The Seafood Company crowned overall awards winner
12-Nov-2009 By Rod Addy
The Seafood Company beat fierce competition to claim the Company of the Year award at the Food Manufacture Excellence Awards ceremony at the Marriott...
Haggis production rockets at Macsween
12-Oct-2009 By Rod Addy
Scottish haggis manufacturer Macsween has had to increase production by 30%, shifting to a two-site operation at its Dryden Road headquarters in...
Judges shortlist industry's rising stars
30-Sep-2009
The shortlist for the Food Manufacture Excellence Awards has been announced.Contenders include Cambridge Manufacturing Company, H J Heinz Company,...
30-Sep-2009
Arla Foods is expecting increased efficiencies and capacity boosts from the adoption of 'lean manufacturing' principles at its national distribution...
Oil price rises could stifle manufacturing recovery
27-Jul-2009 By Rick Pendrous
Oil price rises could delay UK manufacturers’ economic recovery, a leading firm of accountants has warned.According to BDO Stoy Hayward’s...
Achieve a consistent quality of blend
30-Jun-2009
Achieving product consistency with production flexibility and efficiency is the goal of Rockwell Automation's new digital blending solution, which...
Poor maintenance and skills are killing efficiency
26-May-2009
UK food processing efficiency is hampered by a lack of joined up thinking, lack of skilled staff and poor maintenance standards.That's the verdict of...
Red meat chain must become lean
27-Jan-2009
UK red meat processors must apply the lean manufacturing techniques used by competitors elsewhere in Europe if they are to prosper in the 21st...
27-Jan-2009
After 32 years of manufacturing flow wrapping machines, Redpack Packaging Machinery's reputation for rugged equipment that 'just keeps on working' is...
Greencore to close factory and axe 180 jobs
26-Jan-2009 By Hayley Brown
Greencore is to close its frozen desserts factory in West Yorkshire, resulting in the loss of around 180 jobs.The factory manufactures own-label...
Industry suffers with wave of factory closures
19-Jan-2009 By Hayley Brown
The second week of January brought fresh pain for the food manufacturing industry, as more factory closures were announced.Gibsons Foods’ factory...
01-Dec-2008 By Rick Pendrous
Manufacturers are at risk of losing their competitiveness unless they do more to counter rising energy costs, according to a new report from business...
Free product labelling round table
22-Sep-2008
Food Manufacture magazine is hosting its latest product labelling round table debate on October 8th at Whittlebury Hall, near Towcester,...
Sweet like chocolate bars in flexible envelope wrapping
29-Aug-2008
Third-party chocolate manufacturer Marasu's Petits Fours has installed a new £200,000 tablet wrapping line in its London factory, used to apply foil...
Equipment collaboration speeds up sauce making
30-Jun-2008
Two of Europe's food equipment companies have joined forces to bring manufacturers new options in cold-fill sauce production. Pursuit Dynamics and...
18-Mar-2008
Wrights Pies, the baked goods and confectionery manufacturer, has promoted Neville Carruthers to the newly-created position of operations director at...
13-Mar-2008
Clive Frampton and Ian Jones have been re-elected as chairman and vice chairman, to lead the British Egg Product Association.They will promote the...
26-Feb-2008 By Sarah Britton
When time is of the essence, manufacturers may find that a lean product development (LPD) strategy can save the day."When the product lifecycle is...
Mass flowmeter gets the dose right for drinks maker
26-Feb-2008
Cheshire-based manufacturer of mixing, distillation and fermentation systems to the drinks industry, ABM, has chosen the Krohne Optimass 1300...
28-Nov-2007
Following a successful period of growth during 2007, Wiltshire-based Lyons Seafoods has announced that it will be strengthening its existing team...
Finnish spiral conveyor maker targets UK firms
02-Oct-2007
One of Europe's leading designers and manufacturers of spiral conveyor systems for the food industry, Finnish company Vulganus, is targeting the UK...
DSM builds up 'strategic base' in Xinghuo
20-Sep-2007
DSM Nutritional Products is closing its vitamin manufacturing plant in Gonglu, Shanghai, and transferring production to its nearby Xinghuo site,...
Generic software fails manufacturers
30-Jul-2007
Too many food manufacturing execution systems (MES) are failing to meet food and drink firms' expectations because they are overly generic and need...
27-Mar-2007 By Elaine Watson
He might have ditched his 'wings' to try his hand at production engineering, but Richard Bain has risen up the ranks at Thorntons faster than a fighter jet
05-Mar-2007 By Rick Pendrous
Greencore Grocery has purchased the stock and production equipment together with rights to the Ross brand of collapsed pickle manufacturer James Ross...
Stamping head cuts choccy downtime
29-Jan-2007
The chocolate industry is facing challenges from the increasing variety of recipes and smaller production batches. The new FlexiStamp multiple...
Ready for ready meal rush
27-Dec-2006
Chiltern Thermoforming made sure it was ready to handle the Christmas and New Year rush of orders for bespoke plastic food containers.It had recently...
27-Nov-2006 By Rick Pendrous
Grampian Country Foods expects to make cost savings of around £180,000 a year as it rolls out a lean manufacturing programme designed to improve...
Sausage makers get the cutting edge
27-Nov-2006
Union Food Machinery and Equipment has launched a high-speed sausage cutter. The WT05 cutter can process 1.85m of sausage per second, in any casing,...
Firms will invest to boost manufacturing efficiency
30-Oct-2006
Better efficiency will be the primary reason for food and drink manufacturers investing in plant, machinery and buildings in the next year, rather...
LETTER
30-Oct-2006
Money is the turn-on when it comes to lean manufacturing
07-Aug-2006
It's training, but not as we currently know it. Rebecca Green examines the radical reform of food and drink qualifications being led by sector skills council Improve to help address the industry's skills problems
MBO for Patisserie
29-Mar-2006
Livingston-based bakery and dessert manufacturer Patisserie UK is aiming to triple in size following a management buyout (MBO) by new md Johnnie...
Handholding helps organic baby food firm grow up fast
29-Mar-2006
Organic children's ready meals manufacturer Miniscoff has virtually doubled output, thanks to advice from the Manufacturing Advisory Service...
Poll reveals drift towards outsourcing
01-Mar-2006
Three out of four respondents to Food Manufacture's latest on-line poll believe more UK food and drink companies will exit manufacturing this year...
01-Mar-2006 By Elaine Watson
Wincanton is scouting around for a site suitable for a new dedicated co-packing operation in a bid to cash in on growing demands from retailers for...
Higher energy bills force firms to chop jobs
01-Feb-2006
More than 25,000 jobs have been cut across Britain's manufacturing industry over the last three month as employers tried to offset the impact of...
UK machinery suppliers rethink their approach to competitiveness
12-Jan-2006
As the focus for international packaging machinery manufacture shifts to eastern Europe and the Far East, UK engineering companies are finding it...
07-Nov-2005
Improve, the sector skills council for the food and drink manufacturing industry, is celebrating this week following news that it has secured vital...
Mettler puts weight behind inline and static hygiene protection
06-Oct-2005
Mettler Toledo’s recently launched BBA scale range and Garvens S3 Shark checkweigher ensure manufacturers have the best equipment for both inline...
13-Jun-2005 By Elaine Watson
Concern over margins, staff and FSA. .. all in the Food Manufacture survey
Product changeover times targeted for reduction
23-May-2005 By Rick Pendrous
Time wasted during the changeover from making one food product to another on the same production line could be slashed, following the introduction of...
New spin on decanter repair services
13-May-2005
Maintenance and repair of equipment is now being offered by Centriquip, which claims to be the largest manufacturer of decanter centrifuges in the...
11-May-2005
There's been a significant change here in the last few weeks because for the first time in 18 years we're filling New Covent Garden (NCG) products...
Geest improves machine efficiency with real-time performance data capture
10-Feb-2005
Real-time data is needed to maximise operational effectiveness of equipment
Liberty expands equipment offering
10-Feb-2005
Manufacturers want more reliable equipment and extended product shelf-life
KP goes nuts about new flooring
07-Feb-2005
New Flowcrete floor helps reduce vibrations generated by busy manufacturing operations
Gibsons takes bigger bite of sandwich market
07-Jan-2005
Sandwich maker Gibsons has expanded it operations with the purchase of a second manufacturing site at Devizes.Production will begin this month at the...
17-Nov-2004
Professor Daniel Jones, a keynote speaker at this month's Collaboration Forum, highlights the need to build a lean supply chain
Wake-up call for vital investment
30-Jun-2004
For over 50 years investment in manufacturing has been an issue for the UK economy. The result has been the decline of many industries for which the...
