Process industries


  • Food industry must prepare for new era of risk management, warns LRQA

    Ahead of the Global Food Safety Initiative (GFSI) Conference 2024 in April, leading global assurance partner, LRQA, is warning that food businesses need to uphold regulatory obligations and meet consumer expectations of safe, authentic, high-quality products and demonstrate integrity across their supply chain. In the age of Assurance 4.0 – the new era of risk…


  • Mooreast to Anchor Floating Offshore Wind Farm in Southern France

    Apr 2, 2024 © Qair / File image Singapore-based mooring and anchoring specialist Mooreast Holdings has secured an order to supply its proprietary anchors for Eolmed pre-commercial floating offshore wind farm. Mooreast has partnered with French installation contractor Bourbon Offshore to supply Mooreast’s MA5S mooring drag anchors for the Eolmed project located off the Port-La…


  • The Sidemen and New World Foods launch Sides Strips

    New World Foods, the healthy snacking company of Valeo Foods Group, has announced Sides, its first in a series of product collaborations with YouTube sensation the Sidemen. The high-protein, low-calorie meat snacks come in three flavours; Buffalo Chicken, Chipotle Steak and Korean BBQ Steak – and are inspired by the Sidemen chicken shops (of the…


  • Too hot to handle – pub chain launches new dining experience with flaming food and fire marshalls

    Flaming Grill pubs, the experts in grilled food, has launched a new range of dishes to quite literally bring the flame from the grill to its customers, serving every meal on fire. Every diner must now sign a legal waiver upon ordering, with each delicious flame grilled delicacy brought to the table straight from the…


  • Crosta & Mollica announces major rebrand to Crust & Crumb

    Today, modern Italian food brand Crosta & Mollica unveils a major rebrand as it announces a name refresh to Crust & Crumb, the direct English translation of Crosta & Mollica. The name change follows the brand’s disappointment with consumers’ continuous tongue twisting attempts to pronounce its Italian name. Instead, Brits are commonly referring to the…


  • UK’s only blue raspberry farm opens it’s doors and reveals secrets to growing ultra rare fruit

    Funkin Fruit Farm – the only farm in the UK to grow the rare Blue Raspberry – is opening its doors to eager fruit pickers for the very first time today. Spread across a two-hectare plot in the English countryside, Funkin Fruit Farm is offering the public the chance to pick its Blue Raspberries for…


  • MODEC Gets FEED Job for Shell’s Gato do Mato FPSO

    Apr 1, 2024 (Credit: MODEC) MODEC has secured the Front-End Engineering and Design (FEED) contract for a floating production storage and offloading (FPSO) system for Shell’s Gato do Mato development, offshore Brazil. Gato do Mato FPSO will be moored at a water depth of approximately 2,000 meters, some 250 kilometers off the coast of Brazil.…


  • Tomra Recycling unveils applications to differentiate food-grade from non-food-grade plastics

    Tomra’s GAIN technology – today rebranded GAINnext to pay tribute to the product’s significant evolution – resolves all of these challenges by further enhancing the sorting performance of the company’s Autosort units so they are capable of identifying objects that are hard and, in some cases, even impossible to classify using traditional optical waste sensors.…


  • Mitsui to Develop Vietnam Gas Field for 0 Million

    Mar 29, 2024 (Image: Mitsui & Co) Japanese trading house Mitsui & Co said on Friday it has reached a final investment decision to develop Vietnam’s Block B gas field, with its share of development cost of about $740 million. The project, 330 km (205 miles) off southwest Vietnam, will comprise a gas field and…


  • Discover cutting-edge automation and robotics technologies at Automation UK

    In less than three months’ time Automation UK will return to the CBS Arena in Coventry on 18-19 June. This event is recognised for bringing industrial automation and robotics to life. The wide spectrum of features in the show ensures it delivers something for everyone. This includes showcasing the very latest innovative technologies and solutions,…