Category: Features
-
Headed for interpack 2026 and not sure where to start? Start with our unofficial preview guide for visitors. It highlights the sessions, stands, and technologies most worth prioritising in Düsseldorf.
-
Food manufacturers can cut waste by tightening inspection and control. Fortress Technology argues that upstream metal detection, precision checkweighing, automated testing, and connected data tools can reduce false rejects, giveaway, contamination risk, and downtime across production.
-
Hybrid meat offers food manufacturers a pragmatic route to reformulation. Dr Briony Sayers of ACI Group argues that partial meat substitution can improve nutrition, reduce emissions, and retain the taste and cooking performance consumers expect.
-
The April edition of IN Food is available to read. This edition tracks how tighter scrutiny is reshaping food manufacturing across regulation, process control, packaging, poultry, contaminant detection, and EPR.
-
March exposed how fragile food manufacturing economics still really are. Rising energy-linked packaging costs, packaging regulation, and strategic consolidation turned a hoped-for recovery month into a warning about conversion, compliance, and capacity.
-
Packaging innovation now hinges on perception as much as precision. In this expert perspective, Carla Rae, Senior Procurement Manager at PZ Cussons, explains how lightweighting, circularity, and consumer touchpoints are reshaping packaging decisions across premium personal care production.
-
Large-format food lines can conceal costly waste, compliance, and recalls. In this feature, Phil Brown, Sales Director at Fortress Technology Europe, explains how integrated metal detection and checkweighing can reduce giveaway, improve traceability, and protect margins in high-volume food processing.
-
Poorly designed drains remain a persistent contamination risk in plants. This contributed feature examines sanitary drainage design in food and beverage facilities, from layout and materials to installation details that affect hygiene, maintenance, and operational resilience.
-
Cleanability is becoming central to food equipment buying decisions today. As labour shortages and tighter sanitation demands reshape food production, hygienic design is moving from compliance detail to operational priority.
-
February forced food manufacturers to price packaging compliance properly again. UK EPR fees were confirmed, DRS logo requirements pushed artwork decisions, and EU packaging and chemical rules kept tightening. Recycled-content accounting shifted, while a high-profile infant formula contamination episode refocused attention on ingredient risk.