A conveyor that runs perfectly in a Derbyshire parcel hub would struggle to pass a hygiene audit in a Nottinghamshire food processing plant. The principle is the same in both, moving product from one point to another without people carrying it, but the engineering brief could hardly be more different. That's the part that often gets lost when businesses first look at automation. It's tempting to treat conveyors as a commodity: pick a belt width, a length and a speed, and orde

If you operate a food or beverage production line in the UK, HACCP compliance is not optional. Under the Food Safety and Hygiene (England) Regulations 2013 and Regulation (EC) No. 852/2004, every food business is legally required to implement a food safety management system based on Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point principles. That obligation does not stop at your processes and procedures; it extends directly to the equipment running through your facility, including

Research consistently shows that manual sorting and transit operations carry an error rate of between 1–3%. In a facility processing thousands of units per shift, that margin represents significant waste, rework, and customer dissatisfaction. Automated conveyor systems reduce this error rate to near zero — not by chance, but by design.