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PACKAGING MATERIALS MAKE UP HALF OF PLASTIC WASTE
FOOD ROBOTICS MARKET TO HIT $3.1 BILLION BY 2025
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Plastic packaging made up 36 percent of all plastic production in 2015, according to a 2017 study by researchers at the University of California— Santa Barbara, University of Georgia and the Sea Education Association. However, a majority of plastic waste entering the waste stream derives from packaging. “Most of the packaging plastics leave use the same year they are produced, whereas construction plastics leaving use were produced decades earlier, when production quantities were much lower,” the study reads. Companies are now beginning to change traditional plastics that won’t work in existing recycling streams because of colors, labels, adhesives or additives. For example, Coca-Cola is aiming to have 100 percent of its packaging be recyclable by 2025, while Kroger has begun using reusable plastic containers for shipments.
RYTEC INTRODUCES RYTEC CONNECT REMOTE DOOR MONITORING AND MANAGEMENT
Rytec Corporation now allows real-time monitoring of its highspeed, high-performance doors. Using cloud-based technology, doors can be actively monitored by multiple users simultaneously for single or multiple doors and locations. In addition, doors can be opened or closed via test using a cellphone or online through the cloud. Featuring eight customizable inputs and outputs as well as live door cycle counting, reports can be quickly and efficiently generated. Companies can also receive maintenance and preventative alerts for doors installed throughout the country with the company’s real-time monitoring service calls.
A report from Meticulous Research predicts that the global food robotics market will hit $3.1 billion by 2025, growing at a CAGR of 12.7 percent between 2019 and 2025. Increasing food safety regulations, advanced food packaging, productivity improvements and investments in automated solutions are driving the number of robotics within the food industry. The report expects that articulating robots will be the most popular form of food robots as their speed and accuracy improves while prices drop. The Spoon reports that Europe is currently the biggest user of food robotics, followed by North America and Asia-Pacific. Although, significant growth is expected in the Asia-Pacific region as investment in automation and food safety is growing.
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TRANSFLO MOBILE+ UPGRADE HELPS USERS PREVENT THE SPREAD OF THE SPOTTED LANTERNFLY
Transflo will begin offering a premium feature on its Transflo Mobile+ app that helps truckers and fleets prevent the spread of spotted lanternfly and comply with the latest Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture quarantine orders. Fleets can contact Transflo to have the main menu of their Transflo Mobile+ app upgraded to include a “Spotted Lanternfly” button. The feature provides access to current regulations, photos of the bug and a one-touch reporting to agricultural authorities. In addition, it will also direct users to information about the training and certification process that all businesses must undergo to move goods to, from or within a spotted lanternfly quarantine zone. “This is an example of how Transflo Mobile+ can help drivers and fleets comply with the latest regulations while responding to an urgent need in the agricultural community,” says Frank Adelman, CEO and president of Transflo. “We can deliver valuable operational and safety workflows while leveraging the industry’s most widely used enterprise mobility and workday management platform.”
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