Inside food & drink manufacturing
Chilled fish supplier Icelandic Seachill has denied accusations that its handling of the National Living Wage (NLW) will leave workers worse off, after unions escalated their concerns to the European Commission (EC).
Nestlé has welcomed young dairy farmers to its Dalston factory in Cumbria, as part of its Next Generation Dairy Leaders Programme.
Addo Food Group – the Poole-based food manufacturer formerly known as Pork Farms – has agreed to recognise Unite following a positive meeting with union representatives earlier today (Friday, April 29).
Sausage casings manufacturer Kalle has been sold to private equity firm Clayton, Dubilier & Rice (CD&R), with a sale price understood to be for £350M to £390M.
A fire, sparked by a refrigeration unit, at a food logistics site was extinguished by two fire engines from the Shropshire Fire and Rescue Service on Wednesday April 27.
The project team at Ishida Europe has built what is claimed to be Europe’s fastest multihead weighing and packing line.
An electronic pressure compensation (EPC) system has been introduced for Coperion K-Tron’s loss-in-weight feeders.
What is claimed to be the world’s largest capacity food processing homogeniser has gone into operation with its first customer.
A biometric fingerprint access device has been added to Loma Systems’s range of CW3 combination metal detector and checkweigher units in response to customer demand for greater security of inspection equipment.
A new moisture-permeable cheese membrane could help increase product shelf-life.
RPC Bebo Plastik has developed a multi-layer on-the-go cup for a new ready-to-drink iced coffee sold by one of the fastest growing coffee shop brands in the world.
A new mat to help clean the wheels of forklift trucks was installed at Granta Processors’ Whittlesford premises.
A novel pasteurisation system for cleaning onions, which uses a flame tube to burn the outer skin off, has received a US patent.
A UK bean curd manufacturer installed a semi-automatic scale to raise productivity at the company and meet growing demand for its products.