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ISHIDA
Ishida strengthens support for Poland and CEE region
The Central & Eastern Europe (CEE) region is a key growth engine for Ishida and forms part of a wider EMEA strategic plan. Continuing to build on existing sales and support capabilities established in the neighbouring Czech Republic, Ishida Europe has now announced the opening of a Poland office located in Katowice.
Poland provides one of Europe’s largest poultry and meat markets and Ishida’s investment is targeted towards enhancing the company’s local capabilities in this growing sector and, importantly, providing sales and support for Ishida key account customers and channel partners.
“Our goal is to ensure Ishida invests alongside our key global customers as they build and expand their operations, the target markets notably being the poultry and meat sector, as well as ensuring local support for all customers,” explained Mike Cairns, Ishida Europe Sales Director. “Establishing our presence in Poland will see Ishida positioned to bring our ‘best-in-class’ capabilities closer to our customers and deliver unrivalled support.”
Mr Cairns said that with automation now an increasing market driver, Ishida’s innovative approach towards customer centric solutions, coupled with the strength of its in-depth engineering and project execution capabilities would provide clear differentiators for the company in the poultry and meat sector.
“Our business has evolved quickly and effectively over the last two years to address the many challenges now faced within our core market sectors,” he commented. “Having an extensive channel partner network that is able to meet the needs of our customers is imperative for Ishida. Our activities will complement those of our existing distributors who will continue to serve and support Ishida’s core products.”
Flowmeter Solutions for High-Speed Batch Dosing
Titan Enterprises has published a white paper reporting on an investigation into the use of electronic flow meters in highspeed batching processes.
High-speed batch dosing in filling lines, typically seen within the food, beverage and pharmaceutical industries, is a modern process that increases production throughput and efficiency, as well as saving on cleaning costs associated with traditional batching processes.
Historically, small turbine flowmeters have satisfied markets where reasonable volume batching is used, such as beer wall dispensing or ultra-pure water dispensing. These flow measurement devices have excellent response times and are highly effective for low viscosity dosing systems. However, turbine flowmeters do have moving parts within the flow line which can limit the life of the flow device due to mechanical wear and tear. Mechanical devices also require hygienic cleaning which adds to downtime and associated cost implications.
For processes requiring high-speed integrated batch dosing, ultrasonic flow meters, such as Titan’s Atrato® flow meter, provide an easy-to-clean system with no moving parts. However, as with all electronic flow devices, there is a trade-off between response time and affordability.
Titan’s white paper highlights some of the issues raised when using electronic flow meters for high-speed batching. The aim of the investigative trials was to determine the optimum results for highspeed (at sub three second) batching using an electronic flow meter that can be achieved with an accuracy higher than ±0.5%. Titan worked with their ultrasonic device, the Atrato®, to resolve these and achieve a cost-effective solution for high accuracy, rapid batch control.
Significant increases in high-speed batching performance were shown using the Atrato® ultrasonic flowmeter, together with bespoke AI learning software, and an appropriate system setup in laboratory conditions.
Neil Hannay, Titan’s Senior R&D Engineer, said “Our Research and Development is driven by helping our customers address challenges within their process systems. This could be enhancing existing technology and performance, trialling different materials and characteristics, or designing new flow measurement devices to meet specific customer needs and liquid flow conditions.”
Through its on-going customer-focused R&D, Titan is optimising its flow meter product line to develop solutions for OEM customer applications and general industry systems.
To read the full article on High-Speed Batching, visit https://flowmeters. co.uk/flowmeter-solutions-for-highspeed-batch-dosing/.
For further information on the Atrato® ultrasonic flowmeter please visit https://flowmeters.co.uk/atratoultrasonic-flowmeters/. To discuss an optimised flow measurement device for your liquid dispensing application please contact Titan Enterprises on +44 (0)1935 812790 or email
sales@flowmeters.co.uk.
Transformer Manufacturers & Wound Component Specialists
Express Transformers & Controls (2015) Ltd is a UK based design and manufacturing company specializing in custom transformers, chokes, reactors, resistors and other coil wound products.
Express Transformers & Controls Ltd was formed in 1953 in a 3000 square foot factory in Croydon, Surrey.
Eleven years later in 1964, the company expanded and opened another factory at Picow Farm Road, Runcorn, Cheshire; this one had 6000 square feet of production area.
In 1981 the company expanded further and the decision was made to close the Croydon factory and enlarge the Cheshire factory to 20,000 square feet in part to accommodate the southern production and also the increase in business the company was experiencing. In 2022 the company is still going strong with many of its highly skilled and long serving staff producing the same quality products. Although the management team may have changed the company’s ethos of manufacturing the best possible products and achieving high customer satisfaction has been retained. We still work tirelessly to supply trusted components and look forward to another seventy years fulfilling our customer’s needs.
At Express Transformers & Controls we manufacture a wide variety of wire wound products from transformers to bespoke coils all of which are designed and manufactured in house. The scope of our manufacturing capabilities can be split into two broad categories.
Firstly, we manufacture a standard range of single phase transformers and power resistors suitable for panel building applications.
Our single phase transformers range from 50VA up to 5kVA and the power resistors ranging from 50 watts up to 750 watts. Although we do have a standard range of
voltages and resistances we can, on request, manufacture to suit customer requirements.
Secondly, our in house engineering team can design custom specific items. We are capable of manufacturing single and three phase transformers and chokes up to a power rating of 100kVA. In terms of voltage rating we can manufacture up to 30kV ac, our in-house encapsulation department allows us to encapsulate HV coils in a variety of resins and compounds depending on customer requirements. Along-side this we also manufacture ferrite transformers and inductors on our dedicated ferrite winding and assembly department. We have been manufacturing ferrite wound components for several decades which mean we not only have an excellent skill base but a large range of stocked materials. Just as wide ranging as our product experience is the range of industries we provide products for. In the early days of the company our specialism lay in supplying transformers, chokes and power resistors to the lift industry, something we still do today. Over the following decades, as the quality of our products became recognised, we moved into supplying products to the scientific industry including universities. Further industries we are currently associated with include oil & gas, medical, mining, construction, rail and drives & controls.
One of our current primary focuses is the manufacture of components used in metal detection equipment and packaging machinery in the food and drink sector. Due to our longevity and the recognition of the quality of our products we have acquired customers in Indonesia, China, Brazil, Australia and the United States to name but a few.
One aspect of our longevity, which never fails to impress customers, is our master designs database. Here we store the designs of all the products we manufacture with records going back sixty-five years. This means we are able to offer replacement items no matter the age. Due to our long standing relationship with the lift industry the database has been particularly useful for quickly identifying products required for breakdown and repairs.
At Express Transformers we take great pride in the quality of products that we manufacture. All our staff are highly experienced and work to stringent quality standards.
Contact for sales: sales@express-transformers.co.uk Contact for technical queries: tech@express-transformers.co.uk www.express-transformers.co.uk 01928 574491
