There's not a food manufacturer in the country that isn't trying to rein in costs.

Unilever's ice cream factory in Gloucestershire has benefited from using the Grundfos Pump Audit to help reduce the power consumption of its existing pumps.

Sidel's Veloce FM is a bottle filler with an electronic flow-meter filling valve. It guarantees accurate filling by measuring the precise amount of product to be filled. Because the Veloce FM does not re-circulate the product through the bottle, the system eliminates cross-contamination from the bottle into the filling valve.

The elimination of traps and crevices which might increase the potential for bacteria growth is an important design requirement for control valves used in food processing.

The Verderflex Autoclude OEM range of peristaltic pumps now account for 78% of Autoclude's sales. The pumps are available in a range from highly compact to the large and robust for arduous applications with wide-ranging motor, tube and flow rate options.

ITT Water & Wastewater, the UK's water and wastewater treatment equipment specialist, can help companies reduce downtime with fixed price pump repair on Flygt pumps.

Watson-Marlow Bredel is launching three new IP66 ingress-protection rated peristaltic pumps with Profibus DP networking capabilities. The first model to be shipped, the Watson-Marlow Bredel 720Bp, is the world's first cased peristaltic pump enabled with Profibus DP networking.