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Handtmann extends gold sponsorship for Butcher Wolfpack

Handtmann, Biberach is extending its gold sponsorship for the “Butcher Wolfpack” team until the next WBC (World Butcher Challenge). This will take place on March 30th and 31st, 2025 in Paris. The extremely dynamic team around team captain Dirk Freyberger won the WBC last year in the Sacramento Memorial Auditorium with the overall victory plus victories in 4 different product categories, such as “World's Best Beef Sausage” or “World's Best Gourmet Sausage”...

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Anuga presents the top innovations for 2023

From October 7th to 11th, 2023, the international food and beverage industry will meet again at Anuga in Cologne. Under the guiding theme of “Sustainable Growth”, more than 7.800 exhibitors from 118 countries will present a variety of products at 10 trade fairs over the next five days. Of particular interest are new trends and international product innovations...

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Craft vacuum cutter completes the Hygienic Secure series

K+G Wetter completes the Hygienic Secure series with a craft vacuum cutter: The compact VCM 70 shines with hygiene features that have been impressing customers for years. As a Hygienic Secure Cutter, the VCM 70 has the patented removable knife cover strip. This can be removed and reinserted in one easy step for cleaning...

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Westfleisch agrees new collective agreement

Westfleisch SCE has concluded a new collective agreement with the Food-Gourmet-Gastronomy Union (NGG). Among other things, it provides for net one-off payments of 500 euros as well as collective wage increases on October 1, 2023, April 1 and October 1, 2024. There is a financial benefit for the employees, which, depending on the wage group, more than compensates for the inflation rate...

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Handtmann is celebrating its 150th anniversary

Last weekend, the owner family of the Handtmann Group invited representatives from politics and business, banks and schools, managers and companions to the gala evening and the workforce to the anniversary celebration on the Biberach Gigelberg. Baden-Württemberg's Prime Minister Winfried Kretschmann, one of the evening's guests of honor, spoke of an extraordinary entrepreneurial achievement: "The world market leader, with around 4.300 employees and one billion euros in annual sales, is a driver of prosperity and an economic factor in our country...

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Market launch at SÜFFA 2023

New FS 503 forming system for chain stores and the medium performance segment: With the new, single-lane FS 503 forming system, Handtmann offers chain stores as well as medium-sized and industrial companies a production solution that combines diversity with high cost-effectiveness. In combination with a Handtmann vacuum filler, the fully automatic production of a wide variety of products in 3D form is possible...

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Bizerba enters into partnership with AI start-up KanduAI

Balingen, September 27, 2023 - Bizerba, leading manufacturer of innovative solutions for the retail and food industry, announces its partnership with KanduAI. The Israel-based company develops and sells solutions for AI-based object recognition, the technology of which will be integrated into the ObjectRecognition retail app in the future. This enables retail customers to automatically recognize fruit and vegetables, for example, on self-service scales from Bizerba...

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Bizerba: A complete portfolio for all needs

From October 21st to 23rd, Bizerba will be presenting at this year's SÜFFA in Hall 7, Stand A30 at Messe Stuttgart under the motto “Shape your future. Today” a powerful portfolio. The highlights include three new device types in the area of ​​cutting technology alone: ​​the entry-level VSV version, the automatic versions of the VSP series and the MBP bone saw. But the latest weighing technology is not neglected either: with two shop scales from the Q1 series and the counter scale K3 800, Bizerba is presenting its current flagships in this area - as well as its mobile-capable software solutions for retail...

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