Baker Perkins is launching a new series of cooking systems to handle every kind of sugar confectionery. Modular units have been configured to provide an efficient, automatic solution for a wide range of outputs.
Ulrick & Short, manufacturer of functional clean-label ingredients, has helped a family-run bakery business enter new markets by reducing the fat content in its products by up to 40%.
Natural ingredients provider, Naturis has joined forces with Caremoli to introduce a premium range of stabilised wholegrains and pulses called CareGrain to the UK and Irish food industries.
Soy has become a popular alternative to milk derivatives, largely due to the growing number of consumers suffering from allergies to milk components such as lactose and milk protein.
Stemmer Imaging has been researching an automated process to check that the contents of sandwiches packaged for sale in a supermarket correspond to what it says on the label.
In recognition of their 10th birthday, the Food Manufacturing Excellence Awards have been relaunched. The revamped awards, which will be presented on Tuesday November 2, have a simplified entry process and a spanking new venue The Savoy in London, which...
Norbert Dentressangle has secured £40M of new UK business and is implementing operational efficiencies in a bid to address falling international profits and sales, according to business unit director Dan Myers.
Slowly, I lower the digestive into my tea. I watch it absorb the liquid like a sponge. The extra weight combined with the now softer texture weakens its structure. This is where skill and experience are required to decide the precise moment when to pull...
The arrival of fresh milk in pouches as well as polybottles opens up the prospect of alternative packaging formats for consumers with different environmental priorities.
Companies could save themselves large amounts of cash by the systematic monitoring and targeting of their use of utilities, which can lead them to becoming far more energy efficient, it has emerged.
The University of Sheffield has launched a research project that will examine how policy on the salt, fat and sugar content of foods has changed the practices of food manufacturers.
With the recent hullabaloo about the EU back-tracking on nutrient profiling, I thought it might be interesting to highlight an academic paper just published online by the European journal of clinical nutrition.
Putting the 'X' factor into new product development (NPD) launches is not something that be taught or a skill that can be learnt. It's an innate talent from within that requires intuition and instinct, combined with confidence and conviction.
A strong, well-known brand is no longer enough to attract shoppers in the UK, according to Adrian Williams, senior business analyst at grocery think-tank IGD.
Young's Seafood has added a new bite-size product to its chip shop range: chip shop mini fillets. Made with basa (a type of cat fish) farmed in Vietnam, they have less than 3% saturated fat.
VAT on processed food is likely to be raised to 20%, whichever party wins the general election, while sterling will "remain weak", a leading economist has predicted.
Cuts to reduce the £163bn fiscal deficit could undermine the next incoming government's efforts to create a more sustainable food supply chain, according to the Food Ethics Council (FEC).
Dairy manufacturers and supermarkets will receive a welcome boost to their coffers in the form of a rebate from the Office of Fair Trading (OFT) this summer after the watchdog agreed to reduce fines in its price-fixing probe.
On-shelf-availability at the leading UK supermarkets has increased by more than 1% over the past year to 97.8%, according to the latest ECR UK (Efficient Consumer Response) availability survey.
The president of the Institute of Food Technologists (IFT) has rejected US proposals for a mandatory reduction in salt levels in processed foods on the grounds that they are not based on scientific evidence.
Indian ready meals and accompaniments sold in UK supermarkets contain “frankly outrageous” levels of salt, according to the British Heart Foundation (BHF).
The number of UK food and drink manufacturers in financial distress has crept up again this year, highlighting the fragility of the economic recovery, new figures reveal.
Manufacturers supplying the leading UK supermarkets have slashed saturated fat in selected chilled prepared foods by up to 50% over the past 12-18 months, according to the British Retail Consortium (BRC).
A dairy processor in the UK is installing an anaerobic digestion (AD) system to convert waste into energy as the government considers how best to encourage others to follow suit.
Small food manufacturers are not spending sufficient time analysing how reformulation programmes to reduce salt, fat and sugar are impacting the safety of their products, microbiologists at Campden BRI have warned.
The potato vodka firm set up by Tyrrells Crisps founder Will Chase is rapidly expanding its empire with the development of a tranche of new products including pressed apple juice and marmalade vodka.
Tesco, Sainsbury and Morrisons all aim to launch own-label sucralose-based sweeteners this year to compete with Tate & Lyle’s Splenda product, FoodManufacture.co.uk has learned.
Meat-free sales have continued to slide at Premier Foods, with first quarter sales in this division down 4.7%, a performance criticised by analysts as “disappointingly weak”.
The UK frozen pizza market has undergone something of a renaissance in the past year, notching up sales growth of 6.8% in 2009, while chilled pizza could only manage 2.2% growth, according to a new report on the European frozen and chilled food market...
Novel sensors being developed for a £1.2M project backed by the Technology Strategy Board could transform efficiency in fermentation processes used in a range of industries from brewing to biofuels, according to the firm behind the technology.
Marks & Spencer ready meals supplier RF Brookes will be powered by energy produced from its own food waste next year following the installation of a £5m anaerobic digestion facility at its site in Rogerstone, Newport.
An inventor behind a novel packaging concept that would enable food manufacturers to package multiple snack bars, coffee granules and other products at up to 12 times the speed of conventional flow wrappers, is looking for a partner to take his idea to...
Patents filed by PepsiCo and Cargill reveal they are exploring new sources of natural sweeteners from oats and monatin, a naturally-occurring substance found in a plant grown in South Africa.
Bakkavör, Kerry Foods or Premier Foods could all be in the running to produce Sainsbury’s Chinese ready meals following Northern Foods’ decision to close the factory that currently makes them, say City analysts.
The UK food industry has proved surprisingly reluctant to embrace vendor-managed inventory (VMI), despite its many proven benefits, according to the Food Storage and Distribution Federation (FSDF) and standards body GS1 UK.
Many food manufacturers are surprisingly vulnerable in the event of a crisis because they lack appropriate insurance cover, according to a forensic accountant specialising in business interruption cases.
There has been a resurgence of interest in ohmic heating – a novel food sterilising technique that came to the fore in the 1980s – following refinements to the technology that have improved efficiency and reduced costs, according to Campden BRI.
Administrators handling Seatek, the last portion of the now-defunct British Seafood empire still up for sale, admit they have yet to receive a credible offer for the business.
Canadian firm Functional Technologies is seeking partners to help commercialise a radical new approach to tackling acrylamide formation in baked goods based on a proprietary strain of yeast.
Food manufacturers sourcing egg products are predicting further price hikes and availability worries as European egg producers struggle to get to grips with changing welfare legislation.
More than 230 staff face redundancy at Northern Foods’ ready meals plant in Swansea because bosses have failed to reach “mutually agreeable” terms with Sainsbury, its biggest customer.
