Greggs scraps £30M frozen food plant
Greggs has shelved plans to build a £30M frozen food factory, which had previously been hailed as key to expanding its business with supermarkets, as it targets a food to go strategy.
Archives for August 6, 2013
Purple rain: Purple corn craze moves from snacks to beer, bread, confectionery and popcorn
A Minnesota-based firm making waves with anthocyanin-packed purple-corn ingredients says it has had significant interest from the snack food market, but is also talking to microbrewers, confectioners, and firms manufacturing everything from sourdough to...
Manufacturers could slice bread baking times by 20%, finds research
Manufacturers could reduce baking times by 20% with financial and environmental benefits for baking companies as it may help to reduce gas usage in the production process.
Medical foods: Joint efforts are needed on low-protein cereal
There is a great market opportunity for industry and food technologists to collaborate with medical nutrition specialists in order to provide new and improved low-protein cereal-based goods for people with specific medical conditions, say researchers.
Water treatment receives OK from EPA
Blue Earth Labs has attained EPA registration for its Clearitas treatments for primary disinfecting in commercial water treatment.
More layoffs at Kellogg Memphis plant: ‘We have more capacity and resources than necessary to operate the plant’
Kellogg has confirmed there will be further job cuts at its cereals factory in Memphis in the coming weeks as part of a round of layoffs first announced in April, but says the plant as a whole has a viable future.
Negri Bossi gets into robotic action for K 2013
Negri Bossi will be showcasing eight integrated production centers featuring machines with two-platen and toggle-clamp injection technology at K 2013.
Nothing fishy as humidifier reduces evaporative weight loss
JS Humidifiers has helped a refrigerated equipment firm prevent up to 8.5 tonnes of product evaporating each day between cooking and canning at a fish producer.
How did Kellogg’s Asian agri-partner Wilmar slip through the sustainable palm oil net?
The Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) is not in a position to monitor over 1,100 members from more than 60 countries, but it does take violations extremely seriously, its secretary general says.