Category: Processing
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Framptons has returned to profit following renewed plant investment work. A third Tetra Edge A3 line will add 40m units of production capacity.
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GEA has opened its Sarstedt centre for food biotech scale-up. The €4m facility supports pilot development across fermentation, cell cultivation, filtration, separation, and hygienic process design.
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Q2 tested food manufacturers’ exposure to regulation, ingredients, and costs. Distilled examines the deals, packaging rules, reformulation pressure, trade weakness, and safety incidents that shaped production planning.
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Cranswick has automated pigs-in-blankets packing with robotic handling equipment technology. The end-of-line system uses autonox robots and Rockwell Automation controls to place products into packs at up to 240 pieces per minute.
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Sveba Dahlen will join Midera Food Processing this coming summer. The move places the bakery equipment manufacturer inside a focused group spanning protein, bakery, snack, automation, thermal processing, and packaging technologies.
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BW Packaging is bringing Hayssen X850 flow wrapping into Europe. The Hayssen system targets cheese and food applications requiring high seal integrity, washdown construction, gas flushing, and compatibility with recyclable materials.
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Newon Food is expanding protein bar production capacity in Lithuania. The €3.5m investment lifts annual capacity to 50 million bars and adds capability for softer, layered, no-added-sugar, and protein-fortified snack formats.
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Extreme heat is testing resilience across refrigerated food supply chains. The Cold Chain Federation has warned that higher temperatures are increasing pressure on cold storage, refrigerated transport, energy demand, and contingency planning.
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Ferrara’s expansion strategy puts confectionery manufacturing capacity back in focus. The company is targeting international markets, acquisitions, brand innovation, and production investment as sugar confectionery faces higher cost, ingredient, packaging, and execution pressure.
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Germany’s proposed sugar levy is shifting beverage reformulation calculations again. More than 300 drinks companies have opposed the plan, citing cost, administration, packaging, logistics, and consumer-price pressure.