Following four years of acquisitions, Filtermist is currently preparing to showcase its full capability as a clean air solutions provider at the Foodex exhibition.  This will be the first time the company has exhibited at a show outside of its…

Food for Thought from Filtermist : One of the main risks to employee health within food manufacturing facilities is the quality of the air due to the nature of common processes including tipping, mixing, grinding and milling. Flour dust can…

Production, preparation, storage and transportation — none of these aspects of food manufacturing are complete without temperature control. Whether workers are packaging frozen fish or loading dough into blazing furnaces, they must handle temperatures that far exceed the usual comfort…

The Hazardous Nature of Food Processing Plants : In 2014, a large UK food manufacturer had to pay an £800,000 fine after a serious industrial accident. An engineer was trapped by the machinery while examining a conveyor belt and suffered…

When former British Prime Minister, Teresa May, proclaimed that she wasn’t opposed to scraping off mold from the top of a jar of jam and eating the product underneath, it sparked a conversation about what mouldy foods were safe to…

New data has shown that slips, trips and falls account for 29% of non-fatal employee injuries. The HSE has released the yearly UK workplace fatality figures, and it poses both positive and negative results. Here, we’ll look at what the…

Manufacturing Employers Improving Support for Bereaved Workers : According to a new study of 2,000 recently bereaved UK employees, the manufacturing sector is doing more than other industries to support employees through bereavement, both immediately following a death and in…

Elmac Technologies, world leaders in the supply of flame and explosion protection products, has secured a partnership agreement in India with Envisafe Protection Technologies. The agreement will see Elmac Technologies further expand their presence in Asia and is another step…