Category: Technology
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Meat processors face pressure to automate portioning, packing, and labelling. JBT Marel’s expanded line offer links crust freezing, cutting, weighing, tray packing, sealing, price labelling, and case packing into a single configured production flow.
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Fresh produce packing needs speed without product damage. ULMA Packaging UK will showcase VFFS technology with Venturi air-assisted handling for leafy salad and delicate produce applications.
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NORD DRIVESYSTEMS has developed NXD tupH surface protection for aluminium drive systems used in food, beverage, and primary packaging applications exposed to wash-down cleaning.
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Xampla’s Morro plant-polymer coating has moved further into the UK packaging policy debate as natural polymer materials scale into food packaging applications.
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VIV Europe 2026 closed its 25th edition in Utrecht with nearly 15,000 professional visitors, 461 exhibitors, and a new biannual cycle for the feed-to-food sector.
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Paranova has completed a £5m expansion of its St Neots operation, adding 2,000 square metres and new converting capability for fibre-based food-to-go packaging.
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Rising fibre demand is creating new opportunities for ingredient suppliers, while food manufacturers balance gut-health positioning with processing performance, texture, labelling, cost, and claims.
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Domino’s Pizza Group has opened a £25m Avonmouth supply chain centre to increase capacity across South West England and Wales, with automation planned by early 2027.
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Raisio has secured €1.8m from Business Finland for a four-year project to develop functional fibre ingredients from grain processing side streams, with pilot-plant scale-up planned at Raisionkaari.
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Ingredion has acquired Benicaros, a patented prebiotic fibre made from upcycled carrot pomace, strengthening its functional ingredients portfolio with manufacturing know-how, clinical data, and intellectual property.