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10+ Years Together: Recognising Our Long-Standing Customers

Some of our customers have been working with Emydex for more than 10 years. Others are now approaching 15 or even 20 years with us.

That is something we are very proud of, and something we do not take for granted.

A lot can change over a decade. Businesses grow, sites expand, technology moves on and new challenges emerge. During that time, our teams have continued working closely with these customers, supporting their operations and adapting our solutions as their needs have changed.

For us, the fact that so many of these relationships have lasted for 10, 15 and 20+ years says a lot about the way we work with our customers.

Recognising our long-standing customers

To recognise these milestones, we have created a series of Customer Milestone Plaques for customers who have been with Emydex for more than a decade.

Each plaque marks an important milestone in our relationship with that customer and recognises the many years we have worked together.

The plaques are now being prepared for delivery to our long-standing customers across the markets we serve.

And if your company has been with us for more than 10 years, you know who you are.

Keep an eye out. Something may be heading your way soon.

Thank you to all our long-standing customers for being part of the Emydex story.

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Better Again: Emydex Retains Great Place to Work Certification for a Third Year

Based on anonymous employee feedback, the 2026 results gave Emydex an 81% overall positivity score, up from 80% in 2025 and 73% in 2024, with 96% of employees taking part in the survey, our highest participation rate to date. 

It is a result we are proud of, but also one that says something about the people behind Emydex. 

The People Behind the Technology 

Camaraderie was our strongest dimension this year, at 91%. Almost all respondents said Emydex is a physically safe place to work and that people are made to feel welcome when they join, and 96% said they can be themselves here. 

Developers work closely with project teams, project teams work directly with customers, and support teams draw on knowledge built up across the business. People rely on each other every day.

David McMahon, CEO of Emydex, said:  

Three years in, the trend keeps moving the right way. What I take most pride in is that our people can see the link between what they told us last year and what actually changed this year. That’s what makes a survey worth doing again. 

A Culture That Has to Keep Evolving 

Receiving the certification for a third year does not mean the employee experience is finished, or that there is nothing left to improve. One of the main reasons we keep taking part in Great Place to Work is the feedback itself. The survey gives our people an independent, anonymous way to tell us what is working and where they want to see change. 

Confidence that Emydex will act on that feedback reached 80% this year. Asking people what they think only has value when their answers stay part of the conversation afterwards. 

Urszula Stawicka, who leads culture and engagement at Emydex, added:  

An 81% score is a good headline, but the 96% response rate tells us just as much. People took the time to answer because they trust that we listen. Our job now is to keep giving them reasons to.

As Emydex continues to grow, we want to keep building a company where experienced people want to stay, new people feel welcome, and teams can do their best work together. 

Thank you to everyone who took part in this year’s survey, and to the wider Emydex team who shape our culture every day. 

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Silver Fern Farms Extends Emydex Across Venison Processing with Two Successful Plant Go-Lives

Silver Fern Farms has extended its use of Emydex into venison processing, with successful go-lives at two New Zealand plants in five weeks. Rotorua went live on 8 June 2026, followed by Kennington, near Invercargill, on 6 July. The two sites are the seventh and eighth Silver Fern Farms plants to run Emydex, and mark the first venison implementation in Emydex’s 22-year history. 

A partnership that keeps growing 

Silver Fern Farms is New Zealand’s leading processor, marketer and exporter of premium lamb, beef and venison. The company produces around 30% of the country’s red meat across 14 plants, and has been an Emydex customer since 2019. 

The first phase of the partnership covered beef. Emydex was rolled out plant by plant across the beef network, with each site bringing its own processing flows, throughput and reporting needs. When the Pacific site went live in 2025, all six beef plants were running Emydex across the full primary butchery workflow, from the kill floor through liveweight and EID capture, grading, inspection and carcass-level traceability. The legacy CRS system was retired. 

Just as important, those six deployments settled a way of working: close collaboration between Emydex and site teams, phased testing, and a structured go-live that keeps production running. Venison put that model to the test. 

Building venison processing from the ground up 

Venison was a new species for the Emydex platform, so there was no existing configuration to lean on. The Emydex team worked with Silver Fern Farms subject matter experts to define the workflows, product structures and data capture requirements that deer processing needs. 

Both plants operate a manual chain with four Emydex data capture stations on the factory floor: 

  • Bolt station: records each animal at the start of processing 
  • Liveweight and EID station: captures live weights and electronic identification for lifetime traceability 
  • Inspection station: records veterinary and quality inspection outcomes on the line 
  • Grading station: captures carcass grades and weights, feeding supplier payments and yield data 

Each station feeds the plant’s kill line and traceability systems as the chain runs. 

Two go-lives in five weeks 

Rotorua came first, and with it the work of a first-of-species implementation: new workflows, new product structures and extensive testing before the switch. The go-live itself was straightforward. Silver Fern Farms reported that the system settled in quickly, and the few minor issues that surfaced were resolved by the Emydex support team within days. 

Kennington was built on the configuration proven at Rotorua and went live five weeks later. For a processor running multiple sites, this is the point that matters: once a species is proven on the platform, the next plant is faster to deliver, carries less risk and starts returning value sooner.

Rotorua 

Kennington 

Real-time visibility with Emydex BI 

Both venison plants run Emydex Business Intelligence, now standard across the Silver Fern Farms network. User access for every site is managed centrally from a single point, which cuts administration and keeps permissions consistent as the network grows. 

On the operations side, teams work from live dashboards rather than end-of-day reports. A Kill List view shows what is on the day’s kill and how it is progressing. A Carcass Summary breaks down carcasses by destination with weights and averages. A Contamination dashboard tracks rates against the government standard in real time, giving managers the chance to act before a problem grows. Daily Kill Sheets and carcass reports cover traceability and compliance across both sites. 

Across a network of our size, the real value is consistency. Emydex gives our teams a shared operational picture, so they spend less time pulling data together and more time acting on it. Decisions that previously depended on end-of-day reporting can now happen much closer to the floor, and Rotorua and Kennington were able to start delivering that value from the early stages of go-live.”

Matt Ballard, Chief Transformation Officer, Silver Fern Farms

Looking ahead 

With venison now proven across two sites, the groundwork is in place to extend the species further across the Silver Fern Farms network, and the wider programme of collaboration continues. 

Emydex provides production management, traceability and business intelligence software to meat, fish and food processors worldwide. If you are evaluating MES or traceability systems for venison, beef or any other species, get in touch to request a demo. 

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Emydex at VIV Europe 2026

VIV Europe 2026 marked the 25th edition of the event, bringing together professionals from over 70 countries at Jaarbeurs Utrecht in the Netherlands for three days of innovation, collaboration and knowledge sharing across the global animal protein industry.

As one of the sector’s leading international exhibitions, the event provided an excellent platform for manufacturers, suppliers and technology providers to exchange ideas, explore new technologies and strengthen industry relationships.

Emydex was proud to exhibit alongside BAADER, welcoming customers, partners and industry professionals from around the world. The event also provided a valuable opportunity to connect with industry partners, including Mike Wardlaw from LINCO Food Systems, and strengthen relationships across the food processing industry.

Valuable Conversations Across the Industry

Throughout the exhibition, David McMahon and Robert Tobin represented Emydex, reconnecting with existing customers, meeting new industry contacts and discussing the evolving challenges facing food processors.

Conversations focused on key priorities across the industry, including digital transformation, traceability, quality management, operational efficiency and the increasing need for real-time visibility across production operations.

These discussions reinforced the continued importance of connected software solutions that help processors improve performance, strengthen compliance and make more informed operational decisions.

Thank You

We would like to sincerely thank everyone who visited the Emydex team during VIV Europe 2026.

Whether you stopped by to learn more about our software, discuss an existing project or explore future opportunities, we truly appreciate your time and the valuable conversations shared throughout the event.

We also extend our thanks to BAADER for another successful exhibition and for the opportunity to exhibit alongside their team.

If we did not have the opportunity to meet in Utrecht, or if you would like to learn more about how Emydex helps food processors improve traceability, quality management and factory floor performance, we would be delighted to hear from you.

Get in touch with our team to arrange a personalised demonstration and discover how Emydex can support your operation.

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Emydex on Site: Harvey Beef and WAMMCO

Emydex on Site brings teams directly onto the factory floor, working alongside processors to understand real operations and support live production environments.

During a recent visit to Western Australia, Shane Hayes, General Manager Australasia, spent time on site with Harvey Beef and WAMMCO, engaging with plant teams, reviewing systems in use and aligning on the next phase of operational and technology development.

These visits formed part of our ongoing commitment to strengthening customer relationships, understanding operational realities, and ensuring Emydex continues to deliver solutions that genuinely make a difference.

Harvey Beef – Supporting upcoming improvements

At Harvey Beef, discussions focused on upcoming process changes and how the Emydex MES platform can continue to support the plant as operations evolve.

As production requirements shift, the priority is to ensure systems remain aligned with the reality of the factory floor, supporting throughput, maintaining traceability and reducing dependency on manual intervention.

This was followed by a visit from Alan Doocey, Helpdesk Support Technician and Implementation Software Engineer at Emydex, who supported a server migration and worked closely with on site teams to ensure a smooth transition and continuity of live operations.

Shane Hayes commented:

“Spending time on site with the people using Emydex every day gives us a clear understanding of what is working well and where improvements can deliver real impact. That feedback directly informs how we continue to evolve the platform.”

WAMMCO – Planning for Phase 2 and future enhancements

At WAMMCO’s Katanning facility, the focus was on planning the next stage of implementation.

Phase 2 will introduce additional functionality designed to remove manual processes, improve data accuracy and streamline workflows across the plant.

By building on the foundation already established, the objective is to strengthen operational control while reducing inefficiencies that impact performance at scale.

Exploring new opportunities in the region

During the trip, Shane also met with several industry prospects across WA.

Conversations focused on how Emydex’s proven MES platform can help improve business practices, unlock traceability gains, reduce rework, and deliver the operational visibility modern processors require.

Driving value through presence and partnership

Site visits play a critical role in how Emydex continues to evolve its platform and support processing environments.

Understanding how operators interact with systems on the factory floor, where friction occurs and what drives performance, ensures that every enhancement is grounded in real operational conditions.

This approach enables the delivery of technology that integrates into production, supports decision making and drives measurable outcomes across the business.

Emydex thanks the teams at Harvey Beef and WAMMCO for their time, insights and collaboration. Continued engagement will support the next phase of operational development across both sites.

 

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Emydex Industry Standard Systems – Setting the Benchmark for Food Processing Excellence 

For more than four years, Emydex has been on an ambitious journey to reshape how food processors operate around the world. Today, we are excited to share the significant progress of our Industry Standard Systems initiative, a longterm strategic programme designed to redefine efficiency, quality, and scalability across the entire protein-processing sector. 

This initiative marks one of the most transformative chapters in Emydex’s history, bringing together our industry expertise, our customer community, and our commitment to continuous innovation to create solutions that work better, faster, and smarter for everyone. 

Why Industry Standard? 

Traditionally, bespoke system implementations, while powerful, resulted in inconsistent functionality, duplicated effort, elongated delivery timelines, and complex upgrade paths. 

Our Industry Standard initiative directly addresses these challenges. By developing a common, modular, and preconfigured platform, we provide systems that work “out of the box” for core processing operations, while still giving customers the flexibility to add configuration and customisation only where it truly adds value. 

The result is a stepchange for processors worldwide: 

  • Less Time – Rapid deployments with predictable outcomes 
  • Lower Cost – Reduced total cost of ownership through shared, reusable components 
  • Higher Quality – Consistent, robust, tested and proven functionality 
  • Futureproofed – Seamless version upgrades with minimal disruption 

At its core, Industry Standard is about collaboration, alignment, and building once for the benefit of many. 

Built With Industry Leaders 

This project has been shaped handinhand with two of Europe’s most respected meat processors, longstanding Emydex partners. Together, we’ve aligned operational practices and designed a unified platform that now serves beef, lamb, and retail processing environments with unprecedented consistency. 

The outcome is a repeatable model in which up to 90% of functionality is standardised, with just 10% tailored to individual site or customer needs, a dramatic improvement in efficiency and scalability. 

 Industry Standard in Action 

Industry Standard is already operating in live production environments across multiple regions.

In Ireland, the Emydex Lamb Industry Standard is running across primary processing operations, supporting activities including livestock intake, lairage and grading. In Scotland, the platform is also live within Vivers Scotlamb, where it currently supports primary processing operations, with further rollout planned across additional areas of the plant. In the United States, Sustainable Beef in Nebraska is operating on the Emydex Beef Industry Standard within a high-capacity facility designed to process up to 1,500 cattle per day.

 A Platform for Every Protein 

Industry Standard now spans all major protein categories: 

  • Beef
  • Lamb
  • Pork
  • Poultry
  • Seafood

It also includes tailored modules supporting ValueAdded operations, warehousing, and further processing, giving customers a complete ecosystem in a unified, futureready architecture. 

Customer Benefits That Move the Needle 

Our Industry Standard approach delivers tangible value: 

Reusable Components: Accelerate delivery by eliminating unnecessary custom coding. 

Agile Deployment: Predictable timetovalue with fixedscope, fixedbudget implementations. 

Compliance & Traceability: Builtin support for global legislative, food safety, and auditing requirements. 

Operational Efficiency: Realtime data capture, actionable insights, and integrated plantwide visibility. 

Scalability: From a single site to multisite, multicountry, enterprisewide rollouts. 

A Shared Vision for the Future 

Industry Standard is not simply a software initiative; it represents a new strategic direction for the entire Emydex ecosystem. 

By standardising core processes and aligning best practices across the industry, we are helping processors unlock new levels of performance, transparency, and sustainability. 

This is the foundation for the next decade of digital transformation in the protein sector, and we’re only getting started. 

 

Want to Go Further? Let’s Talk. 

If you’re interested in learning how Industry Standard could accelerate your digital journey, whether you operate one site or twenty, we’d love to start the conversation. 

👉 Contact Emydex today to explore how Industry Standard can transform your operations, reduce complexity, and futureproof your business. 

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