Pladis, the leading global snacking company behind iconic brands including McVitie’s, GODIVA, Jacob’s, Carr’s and Ülker, is today announcing a £2 million investment into its manufacturing facility in Carlisle. This follows initial investment to expand the facility’s capacity, with the…

Having five Soken heat sealing machines and another on order, family-run enterprise The Brunch Box Sandwich Company is a longstanding advocate of the British engineering firm’s sandwich packing systems. Sales Director David Masters describes the company’s Soken kit as being…

Chivas Brothers makes its carbon cutting successes ‘open source’ to help the Scotch whisky industry reach net zero goals The Scotch whisky producer has deployed highly efficient heat recovery technologies within the whisky distillation process, halving carbon emissions at its…

With skeleton food safety crews, a leaner post-Brexit quality control workforce and Food Factory Managers wearing multiple technical hats, JentonDimaco Director Dr Russ Sion explores how a ‘belts & braces’ approach to label verification can save overtasked technical professionals sinking…

Leading global assurance partner, LRQA, is urging manufacturers to ensure heightened focus on change management to ensure supplier approval processes remain effective, following reports that one in three vegan products in the UK contain egg or milk. The story, which…

Research undertaken as part of The Food Foundation’s Kids Food Guarantee funded by Fusion21 found that the government benefit which is designed to provide a nutritional safety net for mothers on low incomes by providing vouchers for fruit, vegetables, milk and formula, would…

Vertical Farming: Overcoming the Engineering Challenges to Maximise the Benefits The need to streamline production and more effectively use resources is at the heart of the rise in popularity of vertical farming, an industry that has been growing at a…

Encirc has appointed Richard Lloyd to the position of Managing Director of its ‘Encirc Beverages’ business unit, as the progressive glass container manufacturer and filler continues to integrate ‘The Park’ bottling and warehousing facility in Bristol into its overall business.…

Mitchell & Cooper have teamed up with TV bar star Merlin Griffiths to create a premium Bonzer® Barware cocktail kit that will shake up drinks-making this summer. Merlin, who is on a mission to “Get the nation shaking”, is also…

Macsa id UK– leading manufacturer of advanced coding and marking equipment – continues to open up the benefits of laser technology to the global food, beverage, pharmaceutical, cosmetic, toiletry and homecare markets with the launch of its SPARK small character…