Inside food & drink manufacturing
Soft and stone fruit supplier Mockbeggar has seen a large increase in packaging productivity at its farm packhouse located at Rochester in Kent, after installing a Sienna horizontal flow-wrapper from Ulma Packaging.
A purpose-built foam modelling studio that enables designers to make mock-ups of packs rapidly in order to test and modify them before release, has been built by RPC at its Rushden site in Northamptonshire.
A new ink formula has been intoduced by Linx Printing Technologies that meets the challenges of coding onto oily surfaces.
A rugged headspace gas analyser that can be conveniently transported between packing lines and factory locations, which is targeted at modified atmosphere packaging (MAP) testing of headspace in gas-flushed food, has been introduced by Systech Illinois,
A new high-shear in-qline mixer and in-line blender have been introduced for dairy processors by Tetra Pak.
Pizza cheese manufacturer Dairy Partners, based on the edge of Newcastle Emlyn in Wales, has installed an energy-efficient cooling system from Aqua Cooling for pasteurisation and mozzarella production in a deal worth more than £600,000.
To enhance hygiene during manufacture and protect against cross-contamination, Gough Engineering has developed an easy-clean conveyor with a removable belt – as recommended by the European Hygienic Engineering & Design Group (EHEDG) – that allows the...
Irish vegetable grower Leo Dunne has expanded its production operations, thanks in part to the installation of a new multi-head weigher. This has helped it to handle processed carrots that were oversized or irregular and not suitable for sale whole.
Single-operation beverage forming and filling into polyethylene terephthalate (PET) at commercial speeds has come a step closer with the unveiling by KHS of a system for filling liquids directly into heated preforms, using the pressurised liquid itself...
A leading gut health scientist and author has called for the development of more foods that stimulate beneficial microbes within people’s stomachs, following new research suggesting cancer sufferers with a healthy gut microbiome respond better to treatment.
Construction on a live production site poses some very particular challenges. Paul Gander asks what can be done to minimise disruption and risk.
FMEAS 2017
Ethnic snacks manufacturer SK Chilled Foods has snapped up the coveted Food Manufacture Company of the Year trophy in the industry’s Oscars – the Food Manufacture Excellence Awards – at The Hilton on Park Lane in London on Wednesday, November 1.
FMEAs 2017
The Food Manufacture Excellence Awards (FMEAs) 2017 culminated on Wednesday (November 1) with the award of the overall Food Manufacture Company of the Year award to ethnic snacks manufacturer SK Chilled Foods, after the firm first won the Chilled Food...
FMEAs 2017
Fresh prepared foods manufacturer Bakkavor Hitchen Foods came top of the form, after winning the prized Training Programme of the Year trophy in the industry’s Oscars – the Food Manufacture Excellence Awards – at The Hilton on Park Lane in London on...
Morrisons has reported rising sales during the third quarter, as its boss David Potts pledged to make the business “broader and stronger”.
McVitie’s brand owner Pladis has appointed former KP Snacks ceo Nick Bunker as the new md of its UK & Ireland business, effective from November 6.
The GMB and Unite unions have urged Britvic to halt the planned closure of its Norwich site, as they questioned the fairness of the company’s consultation process.
Bakkavor, the own-label chilled foods group, has ditched its plans for a £1bn-plus stock market flotation, in an announcement released today (November 3) because of “current volatility” in the market.