Food & Beverage

HBK’s ultra-precise, connected measurement solutions empower food and beverage manufacturers to drive efficiency, safety, and innovation across food production, processing, and packaging.

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Transform Food & Beverage Production with Advanced Sensing Solutions

The food and beverage industry is evolving fast. Robotic farming, vertical integration, and intelligent packaging is reshaping the sector, while sustainability, automation, and digitalisation continue to drive transformation from production to packaging.

At the same time, producers need innovative, high-performance solutions to boost efficiency, reduce waste, and guarantee product safety at every stage – especially as automated production lines, connected systems, and advanced communication protocols become the norm.

HBK is your trusted partner, supporting Industry 4.0, digitalisation, and automation with precision sensing, reliable data acquisition, and connected technologies to drive innovation and long-term competitiveness.

Minimise product loss from overfills to protect profitability. HBK’s certified weighing technologies ensure accurate dosing, filling, and checkweighing.

Our high-speed load cells are optimised for dynamic production lines, empowering food and beverage manufacturers to keep up with rising production demands without compromising accuracy.

Meet global hygiene standards with EHEDG-certified sensors, featuring stainless steel designs, IP68/69K protection, antibacterial cables and predictive maintenance capabilities to reduce downtime and extend equipment life.

Transitioning to connected, automated systems requires scalable, interoperable solutions. HBK supports this transformation with smart solutions designed for seamless integration with modern communication protocols and digital infrastructures.

Your Partner Through the Entire Product Life Cycle  

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Food Production
Food Processing
Food Packaging & Logistics

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From grain intake and silo weighing in flour mills to robotic harvesting in vertical farming, HBK’s compression and shear beam load cells support smart agriculture, silo automation, and data-driven crop monitoring with high safety and precision.

Ensure accurate blending, filling, and monitoring across dairy, meat, and snack production with HBK’s bending beam and hygienic platform load cells – enabling real-time feedback and reliable data acquisition.

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From multi-head weighers to retail checkout systems, HBK’s load cells and cloud-connected solutions reduce giveaway and maintain quality standards for precise checkweighing, sorting, and transport.

Explore HBK Core Food & Beverage Solutions

Weighing

HBK’s smart, accurate solutions ensure accuracy, efficiency and compliance from raw material intake to final packaging. We help you optimise blending, dosing, and filling operations across complex food and beverage manufacturing processes.

Silo and tank level weighing

Dynamic checkweighing and multi-head weighing

Level weighing solutions

Filling, dosing, and checkweighing control

Hygienic Measurement

Ensure food safety and compliance with hygienic load cells and hygienic weighing electronics – such as HBK’s EHEDG-certified PW25, PW29, and PW37P load cells and DSE electronic – specifically designed for strict hygienic food production environments.

Hygienic weighing sensors for food processing

Sorting and batching solutions

Smart Sensing & Connectivity

Enable predictive maintenance, machine health diagnostics, and data integration with HBK’s web server interfaces and IO-Link communication.

Digital weighing technology

Custom sensors for smart farming

Digital IO-Link sensing technology

The cells installed on our machines inspire confidence in every way

When we see the load cells fitted on some machines, we cannot help but have serious misgivings about their longevity. By comparison, the cells installed on our machines inspire confidence in every way, especially as they are provided by a leading manufacturer with extensive experience in weighing operations all over the world.

Founder LGC Automation

HBK products provide a simple integration and implementation of intelligence in the machines

The HBK products provide a simple integration and implementation of intelligence in the machines, competitive prices and outstanding technical support, which is exactly what our clients demand from us.

Production Manager INVpack

[HBK load cells] are still going strong after two years of demanding double shifts

The HBK load cells we use in the fish scale have the highest level of moisture protection, IP68. The original load cells in one of the first fish scales to be delivered worked perfectly and are still going strong after two years of demanding double shifts.

Managing Director Teltek

LGC Automation
INVpack
Teltek

Proven Results with Food & Beverage Industry Leaders

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