15-Mar-2010
Pork Farms may slash half of the workforce at its Shaftesbury site in Dorset, following the withdrawal of business by a major customer.A spokeswoman...
Scottish Wild Salmon seeks protected name status
15-Mar-2010
Scottish Wild Salmon’s final application for Protected Geographical Indication (PGI) status under the EU protected food names scheme has been...
Grimsby awarded £1M for new seafood factory
01-Mar-2010
Grimsby’s seafood processing sector has been given a boost, after a consortium of fish merchants were given a £1M grant by The European Fisheries...
It's make or break time for the UK's fishing industry
01-Mar-2010
Sustainable fishing measures aim to yield a healthier marine environment for the future
The right way to prevent imports of illegal fish
01-Mar-2010
SirThe EU Regulation (1005/2008) on illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing came into force in January (Food Manufacture, February,...
01-Mar-2010
Fresh and frozen seafood supplier Seachill has slashed pallet scanning times for traceability purposes by implementing ImageID's Visidot image...
01-Mar-2010
If you could design your processes again from scratch, asks Glen Annison at Creative Foods, what would they look like?
Low fat/salt bacon project benefits public sector
22-Feb-2010 By Rick Pendrous
Public sector buyers are being encouraged to source healthier supplies of meat-based foods which take advantage of a £40,000 research project just...
01-Dec-2009
A new course from Interfood Technology aims to help engineers get the most from their meat packaging machinery. The latest course was the Poly-clip...
Cut the cost of poultry waste disposal
01-Dec-2009
Seepex says its new type of progressive cavity pump is saving the UK's poultry processors energy and operating costs.It cites the case of one of the...
Eat to the beet of bigger better burgers
01-Dec-2009
Many have experienced the disappointment of seeing a large and apparently juicy hamburger shrink during frying. Nordic Sugar has been exploring a...
01-Dec-2009
Shire Foods supplies savoury pies, pasties and sausage rolls to professional football clubs and supermarkets. When the firm launched a new range of...
Lean machines
01-Dec-2009 By Michelle Knott
Tough times for meat processors mean that the industry has been going through a prolonged period of consolidation. But as businesses merge, that...
Beat the leaks on cold cut packaging
01-Dec-2009
Cold cuts are often stored in flexible packages flushed with protective gas to ensure shelf-life. A leak in the packaging can enable gas to escape,...
The way to control chickens
01-Dec-2009
Launched this year for today's data-driven poultry processing, the ChickSort system is capable of controlling multiple grading lines at speeds of up...
School's not out for engineers
01-Dec-2009
A new course from Interfood Technology aims to help engineers get the most from their meat packaging machinery. The latest course was the Poly-clip...
Portioner pays back
01-Dec-2009
The recession has increased demand for cheaper chicken. However, with such high demand, many processors often have to accept whatever product they...
29-Oct-2009 By Rod Addy
In times of recession, it pays to back the right horses or seahorses, in this case.Seafish, the UK marketing and research body for the seafood trade,...
Meat packaging: waste not, want not
18-Sep-2009 By Carina Perkins
Legislative and consumer pressure are coming to bear on the packaging used by industries, including the meat sector. Carina Perkins looks at the most recent efforts made to tackle packaging and food waste
27-Apr-2009 By Rick Pendrous
With consumers eating less red meat, rising costs and margins under pressure, meat processors need to be cut some slack. Rick Pendrous reports
01-Dec-2008 By Paul Gander
Offer your customers a step up in quality, shelf-life or variety with the latest meat and poultry processing and packing options, says Paul Gander
Natural casing price hikes hit producers
15-May-2008
Premium sausages have been an industry success story over the past few years. Sales in the sector continue to see double-digit growth year-after-year - and certainly show no signs of slowing down.
Smokin' hot chamber for meat, fish
26-Nov-2007
New from Union Food Machinery & Equipment is the Mauting UKM Junior-02 smoking chamber, suitable for small to medium-sized meat processing firms....
Slovenia's natural defence
26-Nov-2007
Vitiva of Slovenia has launched SyneROX 4, a natural solution to provide triple protection for fresh meat against rancidity and undesirable...
Automated tracking beefs up Canadian meat producer
26-Nov-2007
Automation and radio frequency identification (RFID) equipment from Omron in the UK has been the key to tracking and transporting beef at Rancher's...
Irish firms turn to UK expertise
26-Nov-2007
Three meat processors in Ireland have invested in the latest food processing and cooking equipment from Interfood Technology. McCaughey Foods, Brady...
26-Nov-2007 By Nicola Cottam
For a sector that is under the cosh, new controls on handling waste are making life even more difficult for meat processors. Nicola Cottam reports
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,...
Science to improve beef eating quality
27-Nov-2006
Genetic indicators of beef tenderness are being used to help milk producers add value to their calf production.Blade Farming South West and Genus...
Nisa-Today's buys British
27-Nov-2006
Meat supplier, Chitty Food Group, has secured a contract to supply 28 pre-packed British beef, pork and lamb lines into Nisa-Today's, the independent...
27-Nov-2006
Improved hygiene is becoming as important as labour cost savings when it comes to justifying the costs of line automation, as Sue Scott discovers
Technology centre shapes future of slicing machines
27-Nov-2006
Interfood Technology, the distributor of US-based Weber slicers, now offers five models from the Weber range. These start with the entry level 302...
Flexible approach to supplying rigid packs
30-Jun-2005
Lloyd Maunder puts the lion's share of rigid plastic tray business with one pack supplier
Measuring pH in meat
30-Jun-2005
Meat quality checks using a pH sensor without the associated risks of glass breakage
Modular line integration
30-Jun-2005
Retail ready line tackles the challenges of automating weighing and packing operations
30-Jun-2005 By Rick Pendrous
Britain's meat processors are consolidating in the face of a tough business environment. Rick Pendrous reports on an industry adapting to greater international competition and some difficult regulatory issues
