Category: Operations
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TraceGains will hold its virtual Together 2026 conference on 20 May, using the event to push a connected-data model for compliance, innovation, and supply-chain workflows across food and beverage operations.
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Bakers Basco has doubled tracker deployment across Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland after a fresh enforcement push recovered more than 2,400 bakery assets and uncovered concentrated misuse linked to unauthorised supply activity in Belfast.
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Tesco and RenEco have started processing surplus bakery and produce at Chelveston into animal feed, with the site designed to handle packaged materials and bulk volumes from food manufacturing as well as store returns.
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Harrogate Spring Water faces a decisive planning vote over its Harrogate bottling plant expansion, with critics arguing the loss of Rotary Wood sits uneasily beside Danone’s forest commitments and wider corporate nature claims.
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AIC has set out new fertiliser priorities for ministers. Finance, CBAM clarity, and market visibility remain central to the UK input outlook.
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Mackie’s of Scotland has acquired a 50,000 sq ft distribution facility in Kintore, adding storage and dispatch capacity closer to its Aberdeenshire production base.
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Digital twin platforms are moving further into food manufacturing maintenance programs as plants connect more assets, sharpen anomaly detection, and push predictive tools beyond early pilot stage.
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Food and drink manufacturers are slowing refrigeration and cooling upgrades as F-gas compliance tightens, leaving older plant in service for longer and pushing refrigerant strategy higher up the investment agenda.
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FDF now expects much sharper food price rises this year. Its revised forecast points to 9% to 10% food and non-alcoholic drink inflation by December 2026, up from a previous 3.2% outlook.
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Apetito has secured approval for its new Kitchen West plant. The £100m-plus Trowbridge project is set to add meal production capacity while keeping the company’s existing Canal Road kitchens running.