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HBM & Riggs Autopack Equip WA’s Food Tech Facility with Cutting-Edge Depositor

HBM Plastics & Packaging Technologies Pty Ltd, with the support of Riggs Autopack Ltd UK, are pleased to supply a Model 1000 Series 3 depositor on loan to the Food Technology Facility in WA, operated by Murdoch University, and located in regional Nambeelup at the Food Innovation Precinct Western Australia (FIPWA).

The Food Technology Facility is a project of the Food Futures CRC, with financial support from the WA State Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development. The team are gearing up for an official opening in February 2024 to showcase the purpose-built commercial R&D facility which will assist agribusiness SMEs to become market and export ready by supporting them with scale up initiatives and use the facility for product development and manufacturing.

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Ogilvie & Co Streamlines Production with Riggs Autopack Depositor

After investigating several piston filler options available on the market Ogilvie decided to purchase an English-made, Riggs Autopack Model 1000 depositor with bespoke 40L capacity low level hopper to receive hot product from a tilting bratt pan, ensuring the safe and mess-free transfer of product from their bulk cooking vessels.

After capably self-commissioning the depositor and putting it into production, Ogilvie management had nothing but high praise for the Riggs depositor and the HBM team

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Battenfeld-Cincinnati, Successful Large-Diameter Pipe Extrusion Installation

The HDPE pipe specialist Policonductos SA de CV, based in San Luis Potosí, Mexico, is now starting to produce large-diameter pipes with diameters up to 1,600 mm. For this purpose, the plastics processor purchased a complete line from battenfeld-cincinnati Germany GmbH, Bad Oeynhausen, which was recently installed and successfully commissioned. The special feature of this large-diameter pipe extrusion line is its pipe die, which comes with the largest melt gap ever produced, and thus enables the production of pipes in a wide range of different diameters without conversion.

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