Vion Foods fined £16,000 after worker's fall
Multi-national food and ingredients firm Vion Foods was fined £16,000 after a worker was blown from the top of a shipping container while moving corrugated metal sheets.
Archives for February 27, 2012
Man on the bake
Few people have been privileged enough to work on some of the UK's highest profile food brands. But Stiletto Foods md Jeremy Woods has sung the praises of products from Wotsits to Pot Noodle in various sales and marketing roles over the years. How...
Unilever unions to ballot on pensions
Unilever workers in the UK took their dispute over the food giant's decision to close its final salary pension scheme to the company's headquarters in Rotterdam last month.
Drink to instant powder colour
Responding to a growing trend in the international beverage industry, Chr Hansen has launched I-Colors: a range of instant natural colours for powder soft drinks in single-shot sleeves.
New chewing gum with ‘next generation sugar’
Beneo is presenting a range of new sweetening solutions, including a new chewing gum that features Beneo’s Palatinose (isomaltulose) combined with Stevia for the first time.
Kellogg leaps into the major savourysnacks league with Pringles acquisition
Kellogg's move to snap up the Pringles brand from Procter & Gamble (P&G) for a cool £1.7bn was one of the biggest announcements of the past month.
IT's in the clouds
Specific IT linking production to the supply chain is no longer a luxury, and no longer just for the largest multi-site businesses. For a small operation, the right system with the right features can be a huge differentiator, helping to open doors to...
Freeze out traditional winemaking culture
Chr Hansen has launched a product designed to enable winemakers to manage malolactic fermentation in high-pH, high-alcohol wines without producing biogenic amines such as histamine during fermentation.
Farmer Fiddler sets up fresh crisp manufacturing
Faced with a static market for his potato crop, a Lancashire farmer decided to manufacture crisps.
"I'll take the editor's view on foodservice with a pinch of salt"
Sir,I suspect some of your editorial comments regarding the Public Health Responsibility Deal (PHRD) need to be taken with a pinch of salt! (See Editor's view, p3 Food Manufacture February 2012.)
Coca-Cola promotions to target individuals
Retail promotions will become far more focused on individual shoppers than they are now thanks to new oportunities created by smart phone technologies, according to the md of Coca-Cola Enterprises (CCE).
Label change to boost chilled foods sales
Chilled foods look set to receive a further boost in sales following Sainsbury's decision last month to change its labelling to advise shoppers they can freeze many foods right up until the 'use by' date. Sainsbury's move is likely to be followed by...
Mould breaker
With the growth in popularity of speciality breads, cheesy loaves are flying off the shelves. Alas, not all of those tangy toppings are intentional. Or, so say the UK's leading food research bodies, which are seeing the incidence of moulds in bakery...
Sleaford Quality Foods battles global supply chain
Sleaford Quality Foods is overcoming tough challenges in the global supply chain as it seeks to source and process dried and dehydrated foods for foodservice customers and other manufacturers.
Calorie pledge call gets mixed reception
The publication of the Department of Health's (DoH's) finalised Calorie Reduction Pledge for the food industry last month has met with a mixed reception.
FDF kicks off its apprenticeship drive
The Food and Drink Federation (FDF) has launched a series of apprenticeship roadshows across the country to encourage food manufacturers to take on more apprentices.
Liquid coatings go for a spin with food products
Machines for applying liquid coatings to a variety of foodstuffs will be on display by Saturn Spraying Systems, which uses its patented spinning disc technology to apply coatings in sectors as diverse as bakery, biscuits and confectionery; meat and fish;...
Making it pay
Foodex 2012, the UK show for food and drink processing, packaging and logistics will take place at Birmingham's National Exhibition Centre (NEC) from March 25 to 27.
Drink to new starch solution for low-cost pulp
National Starch Food Innovation is promoting the use of its functional starch-based solution Precisa Pulp 02 can in a variety of juice bases, including peach, apricot guava, pear, and mango. The goal is to aid the creation of cost-optimised beverages...
In the shade
More than nine out of 10 of us are concerned about artificial colours, and almost eight out of 10 consumers are willing to pay a premium for foods made with natural colours, according to research conducted by Nielsen on behalf of Chr Hansen.
Red tape puts jam maker in sticky spot
A Cheshire jam manufacturer could lose thousands of pounds of new business because EU regulations have left it without a legal name for its product.
Breaking News on the Food and Drink Manufacturing Sector
Logistics specialist Norbert Dentressangle (ND) is targeting €1bn (£848.6M) in freight forwarding sales within five years, according to Dave Barron, global commercial director for Norbert Dentressangle Overseas (NDO).
QC in butter production
Quality control (QC) will be a central feature of QCL's stand, with a variety of systems to meet the needs of the dairy sector.
Europe blocks steps to healthy reformulation
Manufacturers have been thwarted in their efforts to improve the healthy nature of products by incremental reformulation by the European Parliament (EP).
Willpower and smaller portions will do more
Calls continue for the food industry to take responsibility for tackling obesity as if, by implication, the consumer is deemed to be less able to take it on themselves.
Retailers squeeze out investment
The financial squeeze placed on manufacturers by their powerful retail customers is putting many productivity projects involving capital investment at risk, it has emerged.
Phosphate-reduced chicken tonight
Three companies (Marigot, AllinAll Ingredients and Naturis) have joined forces to develop a new brine system that offers a clean-label alternative to using phosphates in poultry.
Less is more
"Dismay." "A blow for consumers and industry alike." "A bitter pill for food operators." Just a few industry responses to Members of the European Parliament's (MEP's) recent rejection of the revised nutrition claims list.
Reformulation drive risks dairy sector damage, Dairy UK warns
UK trade body Dairy UK has called on the nation’s government to do more to communicate the positive health benefits of dairy products, and warns that the current focus on reformulation risks ‘putting many consumers off eating dairy foods’.
Carlsberg to build £20M bottling plant creating 60 jobs
Carlsberg UK is to build a £20M bottling plant at its Northampton brewery, which will create 60 new jobs
Simply twist it to providea tamper-evident bag seal
A sophisticated bag sealing system for food will be shown by Innoseal UK at the Foodex Exhibition.
Container dessicant protects cargo against condensation
The Superdry container desiccant moisture absorber will be displayed by JS Desiccants.
Dairy Crest completes £3.1M Foston cold store expansion
Dairy Crest last year selected Nottingham-based consultancy Coriolis to work with on a £3.1M expansion project at the dairy's cold store facility at Dove Valley Park at Foston, just off the A50 between Stoke and Derby.
'Greenest ever' refillable plastic PET bottle
Specialist plastics packaging technology business Petainer has developed its 'greenest ever' refillable bottle - further improving the sustainability of what it claims is already one of the most environmentally-friendly forms of beverage packaging.
Put the muscle in vacuum filling and portioning
Processing equipment specialist Handtmann will exhibit a variety of machinery for vacuum filling and portioning for meat, dairy, bakery and seafood applications.
Birds Eye boss plans frozen food revival
Birds Eye Iglo chief executive Martin Glenn aims to spearhead a frozen food renaissance building on the category's current success, but acknowledged its consumer image had been slow to improve.
New portioner for poultry production
French food processor Farmor has invested in a second RevoPortioner from Marel Townsend to cope with increased production.
High-pressure water cuts its cake
After introducing new frozen products that would have been difficult to cut automatically with conventional machinery, a UK cake manufacturer has invested in two waterjet cutting machines from Spanish firm, Metronics Technologies. The machines are...
Pump up the animal food value
Designed for the fish processing industry, Landia pumps with extra cutting blades are helping Greenock-based pet food producer Rossyew convert Scottish Salmon by-products into speciality oil and protein ingredients for pig, poultry, pet and aqua feeds.
Poultry packing partners reaps rewards in Russia
The Meyn-Ishida alliance has designed, supplied and installed a new 10,500 birds per hour (bph)plant for Russia's largest poultry producer, Zao Prioskolie - one that could expand to 12,000bph.
Innovation focuses on formats and presentation as sustainability takes a back seat
While food safety is an ever-present concern, the sustainability of packaging has grabbed all the attention in recent times. But it comes as little surprise that expensive green packaging alternatives have fallen down the priority list as cost pressures...