To strengthen its customer-service base and better adapt to the changing face of the international brewery business, Alfa Laval has beefed up the personnel rosta at its new Brewery headquarters in Soborg, Denmark and established a new regional competence centre in Shanghai, China.

Husky Injection Molding Systems announced the launch of its new Encore™ program, designed to help customers get the most value out of their assets by maximizing the life of existing Husky systems and restoring them to like-new productivity. A part of Husky’s expanded Services portfolio, the Encore program makes it possible for customers to maximize efficiencies throughout a system’s life cycle.

Centrimax, the leading full-service supplier for factory-rebuilt and reconditioned separators, decanters and other centrifuges of all leading brands, has a new online presentation. Not only has the optical appearance of the site www.centrimax.com been adapted to the latest trends – simple navigation and swift, customer-oriented service are the central features of the new web presentation in both the English and German languages www.centrimax.de. With its innovative look and feel, the new website makes the purchase and sale of centrifuges at Centrimax easier than ever before..

The Brewers of Europe on 26th May launched a landmark report outlining the results of their commitment to the European Alcohol and Health Forum on advertising self-regulation across Europe. The report, written by the European Advertising Standards Alliance (EASA) has been independently verified by KPMG Sustainability. It shows that progress has been made all over Europe. The Brewers of Europe are now committed to ensuring the ongoing review of advertising self-regulation systems to ensure they keep up to speed with the evolution of societal and cultural demands.

Energy crop company Ceres, Inc. and Novozymes, the world’s largest enzyme provider, have entered a research collaboration to co-develop customized plant varieties and enzyme cocktails for the production of cellulosic biofuel. The companies expect to improve the process of converting biomass to fuel through more effective enzymes and higher quality energy crops in a joint optimization project that will lead to greater fuel yields, as well as lower capital and operating costs.

Dan received his honours degree in engineering from Brunel University in London and has since acquired a wealth of international expertise in texture analysis and materials testing. With extensive experience in polymers, pharmaceuticals, food and the biomedical industry, Dan will be instrumental in driving forward Stable Micro Systems’ growth in both new and existing markets. He now assumes his responsibility for Ireland, Germany and parts of Eastern Europe and the Middle East.

At the beginning of 2009, Krones AG increased its holding in Kosme S.R.L., Roverbella, Italy, to 100 per cent. Under the umbrella brand of Kosme – comprising Kosme GmbH in Austria and Kosme s.r.l. in Italy – the Krones group, the world’s market leader for beverage and filling and packaging technology in the medium and high-speed segments, is now additionally offering a complete range of lines for the low output range as well.

At GEA Brewery Systems, plant operators can determine their individual service level themselves. Depending on the equipment, the degree of capacity utilization and the convenience they want, they can choose from a range of different service modules. The advantage of this kit of technical service modules: specific service ensures high plant availability and efficient processes with increased operational safety and optimized production costs.

A new, free-of-charge software is now available from the Siemens Industry Automation Division for calculating the best possible configuration of photovoltaic (PV) plants. The program, Sinvert Select V2.2, can be downloaded from the Internet at www.siemens.com/sinvert-select. It enables the planner to evaluate in advance the cost-effectiveness of PV plants from 10 kW up to the megawatt range. A comparison of possible configurations shows the energy yield of the various plant arrangements. The software is available in German, English, French, Italian and Spanish, and has been specially designed for Sinvert PV inverters.

JohnsonDiversey, Inc. and JohnsonDiversey Holdings, Inc. announced in March that the Board of Directors of both entities has approved a change of their corporate names. JohnsonDiversey, Inc. is changing its name to Diversey, Inc. and JohnsonDiversey Holdings, Inc. is changing its name to Diversey Holdings, Inc., both effective immediately.