Kalamazoo, MI -Hapman, a global leader in custom bulk material handling equipment, is proud to highlight the PosiPortion® feeding system, designed to provide highly accurate, efficient, and safe handling of a wide range of bulk materials used in food processing environments. With advanced features engineered for robustness and ease of maintenance, the PosiPortion offers manufacturers enhanced operational control and reliability.

Developed to meet both gravimetric and volumetric weighing needs, the PosiPortion feeder brings increased precision to processes in the food industry. Engineered with advanced technology, it streamlines operations with pinpoint accuracy, delivering consistent, controlled performance that enhances throughput and quality across every application.

The PosiPortion is tailored to address the challenges of feeding bulk materials prone to bridging or degradation. Its flexible-wall hopper ensures dependability in flow performance, greatly reducing the risk of production interruptions. External paddle agitators maintain material quality by preventing segregation, degradation, and agglomeration, securing recipe integrity and supporting consistent product quality. These features make the PosiPortion ideal for precise dosing applications requiring consistent quality.

Built within a structural tubing frame, the PosiPortion delivers robust strength and stability, making it easy to integrate into larger process systems. Quick-coupled components enable fast disassembly and cleaning, minimizing downtime and simplifying maintenance routines for operators. Featuring high accuracy feeding capabilities, the PosiPortion ensures consistent and precise material delivery, helping maintain strict standards and process control. It handles various materials efficiently, processing fine powders to large granules with ease.

To help customers achieve peak performance, Hapman offers material testing services that identify the ideal feeder configuration for each application. With this support, operators can optimize system performance and maintain consistent, reliable throughput. The PosiPortion feeding system represents a new benchmark in precision, safety, and operational efficiency, reducing downtime, improving process control, and delivering long-term production value.

Waltham, MA—Logic Robotics, a pioneer in autonomous, data-driven logistics solutions, highlights the Logic Pallet, the world’s first multifacility mobile robot engineered to set a new standard for logistics and material handling across industries. Logic Pallet is designed to automate and unify the movement of goods between and within facilities, delivering true end-to-end automation and supporting a fully autonomous, data-driven, and sustainable global supply chain.

Currently in production and made in America, the 48 X 40 Logic Pallet is purpose-built to handle boxed consumer goods and food, redefining industrial transport by replacing traditional pallets and forklifts entirely. With a robust payload capacity of 2,000 lb (907 kg), 160-hour battery life, and autonomous functionality from origin point to vehicle transloading, it empowers logistics operators with an unmatched level of automation, safety, and throughput.

Unlike conventional shipping pallets, the Logic Pallet is a self-driving, self-loading, and self-unloading robotic platform. It functions as an in-facility shuttle for various standard-sized  pallets, supporting automated movement to storage, pick, and retrieval positions, maximizing both warehouse density and operator productivity.

Designed for versatility, the Logic Pallet supports high-density, aisleless storage in order to deliver up to 3x the storage capacity of traditional warehouse configurations. The Logic Pallet travels at a velocity of 2.2 mph (1 m/s), ensuring timely and consistent transport of goods across facilities. Orchestrated by LINK, Logic’s dynamic AI integrated warehouse operating system, Logic Pallets optimize real-time storage and retrieval in any shaped space.

With autonomous stacking, return for reuse, and advanced self-navigation capabilities, the Logic Pallet dramatically reduces operational downtime, labor dependency, and waste. It also features a patented weight-based inventory management system for on-demand cycle counting, along with automated item recognition via Item Master to provide real-time inventory insight, reducing manual labor, and eliminating costly errors.

By fully automating functions like consolidation, deconsolidation, and cross-docking, the Logic Pallet streamlines inbound and outbound logistics, unlocking faster, safer, and more cost-efficient operations. Additionally, rapid goods-to-person shuttle functionality enables quicker picking and superior order fulfillment. With the ability to load or unload a full trailer in just five minutes, Logic boasts the fastest dock-to-stock times in the industry.

As Logic’s flagship product, and the foundation for its expanding robotic fleet, the Logic Pallet sets a new standard for scalable, full-spectrum logistics automation. It offers real-time inventory visibility, reduces manual errors, and operates with minimal human interaction, making it the ideal solution for future-ready warehouses and distribution centers.

NETZSCH Pumps USA, a global leader in complex fluid handling solutions, will be exhibiting at the International Production & Processing Expo (IPPE) 2026 taking place January 27-29 in Atlanta, GA. Visit Booth B50021, where NETZSCH will showcase NEMO^® Progressing Cavity Pumps, NOTOS^® Multi-Screw Pumps, and PERIPRO^® Peristaltic Pumps designed specifically for poultry processing applications.

NEMO^® Progressing Cavity Pumps can handle low to highly viscous product with and without solids. They are recommended for gently conveying ground meat, meat trimmings, and offal and organ solids long distances. NEMO^® pumps are also an excellent choice for pumping through x-ray detectors that are used to identify and reject solids, like bone fragments, or even metals from the meat processing lines.

For conveying batters, seasonings, sauces and oils, NETZSCH offers the NOTOS^® Sanitary Twin Screw Pumps. These pumps are standard in all stainless-steel construction and are available in five sizes. Standard features are easy disassembly for inspection, the ability to serve as both the process and CIP pump, CIPable mechanical seals, wide speed range up to 3600 RPM, bi-directional flow and the ability to pump entrained air. Optional features are jacketed housings, enlarged inlets and full service-in-place (FSIP^®) capability.

The PERIPRO^® heavy duty roller hose pump is a food grade peristaltic pump with sanitary fittings, stainless steel front cover and baseplate, and are CIPable. PERIPRO^® can be an alternate pump technology to AODD pumps for transferring thickening, rehydrating, or color and flavor enhancing liquids. These pumps are available in hose sizes ranging from ½” inch to 4” inch and capacities of 0.9 to 158 GPM.

NETZSCH sanitary pumps are manufactured to comply with FDA sanitary standards, are 3-A Sanitary Standards-certified, and meet European Hygienic Engineering and Design Group (EHEDG) standards. They are designed for easy cleanability having polished ID surfaces to minimize areas where pathogens can develop. The pumps can all be cleaned in place (CIP), ensuring efficient and hygienic operation in poultry processing facilities.

SHERBROOKE, QC, Dec. 17, 2025 /CNW/ - Built in 2023 in Sherbrooke's industrial park, our factory embodies an ambitious vision: increase production while reducing our energy and ecological footprint. That ambition has now been recognized with LEED Silver certification, an international standard that evaluates a building's energy efficiency, water management, use of sustainable materials, quality of interior environments, and overall environmental impact of a building.

As Nancy Picard, sustainable building consultant and founder of Éco-Transition, notes: "Every choice made in the design of this facility reflects a concrete commitment to people and the planet. It is a project that shows that even in a competitive industrial world, it is not only possible to combine innovation, sustainability, and efficiency, but that doing so also allows for a meaningful and inspiring way to stand out."

What Makes Our Facility a LEED-Certified Building 

At Café William, our LEED certification stems from a unified approach: reducing our footprint from the moment construction begins, optimizing energy at the source, and rethinking how coffee is produced and transported.

As Rémi Tremblay, CEO and owner of Café William, notes, "Achieving LEED certification in an industry as energy-intensive as coffee didn't happen by chance. Every decision, from architectural choices to equipment to how work is organized, was designed to bring together efficiency, sustainability, and innovation."

Our plant was designed to limit consumption and impact at every turn: heat recovery systems, responsible materials, reduced light pollution and drinking water consumption, charging stations, and rigorous waste management. These foundational choices guided each step of the project.

At the heart of this performance is our 100 percent electric roaster, a world first. By eliminating fossil gas combustion, it prevents more than 730 tonnes of CO₂ each year and makes it possible to roast at scale while reducing the energy impact of the entire process.

People are also central to this approach: workspaces designed for comfort and collaboration, support for active transport, access to services and development programs. LEED recognizes these human factors as essential to a building built to improve the life of its occupants.

Finally, our commitment extends all the way to sourcing. Our three crossings of organic, Fairtrade green coffee beans aboard the TOWT sailing cargo ship demonstrate that truly decarbonized maritime transport can be operational.

In summary

In summary, LEED Silver certification highlights the full scope of our efforts: an innovative electric roaster, sustainable and eco-responsible construction, employee-focused initiatives, and zero-carbon transport. Our factory is not just a production site; it is the expression of our vision for a more responsible and inspiring industrial model.

Moving forward differently requires courage. But it's also what today's consumers expect, and what inspires us to continue.