Category: Markets
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JBM Packaging has opened new contract-packing capacity in southwest Ohio. The 52,500-square-foot Lebanon facility adds filling, kitting, warehousing, and packaging capability while releasing space at the company’s existing headquarters for further paper-packaging equipment.
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deltaH has moved its self-cooling beverage can towards commercial launch. Brains Brewery’s Bayside Welsh Lager will provide a branded application of the system, which uses a contained endothermic reaction to cool the drink without conventional refrigeration.
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Fylde Fresh has secured new backing through a management buyout. Chiltern Capital has taken a controlling stake in the prepared-produce processor, which handles around 1,000 tonnes each week across its Preston and Leeds operations.
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UK food supply resilience remains untested against catastrophic national disruption. The National Audit Office says recent shocks were absorbed largely by industry, but government preparedness has not kept pace with more severe risks.
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David Wood Baking has been fined after a conveyor injury. A worker suffered multiple fractures after becoming trapped in an unguarded roller while cleaning a sausage-roll production line at the company’s Sheerness factory.
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Danone has completed its acquisition of UK nutrition brand Huel. Completion shifts the transaction from regulatory review towards integration of a product portfolio spanning powders, ready-to-drink formats, meals, bars, and functional beverages.
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FrieslandCampina has completed two major upgrades at its Gerkesklooster site. The Dutch cheese plant now combines streamlined milk reception with upgraded whey processing intended to improve resource efficiency and increase the value recovered from milk streams.
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Jacksons has launched sliced sourdough after investing in manufacturing capacity. Specialist equipment has enabled production the Yorkshire bakery could not previously undertake as it enters a growing retail bread category.
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Nestlé plans a new Brazilian factory for infant formula production. The R$600m Ituiutaba development forms part of a R$2bn nutrition and health investment programme running through 2028.
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Production has ended at Kellanova’s historic Trafford Park cereal factory. Around 360 jobs are affected as manufacturing transfers to Wrexham following a closure process first announced in 2024.