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Mathiesons bakery installs Loma X-ray inspection machine

  Mathiesons bakery installs Loma X-ray inspection machine

Cake and dessert producer Mathiesons has invested in Loma Systems’ X5 Spacesaver x-ray inspection system. Retailer codes of practice that

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DSM: Flavored milk drinks to benefit from sugar reduction

  DSM: Flavored milk drinks to benefit from sugar reduction

At Food Ingredients Europe, DSM will launch its third report in its Global Insight Series, focusing on sugar reduction in

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Adnams and O-I create the lightest branded beer bottle in UK

  Adnams and O-I create the lightest branded beer bottle in UK

Adnams of Southwold and O-I glassmaker has partnered to develop the UK’s lightest branded 500ml glass premium ale bottle. At 280g,

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Marston’s Completes Transformation Programme

  Marston’s Completes Transformation Programme

Marston’s, the UK brewer and pub operator, has increased underlying profit before tax by 10.2% to £91.5 million for 2015,

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Redditch workforce to double over festive season

  Redditch workforce to double over festive season

Oakland International is effectively doubling its contract packing workforce for the Christmas period. The season of goodwill has started early

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First Milk to Sell Glenfield Dairy to Graham’s

  First Milk to Sell Glenfield Dairy to Graham’s

First Milk has agreed to sell its Glenfield Dairy business based in Fife, Scotland to Graham’s the Family Dairy. The

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Management Changes at Aryzta

  Management Changes at Aryzta

ARYZTA , the global food business with a leadership position in speciality bakery, has announced that Hilliard Lombard, CEO of

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‘Cubosome’ Science to Slow the Caffeine Comedown?

  ‘Cubosome’ Science to Slow the Caffeine Comedown?

Many of us are familiar with the jittery feeling that comes from consuming too much caffeine too quickly. But what

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Macfarlane to close Hayes site as it consolidates operations

  Macfarlane to close Hayes site as it consolidates operations

Macfarlane Packaging is to close its Hayes site and consolidate the operation into its Reading and Enfield operations. The company

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Ball “ready to sell” plants worth €1.5 billion

  Ball “ready to sell” plants worth €1.5 billion

Ball Corporation announced today that it has commenced an underwritten public offering of approximately €1.5 billion in aggregate principal amount

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Premium Ingredients plans to set up second food powder blending factory in India

  Premium Ingredients plans to set up second food powder blending factory in India

Premium Ingredients Food Services India, company specialized in the formulation and blending of food powder products and part of the

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The Great Fragmentation of health drives growth for small and niche brands

  The Great Fragmentation of health drives growth for small and niche brands

The massive fragmentation of consumers’ beliefs about health is contributing to the break-up of traditional food and beverage markets and

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Brazilian water bottler began using lightweight PET bottles

  Brazilian water bottler began using lightweight PET bottles

Extremely lightweight PET bottles for still water have now reached the Brazil market. Premiere of extremely lightweight PET bottles for

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Danish Crown Delivers Strong Financial Results

  Danish Crown Delivers Strong Financial Results

After closing the financial statements for its 2014/15 financial year, Danish Crown is paying out DKr300 million (€40 million) more

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Cargill to reduce fat in yogurt by 50%

  Cargill to reduce fat in yogurt by 50%

Cargill has released a new starch that will enable a minimum of 50% fat reduction in yogurt. The C CreamTex

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Nestlé Takes Action to Tackle Seafood Supply Chain Abuses

  Nestlé Takes Action to Tackle Seafood Supply Chain Abuses

Given increasing concerns about labour and human rights abuses in the seafood supply chain and its commitment to eliminate such

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SuperValu Reclaims Top Spot in Irish Grocery Market

  SuperValu Reclaims Top Spot in Irish Grocery Market

The latest supermarket share figures from Kantar Worldpanel in Ireland, for the 12 weeks ending 8 November, show that SuperValu

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Tetra Pak and DeLaval Commit to Up-skill Dairy Farm Management in China

  Tetra Pak and DeLaval Commit to Up-skill Dairy Farm Management in China

Tetra Pak and DeLaval, sister companies in the Tetra Laval Group, have signed a five year agreement with the Dairy

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UK Parliament to debate on sugary drinks tax

  UK Parliament to debate on sugary drinks tax

On Monday 30 November the House of Commons will debate an e-petition calling for “a tax on sugary drinks in

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Food and packaging waste workshop for manufacturers in Scotland

  Food and packaging waste workshop for manufacturers in Scotland

Resource Efficient Scotland is running a free food and packaging waste workshop next week for manufacturers in Scotland. This  workshop

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Foodex 2016 to bring UK food and drink manufacturing sectors together

  Foodex 2016 to bring UK food and drink manufacturing sectors together

Foodex 2016, the UK’s premier trade event for the food and drink processing, packaging, ingredients and logistics industries, will return

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DHL invests in Loma Systems to boost food packaging offering

  DHL invests in Loma Systems to boost food packaging offering

DHL Supply Chain has invested in Loma Systems equipment to enhance its food packaging services. The logistics giant, DHL, said

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Britvic Improves Profits and Margins

  Britvic Improves Profits and Margins

Despite a 0.6% drop in revenue to £1.30 billion Britvic increased EBITA by 7.1% to £171.6 million, resulting in 100

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MEGGLE goes Infant Nutrition – with Premium Quality Lactose by 2017

  MEGGLE goes Infant Nutrition –  with Premium Quality Lactose by 2017

With its 125-year history in milk processing and 70 years of experience in producing lactose for the food industry, Meggle

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Naturex leads the way in expanding the thaumatin market

  Naturex leads the way in expanding the thaumatin market

Manufacturer of plant-based specialty ingredients Naturex has gained European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) approval on the safety of Thaumatin (E

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Closing the Safety Gap with New EFLA® HyperPure Line

  Closing the Safety Gap with New EFLA® HyperPure Line

Frutarom Health BU launches its new EFLA® HyperPure natural ingredients line in response to new regulations to prevent polycyclic aromatic

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Moody Plc Celebrates 40 Years Supplying the Food Processing Industries

  Moody Plc Celebrates 40 Years Supplying the Food Processing Industries

Moody Plc will be celebrating 40 years in November 2015 as suppliers and service providers to the dairy, food, beverage,

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Return to Profit Shows Rapid Progress at First Milk

  Return to Profit Shows Rapid Progress at First Milk

UK dairy co-operative First Milk has confirmed that its turnaround plan is delivering tangible results, with its financial performance in

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Irish Food Companies Encouraged to Capitalise on Publicly-funded Research

  Irish Food Companies Encouraged to Capitalise on Publicly-funded Research

Research, development and innovation have a key role to play in the sustainable development and competitiveness of the Irish food

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Enzymotec Enters Sports Nutrition Market

  Enzymotec Enters Sports Nutrition Market

Enzymotec has entered the growing sports nutrition market with the launch of EnzySport™ – a natural phosphatylserine-based ingredient solution that

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Global Demand for Flavour Enhancer MSG Grows

  Global Demand for Flavour Enhancer MSG Grows

Global demand, and in particular, Asian demand, for monosodium L-glutamate (MSG) – the sometimes controversial flavour enhancer – is growing,

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Video Interview with Phil Waters, Gebo Cermex, who talks about the benefits of “simultaneous engineering”

  Video Interview with Phil Waters, Gebo Cermex,  who talks about the benefits of “simultaneous engineering”

Gebo Cermex, part of the Sidel group, is a worldwide operation specialising in the manufacture of automated end of line

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Food to Go Led Strategy Continues to Drive Growth at Greencore

  Food to Go Led Strategy Continues to Drive Growth at Greencore

Greencore, the UK and international convenience food business, has reported a 10.6% rise in operating profit to £91.7 million on

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Hawkins, Inc. To Acquire Stauber Performance Ingredients

  Hawkins, Inc. To Acquire Stauber Performance Ingredients

Hawkins, Inc. announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement under which Hawkins has agreed to acquire Stauber Performance

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Chinese suppliers are fast becoming key players in the global supply of food and beverage ingredients

  Chinese suppliers are fast becoming key players in the global supply of food and beverage ingredients

Visitors to Fi Europe will have the chance to meet more than 250 food and beverage leading ingredient suppliers directly

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Cancer Scare Hits UK Processed Meat Sales

  Cancer Scare Hits UK Processed Meat Sales

According to the latest retail data from global insight leader IRI, UK sales of pre-packed sausages and bacon are down,

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Understanding the Suitability of LED Lighting For the Food and Drink Industry

  Understanding the Suitability of LED Lighting For the Food and Drink Industry

In an effort to run greener, leaner and more sustainable facilities, many food and drink companies have considered making the

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Fi Europe – The world’s most important food ingredients tradeshow opens next week in Paris, France

  Fi Europe – The world’s most important food ingredients tradeshow opens next week in Paris, France

Food ingredients Europe and Natural ingredients opens its doors, from the 1- 3 December 2015, at Paris Nord Villepinte. The

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Chalcroft Video Presentation: Cold store extension and packing hall

  Chalcroft Video Presentation: Cold store extension and packing hall

As a specialist construction company, Chalcroft, understands the needs of industries where hygiene and temperature control is business critical, including

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Video Case Study: Gideon Hillman Consulting delivers for Bodybuilding.com

  Video Case Study: Gideon Hillman Consulting delivers for Bodybuilding.com

One of the stand out projects for the Warehouse Consultants at Gideon Hillman Consulting (GH) in 2015 was the design

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Export Boom For Iconic British Biscuits

  Export Boom For Iconic British Biscuits

United Biscuits, a leading international manufacturer of biscuits, cakes and snacks, has announced a 50 per cent jump in its

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New Economic Report on Irish Drinks Industry Highlights Potential for Future Export Growth

  New Economic Report on Irish Drinks Industry Highlights Potential for Future Export Growth

A new report on the drinks sector, by economist Ciaran Fitzgerald entitled “Sustainable Growth of the Drinks Industry”, commissioned by

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Caliente Wins Second International Innovation Award

  Caliente Wins Second International Innovation Award

Swedish start-up business Caliente and its chili infused juice drink snatched the gold medal at the world’s most prestigious drink

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Tetra Pak Wins ‘Best Carton’ and ‘Best Manufacturing Innovation’ Awards

  Tetra Pak Wins ‘Best Carton’ and ‘Best Manufacturing Innovation’ Awards

Tetra Pak has collected two awards at the 2015 World Beverage Innovation Ceremony held in BrauBevial. Tetra Pak® E3 was recognised

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Lengthy legal dispute over high fructose corn syrup reaches an end

Since 2011, sugar producers and makers of high fructose corn syrup (HFCS), have been locked in a major dispute as

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Top Food & Beverage Trends For 2016

  Top Food & Beverage Trends For 2016

The “clean eating” trend has inspired a back to basics approach in product development and is an overarching theme in

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Glanbia Ingredients Ireland Wins Bord Bia Sustainability Award 2015

  Glanbia Ingredients Ireland Wins Bord Bia Sustainability Award 2015

Glanbia Ingredients Ireland (GII), Ireland’s leading dairy company, has won the Bord Bia Sustainability Award 2015, the category which received

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A Healthier Diet is Needed For the Planet and Consumers

  A Healthier Diet is Needed For the Planet and Consumers

A new WRAP report outlines risks to the UK food system over the next ten years if we don’t embrace

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Independent Irish Whiskey Brands Risk Demise Due to a Lack of Supply

  Independent Irish Whiskey Brands Risk Demise Due to a Lack of Supply

A report prepared by Compecon for The Wild Geese Irish Whiskey has found that without the establishment of a wholesale

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Fi Europe & Ni 2015 to Provide Multiple Solutions in Proteins

  Fi Europe & Ni 2015 to Provide Multiple Solutions in Proteins

Protein has been one of the main ingredients of interest in the food industry for many years. Global demand has

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