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Emydex partnership in Australia & New Zealand

Emydex Technology, based in Dublin Ireland, is a leading supplier of Factory Floor data capture, Production Reporting and Traceability Software systems to Meat, Fish & Food processors around the world. 

After a number of years working with Enterprise Ireland to find the right partner to represent Emydex in Australasia, we are delighted to announce an Emydex partnership in Australia & New Zealand. The company recently announced it had signed contracts with BCP Pty Ltd based in Brisbane, Australia. BCP’s directors are well known within the Australasian Food Processing Industry as suppliers of Industrial hardware and software systems with a reputation built over 20 years for quality, innovation and proactive customer service.

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As the exclusive agent for reselling Emydex systems in Australia and New Zealand, Emydex now have a team of six dedicated staff based in Brisbane, as well as a network of consultants spread across Australia and New Zealand, who are providing implementation and technical support for Emydex software systems implemented in the Southern Hemisphere. The added advantage being that 24 hour support for Emydex’s existing Northern Hemisphere customers can be bolstered with assistance from the new Support team in Emydex’s Brisbane base.

BCP will add value to the Emydex software offering in the local market by providing for full turnkey solutions to Foods processors that includes all Industrial hardware requirements such as scanners, Industrial PC terminals, scales and printers etc. Heading up the Australian operation is Ian Carson, who had previously acted as Emydex’s agent in Australia and New Zealand for the past two years. Formerly CEO of Cedar Creek systems in Australia, Ian joins Emydex Australasia as company CEO. With over 20 years’ experience of working with a variety of food processing systems in Australasia, Neil Pitt will act as Director of Sales and Customer Relations.

One of Emydex’s most senior and long serving developers also moved to Brisbane in January with his family in order to oversee the initial software installation in Junee Lamb, based in New South Wales, as well as to provide customer training and helping with the upskilling of BCP programmers.

To coincide with the 2016 launch, two of Emydex’s company directors visited Australia and New Zealand for 18 days in February, and met with over a dozen meat, poultry and seafood processors, as well as Emydex partners and consultants based in WA, Victoria and Auckland.

Since the visit Emydex have signed their second customer in Australia, a beef processor based in Victoria, and are in contract negotiations with a number of other processors with a view to starting further new projects in the region.

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In January 2016, Emydex signed contracts with the largest Ostrich processor in the world based in Oudtshoorn, South Africa, a project that will see Emydex software rolled out to three Ostrich, Sheep and Game abattoir plants as well as Value added and further processing plants over the coming eight months.

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Emydex running in 4 of 6 Irish Beef processing plants granted US export licences

Ireland is currently the only EU state to have been granted access to the lucrative US meat market since the BSE crisis in the 1990’s. Since the embargo was lifted earlier this year, Beef exports from Ireland to the US have increased significantly, according to the Department of Agriculture. As of November 2015, it is estimated that 1300 tonnes of beef valued at €8.5m, has been exported from Ireland.

A spokesman for the Department of Agriculture said “This is an exceptionally strong start to this trade, considering that the first exports only went in March of this year and some of the plants were only approved for export as recently as September.”

To date only six Irish beef processing plants have managed to attain the necessary approvals to export beef to the US market.

Emydex Technology are pleased to note that four of the six plants that have succeeded in attaining the necessary Export approvals, are Irish beef processing plants that operate Emydex software on their factory floors for data capture, production and Traceability reporting.

Beef US Exporters - Dawn Meats - Charleville | Kepak - Kilbeggan | Slaney Foods International | Kepak - Longford

“It’s good news to see that trade has recommenced between Ireland and the US after 15 years of no activity. It will still take some time yet for Irish processors to restore and build new trading relationships with US customers, but given the high prices currently being experienced in the US, coupled with a demand for high-quality grass-fed beef, this bodes well for Irish supply”
David McMahon – Emydex CEO

Emydex software provides meat, fish and food processors with accurate reporting on shop floor production yields, stocks and traceability information in real-time.

“Today our software is running on over 1200 factory floor terminals as well as over 600 handheld scanners in 80 food processing plants spread across Ireland, the UK, France, Africa and Australia”

“Whether our customers have requirements for an abattoir or boning hall system, production planning or recipe control, traceability reporting or quality and compliance, we have software modules that can cater for each need.”

“As the software is modular and customisable, it means our customers can start on one particular pain point or area of the plant, and once this system is live and bedded in, the system can be extended to other areas or functions within the plant”added McMahon.

Source: The Irish Times Post by Eoin Burke-Kennedy

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In other related news, Northern Irish Pork Processors, Dunbia, have welcomed provisional approval for exporting pork to China. Dunbia also operate Emydex Factory Floor Software throughout their processing plants, so it comes as great news to Emydex to see that our customers are paving the way for the Irish agri-food industry, into some of the largest export markets in the world.

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Emydex partnership with with Integrated Technology Partners

Emydex Technology is pleased to announce the signing of a partnership agreement with Integrated Technology Partners (Services) Pty Ltd in Australia. Based in Brisbane, ITP Services are well known within the Australasian Food Processing Industry as suppliers of data capture and industrial hardware systems with an reputation for quality, innovation and professional customer service.

By forming this Partnership Emydex will now have six dedicated staff based in Australasia who will provide sales, implementation and support for Emydex software systems, and will add significant value to the Emydex offering in the local market by providing for full turnkey solutions. Ian Carson, Emydex’s distributor in Australia and New Zealand for the past two years will join the company as CEO, with Anthony Browne assuming the role of Technical Director. With over 20 years’ experience of working with a variety of food processing systems in Australasia, Neil Pitt will act as Director of Sales and Customer Relations.

Based in Ireland, David McMahon, CEO of Emydex Technology, commented, “We are delighted to welcome ITP Services as our new Partner in Australasia. Their excellent reputation in the market place will be complementary to the reputation Emydex enjoys in Europe for being one of the most flexible and comprehensive software suppliers to our niche market sectors. With the three senior managers of the Australian partnership having over eighty years of combined experience in the food processing industries between them, their knowledge of what customers require in the local market is a huge advantage. That, coupled with the backing of our team of thirty staff here in Ireland will guarantee our new partners ability to deliver a high level of service and support to our customers, where fast response times and extended hours are of paramount importance. I am looking forward to meeting our new customers in Australia and New Zealand in the very near future”.

Neil Pitt said “Emydex not only provides a modern, easy to use and highly flexible software solution for Food Processors but their focus on customer service fits well with what we are all about. This synergy between our two companies means that customers benefit from having local industry specialists who can respond to their needs within the time frames expected. The addition of Emydex’s comprehensive software solutions will further enhance ITP Services’ current range of systems and ensure there is a product that adds real value for processors in all areas of the food industry.”

Anyone wishing to learn more about Emydex and ITP (Services) should contact Ian Carson +61 4566 31662 or Neil Pitt +61 4027 64563.

For more information on the Emydex system click here or contact Emydex on +353 1 8855990

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Four New Senior Programmers join the Emydex Development team

In line with continued growth and expansion, mainly in overseas markets, Emydex is pleased to announce four new senior hires joining the Emydex Development and Implementation teams over the past 9 months

Returning home to Ireland after a number of years living and working in Melbourne, Australia,Dermot O’Sullivan joins Emydex as a Senior Developer. Dermot holds a BSC Degree in Business Information Systems from Dublin Institute of Technology. He has over 14 years programming experience, including 8 years .Net development with companies such as RXP and Cognology in Australia.

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Pat Doocey, also joins the Emydex Implementation team as a Senior Developer with over 18 years work experience in such companies as MX Sweep, the LGCSB and HP where he worked as a Process Engineer. Pat holds a BEng (Hons) in Manufacturing Engineering from Coventry University. He is a keen cyclist, having recently made history by participating in the first Irish team to complete the ‘Race Across America’ non-stop cycling race, with only eight riders and no crew.

Another recent joiner to the Emydex development team, also with an Australian connection, isScott Doeke, originally from Southern Australia, now living in Ireland for over 10 years. Scott joins Emydex with over 20 years programming experience, and holds a BEng in Electronic Engineering from the University of South Australia. Previous to Emydex Scott worked as a software developer for Domogo, a company he co-founded. Scott is keen on both cricket & badminton.

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Emydex Corporate Offices
Emydex Corporate Offices

Finally our most recent new hire is Pawel Gonet, a software engineer for the past 15 years, mostly working with Microsoft technologies C#.Net and SQL. Pawel holds a B.SC Software Engineering Degree from the Wroclaw University of Technology in Poland. Prior to joining Emydex, Pawel worked for 8 years with Gamma & Bizmaps in Dublin.

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Emydex move to new Corporate Office in Dublin. Plans for Australian office

Emydex today are pleased to announce the relocation of their Dublin headquarters to a new corporate office in Unit 4B-5, Blanchardstown Corporate Park, Dublin 15.

Emydex’s Product Development, Implementation and Support teams were previously split over three floors across two separate buildings. The move to unit 4B-5 into a single large open-plan space means everyone is now working closely together, with plenty of room for the company to grow from the current team of thirty people to forty five or fifty as required.

Emydex at MeatUp Uk 2011
Emydex at MeatUp Uk 2011
Emydex at MeatUp Uk 2011
“I see our future growth being overseas rather than Ireland at this point” said Emydex CEO David McMahon. “Right now our business is mostly focussed on food processing markets in the UK, Southern Africa, as well as Australia and New Zealand. Whilst we can service both UK and Southern Africa effectively from Dublin given we’re all working in the same time zones, we’re looking to open an office in Australia by the end of the year. We’ve been working with a distributor based in Brisbane for the past two years. Our plan to incorporate a new company in Australia and build a team there to service meat, fish and food processors based in Australia and New Zealand.
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Emydex Signs Some of Ireland’s Largest Fish Processors

Exhibiting at the Teagasc [email protected] event being held in Ashtown, Emydex today announce they have signed up several new Fish processing customers in as many months.

Working in conjunction with BIM’s eLocate scheme, designed to encourage seafood enterprises to implement common standards of traceability, labelling and weighing through the implementation of Traceability software systems such as Emydex.

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Pictured with Tom Hayes TD, Minister of State at the Department of Agriculture, Food and Marine at the Teagasc – Food Innovation Gateway event are Emydex CEO, David McMahon and Emydex Product Director, James Grennan.

Emydex has so far signed up some of the largest processors in Ireland including Castletownbere Fisherman’s co-op, Glenmar Shellfish,  Goodfish and Eiranova, all located in Co. Cork, the Clogherhead Fisherman’s co-op in Louth, Galway & Aran Fishermans co-operative, Nolans Seafood and Rockabill in Co.Dublin.

Roll-out is well underway in most projects, with the Emydex Production Management System now operational in many seafood processing factories. The Emydex Fish factory system was designed in close collaboration with the GS1 Ireland and BIM, the latter whose aim is to implement barcode labelling and traceability standards across the seafood processing Industries in Ireland, as well as Europe. In addition, Emydex’s labelling at sea system is currently being trialed a number of Trawlers operating in the Irish Sea.

Emydex’s Fish Processing software system is designed to handle all types of seafood processing whether white fish or shellfish, fresh or frozen, and can manage the entire seafood processing supply chain from boats labelling product at sea, to boat landings, 3rd party intake, re-grading, production and processing such as filleting, smoking, labelling, warehousing and dispatch. The system also provides for real-time yield analysis and KPI reporting

The software system can integrate to 3rd party cold stores, financial systems as well as a large range of factory floor hardware devices such as indicator/scales, PC terminals and hand-held scanning devices used for sales order picking and dispatch as well as stock management.

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More info on the [email protected] event can be found here

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