Category: Operations
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ystral has opened a new ATEX-compliant trial centre in Germany, expanding customer testing capacity for mixing, dispersing, powder wetting, and process development across food and other industries.
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Soil Capital’s European farm dataset suggests regenerative practices reduced drought-related yield losses, giving food manufacturers a sharper data point on raw material resilience and sourcing risk.
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Longer contracts are becoming supply-chain infrastructure. Lidl GB has committed £500m to British berry sourcing over five years, giving growers more certainty as cost, labour, and climate pressure persist.
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A wide frozen food alert has hit UK businesses. All frozen products sold under Inarah’s Frozen Foods, Inarah’s Fine Foods, and New York Crispy labels should be withdrawn and not consumed.
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Food processing software is shifting into operating budgets. JBT Marel has introduced a subscription model for processors seeking lower-risk access to production data, traceability, support, training, and upgrades.
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Packaged former foodstuffs are moving further into feed systems. Trotec’s LIFE F3 project has added capacity, expanded recycling routes, and opened a replication path in Poland and Spain.
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Valio has appointed Matti Lehmus as CEO from January 2027, with Annikka Hurme retiring after more than a decade leading the Finnish dairy company.
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Garden Biopharmaceutical has appointed Denkavit Ingredients as exclusive distributor for feed additive vitamins across Europe, strengthening routes to market for animal nutrition products used in livestock production.
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Authorities in Attica seized more than 5.3 tonnes of unsuitable animal-origin products after tracing a suspected foodborne illness case to a meat processing and trading facility.
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The Food and Drink Federation says members’ branded products now contribute less salt, sugar, and calories to the British grocery market than in 2021, while urging government to pause planned nutrient profiling changes.