Category: Processing
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Ready-to-eat food controls are moving deeper into product design work. Danish researchers propose a voluntary label for products proven to prevent Listeria growth during shelf life.
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2 Sisters has appointed Sarah Bull to lead meals development. The appointment strengthens chilled prepared foods NPD capability as convenience manufacturing faces consolidation, retailer pressure, reformulation demands, and tighter supply expectations.
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Mr Whippy is building its Sheffield doughnut manufacturing team further. The £15m automated site is expected to produce more than 104m doughnuts annually, with production, packing, and dispatch under one roof.
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Old El Paso has reformulated its crunchy taco shell range. The updated shells use whole corn kernels and nixtamalisation, supported by a wider UK launch across kits, sauces, and gluten free wraps.
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Nestlé will reformulate KitKat across continental Europe from 2027 onwards. The new recipe adds hazelnut notes and a crispier texture, while the UK version will remain unchanged.
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Italian packaging and processing machinery revenue approached €10.5bn during 2025. Food and beverage remained the largest end-use markets, reinforcing the sector’s importance to European automation, packaging, and line integration.
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Tetra Pak has launched its first industrial fermentation bioreactor system. The Bioreactor RF supports New Food and ingredient scale up, using magnetic agitation, automated controls, and vessel sizes from 10 to 50,000 litres.
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Brainr has raised fresh capital for meat processing software expansion. The Portuguese developer will use a €1.5m extension from Portugal Ventures to scale its factory operating system across meat plants and adjacent food manufacturing sectors.
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Carlsberg and Sapporo are expanding their global brewing partnership platform. The agreement covers Southeast Asia, Hong Kong, UK production and distribution rights, and long-term growth for Sapporo Premium Beer.
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Apetit is changing energy ownership at its Kantvik processing site. The Finnish food company will sell its biosteam plant to Adven under a long-term steam supply agreement beginning in 2027.