Meet three farm innovators using ultra compact NIR spectrometers to revolutionize their working day
Sunday, 29 January 2017
Here’s a question for you! How would your working day improve if you could analyze the composition of your feed, forage and seed anytime, anyplace, anywhere, in real-time, with instant results? Our guess is, it would change not only your working day, but your whole working model! How can you do it? Meet SCiO, the
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A Cheesy Nightmare. Shoppers With SCiO Spectrometers Coming to a Store Near You…
Tuesday, 27 December 2016
A funny thing happened to me at the market the other day. Drawn to a trendy new cheese boutique (you know the type, sawdust floor, great cheese and expensive prices), I tasted some highly recommended low fat cream cheese. Indeed, it really was delicious. Rich, full bodied, with exactly the right butter thick consistency and
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The Fresh Produce Game is Changing – Impressions from the EU Fresh Forum in Rotterdam
Monday, 05 December 2016
I would like to share with you some interesting news. Last week I participated in a fascinating and well organized event in Rotterdam – the 3rd EU Fresh Forum. Top professionals gathered to coordinate an industry vision and a plan of action in the face of new technologies transforming fresh produce. The waves of the
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Shine a Light on Sugar Beet Quality Analysis with a Revolutionary Micro Spectrometer
Wednesday, 09 November 2016
With this year’s record breaking sugar beet harvest reaching completion, the next few months are set to be a busy time for processing facilities. As with any campaign, factories will be stretched to capacity, operating around the clock, seven days a week, in order to process and refine the beet harvest into top quality sugar.
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Revolutionary micro spectrometer brings instant affordable food and beverage quality control
Saturday, 08 October 2016
For food and beverage manufacturers, optimizing processes and cutting costs is becoming increasingly challenging. Ensuring best quality products requires constant monitoring of quality all the way from the farm to the table. Additionally, an increasingly vocal consumer base demands a larger diversity of quality products – all of which add considerable cost to production. The
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Fighting the fakes – insights from the Anti-Counterfeiting & Serialisation Conference
Wednesday, 28 September 2016
I recently had the pleasure of attending the 5th Annual Pharma Anti-Counterfeiting & Serialisation 2016 conference at the Chelsea Bridge Hotel, London, UK. Joining a wide range of international pharmaceutical industry experts, we gathered to look at solutions for tackling the increasing problem of global counterfeit drugs. The conference kicked off with a reminder of
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Novel compact spectrometers revolutionizing material analysis in manufacturing processes
Tuesday, 14 June 2016
A new generation of spectrometers is heralding exciting advances in industrial process control. Applicable to a broad range of material analysis applications, these increasingly small devices enable the introduction of quality checkpoints deeper into the manufacturing environment. Benefitting from the convergence of computing and micro-optics, in-line material analytics is now a reality, providing instant validation
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Disrupt the counterfeit drug industry with the next generation of portable NIR spectrometers
Thursday, 09 June 2016
June 8th 2016 was World Anti Counterfeiting Day, and experts from across the world gathered to highlight the dangers of counterfeiting in many industries. From pharmaceuticals to handbags, cosmetics to mozzarella, global industry is affected by counterfeiting and piracy, and, as any brand affected by having counterfeit products circulated can testify, identifying and addressing the
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From sensor to cloud, smart tech gives the animal feed sector food for thought
Wednesday, 01 June 2016
The agriculture and livestock industries face enormous challenges to feed the 9.6 billion people forecast to inhabit the planet by 2050, and recent estimates by the FAO suggest that to meet demand food production needs to increase by 70%. This is despite limited arable land availability, unpredictable weather patterns, the increasing need for fresh water
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Micro Spectrometers for Instant Material Analysis by Anyone, Anywhere
Sunday, 15 May 2016
Those of you following us for a while probably noticed a newly added “SCiO for Business” section on our website. And some of you have been asking us what a cool molecular sensor has to do with industry; with advanced manufacturing, food production, modern agriculture, manufacturing quality control and the pharmaceutical industry. So here’s the
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