A reliable means of transferring blends of flavoured coffee from the mixer, in which the flavours are added, direct to the buffer hopper above the machine that packs finished products ready for shipment to customers.

When, back in June 2005, The Orkney Herring Company Ltd came to choose a conveyor for the upgrade and expansion of their ingredients handling system, Ken Sutherland, their Managing Director confirms, "We saw the Spiroflow advertisement, concluded that an Aero-Mechanical Conveyor was a match for what we wanted".

Installation of Spiroflow’s Pneuvac process feeding equipment at Sandra Tea & Coffee has significantly cut both labour costs and downtime as well as improving production by reducing dust.

The ingredients handling system at fish food manufacturer Skretting of Longridge, Lancashire, UK was installed over 8 years ago by a specialist contractor who had included a simple bulk bag unloading arrangement which feed ingredients into a ‘Spiroflow’ Aero-Mechanical Conveyor.

Four Spiroflow T6 bulk bag dischargers installed at the Heanor, Derbyshire plant ofMatthew Walker, help the company to make its quality Christmas puddings to 60 different recipes for its many customers.

Theakstons brew a range of quality beers of which their ‘Old Peculier’ is legendary! Although committed to upholding their traditional brewing methods, in a brewery building which is 136 years old: to meet ever increasing demand, Theaksons recognised that operational improvements would have to be made to those areas, such as materials handling, which would have no effect whatsoever on the quality of their beers.

Dublin, Ireland based Gem Pack Foods Ltd are both a Contract Packer and provider of an extensive range of own brand ‘Gem’ and ‘Gem Gourmet’ products - several of which are simply repacked from bulk supplies but many of which are proprietary mixes.

The product in question is Premier Foods’ SMASH Instant Mashed Potato. SMASH ranks among the UK’s best known consumer brands confirmed by the fact that its ‘Martians’ advertisement has been voted the best TV ad of all time.

The management team at confectionery manufacturer Joseph Dobson embarked upon a programme of measures to improve and automate selected elements of their operation. The areas for improvement were chosen on the premise that they must not compromise the heart of their traditional boiled sweet making process.

Solutech Ltd of Winsford, Cheshire is a small company operating as a specialist food grade liquid blending contractor, currently despatching around 12,000 tonnes of blended liquids a year to the food and beverage industry.