Machinery Update July / August 2020

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www.machineryupdate.co.uk JULY/AUGUST 2020 MACHINERY UPDATE 7
This year’s PPMA Show
is postponed 12 months
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The GRU-V food UV light
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Further to the PPMA’s
detailed conversations
with the National
Exhibition Centre (NEC),
and in the interests of health
and safety for all concerned,
the trade association has
taken the decision to postpone
this year’s PPMA Show until
2021 (28-30 September).
The PPMA says this decision
was not taken lightly as it
considered the implications
for visitors and exhibitors in
respect of everything from
social distancing, availability
of hotels, travel and the
preparation time required.
Also, the government has
not yet relaxed restrictions
regarding mass gatherings,
nor has it published any
guidelines for staging large
scale events such as this when
the restrictions are lifted.
All in all, the PPMA felt
the risk was too great as
the health and well-being
of those involved remains
The PPMA Show will not run this year, the first time not staged since 1988
paramount, especially during
the COVID-19 pandemic.
Following the exhibition
announcement, the PPMA’s
Show Director Richard Little,
said: “It’s the first time that
we will not be staging our
flagship event since the show’s
inception in 1988, which is
really disappointing.
“We have also had to
consider that many of our
exhibitors and visitors to
our shows are categorised
by the government as key
workers, providing a range
of essential engineering
and maintenance services to
aid the critical supply of food
and pharmaceutical goods.
“On behalf of the PPMA,
I would like to take this
opportunity to thank all
our exhibitors, suppliers,
registered visitors, staff
members and media partners
alike for their continued
support during these
unprecedented times.”
The PPMA Show 2020
website will remain a live
information source for
exhibitors and visitors.
W www.ppmashow.co.uk
Business assurance
service for a range
of management rules
Help with process
needs is available
at online event
TÜV SÜD has introduced its
business assurance service
in the UK to provide
management system auditing
and certification services for
more than 40 management
standards, including ISO 9001
(quality management),
ISO 14001 (environmental
management) and ISO 45001
(occupational health & safety).
As industry standards are
becoming an increasingly
common prerequisite for
tenders within the supply
chain, the service provides
management system auditing
and certification to assess
business processes.
W www.tuv-sud.co.uk
AN ASEPTIC PET BOTTLE LINE IS OPERATING IN GHANA
Milky drinks for school kids
Ghana’s largest fully integrated cocoa processor Niche Cocoa Industry
has signed a deal with Sidel to buy equipment to package a ready to
drink chocolate milk in support of Ghana’s School Feeding Programme,
providing 5.6 million pupils with the milk, aseptically packed in 250 ml
PET bottles, for 100 school days per year. Read more on page 24.
The International Cheese
Awards have gone online
and will be hosted by
dairy process solution
company Sycamore Process
Engineering, and its
automation partner Au2mate.
The team at Sycamore
and Au2mate are offering
up one-to-one meetings
(in 30 minute slots) on
Tuesday 28 July to give
cheese and dairy companies
the opportunity to ask
questions about all of their
processing needs, CIPs,
pasteurisers and other
machine upgrades.
E k.burt@sycamore.uk.com