19-Sep-2011 - Fruit purée processor Fourayes wants to expand its product portfolio, leaving no stone unturned in its quest to keep on top of market trends, drive up sales and offset cash flow fears, md Phil Acock told Rod Addy in this exclusive podcast.
19-Sep-2011 - Drawing up fresh guidelines for processors leading to a more efficient freezing and chilling of food is the aim of a new research group formed by Air Products and the Grimsby Institute.
19-Sep-2011 - Laila’s Fine Foods is reporting substantial growth in frozen and chilled ready meals as Mintel figures suggest the UK market is experiencing significant growth.
19-Sep-2011 - FoodManufacture.co.uk and our sister magazine, Food Manufacture need your help to select the entrepreneur who best deserves the title 2011 Food Personality of the Year .
19-Sep-2011 - Fruit purée processor Fourayes is looking into expanding its product portfolio, leaving no stone unturned in its quest to keep on top of market trends, drive up sales and offset cash flow fears, md Phil Acock told Rod Addy.
16-Sep-2011 - Food firms could save £404M in lost sales by cracking down on food and packaging waste, a study commissioned by the Waste & Resources Action Programme (WRAP) estimates.
14-Sep-2011 - Unite the union confirmed today that it will ballot members at four British Sugar plants in the East of England, after the workforce rejected a 3.5% pay offer.
14-Sep-2011 - Up to 11 workers are to lose their jobs at a sausage factory in Scotland.
12-Sep-2011 - Research into the effectiveness and accuracy of allergen warnings on food will be commissioned by the Food Standards Agency (FSA) later this year.
12-Sep-2011 - Sugar profits are “well ahead of last year and better than expected”, according to a trading statement from Associated British Foods (ABF) ahead of its financial results for the 52 weeks to September 17.
12-Sep-2011 - Today, the Chilled Food Association (CFA) is launching two new websites that it hopes will bridge the UK food industry’s skills gap.
08-Sep-2011 - Manufacturer Typhoo Tea has reacted angrily to an accusation that it is making a mockery of the government’s voluntary Public Health Responsibility Deal.
08-Sep-2011 - A North Somerset mushroom firm has been fined £32,000 after a worker was dragged into a net cleaning machine which broke his arm in two places.
08-Sep-2011 - A Scottish meat processor is cutting 10% of its workforce following a major investment in equipment and infrastructure by its parent company.
01-Sep-2011 - One of the more eye-catching developments in European omega-3 markets over recent months was DSM's acquisition of Martek BioSciences.
01-Sep-2011 - It seems incredible that human beings ever managed to exist without functional drinks. They supply us with a vital energy boost when our natural reserves are running low, and soothe us into relaxation when stress takes its toll. They supply all the vital ingredients we miss out on in our everyday diets, and protect us from diseases that would otherwise kill us.
01-Sep-2011 - Food manufacturers face a host of new technology challenges, from novel processing methods to the reduction of leaks in refrigeration systems. In an attempt to find answers, the East Midlands Development Agency is to bring local food firms and engineering companies together later this month to explore opportunities and develop solutions.
01-Sep-2011 - The directors of a Bolton-based, fast food packaging company have been prosecuted by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) after ignoring safety warnings for more than three years.
01-Sep-2011 - A mascerator and two rotary lobe pumps made by Börger have been installed at a five-tonne capacity pasteurisation plant on the Aran Island of Inis Mór, Ireland
01-Sep-2011 - BV Dairy has selected a 37-user Epicor 9 enterprise resource planning (ERP) system supplied by Aspera Solutions to manage its manufacturing and distribution business. Epicor 9 will provide a unified, end-to-end system to manage all operations from milk reception to loading the BV Dairy vehicle fleet with finished products.
01-Sep-2011 - CenFRA, the UK's pioneering centre for food robotics and automation, has received industry funding to expand its role into an independent food and beverage automation consultancy.
01-Sep-2011 - Mark Twain once said: "Too much of anything is bad, but too much of good whiskey is barely enough." It's a motto that Diageo's Cameronbridge distillery in Scotland takes very much to heart, although perhaps not quite in the way Twain meant and with the inclusion of other spirits such as Smirnoff vodka and Tanqueray gin as well as Johnnie Walker whisky.
01-Sep-2011 - The pig is usually quoted as the example of the most efficient utilisation of raw material in the food industry every part is used apart from the squeal. Now, it seems, seafood is rapidly heading that way. Somewhere in the world someone is making a living out of fish skins, fish heads, fish bones and fish throats. Every bit, in fact, except the gloop.
01-Sep-2011 - Westaway Sausages has completed an extension to its production facility at Newton Abbot in Devon, which is expected to enhance food safety, improved hygiene standards while boosting capacity by 75%.
01-Sep-2011 - The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) has commissioned an 18-month, £200,000 research project to get a better idea of how extensively lean manufacturing techniques have been adopted by companies in the food supply chain.