The UK organic sector is ‘cautiously optimistic’ that the market is leveling off after a year of slowing decline in sales, but much depends on consumer confidence after the government spending cuts are implemented this month.
The Association of Labour Providers (ALP), which represents agencies providing labour in the UK, is urging food companies using agency workers to partner agencies in preparation for the Agency Worker Regulations (ALR).
Liquor connoisseurs will be sorry to hear that there may soon be no need to uncork spirits to test them for authenticity, after academics based at Leicester University announced they are working on a new ‘through the bottle’ handheld scanning device to...
Burton’s Foods bosses have promised to give “detailed consideration” to Unite plans aimed at preventing the closure of their Moreton site, after the union presented an “alternative, costed plan” for sustaining production to them last Friday.
All is not well down on the novel foods farm. If food innovation in Europe is to thrive anew, MEPs and the Council need to get past the recriminations over the failed talks and remove the troublesome question of cloned foods from the negotiating table.
Manufacturers are constantly looking for ways to improve efficiency. But those in the food and drink sector still lag behind others, such as automotive and chemical manufacturers, says John Saysell, business development manager at training consultancy,...
Increasing numbers of bakeries are installing continuous and automatic carousel or in-line bowl mixing systems for new plant, according to Keith Stalker, md of European Process Plant (EPP).
Global food industry giants grappled with the grim realities of food security at a meeting in Brussels last month, building on the UK government's Foresight report: The Future of Food and Farming (2011).
Sausage maker Blakeman says switching to Solarsoft’s Tropos enterprise resource planning (ERP) system has cut quality control staff costs and boosted production efficiency by 15–20%.
Effluent and water treatment specialist, Siltbuster Process Solutions (SPS) has won a contract to supply and install a D50 packaged lamella dissolved air flotation (DAF) plant with pipe flocculator and associated chemical dosing equipment to Nestlé UK...
Safety expert Arco is now extending into safety management services with the acquisition of ARC Associates UK – one of the UK’s most experienced safety, health and environmental consultancy and training organisations.
Severed fingers, crushed skulls, exploding offal cookers and slips trips and falls: is it a House of Horrors freakshow? No, it's a list of just a few of the recent accidents in the food and drink manufacturing sector.
Environment minister for Wales, Jane Davidson opened consultation on the ‘Food Manufacture, Service and Retail Sector plan’ for waste last month. She did so during a visit to Wales’s first commercial-scale anaerobic digestion (AD) plant at Premier Foods’s...
The management buyout of one of Heineken’s Universal Beverages factories has created a new firm, Bevisol, which will ferment alcoholic beverages and supply alcoholic beverage producers.
Geneva has a rich history. The earliest stages of St Peter's Cathedral there date back to 1160. A famous hotbed for Protestant revolutionary zeal in the 16th18th Century and home to church reformer Calvin, the European headquarters of the UN is also...
People have been promoting the health benefits of dark chocolate and cocoa for years. But new research goes a step further, elevating cocoa beans to the status of a super fruit, rivalling blueberries, cranberries and pomegranates.
January marked the end of the two-year transition period for flavouring regulation EC 1334/2008, which means firms are expected to have completed any changes necessary to comply with the new law.
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Solbar plans to launch naturally fortified soy powders this summer, made using soy protein isolates combined with other ingredients for inclusion in meat analogue products.
The way food companies do business with their retail customers is changing, as sustainability issues muscle in on boardroom decision making. While the present tough economic climate may be causing some companies to delay making environmental investments,...
With plans to ratchet up production and the development of its flavoured milk, cottage cheese and Cravendale interests, there’s a lot going on at Arla’s Stourton dairy, as site operations director Steve McAuley reveals.
The villains broke into the flat. They moved cautiously. Suddenly, as if by magic, a chair flew across the room in their direction. They quickly aimed their pistols towards the corner where the chair once stood but there was no one to aim at. To their...
Food waste is a ticking bomb that could go off in the face of the food industry, with landfill filling up and bureaucratic delays exhausting all remaining time to tackle the issue.
What has always been a ‘belt-and-braces’ relationship between passive barriers and active oxygen scavenger (OS) systems could become more one-sided, with OS additives taking far more of the strain.
A range of omega-3 sauces for children have been launched by healthyandessential.com, an online retailer specialising in healthy foods and supplements for the whole family, and select health food shops.
As an industry we spend a great deal of time and money developing ‘healthy’ food solutions and menus for schools and support the ‘food’ education of children in school. However, once a child leaves the school gate there is very little support and, in...
French farmer co-operative Limagrain Céréales Ingredients (LCI) has launched a cereal creamer that allows processors to eliminate palm oil, while retaining the strengths of its organoleptic properties.
With the ‘responsibility deal’ on salt reduction in food supported by major retailers and manufacturers, others should be asked to sign up to responsibility deals of a different kind.
Adnams Brewery plans to purchase its first two commercial vehicles that will run on biomethane generated from the anaerobic digestion (AD) plant it built at its Suffolk factory in 2010.
Marks & Spencer (M&S) expects its suppliers to meet the high corporate social responsibility standards it is setting for itself as it continues on its journey to become a more sustainable business, according to its Plan A director, Richard Gillies.
Uniq’s pension fund has appointed financial advisor Spayne Lindsay to sell its 90.2% holding in the chilled foods firm, which it only acquired from on March 24, while ceo Geoff Eaton told FoodManufacture.co.uk he feels "unconstrained" after...
Pre-close trading updates from Robert Wiseman and Dairy Crest today highlighted the continued turf wars between the major UK processors, with no clear winner in sight.
Mexican is becoming a favourite ethnic cuisine in the UK, according to Sweden-based manufacturing group, Santa Maria, which is gearing up to cash in on the trend.
Managers at Northumbrian Fine Foods have bought the company off private equity owners and plan to invest in the business in a bid to push turnover above £12m in 2011.
