Big brands are launching "free-from" ranges globally The 'free-from' foods market is booming in many parts of the world, widening into new categories and increasingly moving into the mainstream with introductions from major food ...
Tags: Agriculture, Food
The Food Standards Agency (FSA) has today confirmed details of a new round of tests of beef products for horse meat contamination. The tests have been requested by the European Commission as part of the follow-up to last year's horse meat ...
Tags: FSA, certification, Agriculture, Food
Flint-based Creative Foods is set to cease ready meals operations in Flintshire, north Wales, a move which will affect around 150 staff. Located in Aber Industrial Estate, the plant manufactures frozen ready meals, sauces, soups and pasta ...
Tags: Creative Foods, Ready Meals
JBT FoodTech, an American food processing machinery provider owned by JBT, has launched the modified version of its Double D Revorack Multi-Purpose Cooke The modified cooker is claimed to allow food manufacturers increase capacity by up ...
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The Whistling Chef packs stand out – fresh, fun, 'natural' and inviting – in store. MicVac is the name of the packaging in which The Whistling Chef's ready meals are presented. It works like a mini pressure cooker to preserve ...
Cavaghan & Gray, owned by UK-based 2 Sisters Food, has outlined plans to expand its ready meals production facility at Riverbank, Carlise, Cumbria. The expansion follows the company securing a new ready-to-cook fish meals supply contract. ...
In July last year, Domino Printing Sciences launched a fast-drying ink to accommodate the newly released EU Falsified Medicines Directive (FMD) and US legislation. "Under the legislation pharmaceutical product will be authenticated at the ...
Norwegian food manufacturer Fjordland has unveiled the new ConviTray concept ready meal packaging tray in collaboration with Swiss packaging development company Comvince and UK-based Nicholl Food Packaging. ConviTray, which has ovenable ...
Tags: Ready Meal, Packaging
Danish Crown has decided to close its deboning department and its subsidiary Tulip food’s ready meals production in Faaborg due to non-competitiveness in the current production set-up and as part of its comprehensive structural plan ...
Tags: Danish Crown, deboning department
Packaging products provider Clondalkin Wentus has launched a new skin-tight film, WENTOPRO-SkinTight, for the food processing industry. The new film is said to provide long shelf life and high barrier properties, and can be used for ...
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Bakkavor, a UK-based chilled prepared foods manufacturer, has sold its Spring Valley Foods business in South Africa to In2food Group for an undisclosed sum. Established in 1995, Spring Valley Foods supplies fresh prepared fruit to Marks ...
Air Products, a US-based gases and chemicals provider, has unveiled a new method which uses liquid nitrogen to control the temperature of foods, while they are being processed. The procedure is claimed to enhance the quality of food ...
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The firm says the spike in business activity was not just seasonal, but "an underlying increase in general sales". Simon Balderson, Sirane managing director, said: "New innovations are starting to take off, and we've put a lot of energy ...
Spanish firm Sirane has developed Sira-Cook Supreme bag, a new packaging solution for 'BARBECUE ready meal.' Suitable for both oven and barbecue, as well as hot-plate or griddle, the Sira-Cook Supreme bag can be fully heat-sealed allowing ...
Tags: Barbecue Ready Meals, Sirane
Global marketing services firm HH Global has launched a new peelable lidding film solution for ready meals, named Lidd. The new patented film solution, developed by a collaboration of HH Global and Parkside Flexibles (Europe), phases ...
Tags: Ready Meals, Lidding Film Solution