Process industries

 Melt&Marble has been selected to receive a prestigious €2.5m grant and potential future equity investment by the European Innovation Council (EIC), accelerating its journey to commercialise fermentation-based fats. The EIC’s recognition underscores the groundbreaking nature of Melt&Marble’s precision fermentation and microbial engineering platform, which promises to deliver healthy energy- and resource-efficient, low-emission foods, the maker of…

dsm-firmenich has expanded Sustell, a life cycle assessment (LCA) platform for animal protein, to meet the environmental footprinting needs of the beef industry. Sustell can enable targeted reduction programs that are both cost-effective and tied to genuine sustainability improvement. Sustell for beef encompasses all stages of beef production, including cow/calf operations for breeding and growing…

The Cold Chain Federation (CCF) and the British Frozen Food Federation (BFFF) have joined The Move to -15°C, a global coalition campaigning for the temperature at which frozen food is stored and transported to be increased from -18 to -15 degrees celsius. Recent studies show that temperature increases do not compromise food safety or quality,…

An instant noodle meal producer has recently turned up the dial on its packaging operation and has uncovered savings in wrapping materials as an added bonus. When its previous side sealer packaging line became increasingly unreliable, the well-known food production facility looked to YPS to propose a replacement. Line speed was always going to be…

Nim’s Let’s Bake and Let’s Cook range. Posted: 5 August 2024 Share this page One of the UK’s pioneering food companies has rebranded after launching its 65th product. ‘Nim’s…Naturally’ has been registered by entrepreneur Nimisha Raja MBE to reflect the company’s growing range of products that have diversified from air-dried fruit and vegetable crisps to…

Omron will showcase the smarter, faster, more efficient future of manufacturing at this year’s Packaging Machinery and Manufacturing (PPMA) Show. To be held at the National Exhibition Centre (NEC), Birmingham, from 24th to 26th September, PPMA 2024 is the UK’s largest event for the processing equipment, packaging machinery, industrial robots, and machine vision system sector.…

The Italian automatic packaging and wrapping machinery market continues to flourish, increasing exponentially year after year and recording a total turnover of €9.229 billion during 2023, which marks an 8% rise against the previous year – and after 2021 and 2022, this is the third record in a row. This data was reported by Mecs…

SodaStream has expanded its range to include three new flavours – Cloudy Lemonade, Orange Mango, and Passionfruit. To launch the new range, it has partnered with celebrity bartender Merlin Griffiths on a summer drinks menu, consisting of two mocktails and one cocktail. Each recipe is accompanied by a tutorial video, making it easy to recreate…

Innovia Films, a material science pioneer and major producer of BOPP films, has announced the launch of a new solution for large format in-mould labelling containers. RayoForm ELR70 is a 5-layer semi-cavitated, one side matt and one side gloss film offering a reduction is density versus standard white films. “The high stiffness of the film…