Signs point to smart packaging success: AIPIA
The Active and Intelligent Packaging Industry Association indicate the future looks bright for active and intelligent food packaging technologies.
Archives for August 5, 2014
Watt’s gets a handle on efficiency with JDA software
A large food and beverage processing company in Chile has installed manufacturing planning software to streamline its end-to-end operations.
Haydens Bakery aims to avoid troubles like Avana
Haydens Bakery has restructured its operations by securing more contracts to safeguard jobs and prevent a similar situation to 2 Sisters’ Avana Bakeries site, where 650 jobs were at risk.
EU health claims – lining functional coffins or an unseen silver lining?
The EU nutrition and health claims regulation (NHCR) put many health-related product marketeers noses out of joint. But having survived two years since legislative enforcement, are we now witnessing a positive and unpredicted consequence? argues...
Honeytop denies Channel 4 health and safety allegations
Honeytop Speciality Foods denies Channel 4 health and safety allegations of blocked exits and unruly conditions describing them as ‘misleading’ and ‘speculative’.
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Weetabix announces 30 redundancies
Weetabix will make 30 roles at its Northamptonshire sites redundant in response to increasing pressure from supermarket own-label products and the discounters, it has announced.
Allied Bakeries plant closure plan could hit 170 jobs
The closure of Allied Bakeries’ Orpington plant in Kent threatens up to 170 jobs and local MP Jo Johnson has demanded answers from Allied’s parent company Associated British Foods (ABF).