Inside food & drink manufacturing
Ingredients integrity
As pressure to achieve supply chain transparency grows, food manufacturers and ingredients suppliers will need to up their technology game, or risk being eliminated from the chain.
Me and my team
Factory general manager Alan Goldie explains how Burton’s Edinburgh site has used motivation and technology to create a culture shift and improve performance.
Bakkavor Desserts has opened new £800,000 employee facilities at its Highbridge, Somerset factory, as part of its continued investment in the site.
Investment into research and development (R&D) saw meat alternatives manufacturer Quorn Foods take a £5m hit to its profits in its financial results for the year ending 31 December 2018.
A jury in a mock trial debating a meat tax has found that it’s “too blunt a policy tool” to be effective and that all ultra-processed foods should be subject to a levy.
Swiss engineering and industrial manufacturing firm Sulzer and Finnish compressed air specialist Tamturbo have pooled their combined experience to create new air compression technology.
Development hub
As vegan, vegetarian, and flexitarian trends take hold, start-up firms are capitalising on the free-from puddings sector.
Soft drinks manufacturer AG Barr has introduced a new 24/7 production line at its Milton Keynes facility to help increase capacity.