22-May-2012 - Dairy co-operatives Milk Link and Arla group plan to merge to create a business with a turnover of more than £2bn, which processes over 3bn litres of milk a year.
21-May-2012 - About 100 jobs will be created by a new seafood processing business in Grimsby, North East Lincolnshire.
04-May-2012 - Tate & Lyle Sugar (TLS) Silvertown refinery could be doomed and lose over 700 jobs because it cannot obtain sufficient raw cane sugar at a price that would make its future viable, claim informed sources.
26-Apr-2012 - Busting food and drink manufacturers’ myths about automation is the subject of this video debate Food Industry Robotics: the opportunity up for grabs.
12-Apr-2012 - From Caribbean food guru Levi Roots to agriculture minister Jim Paice, all sectors of UK food and drink manufacturing were represented at Foodex 2012 and Food & Drink Expo, which took place at the NEC Birmingham last month. Don’t miss our photogallery charting the highlights of the UK’s premier food manufacturing, processing, ingredients and logistics shows.
10-Apr-2012 - A new tray sealer and check-weigher range from Ishida Europe, launched recently at the Anuga FoodTec show in Germany, will help manufacturers boost efficiency and throughput, claims the firm.
04-Apr-2012 - Scottish First Minister, Alex Salmond has opened a new £4M bottling facility at Tennent Caledonian’s Wellpark brewery in Glasgow that will enable the brewer to meet its export targets.
03-Apr-2012 - Robots intended for use in food processing and hygenic design were top trends at the trade event Anuga FoodTec, staged in Cologne, Germany last week, according to the show organisers. In this podcast, Professor Herbert Buckenhuskes, from one of the organisers DLG, picked out the highlights for FoodManufacture.co.uk.
03-Apr-2012 - Dairy cooperative First Milk is to invest £17M in the expansion at its Maelor creamery in Wrexham, North Wales.
16-Mar-2012 - Glaxo SmithKline (GSK), the makers of iconic brands Ribena and Lucozade, are to invest £18M in a new bottling facility at its Coleford, Gloucestershire, which will create 20 new jobs.
05-Mar-2012 - Morrisons’ new seafood processing business in Grimsby will create 200 jobs and make the firm the only major food retailer to source fish from the quayside and process it for sale across the UK, it claims.
27-Feb-2012 - Carlsberg UK is to build a £20M bottling plant at its Northampton brewery, which will create 60 new jobs
14-Feb-2012 - Fire has halted production twice in three days at Kellogg’s Bryn Lane facility in Wrexham, North Wales
13-Feb-2012 - Manchester United Football Club’s (MUFC's) official ethnic meal supplier plans to become the largest producer of Asian foods in the UK with the creation of a new factory capable of producing up to 100,000 meals a day.
13-Feb-2012 - Robotic sampling of meat quality on slaughterhouse production lines could be commercially available next year, as a result of a £1M research project.
10-Feb-2012 - Rising demand in the Middle East and Russia is prompting the Scottish Salmon Company to invest £40M in 10 new fish farms that will create 100 extra jobs within five years.
10-Feb-2012 - Coca-Cola is partnering Dutch-based technology firm Avantium in the production of bottles made from an, as yet, uncommercialised bio-based polyester.
01-Feb-2012 - Supermarket chain Morrisons, the only major multiple retailer to operate its own meat processing factories, has struck a deal to acquire a 9,755m2 meat processing facility in Winsford, Cheshire from Vion UK.
01-Feb-2012 - Weetabix is investing £16M in UK processing this year and rolling out a lean production programme across its factories after trialling it at Burton Latimer in Northamptonshire.
01-Jan-2012 - Eclipse Magnetics, a maker of food processing contaminant separation and detection systems, has extended its product line with the launch of the Artemis range of metal detectors.
01-Jan-2012 - Membrane filtration for the treatment of effluent can bring significant cost savings, according to Axium Process.
01-Jan-2012 - A custom-made, carbon infra-red oven from Heraeus Noblelight has boosted the efficiency of Premier Foods' Loyd Grossman cooking sauce production line by 10%..
01-Jan-2012 - Compressed air products and pneumatic process systems specialist, Thorite has refined the selection of sterilisation filter systems that it supplies to the food and drink process and packaging industries.
01-Jan-2012 - ABB can now offer a complete range of high-efficiency motors for explosive atmospheres since the launch of its IE2 motors in frame sizes 80 to 132.
01-Jan-2012 - To improve bacon slicing capacity, Weber has launched twin log slicing of bacon primals on its 904 machine, which is supplied by Interfood Technology.