Fully-shrinkable film for thermoformer
The world's first fully-shrinkable film system to run on a thermoformer is being claimed of FormShrink, a new development from Multivac in...
Archives for October 6, 2004
Fast track pans and kettles
A wide variety of brat pans, kettles and other specialist cookers are manufactured by BPT Skerman at its site at the former Brooklands racing circuit...
Geest gets a wave of more efficient browning
A specially-built oven system, incorporating the latest carbon infrared technology, is helping Geest achieve perfectly browned toppings on a range of...
Rice cooked in a trice, thanks to innovation centre
North west food process engineering company BCH is at the leading edge of process technology, thanks to its innovation centre.It comes up with...
It's simply a piece of cake
While a nicely browned surface is attractive in a home-baked cake, to a manufacturer the lack of uniformity can present difficulties. The evenness of...
New spin on cutting dairy effluent costs
Most water that is used in milk production ends up as effluent containing a milk loss of up to 3%. Depending on the capability of local wastewater...
Automated ready meal heat sealing
When Skipton-based frozen ready meals producer Christopher Foods needed a new heat sealing machine to cope with increased production and replace its...
Turnkey solution ensures efficient coleslaw production at Kanes Foods
Kanes Foods, based in the Vale of Evesham, has taken delivery of a turnkey process weighing and traceability system from Marco Weighing Systems which...
Continuous freezer doubles ice cream capacity for Porrelli Speciality Desserts
Porrelli Speciality Desserts has doubled capacity at its Paisley, Renfrewshire ice cream manufacturing plant with a new continuous freezer.The...
Clean sweep for sticky problems
The cleaning of equipment is one of the biggest problems facing processors. John Dunn reports on the latest developments aimed at making the job simpler and easier
Cereal order from Germany
A new breakfast cereal manufacturing plant operated by Nordgetreide near Saarbrucken in Germany will include APV Baker flaking rolls, a cooker...
Double spiral mixer with base discharge
Fast mixing times and easy and complete discharge are just two of the reasons why food processors, confectioners and bakers are encouraged to add the...
Silvery Tweed safely contains its ingredients
Malted ingredients company Holgran, part of the RHM group, has entered into a strategic alliance with cereal mixes and food improvers firm H O Short...
Preying on the mid-range
Belgium cutting equipment specialist FAM has launched a new mid-size slicing machine to join its popular range of flexible dicers.The Mantis is said...
Automatic pressure/vacuum dough mixing ups the yield
Bakers around the world are said to be taking increasing advantage of the quality and cost benefits offered by the pressure/vacuum option available...
Fixed weight cheese cutters up the speed
The introduction of automatic guillotine cutters on Alpma's Cut 25M has enabled the output of fixed weight cheese pieces to peak at a maximum of...
Non-ferrous metal detection
A high frequency metal detector has been developed which offers food manufacturers and packers heightened sensitivity for non-ferrous and stainless...
Systems are the hot new added ingredient for today's curries
With a typical curry sauce plant now producing up to 1500t of product a week to gourmet standards, control engineering has become a key ingredient.A...