Coca-Cola Amatil is reducing the carbon footprint of its 600 mL PET bottles by 22% with the help of stainless steel. [ + ]

Standardised process modules are bringing significant technical and economic benefits in areas - such as filtration, heating and cleaning - that span a range of industries and applications. [ + ]

Belgium-based UCB has awarded Emerson Process Management a $6.1 million contract to provide integrated process automation and operations management systems for a new biopharmaceutical production centre in Bulle, Switzerland. [ + ]

EU-funded research has developed an ‘intelligent cargo’ system that knows where it is, where it is going, when it needs to be there and who is handling it. [ + ]

By installing an Optyx sorter, L&S Cranberry has increased its production time from one shift a day to two, six days a week. [ + ]

Export Finance and Insurance Corporation (EFIC), the Australian Government’s export credit agency, offers specialist finance solutions that helped pipe suspension designer and manufacturer Binder fulfil a contract for Australia’s Gorgon LNG project. [ + ]

Following 13 months of critical execution to keep complete functionality of Melbourne Water’s Eastern Treatment Plant that processes more than 52% of Melbourne’s waste water, engineering solutions provider O’Donnell Griffin completed the electrical works component of the wet weather upgrade project. [ + ]

To integrate a pneumatic cylinder into an automated system, it is necessary to supply signals to the controller indicating the position status of the cylinders. Pneumatic cylinder manufacturers, machine builders and end users have developed a number of ways to detect extension or retraction of a pneumatic cylinder and provide a signal to the control system. [ + ]

The Fisher Fieldvue DVC6200f with linkage-less, non-contact position feedback and FOUNDATION fieldbus communication provides prompt alerts on potential valve problems. [ + ]

Rockwell Automation’s ControlLogix helped a large-scale New Zealand cheese manufacturer automate its cheese slicing process. [ + ]

Enterprise-wide centralised control combined with mobility solutions and local control station (iPC) architectures are the fundamental building blocks for industrial digitisation. [ + ]

ABB’s PCS 6000 Statcom enables further growth of Europe’s largest wind farm. [ + ]

If the analyser in your analytical system requires gas but your sample is liquid, the only option is to convert the liquid to gas. This process is called vaporisation or flash vaporisation. The objective is to convert a sample of all liquid to all vapour instantly - without changing the composition. [ + ]

Process plants have useful lives of 30 to 50 years, during which time they are routinely retrofitted. Virtual reality software simplifies and helps keep track of retrofit planning and testing. Fraunhofer researchers and BASF SE are jointly developing VR solutions for the plant life cycle. [ + ]

Virtualisation offers the promise of lower IT costs and higher levels of business continuity for industrial companies. [ + ]