Inside food & drink manufacturing
Dairy company Arla has begun to offer other producers a licensing package for its patented lactose-free dairy production technology. Previously the technology was only available to other companies in the Arla group in Scandinavia and the UK.
Traditional boiled sweets maker Joseph Dobson has more than doubled its output, while reducing its energy costs, following the installation of two new air compressors from Thorite.
Bakkavör has earmarked its Caledonian Produce site at Bo'ness, West Lothian, for expansion to ensure it has sufficient capacity to meet seasonal fluctuations in demand.
With voice picking and laser-guided truck systems, today’s islands of automation are not what they were 20 years ago. John Dunn reports
Pinguin’s site in Kings Lynn can typically process, pack and cold store around 50,000t of peas in a six- to eight-week period.
Dibs Distribution, a supplier of halal poultry products to the fast food industry, has obtained a EU food safety accreditation for its hygiene standards and can now trade in Europe.
AF Blakemore has pumped £3.5m into a new temperature-controlled fresh meat cutting plant in Hilton Cross, South Staffordshire.
The future of PoleStar Foods' Okehampton desserts factory is once again in doubt just two months after Privet Capital stepped in to buy the business.
Ready-to-eat dried meat products such as pepperoni and jerky can be stored safely at room temperature because the preparation process destroys pathogens and reduces the water activity (aw) to a level at which microorganisms cannot grow. But getting the...
Plans by the Food Standards Agency (FSA) to review the delivery of food safety controls on businesses have raised concerns that any move to centralise work to ensure consistency across the UK might risk losing local expertise.
JBT FoodTech has incorporated a ‘lift’ mechanism into its custom-built ‘hold-down’ belt so that producers can cook both flat and wavy bacon to a high standard.
Food ingredient and enzyme company Danisco has taken a new milder yogurt culture global after it has shown “tremendous” success in China, the Middle East and North Africa.
Milk Link’s creamery in North Tawton, Devon, will have its whey dryer replaced as part of a refurbishment.
Tate & Lyle could be vulnerable to a takeover by an industry rival such as Cargill, according to a lawyer specialising in food industry mergers and acquisitions.
A leading brewer has solved a costly stock damage problem by fitting innovative load cushions to its gas-powered counterbalanced forklifts.
Cheesemakers can benefit from new strains of enzymes produced by Wales-based enzyme manufacturer Biocatalysts.
A new project designed to attract more postgraduates into the food industry has been launched, which awards bursaries to outstanding PhD students in the field of flavour research.
Industry hygiene processes have evolved with technological progress, as Michelle Knott reports
Upmarket chocolate maker Montezuma’s has doubled capacity at its chocolate factory in Chichester with the installation of a new depositor line.
US-based doughnut giant Krispy Kreme is opening its first UK manufacturing unit, as it bids to double its number of stores in the country within the next five years.
Ishida says Lancashire-based contract packer Strategy Group is the first UK firm to install its new flexible strip pack applicator (F-SPA) system for applying hanging strips to products.