News on Processing Equipment from New Zealand

TOMRA Food has merged its Fresh and Processed divisions to provide its customers with integrated food sorting, grading and processing solutions.

Investing in pack-house equipment usually means a notable cash outlay for any grower, packer, or processor. Making the effort to look after your equipment with regular care and maintenance will extend the life of your investment, saving you time and money.

TOMRA Food introduces SmartGrade on its Spectrim platform. The new system puts the packhouse in control of grading with such accuracy that it is able to pack fruit to maximize sales by matching the specific requirements of the individual customers.

TOMRA Food has launched the most comprehensive online learning resource for packhouse professionals in the fresh produce industry. Packhouse Academy, powered by TOMRA Academy, offers a wide range of videos, webinars, and training modules.

With so many weighing and packaging options available, it can be difficult to narrow down the right fit for your processing line. To help find the right equipment for your line, Manter has put together this short guide to help begin the selection process.

Compac, empresa integrante de la familia TOMRA Food, lanza la plataforma de clasificación más avanzada del sector: la TOMRA 5S Advanced. Su desarrollo se ha realizado tomando como base el funcionamiento líder de la clasificadora multilínea de Compac.

McCain Foods Timaru potato processing plant is reducing its energy usage environmental impact, now looking to electrification, by installing Pulsed Electric Field (PEF) technology, a first in New Zealand.

FPS Food Process Solutions Corporation has announced it has signed an agreement to acquire Total Solutions Limited, a leading fabricator of food processing equipment and conveyor systems in Auckland, New Zealand.

In New Zealand, a three month test of a new Pulsed Electric Field Technology (PEF) unit from Elea, from Germany, started at McCain Foods Timaru and involves industrial-scale food processing of french fries.

McCain Foods has installed a new model potato peeler in Timaru, New Zealand. Timaru is the first of the company's factories in the world to use the new model.

The new Wyma Bin and Bag Tipper gently tips fresh produce stored in bags, bins or boxes too heavy for manual unloading.

Wyma is proud to present a Vege-Polisher that is smarter, easier to maintain and more hygienic than ever before.

Manufacturer of vegetable handling equipment Wyma has developed a series of Clean-In-Place [CIP] features for its Vege-Polisher™ and Vege-Peeler.

A compostable take-away container made by Potatopak from waste potato starch has won the 2011 Unpackit Award for New Zealand’s best packaging.

Upgrades in technology and changes in contracts may see the axe fall on a number of workers at McCain Foods Ltd in Washdyke, Timaru.While management at the plant, or its Australian-based head office, were not able to be contacted yesterday, The Timaru ...