SA Food Review

Food Processing Technology

14 Sep 2017

Effective control – from ingredients to retail shelves

Matrix Software offers two custom manufacturing software solutions for most processing and manufacturing plants in the food, beverage and meat industries. Branded as Meat Matrix and Food Matrix, the technology is a must-have solution for any industry where stock control, yield management, traceability, productivity and cost margins are a necessity. The software is developed in...
05 Sep 2017

Tomra announce successful half-year performance

The company has announced a positive six months trading since the start of 2017 thanks to the successful launch of three sorting platforms, new senior management appointments and the implementation of an enhanced customer support service.

31 Aug 2017

Ipex launches an innovation centre

Ipex Machinery (Ipex), the South African representative of Wittmann Battenfeld hosted an open house from 21 to 23 August. This was to mark the official opening of its new Technology Centre at its Johannesburg premises.

10 Jul 2017

ID Logistics invests in technology

ID Logistics South Africa, part of the global group that specialises in contract logistics, has recently embarked on a secondary transport optimisation programme to decrease costs and improve efficiencies across the operation.

19 Jun 2017

The future of maintaining supply chain integrity

Are you 100 per cent sure the food in your kitchen is not counterfeit? Overseas counterfeiters have diversified from fake designer handbags to food, trying to pass off poorer quality grown produce as genuine brands.

12 Jun 2017

Better supply chains will help turn SA business around

As South Africa slips into recession following two consecutive quarters of negative growth, supply chain experts met in Cape Town at the SAPICS event to share ways of keeping business competitive in a volatile but tech-enhanced world.

23 May 2017

Pyrotec PackMark’s intuitive case coding

Pyrotec’s machinery division, Pyrotec PackMark has launched the 4500 Drop on Demand (DOD) Valve Jet coder from Markem-Imaje, a global manufacturer of product identification and traceability solutions.

17 May 2017

SAP launches rural sourcing management solution

SAP has announced the launch of its SAP Rural Sourcing Management solution solution. The system will connect smallholder farmers and suppliers in rural areas with the supply chain of global agribusinesses and consumer products companies. SAP Rural Sourcing Management is an integrated, cloud-based solution running on a SAP Cloud Platform. This solution enables agribusinesses and consumer products companies to track their produce from the farm to the factory through a combination of mobile and desktop access. It also supports the digitisation and simplification of both producer and farmer operations.

09 May 2017

New synthetic high-temperature grease for food and industry

High production temperatures in the food industry, for example in ovens, proofing cabinets, conveyors or motors, put considerable strain on the bearings. Klüber Lubrication has now succeeded in developing a new high- temperature grease for a wide range of applications in the food industry, which is able to realise its full potential at permanent temperatures of up to 160 degrees Celsius. This was made possible by using an innovative, FDA-approved polyurea thickener developed by Klüber Lubrication. The new high-temperature bearing grease Klüberfood NH1 74-401 is NSF H1-registered and certified according to ISO 21469.

13 Mar 2017

Freezing economics 101

Finding new ways of making freezing technology more economical is a key aim for JBT, the global technology equipment supplier to the food processing industry.