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

From April 2026, the fees UK producers pay under Extended Producer Responsibility for packaging stopped being a flat rate per tonne and started depending on how recyclable the packaging actually is. Packaging is now assessed under the Recyclability Assessment Methodology, given a red, amber or green rating, and charged accordingly. Red-rated packaging pays a premium over amber. Green-rated packaging gets a discount. Nearly all of the coverage of this has been written for comp

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.