Category: Processing
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Premier Foods has increased capital investment to £52m after stronger profits and lower debt, with site efficiency, energy performance, and branded sweet treats central to its manufacturing outlook.
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Ingredion has made a conditional cash proposal for Tate & Lyle, raising the prospect of a major ingredients-sector deal across sweetening, texture, fortification, and speciality food systems.
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Lotus Bakeries has begun construction on a new production hall at Lembeke, expanding the Belgian site behind Biscoff’s European manufacturing base as global demand continues to rise.
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GEA has introduced a new thermoforming platform for medium-sized food producers, targeting flexible formats, stable output, and lower operational complexity across meat, dairy, bakery, ready meals, and plant-based foods.
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has finalised its post-market food chemical safety assessment programme and opened reassessments of BHT and azodicarbonamide, increasing scrutiny of preservatives, dough conditioners, and food-contact material applications.
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Austria Juice has introduced a yeast fermentation process that reduces sugar and calories in 100% fruit juice by at least 30%, giving beverage manufacturers a route into reduced-sugar juice ahead of new EU category rules.
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Ingredion’s Argo disruption exposed sweetener processing reliability risks in America. Production challenges, rework, maintenance, and logistics costs weighed on the company’s US and Canada Food & Industrial Ingredients business in the first quarter.
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Rockwell and Actemium are cutting refrigeration energy in frozen production. Their PlantPAx-based AI application has delivered a 17% energy saving for a frozen French fry producer, pointing to a more autonomous model for industrial refrigeration control.
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Sunrise Beverages is scaling Days inside the alcohol-free beer category. The deal adds a 0.0% beer brand to a UK drinks portfolio already spanning imported beers and several British breweries.
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Diageo is expanding Irish brewing capacity around Guinness export demand. The Littleconnell investment adds lager, ale, Guinness, and Guinness 0.0 production capacity as global beer growth puts fresh pressure on brewing infrastructure.