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Making consumer products sustainable by designing for disassembly – Part 1
Consumers have become very good at recycling; in the UK the mass of waste sent to landfill has decreased by 40% since the turn of the millennium. There is greater social responsibility with regards to...
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Watching what you drink
I’ve recently returned from a week at #drinktec 2017 in Munich where the latest advances in every field of the beverage industry were on show. VR headsets to show you your new production line, AR...
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It’s a fine line between a gimmick and a useful connected service
There is nothing better than finishing a long day at work and heading to a bar for a nice big glass of wine. The problem is choosing the bar, choosing where to sit and then figuring out what type of...
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IoT: Internet on Tap
As Edd covered in his blog post , the internet of things (IoT) is a growing trend across the entirety of the consumer industry, and is certainly making great headway in the beverage sector, as I’ve...
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Technology and Artisanship – strange bedfellows
My colleague Steve Thomas and I attended the “Caffé Culture” show at London’s Olympia Conference Centre on Tuesday 23rd May. The show was aimed at those in the Café and Coffee Shop industries. I was...
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The challenges of consumable-appliance system design
There has been a lot in the press recently about Juicero – a cold press juice system launched last year by a well-funded Silicon Valley start-up. The system comprises of a consumer focused appliance...
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The power of the vacuum – insight from the Japan Food Service Equipment Show...
One of the many food robots I saw – this one a gyoza maker Last week I visited the Japan Food Service Equipment Show in Tokyo which is Japan’s largest exhibition for the hospitality, food service and...
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From Beer to Coffee – I love technology transfer!
One of the things that Cambridge Consultants does best is transferring technology from one sector to the other – most commonly between the many sectors we work in such as medical, oil & gas and...
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Dreaming of Plug and Play Pipes!
Last week, I was manning my first trade stand here at BrauBeviale. Having worked on the technical development of Vinfusion, our wine blending system, it has been exciting to use this demonstrator to...
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Wine, beer and data – How smart is your dispensing system?
My colleagues and I were at the BrauBeviale 2016 in Nuremburg last week. We have been serving personalised wines through our Vinfusion technology and demonstrating our reverse cyclone system to produce...
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Getting Personal in the Fragrance Segment
Fragrances are perhaps the most de-personalised personal care item known to mankind. Why? Well – think about it: For the last 20 years almost half of the turnover of many fragrance houses has been...
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Make it fresh: personalised sun cream
Each year my summer vacation to Greece shows the same behavioural pattern: I hide my sensitive white skin below an umbrella and cover all over in SPF 50 hoping to avoid the lobster look once again. At...
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Come and lead our growing Personal Care business!
The Personal Care sector (including cosmetics, fragrance, skin care, hair care, grooming etc.) is seeing a significant surge in the use of technology such as making salon style devices available in...
View ArticleBeer and Beyond – the latest trends in beer beverage technology
I was recently on the panel for the BeverageDaily.com Beer and Beyond online forum where we were discussing the latest trends in the beer sector (you can either listen on demand or read the moderator’s...
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Don’t Judge a Pod by its Cover
It has recently hit the news that the City of Hamburg has banned coffee pods from government buildings because of the waste they create. Other articles have been stating that you should ban them from...
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We’re growing! Are you up for the challenges of innovative product development?
I moved across the pond to Boston last May….(wow have I already been here 9 months!?!?) to commercially lead our IDEC (Industrial Defense Energy Consumer) division in North America alongside my...
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Staying ahead in the regulation game
It’s a well-known fact that the food and beverage industry is subject to onerous legislation, this applies to ingredients, transportation, processing, manufacturing, packaging, labelling, storage and...
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CES 2016: Smart, Connected and “Internet of Things”
Merlin Wireless Pouring System Everything these days is prefixed with the word “smart”, “intelligent” or “connected”. This is an area where Cambridge Consultants have been working on understanding what...
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What is all the fuss with cold brew coffee? Is this really an innovation in...
First things first, I have never been much of a coffee drinker. I know, right…the guy worked for Keurig and doesn’t like coffee! The truth is, by the time I graduated and entered the working world I...
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Stricter Regulations? Smarter Technology
Many people think regulations stifle innovation. In some cases this may be the case, however, regulations help protect the environment, employee, employer and consumer. Markets and technologies evolve,...
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