bakery

 

ROUND-UP: Processing

Here is your weekly round-up of processing news. If you have a news item you would like to submit for next week’s round-up, please contact Carly Wood at carly@bellpublishing.com.

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Warburtons opens £20 million plant

Warburtons today opened its new, dedicated £20 million bakery in Burnley, UK to produce its growing range of sandwich alternatives. With capacity to bake up to 34,000 of its Wraps and Thins products per hour, the sheet and cut line has been built in response to increasing demand for new bakery products. The company was […]

Magnetic gripper

Goudsmit Magnetics has developed a new magnetic gripper intended for high temperature applications, such as those in the bakery industry.

ROUND-UP: Ingredients

Here is your weekly round-up of Ingredients news. If you have a news item you would like to submit for next week’s round-up, please contact Carly Wood at carly@bellpublishing.com.

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Passion fruit flavours launched

Synergy has launched a new range of passion fruit flavours to meet the rise in demand for more exotic tastes. Available in five taste profiles, the range offers manufacturers the flexibility to create new and exciting flavour combinations tailored to suit their needs. Prompted by prominent sporting events such as the Brazil World Cup in […]

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Bakes for lasting fullness

DuPont Nutrition & Health is putting bakery on the weight management map with new opportunities to keep consumers fuller longer and help them reduce their calorie intake overall. Five new concept ideas, each enriched with Litesse polydextrose dietary fibre and Supro soy protein, target weight conscious consumers who want to put hunger on hold. Among […]

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New conveyor system

A new conveyor system for metal detectors has been designed to improve reliability, decrease maintenance and reduce the total cost of ownership for processors of dairy, snacks, meat, poultry, seafood, bakery and prepared foods. The Thermo Scientific Quickfit conveyor was engineered to integrate with the Thermo Scientific APEX metal detectors. Each Quickfit unit is tested […]

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Regulatory concern sees EU drop in digestive product launches

Following a tightening up of claims legislation, particularly in Europe, launches of functional and healthy foods which claim digestive or gut health benefits have suffered a setback in the EU. Over 3.2% of food and drinks launches recorded by Innova Market Insights carried digestive health claims of some kind in 2014, up from just 2.7% […]

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Happy Easter!

It’s April already – Q1 seems to have flown by doesn’t it? – and many are currently enjoying the Easter break; as such, I thought I would make this week’s blog entry a seasonal one. Easter means big business; new research from Mintel has revealed that almost seven in ten (68 per cent) UK consumers […]

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New technologies for Campden BRI

Campden BRI in the UK has expanded its capabilities in emerging technologies with the purchase of a continuous UV-C and the installation of a large scale cold plasma machine. The new installations, which are worth in excess of £100,000, add to existing HPP, power ultrasound and pulsed light equipment at Campden BRI which are available […]

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Pulse-based flours launched

Ingredion has introduced ten new pulse-based flours to enable food manufacturers and retailers to produce new food products that are highly nutritious, protein fortified and certified gluten-free. The Homecraft Pulse flours are made from faba bean, chickpea, yellow lentil or yellow pea. Available in different particle grades, the new flours have differing content levels of […]

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