Inside food & drink manufacturing
A system designed to help users monitor and forecast their energy usage, analyse current market prices, forecast future prices and build in accurate risk calculations has been introduced by energy software and management consultancy ZTP.
The launch of a plastics-containing pressed paperboard tray that can be gas-flushed as modified atmosphere packaging (MAP) has highlighted the high level of current research and development around composites and other barrier board options – and the...
Record high material costs and adverse currency movements saw Typhoo Tea’s profits plummet to a £20m loss in the year ending 31 March 2018.
Marks & Spencer (M&S) is to review how to make the contents of its products clearer for vegans and vegetarians after it was revealed that some of its fruit juices contained beef-derived collagen.
A stray chicken nugget found in a pack of Quorn Foods’ sausages has sparked an investigation at the factory producing the meat-free manufacturer’s products.
Packaging machinery
Integrating smart sensors into packaging equipment, whether new or old, can help manufacturers think big and visualise their own version of a smart factory.
Opinion
Premature deaths from cardiovascular disease (CVD) have fallen considerably, in part due to new treatments – but ill health associated with the disease remains high and could even be rising in older age groups.
Reducing calories and portion sizes would play a more important role in curbing obesity than putting pressure on manufacturers to cut sugar in their products, according to an expert in food science.