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Potatoes are one of the world’s most versatile, main food crops. Demand never drops, with fries, crisps and table potatoes a household staple. To keep them free of metal contaminants Fortress Technology has designed an industrial-sized Bulk Potato Slider Detector System. Helping farmers to safeguard their reputations and livelihoods. Harvesting 5.31 million tons of potatoes…
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Arla Foods Ingredients is helping manufacturers meet growing demand for formulated milk powders targeting healthy ageing. Advanced Nutrition Manufacturing – Arla Foods Ingredients’ manufacturing division, which is well known as a third party provider of infant nutrition products – also has the capacity to produce formulated milk powders for adults on a private label basis.…
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Image: EIB Greek DSO HEDNO (Hellenic Electricity Distribution Network Operator) is receiving European Investment Bank support for its 3.12 million first phase smart meter rollout. The agreement covers a €150 million (US$160 million) 15-year loan, with the smart meters aimed to help modernise and reinforce the Greek electricity distribution network. HEDNO will instal 3.12 million…
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Amazon’s latest venture into robotics is seeing it put humanoid robots in its US warehouses. The robot marks a departure from other industrial robots previously utilised as wheels are ditched for bipedal movements. The focus of trials is on a humanoid robot named Digit, a bipedal robot equipped with appendages capable of manipulating objects and…
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Over fifty children from PPMA member families were able to learn more about STEM (Science, technology, engineering, Maths) at the home of The British Grand Prix and one of the UK’s most prestigious Racing Circuits, Silverstone. PPMA BEST held the STEM day at Silverstone, one of the best motor racing race circuits in the world.…
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Quaker Oats has rolled out new paper packaging across its entire range of porridge pots. The move is set to reduce the brand’s use of virgin plastic by up to 200 tonnes each year [calculated by reference to the estimated volume of Quaker pots to be manufactured in 2023] and make it easier for people…
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Norway-based Aker Solutions, a provider of solutions, products, and services to the global energy industry, has been awarded a limited notice to proceed contract from Vattenfall for the Norfolk Vanguard West Offshore Wind Farm off the coast of Norfolk, UK. The contract has a balanced risk-reward profile based on principles for long-term collaboration. Located more…
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Pacific Gas and Electric Company’s first fully renewable remote grid in the utility’s growing fleet of standalone power systems, located in Pepperwood Preserve in Sonoma County.(Courtesy: PG&E) Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) has commemorated its first fully renewable remote grid in the utility’s growing fleet of standalone power systems, located in Pepperwood Preserve in…
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AKP Group believes the new partnership with Wolds Produce will drive innovation and build a stronger, more resilient supply chain. As major suppliers into the crisping, chipping and potato seed industries, one of the UK’s leading vertically integrated potato supply chain specialists based in North Lincolnshire, has completed the acquisition of Wolds Produce, based in…
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Image courtesy Siemens Siemens and Swinburne University of Technology have launched a future energy grid laboratory in Melbourne, Australia, enabling users to leverage digital twins of energy grids and to run simulations of new solutions, particularly the intermix and influx of various sources of energy into the grid. The energy transition hub, located at the…
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