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Rockwell System Digitally Blends CPG Materials Rockwell Automation has introduced a digital blending solution that manages materials in blending processes and controls multiple variables to provide consistent product quality. Customer demand for product variety, variance in attributes and characteristics of raw materials and manual production processes are some of the challenges faced by the CPG industry. The Rockwell Automation digital blending solution, which is delivered on the Logix Control Platform and the Factorytalk software suite, helps to alleviate these problems to make CPG factories more flexible and efficient.It controls the metering of ingredients based on volume or material characteristics. This approach helps manufacturers achieve product consistency more quickly with less process equipment, product rework and scrap. The solution uses Rockwell Automation standards and technologies, allowing for quicker start-up and consistency across multiple applications or locati...

Borealis To Exhibit Materials & Components Borealis will showcase advanced aesthetics, organoleptics, faster production and energy and weight-reducing advantages at Plast '09 (Pavilion 20, Stand B24) on 24-28 March. During the tri-annual event in Milan, Borealis, a provider of value-creating plastics solutions, will demonstrate the performance and processing benefits offered by the latest film and moulding grade additions to its ranges of polyolefins for the pharmaceutical, food-packaging and white-goods industries. Among the materials making their tradeshow debut will be Borpure high-density polyethylene (HDPE) grades MB6561, MB6562 and MB7541 for the caps and closures market. In addition to fulfilling packaging-industry demands for increased cycle speeds and outstanding food-and-drink preservation through retention of natural odour and taste, the Borpure HDPE materials are claimed to maintain high-level environmental stress cracking resistance (ESCR) and a stiffness/impac...