Process industries


  • New IFF Co-creation Center to redefine food and beverages in South Korea

    IFF has brought together its flavour and ingredient expertise with food design capabilities to deliver innovations to customers in South Korea. The company said the opening of its first dedicated food and beverage lab in Gangnam, Seoul, South Korea, reinforces the company’s commitment to Be the Premier Partner.​ The new centre will support beverage, culinary,…


  • GEA unveils industrial fryer of the future for high-quality fried foods

    Main image: GEA ProFry: GEAs new industrial fryer for high-quality fried foods. Top left: High-quality deep-fried fish sticks with the GEA. Middle: Deep-fried mozzarella sticks – processed to a high standard with the new GEA ProFry deep-frying system. Top right: High-quality fried chicken with the new fryer, GEA ProFry. Source: GEA Posted: 9 November 2023…


  • French pasta manufacturer reduces heating costs by 68%

    Saint Jean, a French pasta manufacturer has seen the cost of generating heat drop by approximately 68% from over €8,400 to €2,640, contributing also to lowering the carbon footprint of the plant and more sustainable operations by shutting down a gas boiler, and replacing it with heat pumps. Since 1935, Saint Jean is an organisation…


  • Maximising safety during a turnaround

    By Sarah Martin, President, Honeywell Sensing & Safety Technologies Turnarounds at oil and gas refineries, chemical plants, power facilities and other industrial facilities are necessary events that require significant planning. They are essential to keeping all equipment performing at its best. These preventive maintenance times, usually occurring in the spring or autumn when the weather is mildest, can…


  • Fever-Tree’s new cocktail mixers: the ultimate hosting hack for festive fun

    Fever-Tree is encouraging consumers to elevate their festive hosting game with its cocktail mixers, which are a new addition for Christmas 2023. In a year where approximately 64% of consumers are enjoying cocktails at home (source: Bacardi Cocktail Trends Report 2023), busy hosts can now have it all. Serving Mojitos, Margaritas, and Espresso Martinis has…


  • ABS Approves New FPSO Newbuild Hull Design Concept

    Classification society ABS announced it has granted approval in principle (AIP) for a the Sterling Streamline, a next generation concept design for large floating production storage and offloading unit (FPSO) newbuild hulls from India’s Shapoorji Pallonji Energy (SPE). The design features flexible mooring configurations, 60 risers and an umbilical slots riser balcony, with an oil…


  • Kalsec launches R&D lab at Wageningen

    Ribbon cutting ceremony of the new lab and office facilities with Roger Nahas, Ph.D., Kalsec’s executive vice president of global R&D and chief innovation officer; Martha Todd, chair of board of directors; and Julie Heine, president and chief commercial officer. Posted: 8 November 2023 Share this page Kalsec is expanding its existing footprint on the…


  • Arla Foods Ingredients targets healthy ageing with milk powder recipes

    Arla Foods Ingredients is helping manufacturers meet growing demand for formulated milk powders targeting healthy ageing. Advanced Nutrition Manufacturing – Arla Foods Ingredients’ manufacturing division, which is well known as a third party provider of infant nutrition products – also has the capacity to produce formulated milk powders for adults on a private label basis.…


  • Quaker Oats switches to paper packaging for porridge pots

    Quaker Oats has rolled out new paper packaging across its entire range of porridge pots. The move is set to reduce the brand’s use of virgin plastic by up to 200 tonnes each year [calculated by reference to the estimated volume of Quaker pots to be manufactured in 2023] and make it easier for people…


  • Aker Solutions to Deliver HVDC Offshore Platform for 1.4GW Offshore Wind Farm in UK

    Norway-based Aker Solutions, a provider of solutions, products, and services to the global energy industry, has been awarded a limited notice to proceed contract from Vattenfall for the Norfolk Vanguard West Offshore Wind Farm off the coast of Norfolk, UK.  The contract has a balanced risk-reward profile based on principles for long-term collaboration.  Located more…