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Dartmouth Foods has a proud heritage. From smoking fresh fish in early 2000, under the Dartmouth Smokehouse brand, to growing and evolving into the leading supplier of premium cooked shredded meat and poultry in 2023.

Today they provide relevant and competitive product solutions for sandwich manufacturing, supplying to partner customers from their bespoke fresh food manufacturing facility in Plymouth.

At the heart of their business is a passion for food. They specialise in providing their innovative cooked solutions through their rotisserie style, slow-cooked steam, roast and bake process, delivering a succulent and full-flavoured product. Their second bag cook process provides a fully pasteurised product, ensuring food safety. State of the art X-ray equipment eliminates bone contamination and all of their products are metal detected before despatch.

Their dedicated innovation team continue to create high quality, nutritious and versatile fillings for sandwiches, wraps, subs, baps, pittas and tacos. All customer products are individually developed to meet their customers’ needs, from plain to flavoured options.

Building on the success of their double-cooked process for duck, they have recently expanded their product range to include cooked shredded and diced chicken. They have carefully developed a range of cooked options, which deliver a succulent and moreish roasted flavour.

They are passionate about offering premium quality and their hand-pulled cooked products ensures that only the prime meat pieces are selected, before being hand or machine shredded or diced for the required piece size. Proportions of light and dark meat are selected and are subject to customer specification requirements.

A subsidiary of Jenton International and celebrating 40 years of packaging innovation, Soken Engineering specialises in manufacturing heat sealing packing systems.

Rather than packing food to go in takeaway cartons or boxes with presson lids, that can be prone to air leaks and fast-track spoiling, Soken systems consistently achieve the perfect tamper evident pack seal on the widest variety of lunch and snack products. Including wedge sandwiches, baguettes, bagels, sushi, platters, ready meals and other grab and go culinary lunchtime variations and airline catering packs.

With only a simple tool change, lunch, sandwich and catering suppliers, including cafés, garden centres, healthcare and workplace catering facilities, and businesses supplying garage forecourts and drive-thrus, now only need to invest in a single system to improve pack presentation, hygiene and preserve foods by up-to three days. Putting an end to preventable food waste and subsequent lost profits.

The Soken range comprises 20+ top seal, film seal and card seal machines from simple hand operated single pack sealer bench top machines to semi-automatic multi-tool drawer units to high-speed automatic machines capable of sealing thousands of packs per hour. All built in Britain, Soken’s robust machines can be supplied with easy change tooling. Enabling our customers to adapt to evolving packaging and sealing requirements.

All of the Soken machines and tools are designed and manufactured inhouse. Benefitting customers seeking reliable and bespoke heat-sealing packing systems and applicationspecific tools with a fast turnaround.

The strength and success of Dartmouth Foods is based on trust. Their customers trust them to provide safe, quality products, which meet the needs of their customers. They are proud of their rigorous food safety, technical, quality controls and high BRC AA rated standards. All of their raw materials are sourced from reputable UK and EU suppliers and are benchmarked against British Red Tractor standards.

As a responsible, inclusive, open and fair business, employee satisfaction is paramount and it is their people who make the difference and make Dartmouth Foods the great business that it is today.

Dartmouth Foods

Contact: Greg Choulerton Tel: 01803 833123 greg.choulerton@dartmouthfoods.co.uk www.dartmouthfoods.co.uk

For added convenience, Soken also supplies an extensive range of standard and bespoke packaging consumables. Including eco-friendly sandwich packs, ready meal trays with lidding film, and salad boxes.

All Soken equipment is backed by a one year return-to-base warranty. Further improving the machines environmental and sustainability credentials.

Soken Engineering

Contact: Stephen Hawes Tel: 01256 892 194 shawes@jenton.co.uk www.sokenengineering.com