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Sustainable digitalisation brings customised offers Innovation on show at the event
Highlighting the new options seen at successful show About 50,000 visitors from 129 countries travelled to Frankfurt am Main for the leading international trade fair IFFA – Technology for Meat and Alternative Proteins at the end of May. For six days, exhibitors presented innovations for sustainable and efficient production and packaging of meat and also for alternative proteins. “An almost euphoric mood dominated IFFA and you could clearly feel how relieved everyone was to finally be able to meet in person again,” said Wolfgang Marzin, president and ceo of Messe Frankfurt. Here, and on the next two pages, are details of just some of the latest machinery that was demonstrated by PPMA members during the 6-day event…
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t IFFA, Multivac’s “With our digital group presidents solutions such as Christian Smart Services Traumann and or the Pack Pilot, Guido Spix outlined we support our how the company customers in intends to shape the ensuring that their future, in co-operation production processes with its customers, run as efficiently by opening up new and smoothly markets and market as possible – segments, and thereby increasing with advanced productivity. digitalisation and “Digitalised sustainability. lines of this kind New packaging significantly reduce solutions which are product waste.” Multivac’s presidents Guido Spix and Christian Traumann sustainable, digital The topic of an application-optimised and customised to meet sustainability plays a key thermoforming packaging any requirements, were role for Multivac in the machine that can also process development of packaging highlighted along with recyclable mono-materials the company’s continued solutions as well as in other such as polypropylene. expansion. vital areas. For example, the “The fusion of digitalisation company will be using green With its processing and machine design is and packaging solutions, electricity to reduce the CO2 key, as well as solution for example, Multivac is footprint of its production by sustainability,” explained also planning to open up 20,000 tons within the next Spix at the event. new market segments. three years. “Sustainability “In the era of Industry 4.0, For example, a fully automatic is an important facet of machines and lines are line solution for portioning Multivac’s corporate strategy,” becoming increasingly and packing poultry or fresh explained Spix. T 01793 425800 complex, especially in food meat was presented at IFFA. W production,” said Traumann. Another solution is the R3, www.multivac.co.uk
Latest inspection solutions for x-raying taller products and metal detectors for harsh washdown environments Loma Systems highlighted its latest technology in inspection solutions at IFFA 2022. On display was the newest addition to Loma’s X5 series of x-ray inspection systems - the X5 SideShoot. Further defining the x-ray offering, X5 SideShoot complements existing applications including the X5 Pipeline x-ray inspection system for pumped and free flowing product. Being a sideview x-ray inspection system, X5 SideShoot is designed
for taller products allowing accurate inspection where top down and bottom up x-ray solutions are not optimal. Also on display was Loma’s runwet series, consisting of an IQ4 metal The X5 SideShoot is designed to inspect taller products detector
conveyor and a metal detector and checkweigher combination system. Designed to the latest EHEDG guidelines, the new machines offer cleaning efficiency for harsh washdown environments. The IP69 rated systems can withstand high-pressure and hightemperature cleaning regimes and run while still wet, thus maximising production uptime. T 01252 893300 W www.loma.com
