, Leep’s Director of Revenue Assurance and Change, who was responsible for the programme, with colleagues Chris Mullan, Director of Customer Operations and business analysts Matt Liptrott and James Van Miert. British water company Leep Utilities aims to enhance its product and customer service offering with the Kraken platform. The adoption, a…
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Mathiesons, a leading supplier of stollen and chilled bakery cakes in the UK, has installed a new VMI Mixer to increase production and quality levels to supply major retailers. The long-standing Scottish Bakery prides itself on its secret recipe for Stollen and distributes various delicious goods throughout Scotland and the rest of the UK. Beginning…
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Image courtesy 123rf As constrained grids potentially hamper EV charging, renewable off-grid microgrids may present a solution, finds research from IDTechEx. According to IDTechEx, which provides research on emerging technologies and their markets, although the adoption of EVs across all sectors will contribute to a drastic reduction in tailpipe emissions, for economies where grids are…
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Xanthan Gum is widely used for its thickening and stabilising effect on emulsions and suspensions, particularly in the food industry. Xanthan Gum, like many other hydrocolloids (gums and thickeners), can cause problems during processing and these problems can often be exacerbated by the processing equipment being used. For example, traditional agitators and stirrers do not…
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Origin Materials and IMDvista, a Swiss high-tech company specialising in the vision inspection of closures and other packaging components, announced a strategic partnership to produce the world’s first PET cap and closure manufacturing system. “Best-in-class manufacturing partners like IMD are providing subsystems for our production line. Together we are doing something nobody has done before:…
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Nosh.bio has announced it will reach a mycelium protein production capacity of thousands of tonnes per year at its new German plant. The latest breakthrough is the result of a series of production tests Nosh ran at its plant near Dresden, a shut-down brewery – successfully repurposed to overcome scalability bottlenecks that plague many alternative protein…
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