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Emydex site visit to Sustainable Beef, Nebraska

28th November 2024

Visiting Sustainable Beef in Nebraska

Earlier this month in Mid-November, Shane Hayes, Emydex Product Manager and Cody Musclow, Project Manager with Emydex North America, visited the new Sustainable Beef packing plant in North Platte, Nebraska as part of our business discovery, and requirements gathering phase. In this article, we share highlights from the Emydex Sustainable Beef Nebraska site visit and what it means for our North American strategy. The visit marked a significant step in this latest Emydex project with Sustainable Beef, enabling Emydex to gain deeper insights into the workings and processes within this greenfield plant, from farm to fork, from ranchers to retailers, including some truly innovative processes.

Emydex visited Sustainable Beef-Beef-Plant

Partnership Between Emydex and Sustainable Beef

Shane Hayes, said “we are thrilled to be chosen to partner with Sustainable Beef in this new start up venture in the US. This project’s scope includes many ‘firsts’ from various stakeholders, which makes it a very exciting project to be involved in. After touring the plant and gaining a clear understanding of the vision for this new enterprise, we believe that the term ‘the biggest little plant in the US’ is perfectly fitting. Emydex pay special thanks to the Sustainable Beef team, especially Kris Smith, Ryan Wagnon for their support and contributions. Stay tuned for more updates as we continue to drive forward with this exciting project! If you want to learn more – contact Emydex in any of our global market offices in Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, or North America

Emydex strengthens Team in Australasia in preparation for 2025

6th November 2024

Australasia Team Expansion for 2025

Five new hires join Emydex Australasia to support new customer projects next year.

As a Senior Project Manager, Jennifer Tilly, originally from County Cork in Ireland, joined the Emydex team in Western Australia in April. More recently, Glenwell De Ramon Andal joined as a Solutions Engineer this month. Both will work with Cameron Pearce, who has been representing Emydex WA solely for the past three years.

With direct flights from London to Perth and a more favourable time window for business meetings with Emydex HQ in Ireland, additional growth of the Emydex team in Western Australia is anticipated. Jennifer, Cameron, and Glenwell will support existing Emydex WA customer projects in 2025, including WAMMCO in Katanning and Southern Meats in Goulburn, two plants planning to go live with their first Emydex MES systems in 2025. The WA team will also work on new project phases for longstanding Emydex customer Harvest Road (Harvey Beef) in WA.

Three hours east, in our original Australia base in QLD, Carl Brennan recently celebrated 13 years with Emydex, having relocated from Ireland to Australia in 2020. Carl will continue to support Alan Doocey, originally from County Waterford in Ireland, and John Shepherd, based in Cairns. Together, they will support Emydex customers on the East Coast of Australia, including Sunpork, Central Agri Group, Junee Lamb and O’Connor Beef in Victoria.

In New Zealand, Emydex NZ welcomes Kate Barrins to the team as a Project Coordinator supporting Felsi. Additionally, we welcome Jayne McMillan to the role of Meat Industry Business Analyst. Jayne previously worked with the Alliance Group in New Zealand for many years. She brings extensive industry knowledge and experience in primary and secondary red meat processing and implementing ERP and MES systems in the meat industry.

Jayne will support Ashley, Carne, and Saffi in delivering projects for Silver Fern Farms in 2025 and beyond. This follows the successful implementation of Emydex in Silver Fern’s Beef plant in Te Aroha. Jayne will also support any BA work required for other Emydex customers in New Zealand, such as Wilson Hellaby Ltd and Open Ocean, as well as other customers in the Southern Hemisphere.

Meet the new team members:

Emydex Western Australia

Jennifer Tilly, Senior Project Manager, Western Australia
Originally from Cork, Ireland, Jennifer has called Western Australia home for the past 15 years. With over 15 years of experience in health service delivery and project management, she brings a wealth of knowledge from roles with the WA Department of Health in Perth and En-Force Laboratories Ltd in Ireland. Jennifer holds a bachelor’s degree in business (Honours) from Cork Institute of Technology (now MTU). Her rich background will be invaluable to our projects in Western Australia.

Glenwell De Ramon Andal, Solutions Engineer, Western Australia
Glenwell joins us with a Bachelor of Science in Computer Engineering from The Philippines. His versatile career spans industries such as logistics, education, finance, and tech, with a focus on web applications. Excited to take on a new challenge, Glenwell is eager to expand his expertise into Windows applications with Emydex Australia.

Emydex New Zealand

Kate Barrins, Project Coordinator, New Zealand
Kate recently relocated to North Island, New Zealand, fresh from Co. Sligo, Ireland. With five years of project management experience in financial services, Kate is an experienced organiser. After a few adventurous months exploring Asia, she is energised and ready to dive into her new role.

Jayne McMillan, Business Analyst, New Zealand
With over 20 years of experience in the red meat sector, Jayne brings invaluable expertise to Emydex. Her impressive background includes roles such as Owner/Operator at The Fridge Butchery, where she implemented successful business strategies and provided leadership support, and Consultant ERP at Alliance Group Limited, where she prepared technical proposals and collaborated on solution development.

Travis Wylie, Solutions Engineer, New Zealand
With a Bachelor of Science in Applied Computing from the University of Waikato(2019) and five years of professional software development experience, Travis brings a solid foundation and fresh ideas to our development team. His enthusiasm for tackling complex projects and adaptable skill set will be key as we expand our digital solutions. Travis will join Emydex later this month from the Bay of Plenty, New Zealand, as a Solutions Engineer. In his new role, he will be working on various development projects tailored to meet the needs of Emydex’s customers in New Zealand.

We are delighted to have you on board and look forward to your contributions to the Australasian region!

Emydex is 20 Years in Business today

26th April 2024

Emydex 20 Year Anniversary

Emydex Technology is celebrating 20 incredible years in business TODAY on 26th April 2024

Emydex 20 years on, we’re proud to celebrate two decades of innovation, growth, and global impact.

Since our inception in April 2004, we’ve been committed to revolutionising the food processing industry with our cutting-edge software.

From our humble beginnings in Damastown in 2004, to becoming a global leader and partner of choice in MES software solutions for the food processing sector, it’s been a fulfilling journey filled with challenges, triumphs, and memories.

Emydex 20 Year Anniversary — Emydex 20 Years

Join us in looking back on our Emydex journey with a short photo summary of our company’s evolution over the past 20 years.

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We owe our success to our dedicated team, whose hard work and passion have been the driving force behind every achievement. Thank you for your unwavering dedication and commitment to excellence. None of this would have been possible without the loyalty and support of our valued customers, the majority of whom have worked with Emydex for the past decade, and for many others longer.

Please read in our news section what 20 of our longest-serving customers have to say about Emydex having reached our 20-year milestone.

Join us in celebrating 20 years of Emydex Technology and here’s to the next 20 years of innovation, growth, and success!

If you want to learn more – contact Emydex in any of our global market offices in Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, or North America

Emydex at IPPE Atlanta

2nd February 2024

Emydex exhibit at IPPE in
Atlanta, Georgia

Emydex showcased our innovative factory floor software solutions for poultry processors at the #IPPE trade show held in Atlanta, Georgia from Jan 30th to February 2nd 2024.

Renowned as the largest trade show event of its kind globally, IPPE 2024 proved to be an unparalleled experience from any previous trade show Emydex has attended. This was Emydex’s first time exhibiting on the highly impressive BAADER booth and we express our gratitude to Oliver Hahn, CEO of BAADER Food Systems USA, for his invaluable support in facilitating our involvement.

Additionally, we extend our sincere appreciation to the global BAADER team for bringing their customers to discuss how their processes can be improved with our proven technology.

Watch the video below summarising our highlights and reflections at the show.

If you want to learn more – contact Emydex in any of our global market offices in Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, or North America

Emydex expands in Canada: a game changer for Food Traceability

10th November 2023

Emydex expands in Canada: a game changer for Food Traceability

Customers

It has been a busy year of expansion for the Emydex Team in North America. We started deploying our solution to a prominent multi-plant poultry provider in the region, initiating with a Packing and Labelling Solution for their key facility in Waterloo, Ontario. We are eager to commence integration with their enterprise-wide ERP system and to launch enhanced features in Waterloo and additional sites.

In the Seafood sector, we've been collaborating with a leading seafood company in British Columbia for a few years now, focusing on tailored solutions for their distinct Roe Herring processing. At the same time, we are enhancing their utilization of our standard features across various fish species processing operations.

Our inaugural client in North America, a major pork processing company that has been with us since 2017, is planning to be extend their existing three production operations, to a fourth plant, a state-of-the-art Sow Processing Facility in Saskatchewan, with Emydex delivering the factory floor MES solution. This project brings unique hardware and software challenges, and we are thrilled to customize the Emydex system to meet their operational needs.

PEOPLE

Our Emydex team of people in Canada has been growing along with our business. This year we are pleased to welcome Franzreved Vendiola to the team, working out of Sakatchewan. Franzreved has been a valuable addition to the team, supporting our customers in British Columbia as well as Ontario. We also look forward to welcoming Alistair Walmsley, who recently joining our growing team in Canada, working from his home office in British Columbia.

The addition of Fransreved and Alastair means Emydex engineers are available to communicate and support our customers from East to West Coast North America, also well placed resources for our 24/7 global support coverage system, which leverages our staff in timezones around the world, including locations such as Auckland, Brisbane and Perth, as well as Dublin and Europe obviously.

BAADER

With the recent news of our strategic partnership with BAADER, headquartered in Germany, Emydex had the pleasure of joining some BAADER executives for customer visits in British Columbia, where we were able to introduce the partnership to many of our customers, some of whom are already customers of BAADER also. Soon after that successful trip we were pleased to host a visit from Mrs. Baader, CEO of BAADER Global, in our Canadian base area of Waterloo Ontario.

In the market we are seeing a lot of interest in Emydex's newly released Kill Line and Payment Modules. The process of managing a Meat Packer’s harvest floor has gotten much more complicated. Meat Packers must track and process different breeds, different raising methods (eg. Antibiotic Free, Organic, free-range, etc.). These additional tracking requirements are stressing the Meat Packers' existing Kill line and Payment Management System. Emydex provides a parameter driven Kill Line and Payment Management System, to allow Packers to migrate very quickly to a solution that allows them to be more efficient and manage the payment process.

If you want to learn more – contact Emydex in any of our global market offices in Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, or North America

Emydex Tour of Australia and New Zealand

13th March 2023

A lot of ground was covered by Emydex in Australia and New Zealand over three weeks in February and March, visiting both customers and prospects in Western Australia, Victoria, New South Wales, Queensland, and North & South Islands in New Zealand

It was great for Emydex CEO David McMahon to finally (post covid) meet and get to know all our fifteen hard-working Emydex employees working around Perth, Brisbane, Auckland, and Christchurch.

Week 1 of the trip centred around Emydex customer meetings in Western Australia (Harvey Beef, WAMMCO), Victoria (O’Connor Beef, Central Agri group), Wagga Wagga (Junee Lamb), finishing up in Sydney on Friday for a series of meetings with prospective customers. This gave Emydex CEO David McMahon and Emydex GM for Australasia, Jeffrey Macer-Wright, time on Saturday morning to take in some of the sights of Sydney via a running tour, before heading on to Auckland over the weekend.

Centre: A statue of Sir Thomas Mort in Sydney Harbour, founder of Emydex customer, Mort & Co

Week 2 focussed on customer and prospect meetings in the North and South Islands in New Zealand. In New Zealand, Jeffrey and David met up with Ian Carson, as well as five Emydex NZ employees working around Auckland on North Island, and Christchurch on the South Island. Emydex staff travelled from their WFH locations to attend deferred Emydex Christmas parties in Auckland and Christchurch.

Customer visits included Wilson Hellaby, North Island, as well as visiting Christchurch to see Emydex in action in the Silver Ferns Beef primal processing plant in Belfast. The latter half of the week was spent in Dunedin for a series of meetings in Silver Fern Farms' head office, as well as meetings with prospects, and a potential partner company, Scott Technology.

Left: Wilson Hellaby, Auckland. Centre: SFF, Belfast, Christchurch. Right: SFF HQ, Dunedin

Week 3 was spent mainly in Queensland, Australia, where Emydex has an office supporting our ten staff in South Brisbane in the city centre. Customer meetings were held over two days, with Mort & Co at their head office in Toowoomba, followed by a visit to see one of their feedlots in operation at Grassdale. In addition, a visit to see one of Mort & Cos supplier factories. Scheduling challenges meant the team had to settle for a virtual call with Emydex customer Sunpork, based in Eagle Farm, close to our Brisbane office. The remainder of the week included several prospective customer meetings in both Queensland and Victoria. The week ended with Birthday celebrations for long-serving Emydex employee Carl Brennan, a Lead Solutions Engineer with Emydex for over 10 years, who last year permanently relocated with his family from Ireland to Brisbane.

Left: most of the Emydex Brisbane office team. Centre: Grassdale feedlot. Right: Carl Brennan

Overall, the three-week trip included nine customer meetings, as well as nine prospective customer meetings, and culminated with a visit by Charlie McConalogue, Minister for Agriculture, Food & the Marine of Ireland, Jane Connolly, Ambassador of Ireland to New Zealand, and a delegation from Enterprise Ireland to see Emydex in action in the Silver Fern Farms Ltd primary beef processing plant in Belfast, Christchurch.

L-R: Dylan Marsh, STREAMLINE Lead, Silver Fern Farms; Mary Kinnane, APAC Director Enterprise Ireland; Brendan Gleeson, the Secretary-General in the Irish Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine; Matt Ballard, Chief Transformation Officer, Silver Fern Farms; Charlie McConalogue T.D, Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine of Ireland; H.E. Jane Connolly, Ambassador of Ireland to New Zealand; Jeffrey Macer-Wright, General Manager, Emydex Australasia; Niall Casey, Enterprise Ireland

Emydex’s Technical Director, James Grennan will travel out to Australia and New Zealand in April for a series of technical workshops with Emydex customers.

Both David and James will return to Australia in July when Emydex will be exhibiting at the foodpro trade show in Melbourne from 23-26 July

Emydex site visit to Sustainable Beef, Nebraska

Visiting Sustainable Beef in Nebraska

Partnership Between Emydex and Sustainable Beef

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Emydex strengthens Team in Australasia in preparation for 2025

Australasia Team Expansion for 2025