Some chefs and bartenders in California are miffed about a new regulation restricting them from handling ready-to-eat foods with their bare hands. At the beginning of January, language in the state's food code changed from directing food ...
Tags: food safety
Specialist Packaging Technologies will focus on customised pre-made pouches. Target markets include consumer product goods, retail food and beverage, personal care, pet products, and medical applications. The division will be headed up by ...
Food products supplier Alliance Grain Traders (AGT) has completely acquired Canada-based retail food packaging firm CLIC International. The transaction includes CLIC's inventory, retail packaging and canning production equipment. It also ...
Tags: CLIC, AGT, Arslan, Murad Al-Katib
Greencore’s full-year results reveal both the resilience of the convenience foods sector, after the horsemeat scandal, and the potential for earnings per share growth next year, according to City analyst Panmure Gordon. Greencore ...
Intelligrated, a North American-based automated material handling solutions provider, has announced the relocation of its software subsidiary company, Knighted, to a new, larger facility in Elmsford, N.Y. The 26,600-square-foot space is ...
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Saffron Road, a packaged food brand owned by American Halal, has added three new flavors to its range of single-use Simmer Sauce pouches. The new Simmer Sauces flavors include, Harissa - Made from piri piri, a red pepper from the Sahara, ...
Tags: Agriculture, Food, Simmer Sauces flavors
2 Sisters Food, a UK-based chicken meat processing company, has selected an in-line high speed tray sealer - the eclipse SL6, from Packaging Automation to heat seal MAP packs of its poultry range. According to Packaging Automation, the ...
Tags: Poultry Packaging, Processing Machinery, Installs Packaging
England based food-manufacturing company 2 Sisters Food Group has sealed the deal for Packaging Automation with the hire of an in-line high speed tray sealer, the eclipse SL6. According to Packaging Automation, the machine, which can seal ...
The levels of acrylamide and furan in UK foods do not increase concern about the risk to human health, according to a new study conducted by the Food Standards Agency (FSA). For the study, nearly samples from 300 products were collected ...
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LED chip and lighting array maker Bridgelux Inc of Livermore, CA, USA has announced the commercial availability of its Vero LED array solid-state light source, which was unveiled last December. All form factors of Vero LED arrays are now ...
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JBT FoodTech, an American food processing machinery provider owned by JBT, has announced that it has signed a canning technologies contract worth $7m with a global food processor. Under the deal, JBT will supply and integrate high speed ...
Tags: JBT Foodtech, Canning Technologies, Food
Finnish manufacturer of meat foods and products HKScan is set to lay off 123 workers at its operations in the country as part of its restructuring plan. Of all the jobs, 49 jobs will be eliminated through permanent layoffs while the ...
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A Lancashire-based meat and poultry supplier has opened a division in Australia after enjoying a record year for sales. Gilberts Foods goes Down Under with a new venture based in Brisbane Gilbert’s Foods supplies the UK’s ...
2 Sisters Food, a UK-based chicken meat processing company, has entered into an agreement to acquire Dutch food firm Vion's red meat and poultry activities for an undisclosed sum. Under the terms of the deal, 2 Sisters Food will acquire ...
Menasha Packaging, a packaging firm based in Wisconsin, US, plans to invest $6m to expand its food packaging business. As a part of the expansion, the company will purchase high-volume printing press from Germany-based Heidelberg ...
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