Inside food & drink manufacturing
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While food and drink is the largest manufacturing sector in the UK, it faces ongoing challenges in 2026. However, as Wales is proving, a supportive government can make a marked difference to sustainable success even amid financial and market pressures
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Achieve robust, defensible mineral oil quantitation with reduced uncertainty.
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Amid all the pressures faced by today’s food & drinks manufacturers, the added challenge of meeting increasingly stringent environmental expectations can seem insurmountable. Yet, with centralised government help, gradual progression towards a greener...
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How equipment suppliers are enabling food manufacturers to deliver deli products at scale.
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As the cornerstone of modern food safety practices, environmental monitoring affords essential protection against hazards and recalls. Find out more here.
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The skills gap in food manufacturing is still proving one of the biggest challenges for businesses to overcome, and they need to attract and retain motivated younger workers. But to do so, companies should be looking at optimising their workforce rather...
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As food & drink manufacturers strive to grow their businesses, additional space for training and development can be at a premium... but there is a solution.
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Premium cold brew coffee is adding another dimension to the growing popularity of iced coffee in the UK
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With costs in labour, raw materials, energy and plastics taxes rampant, Multivac illustrates why automating processes has become critical to margin retention and profitability for food manufacturers
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With UK consumer confidence in nationally sourced food and drink products on the rise, the sustainable quality and provenance of ingredients is vital for food manufacturers to bolster business confidence and success, as producers in Wales are illustrating
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Food manufacturers need to ensure transparency and safety in their offer to UK consumers. Here, the EU details how it shapes up to this demand.
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There is a clear thirst to understand more about artificial intelligence and its application in the F&B manufacturing workplace – and both learning and business optimisation can begin with front line workers, says QAD Redzone
Food & beverage waste management
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Tackling waste is one of the biggest challenges facing today’s food & beverage manufacturers. But what if this could be turned into a strategic opportunity? Biffa explains how.
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The importance of water stewardship in food and beverage manufacturing
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The European Union (EU) is committed to reaching ‘net zero' CO2 emissions by 2050. To achieve this ambitious target, the EU’s environment strategy involves a holistic approach that focuses on resource efficiency, a clean circular economy, biodiversity...
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As demands for a sustainable food chain intensify, discover how the EU is leading in environmentally positive farming and production to ensure quality and traceability.
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When it comes to meat sustainability, much of the focus to date has been placed prior to the plant or on plastic packaging, but the entire processing line efficiency is key to making big reductions in CO2 emissions and saving costs over equipment lifetime.
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With pressure from retailers for food manufacturers to optimise their environmental credentials, improving the sustainability of the supply chain can make a real difference – but what direction should they take?
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Find out how one industry partnership has developed meat alternatives that it says will satisfy shopper perceptions, are affordable and can be produced in industrial quantities.
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With a raft of upcoming legislation on packaging & waste in the UK, experts at Biffa outline what the Extended Producer Responsibility on packaging means for manufacturers and what they need to do to comply fully with its requirements
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One of the biggest challenges facing the UK’s food & beverage manufacturing industry is the ability to attract and retain a team of inspired and informed frontline workers. Technology has the answer, says QAD Redzone
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With an increasing number of regulatory, social and environmental challenges, NPD in the food manufacturing sector is becoming increasingly complex. Discover why digitalisation, data and networking are revolutionising the process.
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Although sustainability remains the watchword of the moment in the packaging industry, the multiple factors to consider make the decision on the materials and systems to use a complicated choice, says Reiser.
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The ongoing growth in the UK of wild rice, increasingly recognised for its health properties, suggests there is an opportunity for food manufacturers to capitalise on its success, as S&B Herba explains
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Consumer habits have undergone a dramatic change in recent years. Not only are they more demanding about quality and convenience but they want it at a value price. International travel has also opened them up to more adventurous tastes and there are...
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How can food manufacturers ensure that they have the right measures in place to prevent manufacturing from being disrupted by a security issue and to ensure that their employees, products, and reputation are protected? G4S offers a checklist to optimise...
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While data is the lifeblood of supply chain efficiency in the food & beverage industry, fragmentation of this data across the supply chain can prove a real roadblock to success. Yet a network data-sharing ecosystem can provide a ready solution, says...
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Are payment terms on the menu for your buyers? Hokodo co-founder & co-CEO Louis Carbonnier explores the vital importance of offering trade credit when selling food and beverages online.
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The UK is a nation of pet lovers with responsible owners treating their pets as extensions of the family. As such the UK pet food market is booming, even amid the cost-of-living crisis, presenting a major opportunity for manufacturers.
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The food & beverage industry is a major contributor to greenhouse gas emissions and it is vital for businesses to start reducing their carbon footprint, with various strategies at their disposal to do so, says Chris Calder, B2B solutions client director...
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Out of uncertainty comes opportunity, says Kevin O’Sullivan, CEO and co-founder of Nui Markets, who encourages people to keep this in mind when hesitant to try new trading strategies in a volatile market.
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With food insecurity and labour shortages remaining pressing concerns, food manufacturers need to maximise digital solutions to stay ahead of the game.
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While much of the recent focus on food and drink packaging has been on the sustainability of materials used, broader consideration needs to be given to the entire processing operation, as it’s this which ultimately determines the right pack for the right...
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With the pressure on food manufacturers to ensure safe and efficient processes higher than ever before, discover how engineering documentation management software can enhance and streamline secure food production.
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Recent incidences of supply shortages, food safety date manipulation, and misleading practices have underscored the need for robust systems that ensure food safety and traceability in the food industry.
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Here are four actionable ways manufacturers can make the most of their existing workforces to combat the current labour crisis – and thrive despite it, by nurturing their talent pipelines
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With sliced meat manufacturers seeking multiple ways to streamline their operations, discover how a new approach to tumbling could shake up the market and create big savings on costs and labour.
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As one major retailer takes a bold step to substantially reduce the plastic in its red meat packs, Multivac looks at the considerable benefits the new packs bring and the potential challenges with shopper perception, despite their widespread expectations...
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Supply chain agility is an acquired skill. Brands often find out the hard way that better supply chain agility depends on better supply chain visibility.
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By 2040, it is estimated that 60% of the 'meat' consumed will come from labs or plant-based alternatives. Here, Kemin takes a closer look at the progress of meat alternatives and analyses the considerable challenges still to be overcome.
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As today’s consumers focus on health & wellbeing, reducing meat consumption is one of their key goals. Yet the use of walnuts as an alternative meat source is relatively unexploited.
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The need to be sustainable is affecting all sectors, including food manufacturing. But while the industry knows it needs to cut down on waste material and implement more eco-friendly practices, reluctance usually stems from fears of compromising...
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With consumers increasingly focused on health and convenience since the Covid-19 pandemic, wild rice with sustainable provenance can offer a versatile clean-label ingredient that manufacturers can use to their advantage, says S&B Herba
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Measuring taste and smell is an imprecise art and can result in numerous NPD failures. But what if there were a way to ensure greater NPD success via the use of AI?
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The rise in energy costs and soaring inflation are putting huge pressure on families this Christmas, with many cutting back on presents and food. While food manufacturers also face challenges, partnering with Community Shop can help them enhance their...
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Shoppers want plant-based products to look just like the real thing. Plant-based colours allow brands to mimic the appearance of animal products while maintaining clean labels.
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With many FMCG grocery manufacturers coming under supply pressure, and retailers facing the prospect of empty shelves in the run-up to Christmas, the need to adopt robust digital technologies to streamline market efficiency is becoming clear.
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A surge in pet ownership during the past two to three years has boosted what was already a solid and growing market in the UK, with pet food manufacturing the ready beneficiary of this trend, says Reiser.
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With the UK's current food inflation and cost of living crisis, Denis Storey of TraceGains outlines the benefits and potential pitfalls to brands of contract manufacturing.
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While the main focus for sustainability goals in food and drink has been on packaging, according to Multivac, there is a lot more that manufacturers can do throughout the processing and packaging chain to contribute to their sustainability story.