16-Dec-2011 - Achieving the Food and Drink Federation’s (FDF) target growth of 20% by 2020 is “entirely realistic”, the organisation’s communications director Terry Jones told FoodManufacture.co.uk.
16-Dec-2011 - Frozen seafood firm Young’s is to axe 70 jobs at its Cromer Crab Company after describing current staffing levels as “unsustainable.”
16-Dec-2011 - Chocolate manufacturer Highland Chocolatier is investing £200,000 in quadrupling the size of its production area in a bid to expand capacity to meet rapidly rising demand.
09-Dec-2011 - Making the most efficient use of water is the focus of both a government White Paper and a new campaign from the Food and Drink Federation (FDF).
08-Dec-2011 - Recruitment firm Stafforce has acquired the Centre for Food Robotics and Automation (CenFRA) for an undisclosed sum.
05-Dec-2011 - Food processors have saved millions of pounds by reviving the use of industrial engineering techniques – particularly time and motion studies – which have become a "dead art", according to Alan Donaldson, md of Aim Interims.
05-Dec-2011 - A new Ishida four-mix multi-head weigher is helping a Serbian frozen fruit and vegetable supplier to enter the important retail market for mixtures of four to six fruits.
05-Dec-2011 - Danone Dairies' decision to switch from petroleum-based polyethylene to the same plastic produced from plant-derived bioethanol for its Actimel drinking yogurt bottles signals a major advance for 'green plastics' in UK food and drink.
05-Dec-2011 - ABB's latest version of its six-step energy saving plan is now available. It shows customers the best ways to save money via variable-speed drives and high efficiency motors.
05-Dec-2011 - A drives and motors swappage scheme from ABB enables firms to trade in their old drives and motors from any manufacturer.
05-Dec-2011 - Eaton's Electrical Sector has increased its DS7 soft starter range, which is vibration free with smooth starts, to include versions with ratings of up to 200A.
05-Dec-2011 - Siemens Industry Automation & Drive Technologies (IA&DT) has equipped its range of monitoring relays with the IO-Link interface. These relays protect motors and components by monitoring parameters such as temperature, speed, network quality, current and voltage.
05-Dec-2011 - New Primebake, part of the Bakkavör Group, makes chilled and pre-cooked speciality breads.
05-Dec-2011 - Compressed air is used to power the wrapping machines at Haighs Bakery in Leeds. As production has increased in recent years, new demands have been placed on the compressed air system.
05-Dec-2011 - Automation consultancy GB Innomech has launched a low-cost robotics concept it says will enable even low-volume manufacturers to cut costs and raise competitiveness.
05-Dec-2011 - Norwegian-based honey producer Honningcentralen has experienced steady growth over the years. The firm recently built a metal edge industrial filter with a 63 micron wedgewire screen into its new production line to remove foreign bodies from the honey such as wax and bee wings. The existing filter needed manual cleaning, which lost production time.
05-Dec-2011 - Manufacturers must embrace new technologies if the UK food and drink sector is to remain competitive against increasing competition from the developing world, Food and Drink Federation president Jim Moseley has warned.
05-Dec-2011 - Europe’s largest own-label ice cream manufacturer, R&R Ice Cream, has continued its expansion on the continent with the acquisition of German ice cream manufacturer Durigon Gelato.
05-Dec-2011 - A new brewery development in Leicester could also create facilities for small food and drinks producers.
02-Dec-2011 - British bakers are setting the standards for their European colleagues to match, according to the Federation of British Bakers (FBB), following a consumer trends survey from Danish enzyme specialist Novozymes.
28-Nov-2011 - Hampshire firm Belinda’s Bakery has been fined after a teenage worker crushed his fingers in a machine at its Poulner site near Ringwood.
28-Nov-2011 - A £1.35M EU grant for Cumbrian seafood will lead to the creation of new firms, jobs, and a fresh identity for produce from the region, according to a grass roots organisation.
28-Nov-2011 - A small-scale bakery manufacturer will be the latest to use Reaseheath’s new Food Innovation Centre as a springboard to further growth.
25-Nov-2011 - UK Prime Minister David Cameron has welcomed the creation of 300 new jobs following Nestlé's £110M investment in its Derbyshire factory.
25-Nov-2011 - Moguntia Food Ingredients, winner of the Small Company of the Year in the Food Manufacturing Excellence Awards, has big plans for the future, according to the firm's operations director Marc Jordens.