Wholebake is investing £3m in two new high-speed production lines. The Wrexham manufacturer will lift capability to 360 bars per minute while retaining existing equipment for greater flexibility.
Carbery Group has appointed John O’Brien as its new chair. The dairy farmer and cooperative director takes office during continued investment across cheese, nutrition, flavours, and international processing.
PHAntastic has successfully produced pilot grades of biodegradable PHBV material. The European project is developing mulch films and nursery foams using food-processing residues and biological crop inputs.
SuanNutra will acquire a substantial portfolio of IFF ingredients businesses. The transaction adds botanical extraction, fermented nutrients, colours, antioxidants, flavours, manufacturing facilities, and more than 1,000 customers.
Two Ishida multihead weighers have improved Italian cracker packing performance. Mondelēz has reduced weight variation, giveaway, and product damage while raising equipment efficiency to as much as 98%.
Food Process Engineering has been fined after fatal dismantling failures. Unsupported cleanroom panels collapsed, ejecting a worker from a scissor lift after structural risks were inadequately assessed.
FRITSCH has started construction of a consolidated German headquarters complex. The €75m Iphofen project will combine bakery machinery production, administration, customer trials, and product-development facilities.
Siemens has modularised food robotics around familiar automation software systems. The platform targets flexible filling, depositing, decorating, handling, and packing tasks.
Pladis is extending regenerative wheat visibility across selected McVitie’s packs. Back to Farm now supports more than 50 British growers across 4,000 hectares.
European farmers will receive emergency funding against rising input costs. The €540m package targets fertiliser and energy pressure before 2027 planting decisions.