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Donut runner

07-Jan-2005 - Me & my factory: Ross Macken, Factory Manager, Kitchen Range Foods

Beverages

14-Dec-2004 - When Food Manufacture analysed the Value Added Scoreboard published by the Department of Trade & Industry (DTI) earlier this year, the spirits industry was the...

No more primal fear

13-Dec-2004 - Laser technology for meat

Hygiene and weighing go together

13-Dec-2004 - Scanvaegt's multihead weigher has been developed to stay grime-free

That's a weight off Baxters' mind

13-Dec-2004 - Complete vessel weighing system guarantees accuracy of individual ingredients

Wrap-around labels can at last carry catch weight

13-Dec-2004 - In response to consumer demand, supplier of weighing and packaging systems Bizerba says it has developed an interface that allows wrap-around labels to print catch...

Needs must ...

13-Dec-2004 - Smaller firms could take advantage of government support to develop tomorrow's ground-breaking technologies. Unfortunately, to date too few have yet taken up what is on offer, as Rick Pendrous reports

It's easy to integrate

13-Dec-2004 - To meet demand for pre-packaged fixed-weight products, manufacturers are moving from manual to automated and semi-automated packaging lines.

Meat, Poultry & Seafood

13-Dec-2004 - If you ever wanted proof of the benefits of focus, look at Salar Smokehouse. It produces just one basic product -- its 'Flaky' hot-smoked salmon...

Chilled ready meals & prepared foods

13-Dec-2004 - They're no strangers to awards at Freshway Foods. Voted Sandwich Manufacturer of the Year in 2002/3, the Wolverhampton-based company has since picked up accolades as...

Frozen Foods

13-Dec-2004 - With her hair tied in an old-fashioned bun and her sturdy figure suggesting a liking for her own Yorkshire puddings, she seems to have been...

Ambient & General Groceries

13-Dec-2004 - Like shortlisted company Better Tasting Snack Foods, ambient category winner Tyrrells Potato Chips has been riding the wave of interest in 'hand-fried' or batch-produced potato...

Dairy

13-Dec-2004 - In the high-stakes business of fresh milk, Robert Wiseman Diaries has been battling it out with Dairy Crest and Arla -- not without success.In this...

Judges' Special Award

13-Dec-2004 - Not every achievement fits neatly into the framework of an industry awards scheme. But excellence deserves recognition -- especially when it's achieved against the odds.That's...

Best of breed

13-Dec-2004 - Ginsters demonstrated all round improvement to take top spot as this year's Food Manufacture Company of the Year. Mick Whitworth reports on some remarkable achievements

Curd perfect

13-Dec-2004 - Me & my factory: Mandy Kitchingman, Factory Manager, Dairy Crest - Hartington Creamery

Dances with valves

17-Nov-2004 - Me & my factory: Duncan McGillivray

Scientific mission gets a taste for new technology

17-Nov-2004 - A novel approach to the marketing of veggie burgers and sausages, a process for vacuum-microwave drying of fruit and vegetables and a fat-replacer which lowers...

Loma measures up

07-Oct-2004 - Loma Systems has gained European accreditation for its AS5000 checkweigher. This will enable it to comply with the new Measuring Instruments Directive (MID) for conformity...

Greater control with recipe management

07-Oct-2004 - Manufacturers that formulate recipes as part of their processes and want to have greater control over the whole process from goods in to goods out...

Meat savings with fresh food weigher

07-Oct-2004 - The installation of an Ishida Fresh Food Weigher at a meat processor has raised weighing accuracy and production efficiency on a range of marinated beef...

Preying on the mid-range

07-Oct-2004 - Belgium cutting equipment specialist FAM has launched a new mid-size slicing machine to join its popular range of flexible dicers.The Mantis is said to set...

Turnkey solution ensures efficient coleslaw production at Kanes Foods

07-Oct-2004 - Kanes Foods, based in the Vale of Evesham, has taken delivery of a turnkey process weighing and traceability system from Marco Weighing Systems which is...

Automatic double clipper

07-Oct-2004 - The Poly-Clip ICA 8700 automatic double clipper from Interfood Technology is able to process products in fibrous collagen and plastic casings in sizes up to...

Fixed weight cheese cutters up the speed

07-Oct-2004 - The introduction of automatic guillotine cutters on Alpma's Cut 25M has enabled the output of fixed weight cheese pieces to peak at a maximum of...

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