Uniq invests £10M in desserts business
15-Apr-2010 By Elaine Watson
Uniq is pumping more than £10M into its desserts factories this year as it embarks on a mission to “reinvigorate” the category.
Health Protection Agency identifies the listeria-prone
06-Apr-2010 By Rick Pendrous
Incidents of food poisoning associated with Listeria monocytogenes (Lm) are higher among certain groups of people, according to recent findings from the Health Protection Agency (HPA). These include certain ethnic groups, older people and pregnant women...
Cheesemaker gets green light for wind turbine
29-Mar-2010
Financial backing has been secured to construct a 2MW on-site wind turbine to generate electricity at Dewlay Cheesemakers’ site in Garstang,...
28-Aug-2009 By Rod Addy
Nom's gleaming new dairy plant in Telford has brought a £60M investment and hundreds of new jobs to Shropshire, reports Rod Addy
28-Aug-2009 By Hayley Brown
Manufacturers are embracing a number of new processing technologies in a bid to perfect products. Hayley Brown reports
Out with the mould and in with the new liquid food preservation
30-Jun-2009
Offering small dairies and sausage manufacturers a high level of protection against mould and yeast growth was key to the development of DSM Food...
Maximising milk
30-Jun-2009
Milk-derived ingredients are creating new opportunities in the dairy sector and beyond. Paul Gander finds out where they are ending up
01-Dec-2008 By Hayley Brown
Shadow secretary of state for agriculture and rural affairs, Jim Paice, talks to Hayley Brown about the major issues faced by food manufacturers
Yoghurt making plant comes to Telford
28-May-2008
Clegg Food Projects has started work on a scheme to create a new yoghurt production facility in Shropshire. Austrian dairy firm, the NOM Group, is...
Automated milk antibiotic testing cuts costs and time
28-May-2008
DSM has introduced the Delvotest Accelerator for the fully-automatic testing of milk control stations and dairies for antibiotic contamination. Used...
28-May-2008 By John Dunn
A new EU research project aims to improve the safety of unpasteurised, raw milk cheeses by developing friendly bacteria cultures to kill off any lurking pathogens. John Dunn reports
Factory sprays death to Listeria
29-May-2007
Control of Listeria is one of the major challenges facing the cheese industry. Now Cheshire-based cheese supplier J S Bailey has enlisted the help of...
29-May-2007
Dairy farmers are deserting the industry in droves, writes Michelle Knott. But others hope value-added products will boost their incomes
Mixing and filling systems offer full traceability
29-Mar-2006
Dairy mixing and filling systems are now available from CC Automation since being appointed the sole UK and Ireland agent for German manufacturer...
Energy efficient cheese
29-Mar-2006
The Cheese Company, part of Milk Link, has opted for an energy efficient turn-key compressed air solution at its Lockerbie creamery. The installation...
29-Mar-2006
Dairy processors face the dilemma of needing to invest to improve their productivity while cutting their costs, says Mike Spear
Coombe Farm automates fat regulation
06-Oct-2005
Organic milk and cream products producer, Coombe Farm dairy in Crewkerne, Somerset, has replaced its manual standardisation equipment for regulating...
Detect heat exchanger cracks
06-Oct-2005
The dairy industry could benefit from a new tester from Easytest that can detect cracks within five minutes in heat exchangers used to pasteurise...
Retrofit block former makes sense for cheesemakers
06-Oct-2005
CPS is now offering a range of optional retrofits and upgrades for existing cheese block forming machines.The original Wincanton block former was...
Arla's London dairy installs new cleaning in place plant
30-Jun-2005
The Arla Foods Dairy in north London has installed a new stainless steel cleaning in place (CIP) facility. The project, undertaken by dairy...
Novel piercing systems
13-Jun-2005
Blue cheese shows how to get a pierce of the action
Cholesterol lowering cheese alternative
13-Jun-2005
Bespoke oil addition system produces cheeses that help maintain healthy hearts
13-Jun-2005 By John Dunn
Techniques are being developed to make money from the waste produced during milk processing. John Dunn reports on the science behind it
Butter packing automated
13-May-2005
The FMG range of bulk butter packing lines from APV has been developed for carton-filling applications in the dairy industry.There are three...
Europe's largest cheddar- making plant is modernised
13-May-2005
Tetra Pak Processing has supplied a wide range of equipment to the new Dairy Crest plant in Davidstow, Cornwall, at which Cathedral City cheese is...
Faster sterility testing
15-Jul-2004
Culture-based methods are being superseded
Creaming off the fat
15-Jul-2004
A better heat exchange
Infusion system kills more bacteria
15-Jul-2004
The reduction of bacterial spores is crucial in the production of baby formula
Smoother choc ice production
15-Jul-2004
Poor synchronisation between high speed lines and packaging equipment can cause mayhem
Collaboration is the whey to go for smaller cheesemakers
15-Jul-2004
Pooling resources could help smaller manufacturers make money out of waste
Splash out now and save water
15-Jul-2004 By Susan Birks
Water is an increasingly costly resource and the dairy sector uses more than most. Susan Birks investigates the potential for reducing its consumption and the savings that are to be had by doing so