22-May-2012 - UK food and drink manufacturers are on course to double the number of apprenticeships in the industry by the end of this year, said the Food and Drink Federation (FDF).
21-May-2012 - Kraft has pledged to recruit 54 food manufacturing apprentices this year with more to follow next year.
21-May-2012 - Own-label chilled food manufacturer Bakkavör is producing a new range of Indian meals for Tesco.
21-May-2012 - Morrisons’ revamped in-store bakeries are to offer customers a wider product range and a “more artisian experience”, according to the firm.
21-May-2012 - About 100 jobs will be created by a new seafood processing business in Grimsby, North East Lincolnshire.
17-May-2012 - A video promoting careers in the food and drink manufacturing industry has attracted more than 10,000 hits on YouTube.
16-May-2012 - Food manufacturers have rejected claims that migrant workers suffer abuse in the food manufacturing sector.
15-May-2012 - Food manufacturing training and educational courses in the north east of England will be improved significantly by the addition of Hartlepool College of Further Education to the National Skills Academy for Food and Drink (NSA), says its director, Justine Fosh.
09-May-2012 - The "first-ever" automated system capable of loading bagged produce into receptacles for transportation aims to help eliminate unnecessary wastage of fruit in factories.
09-May-2012 - Irish retro confectionery maker Zed Candy is to close its Letterkenny facility in County Donegal and transfer production of its Oatfield Sweets brand to Kettering in Northamptonshire.
02-May-2012 - In depth interviews with Derby’s uncrowned ‘Curry Queen’ Perween Warsi and John Jospeh, operations director of Burts Crisps, both feature in the May issue of FoodManufacture.co.uk’s sister title Food Manufacture out today (May 2).
01-May-2012 - AxFlow has announced the launch of its very first own brand of pump: the Realax peristaltic pump.
01-May-2012 - Lock Inspection Systems has cut product wastage on United Biscuits' (UB's) multi-bag crisp packing lines by retrofitting 62 throat metal detectors.
01-May-2012 - Mitsubishi Electric's new L series programmable logic controller (PLC) increases the functionality traditionally associated with mid-range PLCs. Bridging the gap between the FX compact PLC and the iQ platform high-performance PAC, it combines much of the power of a Q series central processing unit (CPU), with the ease of expansion and user-centric design inspired by the FX.
01-May-2012 - GEA Refrigeration Netherlands – a member company of GEA Refrigeration Technologies – won the Dutch Refrigeration Prize in February 2012 for its combination of a refrigerating plant and a heat pump called the Energy Enhancer.
01-May-2012 - When Swedish muesli producer Frebaco wanted to optimise its mixing process it asked Cabinplant to develop a dosing machine to handle nine to 10 different ingredients and transport the finished batch from the ground floor to the fourth floor.
01-May-2012 - ExxonMobil Lubricants and Petroleum Specialties Company is promising energy savings of up to 3.6% for gear oil applications of its NSF H1 registered Mobil SHC Cibus Series oils.
01-May-2012 - Supplier of thermal transfer, hot foil, ink jet and laser coding and marking equipment, Allen Coding Systems has launched a new range of Nano laser coders. The Nano F fibre laser coder and Nano D Yag laser coder are compact, versatile units designed for industrial coding applications on a wide range of hard-to-mark materials such as confectionery films.
01-May-2012 - Mettler-Toledo Safeline has launched new test samples to help manufacturers ensure their metal detection and X-ray inspection systems comply with stringent global food safety legislation.
01-May-2012 - The sixth edition of the British Retail Consortium's (BRC's) global standard for food safety (BRC6) kicked in in January this year. Food manufacturers now have to pay much more attention to their factory cleaning regimes and equipment if they want BRC accreditation.
01-May-2012 - New technology for aseptic white milk shortens processing time by up to 90% and cuts operating costs by up to 50%.
30-Apr-2012 - Kelly’s of Cornwall has nailed £200,000 worth of savings in two years from environmental projects ranging from reduction in water use to more efficient effluent treatment.
27-Apr-2012 - Walkers Crisps will add 110 new jobs to its Leicester plant as part of a £15.2M upgrade, revealed its owner PepsiCo.
26-Apr-2012 - Worcestershire egg firm Bumble Hole Foods has been ordered to pay £19,000 after a worker severed two fingers while cleaning a production line drain.
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.