for the TRAKRAP System in September 2018 , Leeming hopes to reflect on the company ’ s success during the past year and use it as a springboard for future achievements . “ During the past 12 months , we ’ ve gained new customers which is always a good sign because we ’ re breaking into a very risk-averse business . The food industry , because of the penalties that supermarkets provide , is very conservative and slow to adopt new technologies . With us winning new business , it has meant that we ’ re overcoming these challenges ,” he says . “ We ’ re currently working with collaborative robot suppliers to develop a plug-and-play end of line solution . The digitalisation and connectivity has allowed this to become very simple and I believe there ’ s around 3600 food production lines in the UK that would benefit from this technology . With the FDF consisting of 7000 members of which 96 % are SMEs , I believe there ’ s a huge potential for productivity improvement in the future .”
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