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Divine Chocolate unveils luxury collection
Fairtrade company Divine Chocolate has launched a range of festive chocolate gifts, bars and treats.
Round Up: Processing
Here is your weekly round-up of processing news. Next week’s round-up will focus on Shelf Life news.
FDF awards ceremony recognises industry leaders
The Food and Drink Federation Awards ceremony last night (21 September) showcased the achievements of the UK’s food and drink manufacturing industry.
LacPatrick’s new technology investment to boost exports
Dairy co-operative LacPatrick has unveiled a new operation in Northern Ireland that will allow it to process milk on both sides of the Irish border, specifically for the growing number of customers in the UK.
Anchor flies the British flag
Butter brand Anchor has unveiled a new look to showcase its Britishness.
FDF Awards 2017 shortlist announced
The Food and Drink Federation (FDF) has announced the shortlist for the Food and Drink Federation Awards 2017.
Business news, Food safety, Ingredients, Packaging, Sustainability
Round Up: Packaging
Here is your weekly round-up of packaging news. Next week’s round-up will focus on processing news. To submit an item for inclusion, please contact Carly Wood at [email protected].
Digital solution for traceability and marketing
SIG Combibloc and co-operative Languiru have partnered to launch a digital solution to provide transparency for quality and food safety, optimising production processes and enabling personalised digital marketing promotions.
RCMA Group invests in sustainable rapeseed processing facility
The RCMA Group has announced it is constructing a new rapeseed processing plant near Stratford upon Avon, UK.
From fresh to frozen
Bühler Sortex optical sorting technology plays a dual role at Pinguin Foods in Norfolk, UK, to safeguard pea production.
Food safety, Ingredients, Packaging, Regulatory, Sustainability
Ishida solution for chicken products
Three Ishida IX-G2 Dual Energy x-ray inspection systems are providing quality control for chicken breast fillets and deboned thigh meat produced at the Haerland factory of Norway-based Nortura, an agricultural co-operative and the largest supplier of meat and eggs in Norway.
Damage control
In the same week that Nestle announced plans to destroy more than $50 million (£32 million) worth of its Maggi noodles, after India’s food safety regulator found the product contains unsafe levels of lead, the presence of a strain of superbug MRSA in UK supermarket pork was also making headlines.
New flavours
Divine Chocolate has announced two new limited edition additions to its range of 100g bars. The Divine Dark Chocolate with Pear & Ginger and the Milk Chocolate with Spiced Toffee Apple have been created especially for the Christmas period. Made with Fairtrade cocoa from Kuapa Kokoo in Ghana, the co-operative that owns 45% of Divine, […]
Whey and lactose site in motion
Production has begun at a new whey and lactose production facility that is a joint venture between Denmark’s Arla Foods Ingredients and German dairy co-operative Deutsches Milchkontor (DMK). The factory, which cost more than €50 million to build, is operated by ArNoCo, an organisation created by the two companies to produce ingredients for the food […]