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New & Used Food Machines All With Warranty Bowl Cutters Bowl Cutters Used Fatosa 75 litre Bowl Cutter, Year 2010 Used Rex 200 litre Bowl Cutter s/s bowl Used 200 litre Black Bowl Cutter, s/s exterior New Fatosa 20 litre Bowl Cutter s/s bowl New Fatosa 35 litre Bowl cutter s/s bowl

Mincers and Mixer Grinders Used Butcher Boy 56 Mincer, flat pan, floor standing Used Hobart 56 Mincer, flat pan, floor standing Used Biro AFMG 52 Mixer Grinder, 90 Kg hopper Used Wolfking Valiant Mixer grinder, 140 mm plate size New Fatosa 160 mm Mincer, cross feed type Used Laska 160 Self Feed Mincer Used Weiler 1107 Grinder, whole block or flaked meat

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MESSAGE FROM THE EDITOR At last it looks as though the supermarkets have realised that we do not all want two packs for the price of one, the famous BOGOF deal, so hopefully for most people needing less rather than more, we shall now reduce the amount of food waste. At least it is a start.

It is noticeable that the pricing strategy at supermarkets is now all over the place, it is little wonder that the food manufacturers and particularly the suppliers of fresh fruit and vegetables are not that happy with their ‘remuneration’.

Next, up we come to my hardy perennial, packaging and packaging waste.

It appears that quite a few local authorities in the UK now collect from households, who are required to sort into different bins and boxes, but the collectors now put everything together – for re-sorting later presumably.

There are many new developments in the packaging industry and undoubtedly we will be able to see even more at the forthcoming Interpack Show in Düsseldorf this May. There are numerous new ideas for creating packs for the ever-increasing ready meals markets of the world as the new product developers of our food industry deliver ever better products, ever more adventurous dishes. The burgeoning middle class in India and China are creating an expanding market for better quality products that are better packaged, in particular they are looking for prepared meals.

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inefficient door Union Industries, the UK market leading manufacturer of industrial rapid roll doors, has helped E Oldroyd and Sons close the door on inefficient insulation following the installation of a Matadoor.

Union Industries was selected by E Oldroyd & Sons to help improve the temperature control within its rhubarb storage facility.

Producers and packers of high quality fruit and vegetables, E Oldroyd and Sons is renowned for its forced rhubarb production. It sees tourists travel from far and wide to view the rhubarb growing in the dark being harvested by candlelight.

The company was keen to introduce a new system where the newly fitted Matadoor would work in conjunction with the already existing insulated sliding door. This was required as using the stand-alone door was inefficient and time consuming to operate.

Now, during busy periods, the sliding door can be left open as the Matadoor will effectively maintain the low temperature required as it operates at a much faster pace, opening at 1.6m per second and closing automatically after a short open dwell time.

The insulated door is now only required when

the facility is not in operation.

The 2.0m x 2.8m high Matadoor is ideally suited for internal openings with high volume traffic, whether for Forklift trucks, pallet trucks or personnel with trolleys & carts. Its fast opening & closing operating cycle ensures that as little of the cold as possible escapes when gaining access, meaning energy savings & cost reductions on refrigeration.

Paul Chable, Technical Sales Engineer at Union Industries, said: “We are very pleased we have been able to help E Oldroyd & Sons to insulate their storage facility more effectively. The Matadoor is a perfect fit; its heavy duty materials and components mean not only will it insulate but will also prove to help improve hygiene, be very durable and capable of handling heavy usage.”

Lindsay Hulme, Production and Technical Manager, said: “I am delighted with the Matadoor. It has made day to day operations much easier and efficient, both in terms of time and also energy usage spent maintaining the cool temperate. It is very important for us to remain at the forefront of storage solutions as it will increase productivity and also help to improve crop quality.”

Contact Union Industries on tel 0113 244 8393 or visit www.unionindustries.co.uk

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Lindsay Hulme, Production and Technical Manager at E Oldroyd & Son alongside Paul Chable, Technical Sales Engineer at Union Industries.

Bauer extends its services in Scandinavia Bauer Gear Motor, part of Altra Industrial Motion, has opened a new Sales Office in Finland that will act as the first point of contact for all of its Scandinavian customers. The office is located a few minutes away from Helsinki Airport to make direct access to customers throughout the region more readily available.

As Bauer's business continues to grow throughout Europe, it has made the strategic decision to open a new sales office that is close to a major airport to ensure that its staff can easily meet with new and existing customers across Scandinavia. The improved contact is expected to allow Bauer's expert sales engineers to work more closely with their customers during the design and installation stages to maximise the efficiency of the application.

Michael Endermann, Bauer's European Sales Director, commented: “Scandinavia is an important market for us and one that we believe has a lot of potential for further growth. A benefit of being part of Altra Industrial Motion is the stability this creates which affords us the opportunity to invest in new offices that, we believe, will improve our support services. This is an extremely exciting move for us and we look forward to using the opportunity to develop our customer relationships.”

Contact Bauer Gear Motor on tel +49 711 3512 8276 or visit www.bauergears.com

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Cheese Cellar selects Peak-Ryzex

LAC Conveyors’ single belt cooling conveyor LAC Conveyors have installed a 575m long, single belt, spiral-conveyor, for a major UK bakery.

Using the innovative I-Drive technology from Intralox; the main carryway is formed from a single belt, powered by a number of synchronized I-Drive blocks which engage the belt from below with sprockets.

The long belt allows the product 30min to cool down to ambient temperature without the still-delicate products being subjected to the danger of transfer from one belt to another. This eliminates a significant cause of product loss for the bakery.

For long and/or sinuous belt runs the I-

Drive proves especially effective. In this particular spiral format all the drive and controls are easily accessible from inside the spiral, which itself has easy access from the facility floor. Maintenance is very much easier compared to a traditional spiral - reducing possible downtime.

The new conveyor replaces an old spiral one and although much larger than the conveyor it is replacing, most of the new system is elevated off the bakery floor. This allows the space underneath to be used for storage and other functions – enlarging the effective space of the whole facility.

The project value is around £350k.

Contact LAC Conveyors on tel 0115 975 3300 or visit www.lacconveyors.co.uk

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Peak-Ryzex has won a contract with Cheese Cellar to supply and provide managed support for its mobile technology. Peak-Ryzex has supplied Intermec CN70E handheld computers, complementary technology and software to automate the company’s warehouse. The mobility solutions specialist will provide a Wi-Fi network, Zebra barcode label printers, Wavelink Avalanche mobile device management (MDM) software, training and its renowned Next Working Day Exchange service to cover rapid replacement to cover any eventuality of hardware failure.

Cheese Cellar is a long established purveyor of premium cheeses, dairy products and speciality food products. To enhance customer service within the organisation, the company decided to replace its enterprise resource planning (ERP) system and introduce mobile technology with the aim of increasing operational efficiencies across the whole organisation.

The project began with the purchase of handheld devices from Peak-Ryzex to replace the paper-based system used in the company’s warehouse. In addition, Cheese Cellar decided to outsource the full management and maintenance of the handheld computers to Peak-Ryzex. This allowed Cheese Cellar to focus its resources on the ERP upgrade while Peak-Ryzex managed the mobile technology infrastructure project.

“We wanted a company that had a reputation of delivering projects and services of this type. One of the deciding factors was Peak-Ryzex’s management of the devices was not limited to a specific software or software vendor. Peak-Ryzek is able to work with our ERP vendor and there were no restrictions placed on the usability of these devices,” said Stella Coudjoe, Financial Controller, Cheese Cellar.

Cheese Cellar considered many internal factors with the introduction of the new mobile system to a warehouse that had always run on paper. However, with Peak-Ryzex providing training, Cheese Cellar will be able to move forward rapidly with the new implementation.

“We have high expectations from introducing mobile technology into our operations and this will enable us to improve the efficiency of our warehouse operation, which in turn will give our customers an even better customer service than we already provide. We also want to reduce our carbon foot print across our business by removing paper from our operational departments,” added Stella Coudjoe.

Contact Peak-Ryzex on tel 01249 465100 or visit www.uk.peak-ryzex.com

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AVT is cream of the crop for Dairy Crest Dairy Crest Severnside is milking the benefits of a partnership with AV Technology (AVT), the asset integrity specialists. Lubrication and condition-based maintenance services provided by AVT have resulted in enhanced asset reliability as well as a reduction in the cost of maintenance.

Processing more than 500 million litres of milk each year, as well as producing cream and Frijj fresh milk drinks, the Dairy Crest site near Gloucester comprises around 3,000 mechanical assets across milk processing and packing, creamery, buttery and dry powder sectors.

AVT was called in by Dairy Crest to undertake a standardsbased review in 2011, with the aim of identifying areas that could be improved by the implementation of a conditionbased maintenance programme.

Benchmarking the site against ISO 17359 (Condition monitoring and diagnostics of machines – General guidelines) as well as the International Council for Machine Lubrication (ICML) best practice guidelines, AVT’s detailed review uncovered the potential for improvement that Dairy Crest had suspected. A bespoke improvement programme began in September 2011, based on critical equipment at the plant and supported by a full-time, on-site AVT lubrication engineer working alongside one of AVT’s specialist condition monitoring analysts.

AVT’s approach to conditionbased maintenance and lubrication engineering has resulted in considerable reliability improvements for Dairy Crest, as Alberto Ciacciarelli from AVT explained: “The customer’s strategy was to introduce a condition-based maintenance as a natural progression from their existing preventative maintenance programme, in line with their objective to deliver overall equipment effectiveness (OEE) improvements through increased machine reliability and

availability.

“AVT helped Dairy Crest identify three main areas for improvement – lubrication, condition monitoring and environmental controls – and as a result of the improvements made with critical equipment, the scope of our contract was then extended to cover condition-based maintenance and lubrication management for the whole site, a testament to the expertise of the on-site team. With food safety paramount to Dairy Crest, using the services of AVT, the largest provider of lubrication management to the food sector offers additional peace of mind through efficient and effective contamination and waste control measures.”

AVT’s reliability-centred lubrication services, covering specification, storage, handling and dispensing, waste management and spill-kit control have helped Dairy Crest to achieve significant cost savings as well as improving OEE and enabling enhanced maintenance planning. Lubrication engineers also collect critical equipment data for AVT, whose condition monitoring consultants are then able to complete their analysis remotely – a unique service providing a further cost saving for Dairy Crest – and make continuous improvement recommendations to the customer’s maintenance management team.

Alberto Ciacciarelli from AVT added: “AVT’s on-site team, which now comprises two full time engineers covering lubrication, condition-based maintenance and customer support, has become a key partner to Dairy Crest as it expands its capabilities on site.

The next project is the implementation of a new Frijj flavoured milk production line which will be fully integrated into maintenance routines to ensure optimum performance from day one.”

Contact AVT on tel 0161 486 3737 or visit www.avtechnology.co.uk

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UK Minister praises Proseal success The UK Trade and Investment Minister Lord Livingston has opened a new factory for food industry heat sealing specialist Proseal, and praised the contribution such investments make to the UK economy.

Formed by directors Steve Malone and Robbie Hargreaves in 1998, Proseal has not only become the leading manufacturer of tray sealing machinery to all the main food producers in the UK, but is now recognised as a major force internationally, having extended its operation into a number of sites overseas. Last year the company saw a 30 percent increase in turnover while exports during the period doubled.

The new factory opened by Lord Livingston is the third at Proseal’s head-quarters in Adlington, Cheshire. The additional 25,000sq.ft of manufacturing and office space brings the company’s total capacity to in excess of 120,000sq.ft, ten times the size of the original unit when the business relocated to Adlington in 2003. Over the past 12 months, Proseal has also recruited an additional 50 people, bringing its workforce in the UK to 180.

Meanwhile, the company’s US subsidiary has recently opened a new 5,000sq.ft extension to its operation in Richmond, Virginia. The additional space will enable Proseal to produce bespoke tooling on site for all its tray sealer models, providing a faster response to customer orders throughout North America. The company is also opening a facility in Sacramento to provide more localised service and support for customers on the west coast.

In addition, in recent months, Proseal has opened dedicated offices in Poland and Chile

alongside existing operations in Australia and the Netherlands.

Lord Livingston said: "Improving export performance is vital to building a sustainable recovery, and a fundamental part of the government's economic plan. I am very happy to be here, hearing from a company like Proseal who are at the forefront of the export drive.”

Proseal Director, Steve Malone added: “Our success in export markets is evidence of a growing trend towards convenience products for both fresh and ready prepared foods across all territories and markets. This is leading food manufacturers to source packing solutions that combine quality presentation and effective product protection while maintaining fast throughput.”

Proseal has gained a worldwide reputation for tray sealers that offer flexibility, reliability, userfriendliness, hygienic operation and low maintenance. Innovations that the company has introduced over the years include its pioneering ‘Auto Tool’ connection system, intelligent film feed system and energy-saving ‘Hot Rod’ and E-seal® technologies. Several Proseal-devised features have now become industry standards.

“We have built our reputation on both the excellence of our equipment and the quality of our service and support to customers,” concluded Steve Malone.

“The additional facilities and new offices that we are establishing will ensure that we continue to deliver these high standards while meeting customer demand and maintaining our proactive new product development programme.”

Contact Proseal UK on tel 01625 856600 or visit www.proseal.com

Detectable mastic for food producers Hygienic installation is an essential food industry requirement to minimise the dangers of cross contamination. Silicone mastic is used frequently to achieve a good waterproof seal between surfaces such as wall panels, machinery installation and structural fittings.

Issues have been raised regarding the detectability of this product should it get into food, and the challenge of mice and rats habitually eating through mastic installations.

“I was approached a little while ago by a food producer who thought we could help him to reduce the risk of cross contamination.” said Sean Smith, the Chief Executive of Detectamet. “He was having trouble with silicone mastic used in his process plant.” The manager had found that bits of mastic were breaking away helped by the attention of some mice that were trying to get into the premises.

The manager was concerned that these pieces could get into the food process

“We were able to incorporate the detectability factor that would identify the ‘lost’ mastic and we later discovered that rodents do not like the taste of our detectable ingredients.”

Detectasil® is available in a construction industry standard 310ml cartridge that fits into a standard applicator gun. The mastic is coloured blue or white, and it is easy to apply in temperatures from +5°C to +50°C. It has a good curing rate depending on the thickness and depth of the mastic applied and when cured it performs successfully at temperatures from -30°C to +150°C. “We have carried out detectability tests” Sean explained “and both the fresh and cured mastic was visible to X-ray machines and metal detectors in a number of different food types.”

The unopened cartridges can be stored in a cool dry place for up to 12 months with no impact on performance.

Contact Detectamet on tel 01759 304200 or visit www.detectamet.co.uk

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Ishida helps Pipers Crisps focus on quality The speed and efficiency of Ishida multihead weighers at specialist crisp manufacturer Pipers Crisps have played a key role in the company’s continuing success, which over the past five years has seen annual growth of between 38 and 45 percent.

The latest model to be installed at the company’s factory in Brigg, Lincolnshire is a 14head CCW-R series model in a special ‘crisp’ specification designed to handle product quickly and gently throughout the weighing process.

This new packing line also includes an advanced Ishida DACS-G checkweigher for a final quality control check.

The R series multihead weigher incorporates Ishida’s proven R Series technology comprising its unique combination calculation software, 5stage digital filter, anti-floor vibration and Ishida-made load cells that enable it to maintain excellent accuracy at high speeds. At Pipers, the weigher is achieving excellent accuracy to within 1 percent of target at speeds of 80 packs per minute for 40g bags and 28 packs per minute for the 150g pack, well within the machine’s capabilities of a maximum 120 bags per minute.

The Ishida DACS-G checkweigher features an Ishida designed, exceptionally fast and accurate digital loadcell that is able to operate with great reliability in the harshest of environments. A unique feature of the loadcell is its ability to switch between two weighing capacities and graduations.

Established in 2004, Pipers Crisps produces a range of premium potato crisps. The company cooks locally sourced potatoes and uses the finest seasonings to flavour them, with individual takes on popular varieties such as Cider Vinegar and Sea Salt and Lye Cross Cheddar and Onion, and innovative flavours including Spicy Tomato, Chilli and the newly launched Chorizo. The company produces 288kg of fried potatoes every hour to fill 1.5m bags of crisps per month.

Quality is the overriding focus throughout the business and this extends to the equipment the company uses, as Production and Operations Manager. Shaun Watson explains: “We use the best potatoes and seasonings to ensure an intense flavour for the consumer, and this quality of product is reflected in the packaging we use. As part of this, it is essential that our packs are presented with an accurate and consistent weight – and this is what the Ishida weighers deliver.

“Equally important is customer service and again Ishida continues to demonstrate excellent commitment in this area. The equipment is very reliable but if there is ever a problem, the company always deals with it quickly and efficiently to ensure that our production is unaffected.”

Contact Ishida Europe on tel 0121 607 7700 or visit www.ishidaeurope.com

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sara LBS improves response times with investment sara LBS has invested in nine new vans to further expand its repair and maintenance service. sara employs its own team of experienced engineers to perform routine servicing and emergency repairs on high speed roller shutter doors and loading bay equipment. This investment in new vans and its own engineers allows the company to keep up with increased demand for its services and keep response times and first-time repair rates high.

Christopher Knollys, sara LBS Managing Director, commented: "We supply and install the highest quality loading bay equipment and high speed doors on the market. However, even the best equipment is only as good as its maintenance programme, so we developed our in-house service to make sure that our customers would benefit from years of trouble-free operation.

This service has expanded and we are now able to offer nationwide cover on almost any equipment whether it was originally bought from us or not. This includes 24-hour emergency repair."

All of the sara LBS repair and maintenance engineers are CSCS qualified and employed full-time by sara.

This means that it is able to schedule maintenance work to its customers' convenience, rather than the convenience of third party contractors.

Its vans are carefully stocked with genuine sara parts, as well as industry standard components, to facilitate immediate, on-site repair whenever possible, keeping downtime to a minimum.

The new fleet of nine vans has been distributed throughout the UK to sara's strategically positioned service centres to make sure that call-out times are kept to a minimum despite the service's growing popularity.

In the event of an emergency sara LBS can be reached at any time through its 24hr service hotline below. Callouts can also be requested through the website also below.

Contact Sara LBS on tel 01442 245577 or visit www.saralbs.co.uk

Exclusive Starfrost deal for manufacturers British freezing and chilling system manufacturer Starfrost has struck an exclusive supply deal with a leading food processing equipment specialist based ‘Down Under’.

Starfrost has further strengthened its prime position in the global food industry by bolstering its strategic alliance with Australasian firm Milmeq. Following a successful partnership between the two companies in New Zealand and Australia, Starfrost is now acting as the sole agent for Milmeq in the UK and Ireland.

Starfrost is the UK and Ireland’s exclusive supplier of Milmeq’s bespoke range of Carton Tunnels for chilling and freezing food products packaged in cartons or boxes. The equipment range features the Single Retention Tunnel (SRT) and Multiple Retention Tunnel (MRT) for packaged meat, dairy, poultry and seafood products that require long retention times.

Starfrost’s Sales Director, Robert Long said: “After successfully representing Starfrost in the Australasian marketplace, we are proud to be promoting Milmeq to food manufacturers in the UK and Ireland. Milmeq is a world class supplier and its quality engineered Carton Tunnel systems will strengthen our bespoke freezing and chilling equipment portfolio.”

With its headquarters in Auckland, New

Zealand, Milmeq custom designs, engineers and manufactures systems for primary food processing, materials handling and chilling and freezing operations. For over 40 years Milmeq has been supplying automatic Carton Tunnels to food manufacturers across the globe. The company currently has seven equipment installations in the UK and Ireland.

The Milmeq SRT carton tunnel is a bespoke chiller or freezer with an air blast cooling system that provides single uniformed conditioning. The system is designed for varying product types and different carton sizes that all require the same chill or freeze time.

The Milmeq MRT is custom designed for simultaneous processing of varying products and carton sizes that require different chill or freeze times. The fully automatic multi-shelf system allows the operator to select preset programmes or set the required retention time for each product line via an integrated control panel.

During their 10-year association Milmeq (formerly The Realcold Group) selected Starfrost as its exclusive supplier of spiral freezers and IQF (individual quick frozen) systems to food manufacturers in New Zealand and Australia.

Contact Starfrost on tel 01502 562206 or visit www.starfrost.com

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Loma scoops national manufacturing award Loma Systems, a manufacturer of food inspection equipment, has won the national EEF Future Manufacturing Award for Innovative Operating Practices and Processes.

Presented at the EEF national gala dinner held at the Grand Connaught Rooms in London, the manufacturer of metal detection, checkweighers and x-ray systems beat prestigious firms, including BAE Systems and Siemens, to take the crown. The Innovative Practices and Processes award is a deserved recognition of Loma’s steadfast commitment to making food safer for customers. The award acknowledged the firm’s development of new equipment with leading detection performances, as well as Loma’s QuickShip equipment delivery programme created to help customers quickly fulfil production spikes that regularly occur during promotional seasons and on receipt of retailer contracts.

EEF, dubbed the most powerful force that backs UK manufacturing, hand-picked Loma for creating and successful implementing a suite of business methods, which Loma calls their ‘ToolBox’. These business simplification tools have been used to engage their workforce through transparent self-monitoring and decision-making; resulting in a positive impact on everything from product design and supply chain management, through to machine up-time rates and equipment maintenance. One example is the reduction in equipment build time: “The ToolBox taught us to design and build equipment in zones with everything I need to configure the wiring of a panel now at my fingertips, build time is about 10 percent of what it was! Knowing that I am more productive, the new practices have greatly improved my job satisfaction,” said Loma Engineer Roy Lawler.

The judging panel was made up of Britain’s finest manufacturing entrepreneurs.

Comprising Cranfield University, Teeside University, MiRo House, Cutting Technologies Ltd and Handicare, the judges felt Loma’s ‘ToolBox’ was an excellent example of a tried and trusted approach which touched and enhanced all parts of the business. Award sponsor, Pera Technology Chief Executive, Paul Tranter said: “When developing a new process, repeatability is key.

This was something that was fully understood

by Loma Systems, who is now reaping the benefits across their businesses. I would like to extend my congratulations to Loma Systems as an inspiration for other manufacturers looking to invest in new processes that are yet to take the first step.”

The ‘ToolBox’ has been rolled out across Loma’s manufacturing facility, engineering and customer service departments over the last 24 months. It has resulted in the launch of a number of food inspection systems, unparalleled customer service response rates, plus a recent upsurge in new equipment orders.

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(KPIs), supplier score card systems and an employee engagement plan. This seamless approach has seen Loma’s profitability rise dramatically, as well as enhancing employee welfare and retention. “I am overwhelmingly

proud of the achievements the team have made and this award celebrates their hard work and dedication in implementing our ToolBox methodology,” commented Simon Spencer, Loma Systems Managing Director.

Contact Loma Systems on tel 01252 893300 or visit www.loma.com

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Asda to implement PantoneLIVE X-Rite and Pantone, Danaher Corporation brands, have announced that Asda, one of Britain’s top value retailers and a wholly owned subsidiary of Wal-Mart, will employ PantoneLIVE™, a cloud-based colour service, throughout its global supply chain.

PantoneLIVE allows Asda to standardize on a single platform and manage digital access rights to facilitate colour communication across packaging materials and suppliers, improving operational efficiencies.

“The proposition was challenging – develop a solution that not only enables us to assess print quality across the entire list of Asda approved packaging printers, but also present complex, technical colour data in an easy-tounderstand format,” said Andy Wilson, Print Manager at Asda. “As most of the print validation solutions on the market were aimed at printers rather than brand owners, it quickly became apparent that selecting the right partner to develop the solution was crucial, and X-Rite/Pantone ticked all our boxes.”

With colour so critically tied to brand equity, maintaining colour consistency across product packaging is essential to ensure authenticity and consumer confidence. The PantoneLIVE suite of solutions provide Asda with a secure, cloud-based repository for its precise colour data, allowing brand managers to communicate colour specifications across the supply chain and validate compliance and track supplier performance anywhere in the world.

“Printers being able to validate their own work in real-time makes PantoneLIVE a game changer,” said Jason Gilmartin, Senior Print Manager at Asda. “With its implementation, we will now be able to manage our print base intelligently with true 'closed loop' colour management from initial concept to final print whilst slashing waste, reducing cost and driving greater brand consistency. At last, the days of print managers approving print at the end of a printing press are coming to an end.”

“It is mission critical for a large retailer such as Asda to achieve better and more consistent colour results across different categories, suppliers and regions. We are extremely pleased that PantoneLIVE is the chosen solution for accurate colour communication and control in their entire packaging supply chain,” explained Sonia Megert, Vice President of the Pantone Digital Business unit at X-Rite/Pantone. “Spectral data for Asda’s main brand colours are stored securely in the PantoneLIVE cloud, thus helping reduce colour variation in the production process, ensuring their colours are correct every time, on every packaging material.”

In addition, PantoneLIVE’s centralized colour management system helps achieve speed to market efficiencies from initial design to final production, ultimately lowering product development and manufacturing costs. Asda will begin to deploy PantoneLIVE immediately with Smart Price, Chosen by You and Extra Special private label brands.

Contact X-Rite on tel 01625 871100 or visit www.xrite.com

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Pacepacker designs unique mobile robot solution An economical and fully mobile Blu-Robot palletising system has provided Belmont Farms with a ‘Plug-and-Play’ robotic solution to handle up to 1000 tonnes of potatoes per year. The robotic palletising and conveyor system installed within a moveable frame by Pacepacker, has not only given the Peterborough farmer exceptional packing flexibility, which is easily moved around its 13 mile long site, but improved pallet/product appearance at the family-run firm.

Belmont Farms grow, grade, pack and palletise an annual crop of 1000 tonnes of potatoes, of which 600 tonnes are bought by UK fish and chip shops in 25kg bags and the surplus sold to bulk buyers.

The introduction of stricter manual handling laws coupled with their ageing workforce, who was tired of stacking up to forty five 25kg bags per pallet, were key drivers behind Belmont Farms’ decision to invest in automated palletising.

Critically, the automated solution was required to palletise potato sacks at two separate potato stores located at either end of the farm. As a result, Pacepacker designed a unique mobile system, explained Pacepacker’s Business Development Manager, Paul Wilkinson: “When designing a heavy mobile system which incorporates a 2,500kg palletising robot, key considerations include safety and ease of transportation. Taking into account weight and footprint restrictions, we mounted the Blu-Robot palletiser, pick and infeed conveyors, control system and perimeter guarding onto a heavy-duty support

frame in such a way that it could be easily transported between the farm’s two potato stores using a fork lift truck to load it onto the farms trailer.”

It was an important factor for Belmont Farms, that the system, which measured 5m x 4m, could be easily sited around the farm, plugged in and turned on wherever packing was taking place without the need for any tooling changes. Moreover, the capacity offered by the automated Pacepacker palletising solution allows room for the farmer’s planned expansion in the future.

Pacepacker’s pre-owned reconditioned BluRobot, which is typically half the cost of a new system, works tirelessly and accurately with little intervention, and its operation results in tidier stacks of sacks on the pallet than was previously possible with manual stacking. According to Mr Fletcher, unlike when they were stacked by hand, the bags are now consistently orientated on the pallet – label facing outwards and the right way up, which improves the look of the finished pallet – an important consideration when delivering to customers.

Potatoes are graded, weighed and filled automatically into the paper sacks, which are stitched, closed on an automatic line and conveyed into the Pacepacker infeed and onto the pick conveyor which feeds the Pacepacker Blu-Robot. The entire Pacepacker palletising solution is capable of handling around 300 to 400 tonnes of potatoes per week, which for Belmont Farms, results in sizeable growth options.

Contact Pacepacker Services 01371 011544 or visit www.pacepacker-services.co.uk

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GEA meets tight schedule GEA Process Engineering in New Zealand has supplied a second Colby IFS filling machine for infant formula to the New Image Group’s Paerata Milk Processing Facility in South Auckland. The new machine was delivered at very short notice and now provides the company with increased production and greater manufacturing flexibility.

New Image Group is a 100 percent New Zealand company, formed in 1984, that is fast becoming a market leader in the development and manufacture of blended infant formulas largely for the export market to South East Asia. In 2011 the company installed a new spray dryer for infant formula and a Colby IFS filling machine for 99mm, 127mm and 154mm cans. The new order was for a second IFS-1A filling machine to work alongside the existing plant.

The IFS-1A is an upgraded version of the machine originally supplied by GEA. New Image chose the Colby machine owing to its good experience with the existing technology and the close working relationship it had built with the company.

Daniel Andrews is the Project Manager from GEA who was responsible for ensuring ontime delivery for New Image. “The project was very challenging because of the very tight schedule,” said Daniel. “The customer was insistent that there was no flexibility on the delivery date.” The machine was, however, delivered on time and was soon achieving the required production rate of over 18 cans/min with a standard deviation of less than 4g based on a ‘nothing under’ principle when filling 900g cans.

Daniel also explained that the benefit for New Image of having two IFS machines working side-by-side was that the production engineers could choose whether they wanted to run the two machines on the same or different products. “With one large machine they could only pack one product at a time,” he said, “but running two filling lines gives them much more flexibility.” Having two similar machines also means that operators require less training, common spare parts mean the company can keep a reduced inventory, and if one machine is shut down for maintenance, production continues.

“We believe that it is important to build strong relationships with our suppliers and to use local companies whenever we can,” said Matthew Stanish from New Image. “We have had very good results with Colby technology before and wanted to maintain continuity within the plant. We know that we set GEA a tough challenge but they delivered on time and to our expectations.”

Contact GEA Process Engineering on tel 01925 812650 or visit www.gea.com

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Asda ‘better off’ with Van Excellence

Waukesha Universal 1 & 2 pumps are a hit At the Fox’s Biscuits plant in Uttoxeter, Waukesha Universal 1 rotary piston Model 60, 30 and 18 pumps have proved to be successful in handling cream fat, which is a key ingredient in several of its biscuit lines. The Model 18s and 30s are used on a 24/7 basis, transferring product at around 750kg/hr to dedicated production lines. The two Model 60s are run on a batch process for transferring the cream as and when needed at a volume of 2.000kg/hr.

The consistency of the cream fat is similar to that of margarine and is handled at 30˚C. The challenge of pumping this type of material is that a gear type pump would break up the structure of the material, hence the use of the Waukesha universal technology.

This pump, whilst offering many of the benefits of a rotary lobe pump uses an external circumferential piston (ECP). In this design the arc-shaped rotary pistons, or rotor wings, travel in annular-shaped cylinders machined in the pump body. The resulting long sealing path reduces slippage and produces a smooth product flow without destructive pulses or pressure peaks, and without the need for valves or complex parts. Because the rotors produce a scooping action, they do not squeeze and compact the medium being pumped. This pump type combines a very gentle, pulse-free pumping action with the high suction capacity necessary for allowing thick mixes to be drawn into the pump without any separation of the ingredients.

In 2012 the Uttoxeter plant took the step of introducing Waukesha U2 pumps for handling plasticised dough fat. The difficulty with this media is that at times relatively high backpressure can be created due to the length and

complexity of the production runs. Typically pressures of up to 15bar were being encountered and the existing pumps were not designed for this level of pressure.

Initially Fox’s Biscuits approached pump distributor AxFlow about using the Waukesha models already in use at the plant for handling the plasticised dough. On reviewing the pressures and flow rates required, AxFlow recommended Waukesha U2 pumps fitted with mechanical seals rather than the client’s preferred option of a double O-ring. The units installed in a duty/standby arrangement have a duty cycle of 30 percent run and 70 percent standby during a 24 hour period and are used at the bulk ingredients stage in the early part of the production cycle. With the Waukesha U2 pump, the plant can now accommodate pressures of 20bar.

Plasticised dough fat is palm oil that has been processed by being put through a scraped surface heat exchanger at pressure and this changes its crystalline structure and causes it to become of a margarine-like consistency. This ingredient is used in all the company’s products. The palm oil starts in storage out at 50˚C and then the temperature is raised and cooled in a heat exchanger before going onto a scraped surface heat exchanger at 45˚C where it is subjected to a pressure of 10bar before exiting at 21˚C. It is this process that changes the crystalline structure of the dough. At Uttoxeter, Fox’s Biscuits produce around 1.7t of plasticised dough per hour, which is then held in a series of storage vessels and transferred on at an ambient temp of 29˚C to any of the 10 production lines whenever it is needed using the Waukesha U2 pumps.

Contact AxFlow on tel 020 8579 2111 or visit www.axflow.co.uk

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As the UK leading supermarket once said ‘you’re better off at Asda.’ The top retailer has recently ensured that its home shopping fleet vehicles are ‘better off all-round’ and have been accredited by the FTA Van Excellence scheme.

Asda currently operates over 1,800 LGVs across the UK. Delivery fleets traditionally face unique challenges and undertake many thousands of hours of intensive urban driving every year, as well as being subjected to the normal rigours of a commercial van fleet.

Asda's National Home Shopping Fleet Manager, Sean Clifton said: “At Asda the customer is number one and at the heart of everything we do. Providing a reliable, seamless, consistent online experience is engrained into our DNA. So we are extremely pleased that the FTA have recognized, through their Van Excellence accreditation scheme, that our appetite for high standards across not just service, but safety and compliance is being replicated across our entire Home Delivery fleet.”

Van Excellence, the national accreditation scheme for van operators, is backed by the Freight Transport Association, was launched in 2010, and is open to van operators of commercial vehicles of 3.5 te GVW or less.

The scheme was established by the freight industry for the freight industry in order to promote high standards of van operation and driving by accrediting operators against a code of good practice.

Since its launch Van Excellence has attracted the support of a variety of large commercial operators, and with the addition of the supermarket giant has now accredited over 100,000 vehicles.

Mark Cartwright, FTA Head of Vans and Commercial Vehicles said: “We are delighted that Asda has recognised the importance of the value of the Van Excellence code of practice and how it can enhance its van operations, particularly with the rapid growth of home deliveries. Van Excellence has established itself as the operating standard for light fleet operators across all sectors.”

The Van Excellence code was agreed by operators acting as a Governance Group, and requires systems to be in place to check vehicle roadworthiness, driver entitlement, load security and other safety aspects. The standard exceeds the minimum requirements of the current law and selects and adapts the requirements of O-licensing normally applied to trucks for the van sector.

Contact the FTA on tel 08717 112222 or visit www.vanexcellence.co.uk

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Honey Pot Grain reap reward with Guttridge Honey Pot Grain (Lincolnshire, UK), a centralised grain handling facility owned by the Openfield Group, has upgraded to a new Silo Sweep Auger from Guttridge Ltd to improve the efficiency of their operations. A quick and painless installation has been followed by successful adoption, and Honey Pot Grain are now reaping the rewards of reliable silo emptying, an essential element of their day-to-day processes.

“Our original sweep auger was installed in the mid 1970s,” said Simon Schaanning, Store Operations Manager for Honey Pot Grain. “Its reliability had become problematic and so we assessed the options for replacement. The Guttridge Silo Sweep Auger has recently come to market and is a strong, robust design. We have had good experience of Guttridge equipment elsewhere on the site and for us, a UK build and local support were major pluses. Guttridge efficiently installed the replacement sweep auger which has now proven its performance over several silo emptying operations.”

Honey Pot Grain is a centralised grain-handling site that offers an integrated service to local farmers for drying and processing wheat, oil seed rape and malting barley. The facility has a total capacity of 30,000 tonnes and a peak daily intake capacity over the harvest period of 4,000 tonnes.

Transferring grain is a routine aspect of daily operation, creating a requirement for efficient silo emptying machinery that can safely extract residual grain left in the silo as gravity transfer starts to fail.

The new Silo Sweep Auger from Guttridge is a robust, highly reliable machine for the automated emptying of grain silos. Galvanised steel construction reduces the risk of product contamination from flaking paint and maximises life in use. The patented, enclosed clutch and motor mechanism delivers high efficiency and reliability, and full length scraper blades ensure an efficient sweep even, as is the case with the Honey Pot Grain site, in the event of an uneven silo floor.

Contact Guttridge on tel 01775 765300 or visit www.guttridge.co.uk

GPL Series Palletiser for North Cork Co-Op Irish milk powder producer North Cork CoOp Creameries has recently ordered a new automatic palletiser for their production plant at Kanturk, County Cork, Ireland.

Premier Tech Chronos will be supplying a GPL 250 Series Palletiser to palletise bags of milk powder at rates of up to 250 bags per hour.

The GPL Series Palletiser is a ‘Cartesian’ Robot Palletiser with a gantry structure, which is equipped with a gripper head to precisely position the bags onto the pallet.

Each bag is lifted from the pick-up conveyor by the gripper head.

During the palletising process the pallet remains stationary and the gripper head moves by means of a servo controlled motorised mobile frame to the correct position for laying the bag in the right format on the top of the pallet.

The bag gripper has 4 axis mobility (y = longitudinal movement, x = transverse movement, z = vertical movement, w = rotation), taking the bags from the feeding conveyor and depositing them on the pallet according to the pre-selected programme. The bag-pusher movement is controlled by a pneumatic cylinder and the gripper

rotation/pusher direction allows each bag to be deposited close to or even overlapping the previous bag, producing a more stable palletised load.

An inbuilt Operator Interface Panel allows for regular status check of the GPL 250, with the operator being able to review the selected programme and in-built bag counter. The palletising layer format can also be selected from a list of programmes or it can be directly accessed from the operator panel.

Designed to achieve the benefits of traditional and robotic palletising techniques the GPL Series Palletiser is being supplied with an automatic pallet dispenser and interlocked safety fences/barriers, complete with light screens.

“We have worked very closely with Premier Tech Chronos whilst selecting this particular type of palletising system,” commented Roger McCarthy, Operations Manager, at North Cork Co-Op. He concluded, “We have a long standing trading partnership with Premier Tech Chronos, their existing packing system works well and it seemed sensible to maintain continuity of supply and to build on the positive long-term relationship that we have enjoyed with the company.”

Contact Premier Tech Chronos on tel +31 497 514988 or visit www.premiertechchronos.com

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Newsmith Stainless strengthens food industry role Automated cleaning and handling specialists Newsmith Stainless is announcing the acquisition of Hiley Engineering, manufacturers of conveyor distribution and product feeding systems, primarily for the food industry. The company, which becomes a subsidiary of Newsmith Stainless, will retain its name and identity with which it has developed a leading international reputation over many years.

“We see this as an extremely beneficial alignment of complementary capabilities in a key sector in which both Newsmith Stainless and Hiley Engineering operate,” commented Steve Woffindin, Sales Manager at Newsmith Stainless.

“Our own track record, in both food and non-food sectors, is based on the design, manufacture and installation of high quality systems – such as Oliver Douglas cleaning stations and Oddy bakery production facilities – which are in operation throughout the food

production industry,” he continued. “Because Hiley Engineering is also very active in the same field, there is a close synergy between our operations which will be of benefit not only to both brands but also, more importantly, to the full range of markets that we jointly serve.”

Hiley Engineering points to a focus on working closely with customers to meet precise installation requirements across the food, confectionery, cake and biscuit production sectors. Its track record in the installation of complex, integrated conveyor systems in the food industry worldwide pays testimony to its skills, innovation, and understanding of application requirements.

“The organisation’s ability to meet both

bespoke systems and stand-alone installation needs, echoes a key principle upon which the success of Newsmith Stainless has long been based,” adds Steve Woffindin.

“We have a passion for our product, for our customers and for the brand that is Hiley, and believe this was an excellent opportunity for our business to develop further,” commented David Longbottom, Hiley Engineering’s Chairman. “This represents not just a way to secure business but also to develop the product and systems beyond our current production capabilities. Newsmith can offer so much more than we could hope to achieve working alone, which means this is an opportunity for the organisation to become more than the sum of the two parts.”

Contact Newsmith Stainless on tel 01924 405988 or visit www.newsmiths.co.uk

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Warburtons’ Paragon and Navman Wireless implementation Warburtons’ retail customers are benefiting from enhanced delivery schedules since the company chose to integrate real-time Navman Wireless GPS vehicle tracking with its Paragon transport routing and scheduling system.

Paragon’s Fleet Controller solution links the Navman Wireless tracking system to its route planning software, which provides live and accurate data for monitoring performance and optimising routes. Using this advanced system, Warburtons delivers 2.2 million loaves of bread a day to 20,000 retail outlets across the UK. “The high quality of our products together with consistently high levels of customer service is very important to Warburtons, and the joint Paragon and Navman Wireless solution plays a critical part in what we do. We use Paragon software for planning daily deliveries from our 25 sites and this involves managing a fleet of over 800 vehicles. When we ran Paragon’s software together with the Navman Wireless system, the process was simple and fully integrated. Whilst our customer service is already at a high level, we wanted to improve this further, which this technology is helping us to do,” says Jim Norton, Distribution Planning Manager.

Warburtons has worked with Paragon for over 10 years, developing the way it uses the system to meet changing business requirements. Now, by adding Fleet Controller, linked to Navman Wireless M-Nav 760 two-way messaging, job dispatch and navigation terminals, the company have been able to revolutionise its distribution processes. The enhancement to the system also provides visibility of driver activity and accurate data to show on-time delivery

performance together with any deviations from the plan.

“With Paragon Fleet Controller providing live vehicle and driver activity from the tracking system we are able to use a fact-based approach to planning deliveries.

One of the reasons Warburtons chose the Navman Wireless system was its ability to fully integrate with Paragon’s Fleet Controller software package. The link between the systems is seamless and it gives us full visibility of what is actually happening on the road. We can see when a vehicle arrives at a delivery, how long the call took and when it left. We now have visibility of our customer service performance immediately whereas previously, we had a 12-hour delay in getting feedback from the drivers when we used manual reporting. This also helps us to proactively manage the fleet, and the drivers have widely accepted the system,” says Jim Norton.

Tony Neill, Vice President of Navman Wireless said: “With a high profile brand such as Warburtons it is vital that their distribution systems operate optimally. Thanks to the vehicle routing software from Paragon and our vehicle tracking technology, Warburtons have developed processes within distribution that help to provide high levels of customer service.”

The Paragon software is installed at Warburtons’ head office in Bolton and the company has around 100 users accessing the server-based Multi Depot system over its network. Orders are uploaded automatically into Paragon from Warburtons’ SAP enterprise software each night to generate the routes and schedules. The routes are sent directly to the in-vehicle terminals so that the drivers have all their deliveries available in sequential order on their terminals when they arrive at work.

Contact Paragon Software Systems on tel 01306 732600 or visit www.paragonrouting.com/uk

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Improving a process the soft way One of the largest whey powder production plants in Finland recently increased its production by more than 10 percent without having to invest in any hardware or use more energy in the process. The production plant was able to do this solely by implementing Neste Jacobs’ NAPCON® Suite’s applications for advanced process control (APC) to optimize the critical and energy intensive last stage of the production process.

The production of whey powder is complex and an energy intensive process. It is particularly important to control the moisture content precisely.

“Too high a water content causes stickiness of the whey powder that can disrupt or even stop the production”, said Antero Ylitalo, Production Manager at Valio's whey powder factory. “On the other hand, if the powder is too dry it generates dust and uses excess energy.”

The moisture content of the product is set within a spray dryer in the final stage of the production line.

“The critical thing is to be able to control the spray dryer’s load and the hot air streams in an optimal way“, Ylitalo said.

“We needed to keep the moisture content of the final whey powder product very close to its target value regardless of the process conditions, whilst taking into account the dynamically changing multiple process constraints.”

An APC solution was implemented at the production plant consisting of two tools included in Neste Jacobs NAPCON ®Suite: NAPCON ® Indicator, which calculates the material and energy balance information and sends it to NAPCON ® Controller, the multivariable model predictive control software package which is optimized for control of processes with crossdependencies.

The result was that the APC solution automatically controlled the process so that the factory significantly increased its production. At the same time the risk for system downtime due to bag filter clogging was reduced.

“We considered several APC providers but became convinced of Neste Jacobs' expertise and the features of the NAPCON® Suite Technology", Ylitalo says. “We are currently planning to implement APC technology also in other production plants and hope that we will be able to continue the good cooperation with Neste Jacobs in this area.”

According to Chief Application Engineer, Keijo Yli-Opas at Neste Jacobs, the company finished the Valio APC project in only three months from project initiation.

“An important factor was that there were no process downtimes due to installation and commissioning of the NAPCON®

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Suite software”, Yli-Opas said. “This is essential for customers who strive to improve their production plants.”

The Valio case is a good example of how well suited NAPCON® Suite is for processes with complex behaviour. “In fact it is applicable in most fields of the food industry, but it gives the best results when applied to continuous processes such as the whey

powder factory”, Yli-Opas stated.

What is really striking is the short time used from project initiation to finish. “One thing that considerably speeded up the project was that it included a remote telecom connection between the process and our engineers. It made it possible to work on the project from a distance. The connection also provides a solid platform for maintenance services. ”

Contact Neste Jacobs on tel +358 10 458 1200 or vist www.nestejacobs.com

Scottish plant opens with Government grant One of Scotland’s leading meat processors has moved into a brand new plant and created 35 new full time jobs with the help of Scottish Government funding.

Rural Affairs Secretary, Richard Lochhead opened the new Malcolm Allan facility in Larbert on the day the founder of the company, Malcolm Allan, celebrated his 95th birthday.

The firm, which had estimated retail sales of approx. £15.7m in Scotland last year, has received a total of £1m from the Scottish Government’s Food Processing, Marketing and Co-operation (FPMC) grants.

The new facility has created 35 new full time jobs and secures the future of the 125 current full time employees. The new site will also increase capacity by 50 percent and opens the potential to supply to English stores and build on ever growing sales.

Mr Lochhead said: “The Scottish Government’s Food Processing, Marketing and Co-operation grants have benefited 175 projects across Scotland and supported 8,500 jobs, further investment and export opportunities. This particular expansion is great news for the firm and for the sector, and shows how committed the Scottish Government is to helping Scottish businesses grow and expand to create a more prosperous nation.

Malcolm Allan Managing Director, Gordon Allan said: “The Scottish Government’s Food Processing, Marketing and Co-operation grant has been pivotal in allowing us to develop and expand, and we are delighted that the Government is continuing to show support to the industry.”

Scotland’s biggest pork processing plant is set to almost double in capacity following investment from the Scottish Government.

Rural Affairs Secretary, Richard Lochhead has announced A P Jess in Brechin has been awarded almost £2.7m towards a major upgrade and expansion project. The project aims to create 20 new full time jobs and safeguard another 42 posts, and provides essential investment in the infrastructure supporting Scotland’s pig sector.

The announcement comes just over a year since the closure of Halls of Broxburn where most Scottish pork was previously processed.

Speaking from the NFUS AGM in St Andrews, Mr Lochhead said: “Scottish farms produce around £81m of pig meat a year for processing, and the closure of Halls of Broxburn was a severe blow to our pig industry. This award to A P Jess in Brechin is a major investment in the infrastructure supporting Scotland’s pig sector, and will go a long way in rebuilding capacity in the supply chain.

“As well as creating and safeguarding jobs in Brechin, the Scottish Government is actively supporting pig farming and the Specially Selected Pork brand, which is renowned for its quality, provenance, and high welfare standards.

All the pork processed at the Brechin plant will be purchased by Tulip. Tulip is the UK’s largest pork producer and processor, with 17 fresh and cooked meat sites, employing more than 8,000 people.

Gordon McKen, Managing Director of Scottish Pig Producers Ltd: “The Scottish Government grant allocated for the Brechin site is excellent news for the Scottish pig industry allowing significant expansion at the site. The Brechin site is ideally placed in our main pig producing area and the planned upgrade will give producers confidence to invest allowing us to grow the industry.”

Contact The Scottish Government on tel 0131 556 8400 or visit www.scotland.gov.uk

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Paragon Software Systems sees business growth Partnership brings m-VROCi to industrial markets Malvern Instruments has announced an exclusive global distribution agreement with RheoSense to promote, market, sell and support the VROC product range into industrial applications. The agreement enables Malvern to add the m-VROCi, micro-fluidic Viscometer/Rheometer ‘On a Chip’, to its existing portfolio of rotational and capillary rheometers, extending the company’s offering to industrial customers across the globe.

Delivering accurate, robust, fully enclosed viscosity measurement, at high shear rates, the m-VROCi addresses an established need to measure low viscosity fluids under process relevant conditions. The results have proven application for the characterization and enhancement of inkjet inks, coatings, rechargeable batteries, lubricants, chemical and food additives, and drink formulations.

“We are delighted to be working with RheoSense, Inc to bring the benefits of the mVROCi to industrial customers across the globe,” said Steve Carrington, Product Manager for Malvern Instruments. “The mVROCi is highly complementary to the existing Malvern rheological portfolio, extending robust, fully enclosed (no solvent loss) flow curve measurement into areas that simply are not accessible with alternative rheological instrumentation.”

Seong-Gi Baek, President and Chief Executive of RheoSense, Inc, said: “Working with Malvern Instruments, a company known

for its rheological application expertise and global support network, will help us to extend application of the VROC technology. The unique features of the m-VROCi efficiently meet an established need in many industries for high shear rate viscometry. With Malvern’s support, industrial customers will now be able access the rheological data required to advance product and process performance in a highly effective way.”

The m-VROCi is a hybrid micro-fluidic and MEMS (micro-electro-mechanical-system) sensor-based instrument. It determines viscosity by controlling sample volume flow rate and measuring changes in pressure as the sample passes along a micro-fluidic scale flow channel with embedded MEMS pressure sensors. Control software allows the quick and easy production of flow-curves, plots of viscosity as a function of shear rate, for sensitive and detailed rheological analysis.

An unparalleled dynamic shear rate range of 1s-1 to >106s-1 enables the fast and accurate measurement of low viscosity fluids under the high shear rate conditions that prevail in many processes, but cannot be accessed using traditional viscometry/rheometry instrumentation. Other benefits include fully enclosed measurement, which eliminates the risk of solvent loss, and the ease of sample loading using a syringe, which allows for operation with relatively small sample volumes.

Contact Malvern Instruments on tel 01684 892456 or visit www.malvern.com/en/m-VROCi

Paragon Software Systems, the routing and scheduling software specialist, reported strong growth during the past year, having expanded in both the UK and overseas.

In 2013, Paragon celebrated its 30-year relationship with Morrisons (previously Presto and Liptons, which were rebranded as Safeway until acquired by Morrisons in 2004). Other customers using Paragon for 20 years or more include Sainsbury’s, Tesco, Argos, DHL and, BOCM Pauls. New UK customers joining the Paragon family in 2013 include Samworth Brothers.

New developments during the year included the launch of a web portal exclusively for Paragon customers.

Paragon also announced new interfaces for its unique Fleet Controller option, which enables seamless linking of routing and scheduling software to vehicle tracking systems, and access to real-time data for comparing the company’s transport plans with actual vehicle movements.

William Salter, Managing Director of Paragon Software Systems said: “Using Paragon’s routing and scheduling software, AF Blakemore reduced its delivery miles by one million kilometres.”

“Paragon remains focused on its commitment to developing and implementing solutions that support the changing needs of today’s transport operators,” concluded William. “Fleet operators have realised that effective use of routing and scheduling software not only improves efficiencies and service levels, but also provides a good return on investment by reducing costs.”

Contact Paragon Software Systems on tel 01306 732600 or visit www.paragonrouting.com/uk

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Isobel Schofield and Andrew Lane

Union Industries employee-ownership succession programme Paul and Isobel Schofield, the owners of Union Industries are joining the increasing number of successful privately owned companies to embrace the UK Government backed initiative of Employee-ownership.

Despite having received a number of excellent offers for the purchase of the Company, the Schofield’s have taken the decision to sell the business to its employees.

Paul Schofield said: “Our principle objective was to ensure the growth and continued success of the Company beyond our deaths, and of equal importance to ensure the future wellbeing and prosperity of our people, many of whom have been with us for a considerable number of years.”

In preparation for Union’s transition to Employee Ownership, Andrew Lane has been appointed Managing Director following a rigorous selection process, whittled down from over 100 worthy applicants. Andrew will succeed Isobel Schofield who assumes the role of Chair of the Company’s Board of Directors.

Union Industries’ founder and current Chairman, Paul Schofield will become Chairman of the Employee Benefit Trust Board.

Andrew Lane joins the company from Sutcliffe Play, the leading playground equipment designer and manufacturer. As Operations Director, Andrew increased factory efficiency by 50 percent and introduced an employee development and recognition programme. Prior to joining Sutcliffe Play, Andrew worked with major US companies including Caterpillar and Astro Air. Andrew has gained invaluable experience of working in an employee-owned business after Sutcliffe Play underwent this process in 2010.

With its factory based in Hunslet, Leeds, Union Industries manufactures a range of

industrial products, including their marketleading range of Industrial Rapid Roller Doors that they proudly claim are the most reliable doors in the world. These fast acting doors are installed in distribution centres, warehouses, factories and storage facilities to improve logistics and save heat loss for discerning Bluechip companies across the UK and Europe including Tesco, Cummins, ASDA, TRW, Lidl, the Co-op and 3663.

From its origins as a Tarpaulin maker and repairer, Union Industries has evolved to become a specialised bespoke manufacturer of advanced heavy-duty textile products for both Civil and Military applications. The subsequent development of the Company’s engineering capabilities led on to the creation of the Matadoor Range of High Speed Industrial Doors, including the unique Eiger Freezer Door.

Other successful product developments using Union Industries’ core skills include Aircraft Hangar Curtain Systems - preventing heat loss and toxic cross contamination during aircraft re-sprays, in addition to Decontamination and Controlled Access Units for Civil and Military applications.

Isobel Schofield said: “In Andrew Lane we have definitely found the total package. His background in engineering is at the heart of what we do and his previous experience in employee ownership will be invaluable to us.

He is full of energy and enthusiasm and his passion for our business shines through.

“He understands the spirit and ethos that motivates Union Industries and makes it tick.

He is an inspiring communicator and impressive operator. Paul and I have no qualms whatsoever in handing over the reins to him and I am confident that he will drive the company forward to greater success.”

Contact Union Industries on tel 0113 244 8393 or visit www.unionindustries.co.uk

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Diversified Communications UK, the organiser of Natural & Organic Products Europe, have announced that this year’s show (which took place on 13-14 April) will be the last time the event will be held at Olympia Exhibition Centre.

From 2015, this increasingly important international event will move to a new home, and benefit from the excellent facilities, at ExCeL London.

The move follows the news that the owners of Olympia Exhibition Centre, Earls Court & Olympia Limited, are entering the final stages of the planned closure of the Earls Court Exhibition Centre, which is due to be replaced by a major residential property development.

The closure involves losing some 70,000sq.m of exhibition space – or about one-third of the available space in the capital – which has led to the venue owners trying to relocate as many of the affected shows into Olympia as possible.

Commenting on the news, Carsten Holm, Managing Director of Diversified UK, said: “Olympia has provided a fantastic home for Natural & Organic Products Europe over the years.

However, we are concerned that the proposed changes at Olympia may affect our ability to continue to effectively stage Natural & Organic Products Europe and maintain its position as one of the leading events for the sector in the world.

“We have spent over six months considering the options, with input from our industry partners. As a result, we have been lucky to secure a slot at the increasingly popular ExCeL London, where many of the UK’s leading trade events are now held. Best of all, the tenancy is in the South Halls, overlooking the Docks, and enjoys similar dates as now, with the 2015 show scheduled to open on 19-20 April.

“ExCeL London has established itself as a world class venue, with 1,500 bedrooms available onsite, excellent catering and world class infrastructure, including being adjacent to London City Airport. It even has its own banqueting hall on site, where we can hold the Natural and Organic Awards. Plus, in just a few years’ time, ExCeL London will benefit from the £18bn Crossrail development with a dedicated station onsite; taking visitors from Heathrow in just over half an hour and central London in 15 minutes.

Contact Diversified Communications UK on tel 01273 645125 or visit www.divcom.co.uk

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Deadline for new health & safety poster From April all UK workplaces must display a new and updated Health & Safety Law Poster but many organisations are currently unaware that the new legislation is here according to workplace equipment supplier Slingsby.

Workplaces have been required to display the current Health & Safety poster in a prominent position since 1999, as part of the Health and Safety Information for Employees Regulations (HSIER).

However as from 5th April 2014, all workplaces will need to have the newly designed poster in place. In addition a new pocket card has been produced to replace the Health & Safety leaflets that have to be circulated to employees based off-site.

Lee Wright, Marketing Director at Slinsgby, explained: “The old Health & Safety law poster is a familiar sight but it is visually unappealing with too much small text and despite it being easily recognisable to millions of people; very few have ever read it. The new poster is designed to be easy to digest, with less text and it contains colour images that immediately make it more eye catching.

“Another change is that employers are no longer required to write contact details for local enforcing authorities and Employment Medical Advisory Services on the new poster.

Instead there is a helpline that employees can call with any queries.

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TSC Foods join the Billington Group TSC Foods, the Scunthorpe based manufacturer of quality chilled and frozen products for the Retail, Foodservice and B2B markets, are delighted to announce that they have joined Edward Billington and Son Ltd. As an established supplier of chilled products to the retail market and creator of the Glorious! Premium, chilled soup brand, TSC Foods became part of the The Billington Group on 31st January 2014 and will continue to be led by David Bondi as Managing Director, Mandy Taylor as Retail Commercial Director as well as the current board at their Scunthorpe site.

Commenting on joining the group, David Bondi, Managing Director of TSC Foods said, “This is a fantastic move for TSC and we are delighted to join a family owned company that is focused on the food sector. We have grown significantly over recent years with a focus on

innovation, quality and service to all our customers and are proud to continue that success as part of a larger group”.

The Billington Group has been based in Liverpool since 1858 and is one of the UK’s largest, family owned companies with a mix of businesses predominately in food and agriculture. TSC will join the group’s food division alongside current businesses including English Provender Company, Bar Foods and Billington Food Ingredients.

Chief Executive of The Billington Group, Gary Blake said, “This is a fantastic acquisition for the group; we believe that TSC Foods is a perfect fit for our strategic vision.” Gary continued “This is an exciting time for both The Billington Group and TSC Foods as we look forward to successfully delivering our strong customer focus and growing the Glorious! brand”.

Contact The Billington Group on tel 0151 243 9000 or visit www.ebsgroup.co.uk

Mariani Foods acquires Bare Earth Mariani Foods, the leading producer of premium beef jerky, have acquired the assets of Bare Earth, UK-based specialty meat producers.

The company have also announced that the combined companies will be renamed New World Foods (Europe) Ltd. with immediate effect.

New World Foods (Europe) is a wholly owned subsidiary of Mariani Foods Pty Ltd. Australia and will be managed completely independently to better serve the UK and European markets. These changes are part of the companies’ 2014 market growth strategy.

The acquisition includes a Yorkshire based factory, which will allow New World Foods the scope of manufacturing UK produced Beef

Jerky and Biltong.

Don Nisbet, Group Managing Director of Mariani Foods said: “This is an exciting time for New World Foods, we have successfully acquired the assets from Bare Earth that will allow us to offer British made biltong and jerky, something that means a lot to the consumers we have spoken to over the years.

New World Foods (Europe) Ltd. (previously known as Mariani Foods Europe Ltd.) has been producing premium jerky for almost 40 years and supplying into the Australian, Asian and European markets. This latest acquisition will add an additional 10 years of Biltong manufacturing experience to the new company.

Contact Mariani Foods on tel +61 2666 22177 or visit www.mariani.com.au

New seasonings supplier Key Ingredients Ireland was set up by it’s the five Directors in August last year after the closure of National Food Ingredients Ltd in Limerick. The five Executive Directors include Peter Doyle, Tom Brett, Richard West, Danny McDaid and John Keyes and were immediately joined by two very experienced managers in Caroline

Duffy as Quality Manager and Leahanne O’Donoghue as Technical Manager. The team was completed when David Brett later joined the business. Key Ingredients is focused on supplying ingredients and blends to the meat industry in Ireland and in the UK, specialising in sausage, black pudding and burger blends.

Contact Key Ingredients Ireland on +353 61 358977 or visit www.keyingredients.ie

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Free From Food Expo 2014 Free From Food & Free From Food Ingredients, will take place on the 3rd & 4th June 2014, in Hall 3 of the Brussels Expo Exhibition Centre, Belgium.

Free From Food Expo 2014 is Europe’s most wanted and focussed trade show for, and initiated by, the ‘free from’ industry. It is a key trading platform where top-level decision makers come to source new products, meet new and existing suppliers and keep up-to-date with trends and innovations in the fast growing ‘free from food & beverage’ industry.

This two day exhibition and conference will see more than 2,000 buyers and specifiers from small and large retail and food service sectors as well as bio, health, convenience stores and catering companies and nearly 150 exhibitors from across Europe including ‘free from’ food (and ‘free from’ ingredients) manufacturers, wholesalers, distributors and traders. Visitors will have an opportunity to attend 25 seminars covering a wide range of topics such as Product Development from Consumer Perspective, Gluten Free Market in Five Years’ Time, Labels & Certifications, Free From Food Market From the Retail Perspective and Importing & Exporting Trends.

The Trade Show, Free From Food 2014 is supported by the Association of European Coeliac Societies (AOECS), an independent, non-profit organisation aiming to raise awareness of coeliac disease and to promote research into the diagnosis and management

of this illness.

This year, to recognise the growing importance of ‘free from’ food and ingredients, the organisers are also launching the Free From Food Ingredients 2014 Expo.

Ronald Holman, Exhibition and Sales Director said: “Free from food solutions are becoming more and more important for the R&D departments and food technologists working with food manufacturers. Retailers and consumers simply demand higher standards, better taste, quality and healthier alternatives. Free From Food Ingredients 2014 will provide the most dedicated platform with exhibitors like Döhler GmbH, Solanic (AVEBE), Meurens Natural, Ernst Böcker, Erbacher etc.”

Hamish Renton, one of the founding partners of the show said: “The first exhibition of Free From Food was a great success for exhibitors and visitors alike. The trade show attracted a high quality buying and decision making audience from Europe’s best retail and food service companies. This year we have a variety of high calibre speakers at the Conference, as well as world famous brands exhibiting and supporting our event. We are expecting hundreds of delegates from across Europe, a sure recognition of the importance of this fast growing sector of the food retailing sector. ” Free from food categories cover all food and beverage products which are gluten free, lactose free, dairy free, yeast free, wheat free, egg free, GM free, sugar & fat free and vegan

Contact Expo Communications on tel +31 76 571 0351 or visit www.freefromfoodingredients.com & www.freefromexpo.com

Campden BRI extends UKAS accreditation Campden BRI is pleased to announce that it has extended its accreditation by UKAS to cover DNA-based meat species authenticity testing. UKAS accreditation is a recognised international standard for competence, impartiality and performance capability.

Originally developed by Campden BRI for the Food Standards Agency over ten years ago, the test uses real-time PCR (polymerase chain reaction) to allow sensitive detection of meat species. The demand for accredited testing in this area follows the heightened interest in species testing in the last 12 months. The accreditation is timely as the FSA is now encouraging the industry to test for species cross-contamination at levels less than 1.0 percent on a weight for weight basis*. Thus, standard immunoassay tests used by the industry are not sensitive enough.

Steve Garrett, Authenticity Team Leader at Campden BRI, commented: “Adulteration and authenticity of meat products was brought to the fore in 2013 when a number of UK processed beef products were found to contain horse meat. Demand for our meat testing service increased dramatically and we allocated extra resources to ensure we could cope with demand from our members and clients. Our accredited service currently covers beef, chicken, lamb, pork and turkey, but more importantly the UKAS accreditation is flexible, enabling us to add further animal species in future and react to the needs of the food industry.” *Food Standards Agency FSA 14/01/04 Open Board – 21 January 2014 Setting a threshold for contamination of processed meat products with undeclared meat species.

Bürkert training expands for 2014 Bürkert Fluid Control Systems is aiming to offer more on-site training courses to those involved in the process control industry. In a bid to reduce travelling distances for the trainees, Bürkert is increasing the number of trainers available to carry out training at a customer's premises.

The popular courses on Steam and Sensors are being run at the company’s new headquarters in Cirencester. The Steam training course will be running in March and November. Other courses are available and can be tailored to suit the particular requirements of an individual customer.

The courses provide theory based learning, backed up with practical applications, for a hands-on approach.

Bürkert use examples and case study materials throughout the courses to highlight typical applications, all delivered by its industry experienced staff.

This year Bürkert is offering existing clients and distributors the opportunity to have bespoke training courses conducted on their premises to ensure that both design engineers, process engineers and maintenance engineers all have full access to training on site.

Bürkert aims to provide information on the real physics of batching, cleaning and sterilizing, water producing and distributing, filling, heating, cooling, separating, fermenting, distilling, or evaporating, where engineers can share experience in complete control loops for flow, conductivity, pH, temperature, pressure, and level.

The training courses are modular and are independent of each other so people can attend any or all of the courses. All courses are free to attend with lunch and refreshments included throughout the day.

Contact Bürkert on tel 01453 731353 or visit www.burkert.co.uk

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Hyperama acquire Sohal Foods Sohal Foods Ltd, a Derby based wholesaler has been saved after being bought out of Administration by Hyperama Plc resulting in all 30 jobs being preserved.

Hyperama, who currently operate three cash and carries in the Midlands was the successful successful bidder buying the business and assets from the Administrator, Dean Nelson of Smith Cooper on 7 January 2014. Despite rapid growth over the past 30 years, the business encountered cash flow difficulties and as such a reduction in margins.

Dean Nelson was instructed to market the distressed company as a going concern, during which time a number of potential buyers expressed interest with two formal offers received.

Dean commented: “For over 30 years, Sohal Foods have provided high quality food to restaurants, take away, caterers and licensed traders in the East Midlands. The excellence of their delivered service has been integral to their success and I am pleased that this will continue and go from strength to strength under the new ownership.”

Marcus Singh of Hyperama said: “The management team at Hyperama are delighted with this acquisition and the opportunities that it presents for the overall group. We feel that we can grow the business by introducing our better buying power and range into Sohal Foods whilst incorporating their outstanding customer service and delivered offering into Hyperama.

“Rather than cutting costs, we are keeping on all the staff and will be investing heavily into the business infrastructure to give it the necessary impetus.”

Dean added: “This is a fantastic outcome, not only for the entire workforce who have kept their jobs but also for Derby as a whole. The Administration process has ensured that the business has been saved and has emerged in a more robust position to continue servicing its customers’ needs.”

The Administrator was assisted in the sale by Rachel McCahill-Brown of Nelsons solicitors.

Contact Hyperama on tel 0115 985 1301 or visit www.hyperama.com

Food Fraud Project wins Government grant Three UK companies have secured government funding to accelerate the development of a new test to combat food fraud in the wake of the horsemeat scandal.

The test will detect any DNA in processed foods coming from at least 12 different animal species, including some not normally associated with the food chain. By quantifying the relative amounts of DNA, the test will also indicate the severity of any contamination or deliberate adulteration.

The one-year project is a collaboration between Safeguard Biosystems Holdings Ltd (‘SG Bio’), Reading Scientific Services Ltd (‘RSSL’) and Arrayjet Ltd (‘Arrayjet’). Its potential impact was recognised by the UK’s innovation agency, the Technology Strategy Board, who will co-fund it with the Food Standards Agency and Defra. Additional funding is provided by these three organisations.

This new test is based on proprietary DNA detection technology, developed by the lead partner SG Bio, and will allow identification and quantification of Cow, Pig, Chicken, Horse, Goat, Sheep, Turkey, Donkey, Dog, Cat, Rat and Mouse in foods.

The principle of the test is to identify the targeted DNA sequences in a given food sample and then to calculate the ratio of different species within a sample to establish whether adulteration or contamination has occurred.

The new test aims to reduce the cost and time of food testing so that it becomes possible to routinely check all points in the supply chain. The currently available tests are limited by cost and time. The key to speeding up the process and bringing down costs is

making it high-throughput.

It will do this by taking advantage of microarray technology, which enables biological tests to be miniaturised and multiplexed. This allows multiple DNA tests to be carried out on a single sample simultaneously, whilst also enabling multiple food samples to be processed in parallel.

The project has been designed collaboratively utilising SG Bio’s DNA expertise, Arrayjet’s printing specialisation and RSSL’s expertise in food authenticity.

SG Bio will design and calibrate the test utilising a reusable DNA SensorArray™ capable of handling 96 separate samples at a time. Once the SensorArray™ design is completed, Arrayjet will be responsible for manufacturing them under tightly regulated conditions. RSSL will be responsible for extracting DNA from a wide range of raw meat and processed food samples from verified sources and then using these to validate the SensorArray™. For independent corroboration, DNA samples will also be sent to Campden BRI for additional validation.

Expansion of the range of meat species will follow in future versions, as well as the ability to authenticate the breed or location of origin.

Migrating the technology to other food groups that are susceptible to fraud or adulteration such as fish, juices and wine is also planned.

Ultimately the partners would like to see the test used for mass screening by retail chains, regulatory bodies, restaurant and fast food outlets, meat processors and food producers globally to provide consumers with assurance as to what they are buying.

Publication of results is expected in late 2014.

Contact RSSL on tel 0118 918 4085 or visit www.rssl.com

Leading the fight against food fraud Protecting consumers and industry from food fraud is the aim of a new €12m, EUfunded project being launched.

This new five-year project, led by the UK’s Food and Environment Research Agency (Fera), will address these issues at a European level. The FoodIntegrity project will bring together major stakeholders and scientific expertise from across the world.

Defra Minister for Food, George Eustice stated: “The UK has some of the highest standards of food safety in the world and is home to some of the best minds in science.

I’m immensely proud that we have been chosen to drive world-leading, cutting-edge research that will improve our ability to prevent food fraud.”

Fera is at the forefront of research in this area with over twenty years’ experience in food authenticity.

Paul Brereton, FoodIntegrity Project Coordinator and Head of Agri-food Research at Fera, added: “As the perpetrators of food fraud use increasingly sophisticated methods to avoid detection so science must develop to detect and prevent this crime. The project will provide a focal point for the sharing and exploitation of European research aimed at protecting the integrity of food production in Europe.”

The FoodIntegrity project will: • To establish in the UK a self-sustaining early warning system to identify emerging risks of food fraud. Text mining and

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webcrawler technologies will look at consumer behaviour and a range of inputs (technological, public health, environment, socio-economic and demographic changes, agricultural, global trade). The system will link into existing data sources and technology centres such as that of National Centre for Food Defence and Protection in the USA. • To invest €3 million to close gaps in existing research on food fraud.

• To make testing methods for food fraud consistent across all Member States to improve food law enforcement across Europe.

• To establish groups of independent experts to share information on food authenticity and food fraud with the European Commission, Codex and other national/international bodies.

• To establish a self-sustaining worldwide network of industry, regulator and consumer representatives to ensure maximum uptake of the project legacy, including the independent expert network, data sharing, early warning systems.

• To carry out a consumer study in China to assess Chinese consumer attitudes in the

face of substantial counterfeiting of European food. (There is evidence that some UK exports are being undermined by counterfeiting in foreign markets).

Maintaining the integrity of European foods is vital to protect both consumers and industry. There must be consumer confidence in the authenticity of all food products. EU food law makes it clear that it is the responsibility of food businesses to ensure the food they sell is safe and is as described. Although commonly considered to be a largely economic issue, there can be serious food safety implications as a result of fraudulent products being sold to consumers.

The food industry also suffers as perpetrators attempt to cash in on the added value of UK and EU food products and undermine the competitiveness of the agri-food economy.

The project’s first dissemination conference, “Food Fraud - the Analytical Tools”, will showcase Defra’s cutting edge Food Authenticity programme and European research into food authenticity.

FoodIntegrity brings together 38 international partners from industry, academia and government institutes.

Contact Fera on tel 01904 462000 or visit www.fera.co.uk/events/foodIntegrity2014

Vegware among Europe’s top hundred Edinburgh-based Vegware, the UK’s first and only completely compostable food packaging company, has been named one of the top 100 businesses in Europe and a ‘Ruban d’Honneur’ recipient in the 2013/2014 European Business Awards. Selected as a finalist for Infosys Business of the Year with Turnover €0-25m, the eco packaging SME will now go on to represent the UK in the final round of judging resulting in 10 overall category winners to be announced in May. Vegware is a global brand of award-winning eco disposables made entirely from renewable or recycled materials such as sugar cane fibre or corn. Vegware’s eco packaging is certified compostable, able to biodegrade in under 12 weeks in food waste recycling facilities, which are currently springing up all over Europe to reduce waste to landfill and create fertiliser and energy from catering waste.

Vegware Founder and Managing Director, Joe Frankel said: “It has been a phenomenal journey, going from a team of just two in 2009 to the current 35, and currently hiring six more. The key to our growth is that we are the only solution for zero waste in foodservice. At the core of what we do is a simple realisation you can not recycle food with plastic in it, and you can not recycle plastic with food on it.

Our compostable cups, cutlery, tableware and boxes can simply be recycled with food waste after use. With European customers from Iceland to Portugal, we are delighted to be recognised in the European Business Awards.”

The 100 ‘Ruban d’Honneur’ recipients were chosen from 375 National Champions by an esteemed panel of judges made up of European business and political leaders, academics and entrepreneurs.

Run from its Edinburgh HQ, Vegware now has operations in the UK, USA, South Africa, Australasia and most recently the UAE, with a Europe-wide network of distribution partners from Iceland to Portugal. UK clients range from the biggest contract caterers and food distributors through to government offices, NHS units and independent artisan cafés and delis.

Jean Stephens, Chief Executive of RSM International, the lead sponsor of the European Business Awards, said: “As one of these 100 ‘Ruban d’Honneur’ recipients, Vegware is a shining example of European business success. We wish them well in this last, but crucial, selection stage and look forward to announcing the overall category winners at our Gala Event in Athens, Greece, on 27th May 2014”.

Contact Vegware on tel 0845 643 0406 or visit www.vegware.com

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Processing plant opens with Government grant One of Scotland’s leading meat processors has moved into a brand new plant and created 35 new full time jobs with the help of Scottish Government funding.

Rural Affairs Secretary Richard Lochhead opened the new Malcolm Allan facility in Larbert on the day the founder of the company, Malcolm Allan, celebrates his 95th birthday.

The firm, which had estimated retail sales of approx. £15.7m in Scotland last year, has received a total of £1m from the Scottish Government’s Food Processing, Marketing and Co-operation (FPMC) grants.

The new facility has created 35 new full time jobs and secures the future of the 125 current full time employees. The new site will also increase capacity by 50 percent and opens the potential to supply to English stores and build on ever growing sales.

Mr Lochhead said: “Scotland’s meat manufacturing sector serves up great benefits to the Scottish economy, generating turnover worth £1.2bn and employing 7,300 people in 2011.

“The Scottish Government’s Food Processing, Marketing and Co-operation grants have benefited 175 projects across Scotland and supported 8,500 jobs, further investment and export opportunities. This particular expansion is great news for the firm and for the sector, and shows how committed the Scottish Government is to helping Scottish businesses grow and expand to create a more prosperous nation.

“And I am delighted that I am opening the new facility on the day Malcolm Allan is celebrating his 95th birthday. He has worked incredibly hard to build and create a successful company and his commitment is inspiring – I certainly hope I will be as fit and active when I am Malcolm’s age.”

Malcolm Allan, Managing Director, Gordon Allan said: “The company has experienced a surge in sales in recent years and the move to this new facility will allow us to not only meet demand, but to also significantly increase our capacity significantly as we look to grow the business further.

“The Scottish Government’s Food Processing, Marketing and Co-operation grant has been pivotal in allowing us to develop and expand, and we are delighted that the Government is continuing to show support to the industry.”

Councillor Craig Martin, leader of Falkirk Council said: “The Council’s business support team pulled its services together to ensure that Malcolm Allan could continue to base its growing business in Falkirk. The company is an important contributor to the local economy through its commitment to employment and apprenticeships and is a prime example of how a business can thrive in this area as a result of the support on offer and its central location.”

Contact The Scottish Government on tel 0131 556 8400 or visit www.scotland.gov.uk

Contact Ishida Europe on tel 0121 607 7700 or visit www.ishidaeurope.com

FSDF launches flagship leadership programme The Food Storage and Distribution Federation (FSDF) has launched a flagship Health and Safety Leadership Programme, designed to provide a highly visible declaration of the FSDF’s leadership for members who are committed to providing a safe and healthy work environment for all involved in the food storage and distribution industry sector.

Incorporating everyone from business leaders to the individuals on the shop floor, the programme mirrors the aims of the wider HSE strategy in encouraging continuous improvement, accountability and recognition of the wider perspective regarding Health and Safety and the need to actively support and share best practice to improve the health and safety performance within the industry.

Following the launch of the programme at the beginning of 2014, a number of companies have already signed up, including Reed Boardall, Cold Move and Partner Logistics.

Jon Miles, Head of UK Operations for Partner Logistics commented: “At Partner Logistics, we are serious about all things relating to health and safety. We believe the industry needs to do more, and initiatives such as the Leadership Programme provided by the FSDF are key to driving improvements and maintaining the levels of safety for everyone in our industry. Also, the programme offers us the ability to benchmark our own health and safety performance against both our sector and the logistics industry as a whole, which is something we are very keen to do as part of our ongoing H&S strategy as a business.”

Members who sign-up for the programme will benefit from the following: • Greater visibility and recognition of being proactive in achieving and maintaining the highest standards of health and safety performance, with customers, suppliers and the HSE • Company-wide involvement and accountability in all matters relating to health and safety • Expert guidance and advice on all matters relating to health and safety • Recognised standard of achievement, which can be displayed on letterhead, vehicles and websites Companies will be required to provide evidence of a good health and safety management system by answering key performance questions and supporting the answers with a portfolio of relevant documentation. Those members who achieve the required standard will then receive a framed certificate and will also be entitled to use the award logo indicating their achievement on their organisation's vehicles, letterhead and website.

Supporting the programme, the FSDF website will feature a dedicated area that will include: • A Health and Safety Forum • Articles and other relevant information relating to current health and safety issues • ‘Best Practice’ case studies • Accident statistics and other benchmarking data Contact FSDF on tel 01189 884468 or visit www.fsdf.org.uk

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lines for sectors such as fresh meat, poultry and fish, ready meals and snacks – and details of its comprehensive customer support covering service, spare parts and training.

Information on the site can be easily shared with colleagues via email, Linked-In, Facebook and Twitter. Overseas language versions of the site will be rolled out during 2014.

“Ishida Europe today offers a wealth of products and services to companies to ensure high speed, accuracy and efficiency throughout their packing operations, and we wanted our website not only to reflect the breadth of our capabilities but also make it easy for visitors to find the information they require,” explained Anita Kenny, Ishida Europe’s Website and E-media Manager.

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Ishida Europe has relaunched its website to deliver a more modern and user-friendly experience for the visitor.

The new site is clearer and easier to navigate.

Customers can search for information via product or market sector, with a variety of detailed information – including brochures, specification sheets, videos and installation case histories - available to view or download.

There is also the facility to search the site for case studies demonstrating the capabilities of a specific machine or Ishida’s ability to handle a particular product type or application.

In addition, the site includes sections on Ishida’s capabilities in Integrated Solutions – the complete project management for the design and installation of bespoke packing

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BRC Global Standards major GFST sponsors BRC Global Standards were major sponsors of the One World, One Safe Food Supply Conference organized by GFSI in Anaheim, California.

The BRC Global Standards promoted two new publications including the just published BRC Global Standard for Agents and Brokers Issue 1. The Standard has been developed to provide a framework to manage product safety, quality and legality for businesses in the food and packaging industries which buy, sell or facilitate the trade of products but which do not have their own production, storage or distribution facilities.

The second publication is a unique report entitled Food Safety – A Global View. Each year, BRC Global Standards collects vast amounts of data and information from its audit reports on the BRC Global Standards Directory. For the first time the BRC has published their analysis to present an insight into vital trends and developments relating to food safety and hygiene across the world.

The report provides a global view of food safety information and performance data, covering all the 18 categories in the Food Standard. The report also focuses on key regions and countries, offering unique local insights and snapshots, mapping areas of strength and weakness and showcasing growth markets. It highlights important experience gained in food safety issues that affect manufactures, retailers and consumers the world over.

Contact British Retail Consortium on tel 020 7854 8921 or visit www.brc.org.uk

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CS Labels brings packaging to life CS labels, the award winning digital label printer will officially launch a cutting edge Augmented Reality (AR) solution at the Packaging Innovations Exhibition. The product is designed to increase sales and foster online customer engagement.

Using a solution from leading app developer ooh-AR, CS Labels are offering a solution based around creating a branded app for customers. It will feature the client's own brand and be packed with information about a company and links to its website and social media.

The app uses ground-breaking technology to recognise photographs and logos, on labels literature and other packaging, and trigger a world of interactive content.

The app is free to download by customers from Apples App Store or Google Play. By scanning a photo or logo it can bring a bottle, package or any other label to life by triggering videos or presentations.

Anyone who has downloaded the app can then use interactive buttons on their touch screen to find out more, give feedback and even make purchases; all triggered by a simple label.

CS Labels Managing Director, Simon Smith said: “After a year in development and testing by ourselves and working with ooh-AR I am delighted to launch this product. AR is a fantastic and cost-effective way of linking a normal digital label to a completely interactive experience for the customer.”

“By pointing a device at the packaging, clients are transported to a world of content to immediately find out more about the product they have purchased, even before they purchase it. This could be in the form of a web page, an entertaining video or even a live 3D avatar. You can prompt customers for product feedback, encourage them join forums, surf the net and even request a quote or buy products and services all from their device – whatever you choose, all without any compromise on the look of your product. You can also collect analytical user data or opt-in details if the customer provides it.”

John Mollart, Smith-Davis’s Marketing Manager said: “We are delighted to be working with CS Labels on this product.

Their knowledge of high quality digital printing and understanding how to make a brand stand out using digital technology was the perfect match for our AR solution.”

Contact CS Labels on tel 01902 365840 or visit www.cslabels.co.uk

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Foodborne viruses: Campden BRI seminar Foodborne viruses (especially norovirus, and hepatitis A and E) are key ‘emerging pathogens’ and as such are not as fully understood as their bacterial counterparts. It is believed that viruses cause a significant number of illnesses in association with foods each year. However, the significance of viral contamination of food is not fully appreciated.

Campden BRI is holding a seminar on 16th May to highlight a range of issues Event Director, Fiona Cawkell explained: This seminar will focus on aspects of these increasingly important organisms, explaining current thinking on this emerging problem and

why viruses are important. Key areas to be covered include: · Overview of the ACMSF report on foodborne viruses · Significance of foodborne viruses in the food chain · Aspects of epidemiology · Methods for detection · Hygiene and interventions for control in the food arena Amongst the particular issues that will be discussed are: hygiene inspection on cruise ships and norovirus contamination in shellfish.”

Contact Campden BRI in tel 01386 842000 or visit www.campdenbri.co.uk

Mitsubishi Electric goes live in EMEA Mitsubishi Electric Europe offers its web visitors and customers an even better online experience, with the launch of its EMEA websites built upon Mitsubishi Electric’s Factory Automation Global Website Strategy.

Providing dedicated coverage for the EMEA region, the new websites offer a wealth of product information, news, market-specific solutions and company information. The Factory Automation global website strategy provides a uniform and consistent presentation platform, regardless of where in the world customers may be.

The websites have also maintained the ‘My Mitsubishi’ feature, where registered users get premium access to special content, such as CAD files, certificates, drawings, photos and other resources.

For specific local information, users can access 24 dedicated country sites in 17 different languages. These local sites provide additional service, training and support information.

Thus, the Global Website Strategy plays a key role in delivering on Mitsubishi Electric’s commitment to its ‘Global partner - Local friend’ philosophy.

Contact Mitsubishi Electric on tel +49 2102 486 2150 or visit www.mitsubishi-automation.com

Lab M’s comprehensive Product Guide Microbiology company Lab M has made its comprehensive Product Guide available as a digital flip book or a pdf download, as well as offering printed versions for those who prefer to access a hard copy in the laboratory.

The latest additions to Lab M’s portfolio are featured in the guide. These include the new µPREP™ Buffered Peptone Water (ISO), the first in a line of bagged, sterile dehydrated culture media that are made ready to use simply by adding water. Designed for high throughput laboratories where speed, convenience and cost-effectiveness are paramount, and where storage space is at a

premium, µPREP™ media are reconstituted and ready for use in minutes.

The expanding range of Captivate™ immuno-magnetic separation (IMS) products also features as IMS continues to play an increasing role in the detection and isolation of Verocytoxin producing E.coli (VTEC)/Shiga Toxigenic E.coli (STEC).

Lab M specialises in microbiological culture media and the provision of related products.

The company develops, manufactures and supplies from headquarters in Heywood, Manchester, and has an established network of distributors around the world.

Contact Lab M on tel 0161 820 3833 or visit www.labm.com

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Challenges keep lid on canned foods Canned foods have been an essential in the pantry for many households in the UK for decades and some products, such as Heinz Baked Beans, have even gained iconic status. But the market’s grip on the food industry is slipping.

The market is in long-term decline, despite recent economic instability, a factor that in previous years appeared to favour canned goods.

Canned foods have always had an image of reliability and affordability, but these strengths are being increasingly challenged by other factors. The ‘luxury-night-in’ trend, which has seen customers save money by staying in while compensating by buying luxury food and drink, and the associated success of meal deals such as ‘dine-in-for-two’, has made it harder for canned goods to compete.

Other challenges to the industry include the growing popularity of alternative long-life packaging, such as pouches, jars and cartons, and growing fears about the implications of exposure to the chemical compound Bisphenol-A (BPA), which is found in most, if not all, cans. Shoppers are also favouring frozen and chilled products, often perceiving them to be of better quality and palatability than canned foods.

Canned foods still have a lot to offer, however, and millions of cans are sold in the UK every year. Canned food are cheap, convenient and rarely beaten when it comes to shelf life, meaning that the sector can still retain many loyal customers. Nevertheless, although Key Note predicts relatively modest growth for this industry, this is expected to be due more to rising production costs than to an increase in volume sales.

Key Note’s new Market Report Plus, Canned Foods 2014, breaks the UK’s market for canned products down into eight sectors, with market value figures provided for each one, from 2009 to 2013. The report also features profiles of major industry players and their brands; industry forecast figures; a discussion of trends and issues currently affecting the market; and chapters dedicated to consumer buying behaviour. These use data from Kantar’s Target Group Index (TGI) and research commissioned by Key Note from NEMS Market Research.

Contact Key Note on tel 0845 504 0452 or visit www.keynote.co.uk

Website and knowledge hub from Eagle To mark a year of robust growth, expanded market presence and continued investment in state-of-the-art research and development, Eagle Product Inspection, a global x-ray inspection and fat analysis expert, has released a new website including a knowledge hub.

This will provide food and pharmaceutical manufacturers with a wealth of information about technologies, trends, regulations and legislations in the product inspection market.

The more engaging and user-friendly feel of the company’s new brand identity is reflected in its corporate website. The site equips food processors, manufacturers and packaging professionals with expert information on food quality and safety, and is supported by an easy-to-use search engine and a product finder that helps manufacturers easily find the best product inspection solution for their needs.

Eagle has also introduced a robust knowledge base that provides food and pharmaceutical manufacturers worldwide with white papers,

webinars, videos, essential user documentation, animations, data sheets and case studies that showcase the latest issues, trends and innovations in food inspection technology. As an expert in product inspection technology, Eagle will continue to develop its knowledge base to serve as a reliable source of information for industry professionals, providing a variety of data that will help visitors understand product inspection technology and applications specific to their industry.

Simon King, Global Head of Sales, Service and Marketing, Eagle Product Inspection stated: “Due to the fast-moving nature of this industry it is important for food manufacturers and processors to have advanced x-ray technology in place, but it is equally important to stay up to date with key industry information pertaining to regulations, technologies and other topics associated with the supply chain and its stakeholders.”

Contact Eagle Product Inspection on tel +1 877 379 1670 or visit www.eaglepi.com

Procap corporate website and direct portal Procap, the manufacturer of plastic caps and closing systems has launched a fresh new global corporate website that offers visitors a detailed introduction to the company and a more direct means of communication.

Examples provided of original solutions that Procap has devised for some of the world’s best-known brands underscore the group’s substantial capacity for innovation.

“We have achieved remarkable growth over the last half century and have extensive growth ambitions for the future. The website fully supports these ambitions by helping us to create awareness beyond our current customer base. It also offers us an exceptionally simple way of keeping current customers up to date

with new developments and enhancing customer intimacy too,” said Benoit Henckes, Chief Executive of the Procap Group.

The site will be regularly updated with news of the latest developments and product launches, further success stories and information about other events at Procap.

“In today’s highly competitive marketplace, it is essential that we make it as easy as possible for customers to do business with Procap. This website does exactly that. It is fully supported by our advanced global service model that ensures customers always benefit from high-quality solutions that add real value,” said Raf van Grieken, Product Marketing Manager, Procap Group.

Contact PROCAP Group on tel +352 95 0550 or visit www.procap.com

Protein measurement standard expanded IDF and ISO have joined forces to expand the scope of an international standard used worldwide in the dairy industry to measure the protein content of cow's milk. The Kjeldahl method* now encompasses milk from other species as well as internationally traded dairy products covered by Codex standards. The revised Standard reconfirms the crucial role of the Kjeldahl method in trade harmonization

and enhances consumer protection safeguards.

The Kjeldahl method plays a pivotal role in national and international trade, for example in calculating fair milk payments for dairy farmers, controlling manufacturing processes and in checking regulatory compliance.

"This standard is about the determination of one of the major components in milk and many milk products, in fact the component

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that accounts for over 50 percent of the market value of milk," Harrie van den Bijgaart, Chair of the ISO Technical Committee on Milk and Milk Products explained.

This, combined with the fact that international collaborative studies of the method had been conducted for liquid bovine whole milk only thus far, illustrated the need to validate the method for products other than bovine whole milk.

“IDF and ISO experts have now successfully modified and scientifically validated the method so that it applies to a wide range of dairy products. In addition to liquid bovine whole milk, the method can now be applied to bovine milk with reduced fat content, goat whole milk, sheep whole milk, cheese, dried milk and dried milk products including milkbased infant formula, milk protein concentrate, whey protein concentrate, casein and caseinate,” Jaap Evers, Chair of the IDF Methods Standards Steering Group explained.

“The validation of this method for more products will also provide better guarantees to consumers that the labelled content of milk products was determined with globally standardized methodology,” Harrie added.

The global impact of IDF/ISO analytical

methods is illustrated by the fact that many of these methods are referenced in national and regional regulations, and that over 60 have been adopted by the Codex Alimentarius.

These methods have become the international references for the testing of milk and dairy products.

“The next step is to submit the revised Kjeldahl method for endorsement to Codex Alimentarius. One of the major benefits of international adoption of the revised method is that it will result in greater harmonization of protein analysis across the globe, thereby minimizing the risk of trade disputes resulting from differences in analytical test results”, continued Jaap.

“Given the increasing global demand for milk and milk products, standardization is ever more important to ensure food safety, food quality and fairness in international trade. This enhances harmonization and avoids duplication of work, increasing efficiency and simplifying matters for the end user." *The revised method ISO 8968-1|IDF 20-1 – Milk and milk products – Determination of nitrogen content – Part 1: Kjeldahl principle and crude protein calculation.

Contact IDF on tel +32 2733 9888 or visit www.fil-idf.org

FIPA presents website relaunch FIPA has completely redesigned its website, offering many useful extras. The FIPA products and all their relevant technical data can now be viewed online. “The system of categorization according to products and line of business combined with optimized search functions, enables automation specialists and material-flow experts to find suitable products within a very short time. Functions such as the quotation list and the option to redirect the shopping cart both support the request for quotations,” Rainer Mehrer, Chief Executive of FIPA, told us.

The system of categorization according to product groups and subgroups was taken over from the catalogues, thereby doing away with the time-consuming task of having to learn a new method.

On each product page you will find a photo, a product description, technical data, dimensions, diagrams and accessories. There is no need for any time-consuming copying or re-entering of the data by the buyer.

The new website at a glance: • Categorized as in the catalogues: The navigation is oriented towards the familiar system of categorizing the catalogues according to product groups. Users can find their way around immediately.

• Convenient shopping cart function: Technicians select products, and buyers request these specific products. This allocation of

tasks, which is particularly common in large firms, is supported by the new shopping cart function. This means that customers can save themselves unnecessary work and typing errors are avoided.

• Flexible search: The search function supports the search for item numbers and specific terms. A special search function limits the search by setting specified parameters.

• Recommendation by mouse click: If a user finds an interesting product, he can redirect the relevant information automatically to his colleagues.

• Obtaining quotations: Each product page offers the opportunity to request a quotation: After entering the required number of items, the request can be forwarded directly to FIPA by mouse click.

• Downloading CAD data after registration: Users can download CAD data of the products free of charge. This simplifies the integration of FIPA products into packaged solutions.

Calling up catalogues and application reports by mouse click.

All current FIPA catalogues can be downloaded in PDF format. If required, an interested party can also request the printed catalogues. Application reports, which can be called up under the menu item “line-ofbusiness applications”, offer valuable information on how vacuum cups, air nippers and other FIPA products can be applied.

Contact FIPA on tel +49 8996 24890 or visit www.fipa.com

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Plimsoll Fruit Wholesalers & Importers analysis The Fruit Wholesalers & Importers Market has a long tradition of seeing vulnerable businesses taken over by rescuers keen on a bargain. However, a new report by market analysts Plimsoll says this could all change in 2014.

Plimsoll’s latest market analysis has identified 44 high valuation acquisitions allowing opportunity for some business to move into the growing and profitable areas of the market.

David Pattison, Plimsoll’s Senior Analyst, explained: “It is a long standing debate, when considering an acquisition, do you buy cheap or high value? In reality, most people’s idea of an acquisition is to wait until the business has declined so far meaning the only option is for a new owner to come in and save the business – essentially spending peanuts. However we feel this approach needs to change. The acquisition strategy should be based on the direction of the current market.

“In many cases the weak and heavily indebted businesses identified in the study will just be allowed to fail, thus creating the space and opportunity for the financially strong companies to move in. An acquisition strategy must be built on the future direction of the market.”

More findings from Plimsoll’s Fruit Wholesalers & Importers concluded that: • 4 companies are privately owned and are highly profitable – they offer opportunity to move into the very rich areas of the Fruit Wholesalers & Importers market.

• 20 firms have an average director’s age of over 64 these companies offer a once in a generation chance to buy a mainstay of the UK Fruit Wholesalers & Importers industry.

• 20 businesses only have two shareholders and are growing at over 10 percent - a chance to consider one of these companies and enter the growth areas of the Fruit Wholesalers & Importers market.

This is just a selection of the types of company on view in the full report. It will allow you to navigate the arguments on which company to buy and assess each company’s value and future prospects. So if you are looking to buy companies then the Plimsoll Analysis is the place to start.

Contact Plimsoll Publishing on tel 01642 626419 or visit www.plimsoll.co.uk

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Safeguarding Scottish chicken A premium brand for Scottish chicken could be created to safeguard the future of the Scotland’s poultry sector, Rural Affairs Secretary, Richard Lochhead has confirmed.

The option will be explored as part of the Scottish Government’s new Poultry Plan. It identifies important steps that need to be taken to secure a sustainable and profitable future for Scotland’s poultry sector.

Other work being taken forward includes looking at demand for Scottish chicken, identifying opportunities for poultry farmers to work together to cut costs, and providing support for the recently established Scottish Chicken Growers Association.

Mr Lochhead said: “Scotland produces first-class poultry to high animal welfare standards and I am doing everything in my power to ensure our poultry industry has a positive future, and that the chicken consumed in Scotland is produced in Scotland.

“There are immediate challenges facing the Scottish poultry sector and I do not want to see any farmers go out of business. This plan, which has been produced in consultation with industry representatives and other key stakeholders, will help us address those challenges and ensure the sector can have a positive future.

“Quality and provenance are of paramount importance for consumers in the wake of the horsemeat scandal, and I am convinced that there is strong demand in Scotland for the fantastic poultry being produced here.

“I am very interested in exploring the creation of a premium brand for Scottish chicken, a tactic that has worked well to promote Specially Selected Scottish Pork, Scotch Beef and Scotch Lamb.

“The Poultry Plan also identifies ways in which poultry farmers themselves can work together to cut costs and take advantage of opportunities in the market. It is essential that everyone now pulls together to secure a sustainable and profitable future for Scotland’s poultry sector.”

Contact The Scottish Government on tel 0131 556 8400 or visit www.scotland.gov.uk

Spirax Sarco White Paper outlines benefits Spirax Sarco has published a new White Paper highlighting the increasing need for clean steam in industrial applications to meet regulatory and guidance, customer safety and product quality requirements.

There is a growing recognition that plant steam may not be clean enough for some processes. While this has long been understood in pharmaceutical production, healthcare and electronics, demand for clean steam is now on the rise in other industries, such as food and drink.

This white paper looks at the different grades of steam available, including plant steam, filtered steam, clean steam and pure steam. It also considers where they might be most

applicable. For instance, some food manufacturers are happy with filtered (culinary) grade steam, while others are opting for steam generated by a dedicated clean steam generator.

It considers the potential advantages of switching to clean steam, including reduced costs from product wastage and the ability to demonstrate the use of best practice to demanding customers such as supermarkets and ultimately consumers.

Finally the white paper recommends a sixstep approach to determine whether an application would benefit from adopting a clean steam supply, including identifying potential sources of contamination and devising a steam quality testing regime.

Contact Spirax Sarco on tel 01242 573703 or visit www.spiraxsarco.com/uk

FSDF boosts course and awards offering As part of its pledge to help members gain competence in all areas of health and safety, the FSDF has introduced the IOSH Managing Safely course to its training repertoire.

The IOSH Managing Safely Course offered

by FSDF reinforces the Health and Safety Leadership Programme launched in early January 2014. The course is delivered over four days and is designed to educate line managers, supervisors and team managers on all major Health, Safety and Environmental issues and provide the knowledge and practical experience needed to confidently manage key issues within their teams.

Offered in conjunction with Ian Hancock, FSDF TASC Chairman and owner of IHSafety4You, the course can be customised to meet the needs of members and offered either to individuals or groups of employees.

Chris Sturman, Chief Executive at FSDF commented: “The FSDF is committed to helping its members gain competence in all aspects of Health and Safety. As an industry, health and safety is an area that can always benefit from further improvements, including better awareness and communication, reflection, review and sharing of best practice, and greater accountability within all levels of an organisation.

“One of the three targets of the HSE Logistics strategy is Competence & Worker Involvement, highlighting that Individuals at all levels need to accept their roles and responsibilities for health and safety. The IOSH course reinforces this message and helps give managers the tools to implement high standards of health and safety throughout their working day.”

Following the successful launch of its Health

and Safety Leadership Programme, the Food Storage and Distribution Federation (FSDF) has announced two new annual awards which will recognise excellence in health and safety on an individual and company wide level.

As part of its pledge to help members gain competence in all areas of health and safety, the awards are open to all members and associate members. This year’s winners will be invited to attend a presentation at the FSDF’s Annual Luncheon in Birmingham in May this year.

The Best Individual Contribution to Health and Safety Award recognises individuals whose contributions have made an exceptional difference to health and safety in their workplace. To enter in this category, nominations should include information about the individual’s health and safety achievements/contributions and how were they accomplished.

The Outstanding Contribution to Health and Safety by a Company Award acknowledges an initiative, project or a new product that enhances the food storage and distribution industry's health and safety record. For entry in this category, nominations should include information about an organisation’s health and safety achievement, contributions and how were they accomplished, and what sets the achievement apart from the current norm either within the organisation or industry at large.

In reviewing the nominations for both awards the judges will be looking for evidence of an innovative approach, good prospects for wider application and cost effective deployment prospects throughout the food storage and distribution industry at large.

Contact FSDF on tel 01189 884468 or visit www.fsdf.org.uk

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Investment opportunities in Europe Business Monitor has just released its latest analysis on Europe’s food & drink investment opportunities in their new whitepaper ‘Europe Investment Opportunities in Food & Drink: Risk/Reward Analysis’. The whitepaper includes Business Monitor’s country comparative risks and rewards ratings tables for the food and drink industry in each country within the region, as well as specific analysis on four countries of particular interest – Germany, France, Russia and Poland including key trends and developments.

A snapshot of the whitepaper: As Western European markets continue to grapple with the continuing fallout of the eurozone crisis, austerity measures continue to challenge growth. Stubborn unemployment levels and accompanying weakened consumer confidence remain serious obstacles, with Greece's continued economic struggles reflected in its poor position in our Risk/Reward Ratings table, despite its score rising slightly from last quarter.

The UK continues to lead, with Germany,

France and the Netherlands closely behind, and Spain, Ireland and Italy forming another cluster beneath, arguably demonstrating not only the pressure the region faces as a whole, but the clear division between the top four and lower three Western European markets.

Most Western European food and drink sectors are highly concentrated (reflected in low market fragmentation scores), making it difficult for a new entrant to come in and quickly capture market share. On this factor Spain, Italy and Ireland are viewed more favourably, with these markets less developed and with room for growth in certain sub-sectors.

This relative immaturity has to be balanced against the third factor, per capita food consumption (five-year compound annual growth). Fiscal tightening and weak economic growth is expected to put downwards pressure on consumption over the next five years across all markets in the region. However, it is those markets facing greater pressure such as Greece, Spain and Italy that score poorly on this factor, with the UK a clear leader.

Contact Business Monitor International on tel 0207 248 0468 or visit www.businessmonitor.com

Bread innovators focus on wholegrain and fibre Tracked bread launch numbers have generally continued to rise globally; and within those products using health claims of some kind, these make up 42 percent of the total in 2013.

This does however vary regionally, rising to over 75 percent in the USA and Australia and 70 percent in Latin America; but falling to less than 30 percent in non-traditional bread markets in Asia.

Lu-Ann Williams, Director of Innovation at Innova Market Insights reported that: “As a result of the growing influence of health claim regulations, particularly in the EU and North America, the functional bread sector has generally seen much lower levels of new product and promotional activity over the past few years.

“This does not mean that interest in healthier options has reduced, however, but more that the positioning of bread has changed to focus more on a generally healthy and nutritious image, rather than making specific claims,” she added.

Innova Market Insights divides health claims and positioning into two types – passive, such as low and light, organic, gluten-free, etc., and active, which involve the addition of particular ingredients, such as calcium, protein, fibre, etc., or the promotion of specific benefits such as

heart health or digestive health. Globally, passive claims dominated in the bread market: With over 40 percent of launches using them in 2013, compared with just five percent using active claims of some kind. Again this varies regionally, with over 11 percent of launches using active claims in the USA, compared with six percent in Asia and three percent in Europe.

The most popular health claims in the bread market overall referred to naturalness, with one-fifth of 2013 launches using one or more claims relating to naturalness, an additive- or preservative-free formulation or an organic positioning. Nearly 17 percent used either high-in-fibre, source-of-fibre claims or a wholegrain positioning. In terms of active health claims, usage was much lower, with the most frequently used being vitamin and mineral fortification, featuring on 1.5 percent of launches, ahead of omega 3/DHA fortification and heart health, with about one percent each.

The USA, with its mature and highly competitive market looking for differentiation and its ongoing consumer interest in health, had an even higher level of interest. Over onethird of tracked launches used claims relating to naturalness and a similar percentage utilized fibre/wholegrain claims.

Contact Innova Market Insights on tel +31 26 319 2000 or visit www.innovadatabase.com

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Tsubaki heavyduty chain and sprockets guide Tsubaki Europe has introduced a new selection guide to accompany its range of heavy-duty chains and sprockets for demanding applications. With their increased link plate thickness and unique shape, Tsubaki Heavy Duty Drive Chains allow for compact designs as well as providing unsurpassed kilowatt rating and tensile strength. The selection guide helps customers to specify the chain type within the range that is best suited to their application.

Within the Heavy Duty range there are four chain types: Super Roller Chain, RS-HT Chain, Super-H Roller Chain and Ultra Super Chain. The purpose of the selection guide is to allow customers to easily specify chain that is likely to be best choice for their applications.

The guide is extremely easy to use and gives a brief description of the key features and benefits of each chain as well as listing its three main applications and available sizes. For example users can easily see that Super Roller Chain is suitable for Steel, Automotive and Agricultural industries; available in sizes up to three-inch pitch chain; and offers Tsubaki’s unique offset link feature which allows it to be used with an odd number of links to create the perfect length of chain.

This selection guide allows users to gauge the suitable level of chain for their application to avoid over specification. Information is also given about Tsubaki’s heavy duty sprockets which are formed with a deep hardened layer down to the tooth bottom, for use with heavy duty chains.

Derek Mack, UK Sales Director, commented: “Tsubaki has developed a wide range of heavy series chains to meet the many demanding applications which can be found in any industry.

This guide helps users to select the chain that is correct for them. Our sales team is always on hand to provide specialised advice for most applications.

This guide provides a starting point to help explain the wide range of products available.”

Contact Tsubakimoto Europe on tel +31 78 620 4000 or visit www.tsubaki.eu

GL CO-PACKING 01282 877777 targets growth with three senior management appointments and a new look. Contract packing specialist SGL Co-packing (formerly Strategy Group Limited) – supported by its parent company, The Keswick Enterprises Group Limited – has taken a strategic decision to grow its contract packing/manufacturing activities in the United Kingdom.

Until now focused exclusively on the cereals, petcare, confectionery and other foods sectors, the Nelson, Lancashire-

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To support this planned development – and to maintain the company's excellent record for customer service and quality – SGL Co-packing has just made three significant senior management appointments and introduced a new visual identity.

Andrew Palmer joins parent company Keswick Enterprises as Chairman of SGL Co-packing.

Andrew has led the leading logistics services provider Suttons Group since 2005, and has extensive domestic and international business experience – especially in managing change and expansion. David Hogg becomes Head of the subsidiary company's Technical Support functions, while Frank McMahon is appointed Sales Manager. The trio will support the existing divisional management team led by Margaret Bell, divisional General Manager. Currently a NonExecutive Director of Thomas Cradley Holdings Ltd – the holding company for all subsidiaries of the £155m Suttons logistics group – Andrew was previously Group Managing Director of Suttons from 2005 to 2013.

David Hogg brings a wealth of experience in the areas of food manufacture and packaging. He started his career in 1975 as a General Manager at Dalgety PLC. Following experience with William Jacksons and St Ivel, he has held senior management positions at Northern Foods, Premier Foods and Dairy Crest.

Frank McMahon was previously Business Development Manager at Faith Products Ltd (a brand leader in the health store sector), and from 2008 to 2010 was Sales Manager at ViforPharma – Potters UK.

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“The EMEA market represents one of our largest growth opportunities,” said Melanie Galloway, Global President of the Food Technologies Division of Kemin. “I am confident that Stefaan’s vast experience in research and development, product management and commercial sales will elevate our business and increase our presence as a market leader.”

Stefaan joined Kemin in 2001 as R&D Manager for the animal nutrition and health division in EMEA, focusing on antioxidant and surfactant product lines. In 2010 he assumed the role of Global R&D Director for the animal nutrition and health division, coordinating a global research team until he returned to the EMEA division in 2012 as Vice President of R&D for research, regulatory affairs and intellectual property. Most recently, Van Dyck served as commercial vice president overseeing marketing, product application and commercial sales departments for the ruminant business in EMEA. Stefaan obtained his doctorate in organic chemistry from the University of Antwerp in 2001 and a MBA from Antwerp Management School in 2006.

Additionally, he is a Visiting Professor at the University of Antwerp, teaching food chemistry for MSc students in industrial chemistry.

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packaging solutions. Karen joined Pollard Boxes from McFarlane Packaging.

“We are delighted to welcome Karen to Pollard Boxes,” commented Commercial Director, Peter Conner. “We are experiencing strong demand for our products across a wide range of markets and Karen’s knowledge and experience will be invaluable in helping us to identify and maximise opportunities.”

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ARTNER LOGISTICS 01945 428860 have strengthened their core management team in the UK by appointing Trevor Hudson as Commercial Manager. Trevor will be responsible for overseeing all commercial activities in the UK. Working within the logistics industry for 32 years, Trevor has held operational and commercial positions within various leading logistics companies in the UK and has amassed a wealth of experience within both ambient and cold food storage.

Commenting on his new appointment, Trevor said: “I am very excited about my new role in a sector that has many opportunities and challenges.

Partner Logistics have an innovative, fresh approach within the industry with great potential

for further growth.”

Duco Bujize, Chief Executive at Partner Logistics, commented: “We are very pleased to welcome Trevor to Partner Logistics. His knowledge and experience of the UK logistics industry will be a great asset to our team”.

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CHOELLER ALLIBERT 0121 506 0100 has again expanded its expert sales team with the appointment of David Bean who will cover Scotland and the north east of England.

With a background in the recycling and waste management industries, Schoeller Allibert’s environmental credentials were vital in David’s decision to join the company, as he explained: “My experience in the recycling sector has changed the way I look at industry, and working for a responsible organisation is very important to me. Schoeller Allibert is a market leader in developing solutions that are not only fully recyclable, but can be made from recycled materials themselves and play a big part in reducing emissions in the supply chain for many sectors. After having worked in sales roles for many large, household-name companies, this dedication to ‘green’ practices is what attracted me to the role.”

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David will cover all of Scotland as well as the north east of England as far south as Sheffield, and will be working for a diverse group of customers in a wide range of industries. He added: “I am looking forward to introducing new customers to the benefits of RTP and encouraging them to take advantage of the environmental benefits offered by recycled – and recyclable – plastic RTP.”

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INE FOOD DISTRIBUTOR RH AMAR 01494 530200 is continuing to strengthen its team as the company looks forward to a landmark 70th anniversary in 2015.

Gareth Morgan joins Commercial Director, John Heynen’s team as Area Account Manager, covering the South West of England and South Wales. Gareth joins from a sales role with Premier Foods and will have specific responsibility for servicing independent wholesalers and foodservice accounts across both regions.

He said: “I have always heard great things about RH Amar and the brands they represent, so this was a fantastic opportunity to join a family-owned company at a really exciting time in its history.”

Meanwhile, Markus Endt joins as Senior Technical Manager, overseeing the technical side of RH Amar’s extensive brand and private label portfolio.

Markus joins from Halo Foods, part of Raisio Western Europe, where he was Head of Divisional Technical.

“I am really looking forward to dealing with such a great portfolio of brands, while it is incredibly exciting to be joining an ambitious family business that goes from strength to strength.”

MD Rob Amar added: “We are delighted to welcome Gareth and Markus to the team.”

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ENERAL MILLS UK, IRELAND AND NORDIC 01895 201100 announced the appointment of Jennifer Jorgensen to the role of Marketing Director.

Jennifer joins the business from General Mills’ Small Planet Foods business in the US where, in the

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same role of Marketing Director, she was responsible for driving strong growth across multiple brands, including Larabar fruit and nut bars, Cascadian Farm organic cereals, and Muir Glen tomato products.

“We are delighted to welcome Jennifer to her new role. I am sure she will be every bit as successful in continuing to drive momentum behind our fantastic portfolio here in the UK, Ireland and Nordic, as she was in growing the Small Planet Foods business in the US,” commented Jim Moseley, Managing Director of General Mills UK, Ireland and Nordic.

Jennifer joined General Mills’ US business from Deloitte & Touche in 1995 in a finance role, before moving into marketing in 1999, and brings a wealth of experience gained from working across a diverse range of brands within the global business.

In her new role, Jennifer will be responsible for building on the success of the General Mills UK, Ireland and Nordic portfolio, which includes Häagen-Dazs, Old El Paso, Green Giant, Betty Crocker, Nature Valley and JusRol. Jennifer added: “I am delighted to be joining the team at General Mills UK, Ireland and Nordic, particularly at an exciting time for the business. We are one of the fastest growing food businesses in UK grocery and I look forward to playing my part in continuing that great record of success.”

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ACKAGING AUTOMATION (PA) 01565 755000 has announced three key appointments and the restructuring of its sales team.

Simon Jay has joined the business as Sales Manager and brings with him a wealth of experience in capital equipment sales and strategic sales management.

Scott Roebuck and Dan Hooper have joined PA as UK Regional Sales Engineers working alongside PA’s other UK Regional Sales Engineer Matt Delaney.

Scott has extensive experience in the packaging industry selling a range of packaging machinery and equipment. Dan joins PA from the packaging films industry where he has accumulated wide-

ranging experience of packaging materials and the food industry.

John Dumbell has taken over responsibility for National Key Accounts, co-ordinating all trading with strategic customers.

“This reorganisation and expansion of the sales team comes at a very exciting time for the business,” said Samantha Ashton, Commercial Director.

“We have seen a surge in demand for our products in the UK and overseas with many new customers coming to us and we are keen to maintain the same level of customer contact despite this increase in new business. This restructuring will ensure we achieve this goal and will support the growth of the business in the future.”

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OLMACH 01780 749 097 is delighted to announce the appointment of Victoria Touzel to the position of Marketing Executive within the company. With a background in digital marketing, event management and publication design, she will be responsible for the complete range of marketing activities and the main organiser for our stand, number C30, at PPMA 2014 from the 30th September-2nd October in the Birmingham NEC. Speaking French and German, Victoria will become a regular presence at UK and European exhibitions and conferences, as well as aiding communication with our valued overseas clients.

Having previously worked in the commercial department for Ernst & Young, her understanding of the evolving needs of fast moving business will uphold Holmach’s strong profile as a leading agency in the Thermal Processing sector.

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PECIALIST SURPLUS FOOD PROCESSOR, SUGARICH 01280 840692 has further strengthened its senior team, with the appointment of National Sales and Marketing Manager, Angela Sutherby. This development follows a period of significant growth for the ‘food factory to farm’ experts, and marks the continued consolidation of SugaRich’s presence in the UK. With nearly 30 years’ industry

experience, Angela is already a familiar face in the animal feeds market. Since starting her career with Blended Feeds in 1984, Angela has held roles with several leading agribusinesses covering business development, customer relationship management, transport and quality control to name just a few.

Speaking of the timeliness of Angela’s appointment, SugaRich Group Managing Director, Andy Newton, said: “2014 starts the next stage of development for our organisation. As we continue to grow, it is important that we have the right people in place to meet the changing and ever-more demanding needs of our UK customer base. With this level of knowledge, experience and passion for industry standards, Angela will prove key to our ongoing market development. Her array of supply chain expertise is sure to be a value-adding asset to SugaRich’s growing business” “We hope to utilise her fresh perspective to enable us to better develop both our SugaRich and AB Nutrition brands, ensuring we take full advantage of all possible synergies and translate these into maximum benefits for all our customers.”

Speaking about her appointment, Angela Sutherby added: “Whilst promoting SugaRich’s range of nutritious feeds, and maintaining and developing relationships with feed industry buyers, I am also looking forward to helping more people understand the value of this resourceful approach to business.”

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IEMENS INDUSTRY 07808 823011 has appointed Keith Thornhill as a lead for the food and beverage market in the UK and Ireland. He will be working with a dedicated team to address the key business and technological challenges food manufacturers face.

In his role as Food and Beverage Business Manager, Keith will provide support for the sector in the areas of industrial technology - in particular automation and drive technologies solutions.

Keith began his career completing a five-year apprenticeship with British Rail

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Engineering in Crewe and entered the automation industry in 1986 as an internal sales engineer with Electro Craft Ltd. Keith Thornhill commented: “Siemens Industry has a unique understanding of the food and beverage markets having worked with leading brands in the sector for many years. I look forward to working with manufacturers across the UK helping them to boost productivity and encourage greater investment in technology.

It is an incredibly exciting market to be part of - with real potential for growth and investment as the recovery gathers momentum.”

Keith has mainly focused on encouraging innovation for UK packaging machinery manufacturers. Recently he has also specialised in operational efficiency and production flexibility benefits delivered by automation technology to the consumer packaged goods market.

Brian Holliday, Divisional Director, Siemens Industry Automation, said: “We are delighted to announce the appointment of Keith to this key role. He will be working with manufacturers to enhance operational efficiencies, create flexible production platforms whilst tackling energy and safety challenges. He will be playing a vital role in helping this important area of UK manufacturing become more internationally competitive - and therefore a more attractive place to invest.”

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ORMER HEAD OF FOOD PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT AT MARKS & SPENCER April Preston has been appointed Innovation Director for 2 Sisters Food Group 0870 458 9700. April had a clear message just one month into the newly created role – if food producers do not innovate, they risk failure.

She said: “The risk of not innovating is far greater than the risks associated with innovating.

As the quote goes: ‘If you do not invent the future, someone else will!’

“I am joining 2 Sisters at a very exciting time following a period of rapid growth and acquisition.

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landscape and with significant market share across so many categories, innovation is the lifeblood of future growth and success. We must lead the way in developing distinctive points of difference and unique product propositions to set ourselves apart from competitors and appeal to both our customers and consumers.

April’s arrival at 2 Sisters Food Group is the latest in a string of new senior appointments at the group as part of a restructuring aimed at streamlining the group’s vastly expanded operations following the purchases of Northern Foods in 2011 and Vion UK’s red meat and poultry businesses earlier this year.

In August last year, 2 Sisters Food Group created two new chief operating officer roles, one for its protein division and one for chilled, ambient & frozen, both of whom will eventually report directly to Chief Executive, Ranjit Singh.

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EADING SNACK SALAD AND VEGETABLE SPECIALIST FRESHTIME UK 01205 312010 has appointed Malcolm Read as Head of Technical to support its ambitious plans for growth.

Malcolm brings with him more than 20 years’ experience working in a technical role for firms including Northern Foods, Bakkavor, Kerry Foods and Fresh and Easy in California.

As Head of Technical at Freshtime he will take overall responsibility for all technical aspects of production at the Lincolnshire-based firm, including the quality of raw materials, transportation and food safety.

“I am extremely pleased that we have been able to bring Malcolm to Freshtime,” said Mark Newton, who took over as Managing Director of the company in October last year.

“Food safety is absolutely critical for our business and Malcolm’s experience and expertise will be vital in helping Freshtime to move to the next level.

“Overseeing quality and safety from the field where the crop is grown to the fridge is an

enormously important job.

“We have brought Malcolm in because food safety and food quality are things that we will never compromise on. It is at the heart of our DNA as a food business.”

Malcolm Read added. “I am delighted to be here and relishing the challenge – and fresh produce always presents plenty of challenges!

“My new role at Freshtime will allow me more responsibility and I am looking forward to realising Mark Newton’s vision of what we can achieve in the future and how we can grow.”

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N A SIGNIFICANT STRENGTHENING OF ITS SENIOR MANAGEMENT TEAM, the Board of The Real Good Food Company (RGFC) 0151 706 8200 is pleased to announce the appointment of former British Sugar Managing Director, Gino De Jaegher, as the Group’s Chief Operating Officer, with immediate effect.

Gino has wide-ranging experience in marketing and sales of branded consumer goods and agriculture-based manufacturing businesses in the UK. Having left British Sugar in September 2012, Gino joined RGFC in a consultancy role to work alongside Executive Chairman, Pieter Totté, on key strategic projects. In his new role, he will take responsibility for the day-today operation of the Group, with the Managing Directors of each of the Group’s five operating businesses reporting directly to him.

Pieter Totté, RGFC Executive Chairman, commented: “I am delighted that Gino has agreed to join us on a long-term basis and also to join our Group Executive team. His appointment to this role will enable me to concentrate on the strategic and, specifically, the commercial development of the Group overall, and I feel confident that we now have a structure in place which will enable us to develop our businesses to achieve our growth targets.”

Gino De Jaegher added: “I look forward to overseeing day-to-day operations of the Group and to working with the divisional

Managing Directors to help deliver their budgets, by enhancing processes and procedures within their businesses and by drawing on my experience to-date. Pieter and the executive team are passionate about harnessing the growth opportunities we see for the Group and I am delighted to be able to work alongside them.”

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HE FREIGHT TRANSPORT ASSOCIATION 08717 112222 is pleased to announce that Karen Crispe joined in April 2014 as Commercial Director.

She is currently Managing Director of Tachodisc, a role she has held since 2005, as well as Non-Executive Director of the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT). At FTA Karen will have direct responsibility for sales and marketing together with a number of service offerings, in addition, she will be influential in shaping FTA’s future development agenda.

FTA Chief Executive, Theo de Pencier, stated: “Karen is a high profile figure in our industry and I am delighted she has decided to join us. Her knowledge of the logistics industry and compliance issues in particular is second to none.”

Karen has over 15 years working within the road transport industry during which her responsibilities have included the commercial and strategic direction of business at Tachodisc.

Responding to the announcement of her appointment, Karen Crispe said: “The role of Commercial Director is an exciting challenge for me. FTA is a hugely influential organisation and I look forward to being part of the leadership team that will take it forward and deliver their ambitious growth agenda.”

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Two-way rupture disc delivers significant savings

CSF Steam Water Mixer Providing a reliable source of hot water, delivered at the correct temperature and pressure makes the CSF Steam Water Mixer the safe and easy-to-use device for most cleaning, or wash down applications in just about every industry, especially in all food and beverage manufacturing processes.

Available through Pump Engineering, the Steam Water Mixer is versatile, effective and very easy-to-use in most industrial and process

environments. These rugged and reliable mixers are constructed from stainless steel and are capable of delivering water up to a maximum temperature of 95 C at volumes up to 10,000 litres/hour.

They are simple to install because existing steam and cold water supplies can be utilized.

Also, running costs are minimal because the design of the mixer ensures that all the heat energy in the steam is transferred to the water.

Contact Pump Engineering on tel 01903 730900 or visit www.pumpeng.co.uk

Pressure management specialist Elfab has developed a two-way rupture disc to prevent vessel damage under vacuum or from overpressure.

Customers who previously relied on separate rupture discs for positive and negative pressure relief can now use this disc alone to fulfil the same protective function via a single installation point. This allows customers to safeguard their application while significantly reducing costs.

Available in non-fragmenting composite or graphite designs, and compatible with liquid, gas and vapour, the two-way disc is suitable for most customer applications.

Both disc designs feature Elfab’s unique non-invasive, ATEX-approved detection system, Flo-Tel™, making them the only bidirectional discs on the market to benefit from reusable burst detection. Instant burst indication is critical to many process applications while the detection system’s reusable nature enables customers to make further cost savings.

The composite design is supplied in stainless steel as standard but a wide range of other materials can also be provided. The graphite disc is non-torque sensitive and needs no holder, instead fitting directly between flanges. Both can be installed between a variety of flange arrangements, depending on specific application requirements.

Contact Elfab on tel 0191 293 1234 or visit www.elfab.com

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Application flexibility with guided wave radar The modular design of the four basic versions, Sitrans LG240, Sitrans LG250, Sitrans LG260 and Sitrans LG270, with numerous configuration options, allows for level measurement in numerous industries including food and beverage. The modular radar transmitter covers a broad application spectrum for the measurement of liquids and interfaces, from aggressive materials to hygienic conditions and complies with SIL2 safety standard.

Sitrans LG’s high frequency microwave pulses are transmitted down a rod or cable, offering reliable measurement with up to 2mm accuracy in applications with corrosive vapours, steam, foam, surface agitation and/or liquids with high viscosity, low level, and varying dielectric or density.

Installation is simple with the device’s range of pre-configured options, including customised enclosure materials, process connections, approvals and communication options. Users will be operational in minutes, with fourbutton programming directly at the instrument or through remote configuration with Siemens Simatic PDM (Process Device Manager) via HART communications protocol.

Sitrans LG240 was specifically designed for hygienic applications in the pharmaceutical or food and beverage industries and has the required EHEDG, FDA and 3A certificates. The Sitrans LG250 is ideal for a wide range of liquid level measurement, such as those in water treatment applications. The Sitrans LG260 version accurately measures levels of solids, granulates and powders, even with extreme dust. In particularly harsh environments with high temperatures up to 450°C or high pressures up to 400bar (5800psig), such as those in the chemical or petrochemical industry, the Sitrans LG270 is the best choice.

Contact Siemens Industry Automation on tel 0161 446 6645 or visit www.industry.siemens.co.uk

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New coders set to make a splash New water resistant coding equipment is set to help fresh produce, snack and other food manufacturers keep production lines clean and safe with less risk of water damage to critical equipment, according to coding and marking specialist Markem-Imaje.

Specifically designed to meet the requirements of companies handling poultry, meat, fruit, salad and vegetables as well as fresh sandwiches that are subject to rigorous food hygiene and safety standards, the new SmartDate X40-IP thermal transfer coder has been engineered to withstand the water ingress that can result from frequent washdown cleaning routines or humid environments.

The SmartDate X40-IP is made from stainless steel with sealed ports to protect all

electronic parts from water damage; the user friendly design means wash-downs can take place without removing connecting cables, minimising cleaning preparation time, whilst an integrated user guide makes the process quick and simple.

Available as a series of kits providing protection to either the printer or the controller or both units, the SmartDate X40-IP kits are easily installed and can be retrofitted to any SmartDate X40 already in use.

Based upon the proven SmartDate Series, the new X40-IP features an intelligent printhead capable of printing high contrast codes at pack speeds of up to 600mm per second at 300dpi; and with the option of an extended 1,100m ribbon will cut downtime and reduce waste.

Contact Markem-Imaje on tel 0161 333 8555 or visit www.markem-imaje.co.uk

Frequency inverters provide maximum performance Mitsubishi Electric has launched the new-generation FR-A800 inverters. The ultramodern drive has been specially designed for use in classic plant and machinery and with its maximum output and performance, increased efficiency and productivity are guaranteed. At the same time, the latest in-house technology concepts will enable the optimisation of plant efficiency and energy balance. FR-A800 inverters are particularly user-friendly and offer numerous network connections. The FR-A800 series is the result of the further development of the successful FR-A700 series. It complies with international regulations and standards and is equipped with the very latest safety functions.

With the FR-A800 series of inverters, Mitsubishi Electric introduces its very latest drive technology with an output range extending from 750W up to a maximum of 1MW. They provide for the operation of both standard asynchronous motors and IPM/SPM motor technology. USB host and USB device functions guarantee user-friendly programming and parameterisation as well as data logging functionality. It is also fully integrated into Mitsubishi Electric’s iQ Works programming environment. The built-in operation panel and multi-text display allows the easy and intuitive operation of the components.

Real sensor-less vector control enables maximum speed and torque quality up to a maximum frequency of 400Hz to be achieved.

An overload capability of 250 percent during the start-up phase will ensure reliable start-up,

especially under difficult operating conditions.

Minimum terminal scan times of less than three milliseconds will guarantee the fastest possible response. At the same time speed rise times of less than 80 milliseconds will help to ensure maximum performance and improved productivity.

Four overload scenarios offer optimised plant planning while three additional slots expand the range of possible applications.

Functional safety up to PLe/SIL3 guarantees operation in situations ranging from simple emergency stops to complex press actuation.

The new series of inverters offers a total of eleven network options including CC-Link, SSCNET, Profibus-DP, Profinet, Ethernet/IP, EtherCAT, LONworks and Modbus RTU, enabling them to be used worldwide. Full backward compatibility with the FR-A700 series guarantees that components can be replaced easily and safely.

“Like all Mitsubishi Electric inverters, the FRA800 series comes with numerous protective, safety and overload functions, high-quality temperature-resistant capacitors, continuously lubricated encapsulated cooling fans and double-coated control and circuit boards.

Integrated maintenance timers indicate component fatigue. All these features increase the equipment availability by providing predictive and condition-based maintenance funtionalities”, explained Oliver Endres, European Product Manager Energy/LVS/Inverter of Mitsubishi Electric’s Factory Automation, European Business Group

Contact Mitsubishi Electric on tel +49 2102 486 2150 or visit www.mitsubishi-automation.com

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GEA and Socacel Vacuum Ham Massager GEA Food Solutions is further strengthening its position in the marination equipment market by forming an alliance with ham production specialist Socacel for the development of a new vacuum ham massager. Socacel is widely recognized as an authority on ham production and the ingredients that are used, and has installed complete marination lines for many of the world’s leading food producers. GEA Food Solutions has a strong tradition in the marination field through respected names like Belam and Scanio that joined the group via Wolfking and CFS, and is an expert in designing and manufacturing high-quality meat process equipment for a wide range of applications. The synergy from the alliance will ensure a massager that sets very high standards for performance, reliability and quality.

The new machine will be a further development of an earlier and highly respected Socacel massager, and will be introduced during 2014, with a special preview at InterPack in Germany. It will be manufactured at one of GEA’s plants, and supported by the company’s global parts, service and maintenance network.

GEA will actively promote and sell the machine via its respective sales channels, and both partners have the possibility to work together on projects where this benefits prospective customers. The alliance will also embrace other marination technologies and equipment once the massager has been launched.

Until recently, Socacel designed and produced its own branded equipment and sub-contracted the manufacturing to trusted partners. Today, the company specializes in optimizing the performance of its customers’ existing marination lines as well as designing, configuring and installing complete new lines.

Friedrich Maier, Product Manager for Marination at GEA, added: “Marination is a meat processing technology that demands an extremely high level of understanding of the chemistry involved and the end-product. This is valid for designing the equipment as well as selling it. By coupling Socacel’s experience, knowledge and track record in this field with our GEA manufacturing capability, global network and supply chain infrastructure, we can offer customers the benchmark in ham massagers. And that is just the start!”

Contact GEA Food Solutions on tel 01908 513500 or visit www.gea-foodsolutions.com

HMI/SCADA and MAPS for Scandinavia Mitsubishi Electric has launched MAPS (Mitsubishi Adroit Process Suite) in the strategically important regions of Scandinavia and the Baltic States. Mitsubishi explained that MAPS offers much more than a simple SCADA system - it is a complete life-cycle management tool. One of its main benefits is almost infinite scalability: MAPS can be used for complex process-oriented solutions, as a normal SCADA/HMI or even for an OEM wanting a panel-based HMI solution.

MAPS has recently been introduced to Mitsubishi systems integrators and customers throughout Scandinavia by a series of road shows, where it was extremely well-received.

Bjorn Sandberg, Scandinavian technical support engineer for Mitsubishi Electric Europe’s Factory Automation Group, said: “Delegates appreciated that it is easy to use, intuitive design interface makes building solutions very easy.”

As a life-cycle software tool, it performs along the entire value chain and, unlike PLC/ SCADA integration tools, is usable in both the engineering and integration phases. Its scalability means system extensions are easily accommodated, while maintenance is straightforward, thanks to its flexibility.

One of the keys to MAPS’ popularity is its PLC/SCADA wizard function, which significantly reduces the time spent on development and configuration. It also ensures a standardised and structured design, which eases ongoing maintenance of the plant

throughout its life cycle.

With MAPS, reports covering areas such as I/O schedules, PLC and SCADA tag configuration can be automatically generated.

This ensures drawings and reports are always up to date. The reports are database-driven, so even through ongoing maintenance the reports will always reflect the current status of the electrical and instrumentation configuration.

Bjorn Sandberg summarises the benefits of MAPS as: • Single point of configuration, deployment and management • Automatically generated PLC and SCADA projects to reduce engineering effort • Automatically generated reports • Ongoing life-cycle management He said: “MAPS can fit any size solution as systems are built up from the I/O requirement and number of HMIs needed. Users can start small and can easily scale up later on.”

Overall, MAPS provides the customer with an innovative and integrated life-cycle management tool, which dramatically reduces the engineering time and cost throughout the lifetime of a plant. The software offers full flexibility from engineering to system integration for almost every customer demand.

This makes it ideal for applications in a huge range of industries, and especially well suited to water and waste water, food and beverage and life science.

Contact Mitsubishi Electric on tel +49 2102 486 2150 or visit www.mitsubishi-automation.com

Calibration service ensures specification performance Labcell is now offering a comprehensive calibration service for the Decagon Devices AquaLab family of water activity analysers.

This service covers the AquaLab series 3, AquaLab series 4, AquaLab series 4TE, AquaLab series 4TEV, AquaLab Duo, AquaLab Pre, AquaLab Lite, AquaLab VSA (Vapour Sorption Analyser) and, Pawkit.

Annual calibration is recommended to ensure that each instrument is performing within specification, and that customers comply with their own and their customers’ requirements relating to quality assurance.

When an instrument is received at Labcell’s calibration laboratory, it is cleaned, inspected and tested before being calibrated and returned to the customer with a certificate of calibration that is traceable to national standards. Instruments are normally returned within one week but, for customers who do not wish to be without an instrument, loan

units are available for a small fee.

Using the Labcell calibration service enables customers to benefit from the latest firmware updates, avoid the inconvenience and costs associated with unexpected repairs and maintenance, and meet requirements relating to quality assurance and auditing.

Customers should continue to verify their water activity analysers using pre-prepared salt solutions, but annual calibrations are strongly recommended. In addition, should the regular verification tests return unexpected results, or if there is any other cause for concern, analysers should be returned to Labcell for servicing and calibration. Labcell reminds customers that the cost of calibration is much smaller than the costs associated with production batches being rejected because they are out of specification, or product recalls resulting from undetected quality-related issues.

Contact Labcell on tel 01420 568150 or visit www.labcell.com

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IWM bin washers go high care Fast efficient cleaning of 120 litre and 200 litre Eurobins – including the wheels – with total segregation of clean and dirty bins can be achieved easily and reliably with the new EC20-HC high-care bin washer from Industrial Washing Machines (IWM). This makes the new machine an ideal choice for use in critical applications in the food manufacturing and preparation sectors.

The latest addition to IWM’s popular and successful EC20 range of cabinet-style bin washers, the new EC20-HC is an exceptionally compact front-access machine with a doubleleaf door system that has separate operating handles for the clean and dirty areas, and an interlocked carriage system that guards against accidental confusion of clean and dirty bins.

The machine has also been designed to ensure that that bin wheels do not come into contact with the floor after washing, as the lifting platform itself is washed and sanitised.

To provide maximum versatility, EC20-HC bin washers can be supplied for either left-toright or right-to-left clean-to-dirty flow, and they are available in both electrical- and steamheated versions.

Other refinements in these innovative new machines, which can wash up to 20 bins per hour, include fully welded internal construction that eliminates dirt traps, a newly designed highefficiency stainless steel wash jet system that requires minimal cleaning and maintenance, fully programmable wash cycles, and a duplicated operator interface that allow the

machine to be controlled from either the dirty or clean area. Advanced chemical monitoring is incorporated as standard, and chemical-sampling points can be provided as options.

Building on the proven IWM technology that has made the EC20 range of bin washers so successful, the new EC20-HC machines ensure efficient cleaning by fully inverting the bin and washing the inside with a high-velocity rotating spray manifold, while the outside is washed simultaneously with a full surround jetting system. Detergent usage and wash temperature are accurately controlled and continuously monitored. The washing process is followed by a hot rinse, typically at 85˚C, with an option for dosing the rinse water with sanitising- chemicals.

The new machines are equipped with a flexible control system that not only provides a high level of automation but also allows the wash and rinse cycles to be optimally matched to the user’s requirements. Running costs and environmental impact are minimised by recirculating the wash water from a heated tank via an efficient rotary filtration system, thereby reducing the need for water changes.

EC20-HC high-care bin washers make extensive use of stainless steel in their construction to ensure long life, and they feature a robust streamlined design that is not only hygienic, but also allows easy access for cleaning and maintenance. The machines are manufactured entirely in the UK and are available on short deliveries.

Contact Industrial Washing Machines on tel 0121 459 9511 or visit www.indwash.co.uk

Toyota BT High Lifter Hand Pallet Trucks Toyota Material Handling launches two new BT Lifter models: the HHM100 manual and HHL100 electric high lifting hand pallet trucks.

These new models have been designed to be quieter in operation, easier for operators to manoeuvre and have a maximum lifting capacity of 1000kg. The electric HHL100 comes with improved features including a higher battery capacity (63Ah) that offers longer operating times plus a battery indicator to avoid unnecessary charging.

With a lift height of 80cm, the BT High lifter models are great for not only moving

goods quickly and easily, but they can also elevate loads to a comfortable work height.

Alongside production lines or order picking processes, their excellent stability and high manoeuvrability make operations simpler, more ergonomic and safer for operators.

Tony Wallis, Sales and Marketing Director for Toyota said: “These BT high lifter trucks offer a versatile solution for many different type of operation. It combines the benefits of a hand truck for simple horizontal transport with an ergonomic workstation, making manual handling safer for operators”.

Contact Toyota Material Handling UK on tel 0870 850 1409 or visit www.toyota-forklifts.co.uk

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Dickies new safety footwear 2014 range Dickies has introduced 14 new styles of safety footwear and improved a further six styles for 2014.

New lines in PU/Rubber Sole have excellent shock absorption and are heat resistant up to 300°C; they are high slip resistant and have non clogging sole patterns; extra comfort is offered with moisture wicking lining and a removable footbed.

Dickies have also introduced an ESD trainer for the first time, the Alford trainer, which is suitable for people working in the electronics industry as ESD footwear provides a safe and controlled method of discharging static electricty that accumulates in your body.

Safety footwear standard EN345 has been superseded by EN ISO 20345 and the whole Dickies footwear range has been re-certified to the new standard EN ISO 20345:2011.

Wasi Ullah, Buyer at Dickies commented: “The most important element of any item of working apparel is its comfort and durability. This is especially important with regards to safety footwear, more so when you consider that most people could spend up to nine hours a day working in their footwear. So any safety footwear not only has to be comfortable and provide support to the wearer’s foot but also be strong enough to withstand the rigours of the modern working environment.

“Over the past couple of years the main trend has been for safety footwear to become lighter in weight and more fashionable, which really started with the use of injected PU sole units. The introduction of composite toecaps and composite material mid-plates has accelerated this demand. Other market requirements that we have noticed are the need for the upper profile of safety footwear to be lower. The problem with the design of safety footwear is that these styles need a toecap, which creates a more rounded shape to the upper, but the trend nowadays is for safety footwear to look less like an item of safety footwear. Part of the solution is to reduce the shape of the upper profile by applying it lower into the sole unit. This allows for a lower profile footwear style, such as the Faxon Trainer.”

Contact Dickies 01761 410732 or visit www.dickiesworkwear.com

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OCEASOFT Emerald™ wireless temperature tracker Oceasoft, a French leader in temperature monitoring, has released Oceasoft Emerald™, a wireless temperature tracker that connects to the user’s smartphone via Bluetooth™ Smart and has applications in cold-chain management, in the agri-food sector, and in life sciences. Oceasoft designs and develops solutions for monitoring temperature and environmental parameters in connection with goods in storage or transit.

Laurent Rousseau, President of Oceasoft, explained: “Emerald™ solves a long-standing temperature-monitoring challenge for the cold-chain industry. With temperaturesensitive goods transported by many different means, notably in trucks, airplanes, and refrigerated containers of all kinds, it is difficult to track temperature conditions and have access to the information during transit.”

Laurent continued: “Emerald™ leverages today’s widespread use of smart phones to read temperature data and push it to the Cloud. This provides a point-by-point tracking solution similar to those offered by national and international shipping services, without the need for any heavy infrastructure or dedicated equipment.”

Slightly larger than a wristwatch, Oceasoft Emerald™ monitors temperature-sensitive goods during transit and in storage: it is a smart phone connected, wireless temperature recorder and tracker for cold-chain monitoring. Emerald™ stores up to 4,000 temperature readings and does not require any dedicated computer equipment or complex installations in order to be deployed.

Emerald™ has a wide range of applications from cold-chain management and food safety to the life sciences.

Oceasoft’s free EmeraldView™ application for smart phones connects wirelessly via Bluetooth to program Emerald™ devices and to view data. An additional option makes it possible to upload the information - including geo-location data provided by the smart phone - to the Cloud, where authorized parties can check the latest status in just a few seconds.

Oceasoft Emerald™ supports temperatures ranging from -40°C to +80°C and integrates Bluetooth Smart technology for low-power devices. The specialist company will start deliveries of the product to customers in the first quarter of 2014.

Contact Oceasoft on tel +33 499 136730 or visit www.oceasoft.com

Innovative process for double bacterial removal GEA Westfalia Separator’s innovative ‘prolong’ process for double bacteria removal means that dairy businesses are able to extend the shelf life of fresh milk to at least 21 days and to do so with a quality that is equivalent to that of traditionally produced fresh milk.

This combination makes EFL (Extended Fresh Life) milk unique.

Extended Fresh Life milk opens up a maximum timeframe for trade. At the same time, consumers no longer have to compromise on the natural flavour and appropriate shelf life of their milk. Last but not least, dairy businesses benefit directly as ‘prolong’ sets new standards in terms of efficiency and investment security.

The ‘prolong’ process has been used for many years in the production of cheese and powdered milk and has now been successfully adapted for the production of fresh milk with a longer shelf life. In the new process, two bacteria removing separators are installed in series directly before the skimming separator

for the reliable removal of somatic cells, bacteria and spores on the entire quantity of raw milk, including the cream portion. This is followed by treatment of the milk in the skimming separator with fat content adjustment and traditional heating for pasteurisation.

This is the first fresh milk to combine natural flavour and full vitamin content with a longer shelf life. ‘prolong’ ensures a content of approximately 3.000mg/l ß-lactoglobulin in the milk. Even the lactulose content, which is the second major indicator of milk freshness, is equivalent to that of pasteurized milk.

This gentle method of double bacterial removal, using GEA Westfalia CSI separators, avoids high temperature heating of the milk – saving energy and time. The process offers further benefits of low consumption of water, energy, cooling water, compressed air and steam for greater sustainability and can easily be integrated within a range of dairy concepts.

Contact GEA Mechanical Equipment UK on tel 01908 576512 or visit www.gea-westfalia.co.uk

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EasyFerm Bio: The biocompatible pH sensor The Company Hamilton Bonaduz AG is offering a pH sensor in its product portfolio that can be used in highly sensitive application areas and in biotechnology, as well as in the food and pharmaceutical industries. The EasyFerm Bio sensor is biocompatible and suitable for performing in CIP procedures.

Even after frequent autoclaving or steam sterilization, it provides reliable measurements.

The biocompatible pH sensor from Hamilton satisfies all guidelines for the quality assurance of production processes and production environments in bio-sensitive processes. Independent tests have shown that

Foodlyte, the reference electrolyte of EasyFerm Bio, is food safe, biocompatible and noncytotoxic. Foodlyte resists CIP cleaning and sterilization up to 140°C and can be used with pressures up to 6bar.

EasyFerm Bio is certified according to EHEDG criteria and thus meets strict hygienic cleanability requirements. Thanks to the special pH glass and the robust reference diaphragm, the sensor is reliable to use with few breakdowns and has excellent long-term performance. Even after frequent autoclaving, steam sterilization, or CIP cleaning, it provides the user with reliable measurement results.

Contact Hamilton Bonaduz on tel +41 81 660 6060 or visit www.hamilton.ch

TAMI brings high-tech ceramic membranes TAMI Industries of France is a leader in filtration technology and a specialist in advanced ceramic membranes used across a wide range of industries: the company is looking for partners in the UK, where it wants to develop its business. TAMI Industries already has subsidiaries in Germany, North America, China and Mexico, with 90 percent of its sales coming from exports.

The ceramic membranes developed by TAMI Industries are a high-performance product with elevated permeability, wide-range selectivity, superior mechanical resistance, and high chemical/thermal stability. TAMI Industries is currently seeking partners in the UK for the promotion and the technical support of its range of products and technologies.

TAMI Industries’ R&D department is constantly working on the development of new inorganic membranes: this sustained investment in research and development on the part of TAMI Industries has resulted in the design and development of patented high-tech tubular ceramic membranes that have truly unique characteristics.

The advantage of the non-circular filtering channels adopted by TAMI Industries channels that are geometrically shaped like petals - is that they allow for the optimization of the filtration performance. While maintaining a standard outside diameter of the membrane, the filtration surface area is thus made larger. Additionally, TAMI industries has upgraded to titanium dioxide in the fabrication of its membranes - a material that is bio-compatible, with the added benefit that

it is highly resistant to a wide range of chemical agents.

Thanks to such technological advances, it is possible to cut energy costs while reducing running and maintenance costs too. In addition, the dimensions of the membranes developed by TAMI Industries are compatible with all existing installations equipped with ceramic membranes, which allows for the easy upgrading of existing industrial plants: this can be done through the replacement of the existing membranes, or by retrofitting.

Among the industrial processes of separation, the use of ceramic membranes has become more and more common in recent years. In spite of accounting for only 10 percent of the cross-flow filtration market worldwide, ceramic membranes are often in competition with organic membranes.

However, ceramic membranes have the advantage that they ensure improved performance and durability. It should also be stressed that ceramic membranes have a high resistance to many corrosive chemical solutions and superior tolerance to an array of temperatures and pH values, while providing excellent mechanical resistance to pressure.

Key applications for TAMI Industries’ ceramic membranes can be found across a diverse range of sectors. In the food-and-drink industry, ceramic membranes can be used in cold pasteurisation of milk as well as the fractionation, standardization and concentration of milk proteins and lactoserum (WPI/ WPC). Such membranes are also used in the clarification of juices made out of fruit or vegetables, wine, cider and sweetened juices.

New range of NSK spherical roller bearings The wide range of versatile and reliable spherical roller bearings (SRBs) from NSK has been further expanded. The development of two additional series of SRBs that cater for either speed or load as a priority, the latest 222 and 223 SRB ranges are designed to meet the needs of the most demanding environments and are included in a new NSK guide designed to make the choice between these sometimes conflicting demands easier.

SRBs offer a combination of high load capacity, high tolerance to shock loads and self-aligning ability, however, these attributes are tempered by the limitation of maximum speed. The capacity to maintain dimensional stability, support high radial loads and moderate axial loads also makes the SRB an ideal product in heavy applications.

As one of the world's leading manufacturers of rolling bearings, NSK has developed some of the leading technology in bearing design. While many applications may require super high precision or zero maintenance designs, there remains a large market for the more general purpose, heavy duty design of SRB, this is further addressed by the 222 and 223 series.

Both series are available with either a steel or a machined brass cage, depending on the application requirements and are produced in sizes up to 400mm outside diameter (OD). In addition, they are available with either a cylindrical bore or a 1:12 tapered bore, ranging from 25mm up to 220mm.

The 222 series is capable of running at higher speeds and is available in 27 different sizes, while the 223 series offers up to 50 percent greater load rating and comes in 22 different sizes, which provides a bearing solution for a wide range of applications.

Contact NSK UK on tel 0500 232 7464 or visit www.nskeurope.com

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Isotrak and Airclic demonstrate teamwork Isotrak, a provider of vehicle tracking and telematics solutions and Airclic, a provider of cloud-based solutions that enhance visibility and control throughout the mobile supply chain, have teamed up to improve the visibility, accuracy and control of transportation and order fulfillment processes, boosting operational efficiencies and giving fleet operators a competitive edge.

With a focus on the transportation and logistics, food services and retail distribution industries, the integrated solutions of Isotrak and Airclic automate and optimise mobile fleet and supply chain logistics, helping to reduce shrinkage on delivery, optimise fuel consumption and cut carbon emissions, as well as improve customer service through real-time visibility. The combination of these solutions has already proven successful for a number of companies in both Europe and North America.

Airclic’s cloud-based ‘Perform’ products help optimise and automate the flow of goods across the last mile of the mobile supply chain and crossdocking operations – giving logistics professionals much needed visibility and control. Perform products enable customers in multiple industries to eliminate paper and paper-based processes, record what goods and assets were received, staged, loaded onto a vehicle and delivered, and when, at every delivery point. The ability to manage exceptions in real-time provides accuracy to the invoice process.

“Through our partnership with Isotrak, enterprises can now have an accurate and real-time view of two critical elements of their business, the vehicle and the product on the vehicle,” said Pol Sweeney, Managing Director Europe and Chief Technology Officer of Airclic. “This combination enables accurate asset tracking and cost savings across a wide number of operational areas within the clients’ business, and brings a competitive edge that helps drive business growth and bottom line improvements.”

Contact Isotrak on tel 01908 540700 www.isotrak.com

Vikan’s new Pink range With the launch of their innovative new Pink range, Vikan now offer the food industry more high quality food safety cleaning products in more colours than any other manufacturer.

This expanded range offers a comprehensive selection of tools and equipment in nine colours all designed to provide food processing plants with superb hygiene standards, wide product choice, amazing value for money all backed up by excellent customer service.

Food safety is paramount to Vikan, who are known for setting standards for effective, efficient and durable solutions. Developed in response to customer demand and to meet the increasingly stringent requirements of the food industry, Vikan’s Pink range includes brushes,

brooms, squeegees, buckets and wall brackets all tailor made for specific cleaning tasks.

Whether organic production, allergen risk or where a number of lines are running, Vikan can be relied upon to deliver wherever an extra colour is needed.

FDA and EU compliant Vikan’s products can be autoclaved at high temperatures for maximum hygiene. Designed to promote operator confidence, tools are comfortable and easy to use.

As part of their customer hygiene programme, Vikan provide a free colour zoning service. Dividing premises into visually separate zones minimises risk of bacterial cross contamination and transfer of allergens.

Contact Vikan on tel 01793 716760 or visit www.vikan.co.uk

Steamdry superheated steam based process The Steamdry Project, lead by HRS and a consortium of European SME’s, aims at developing a new drying plant to allow food producers and food processing SMEs to dry their foods with efficiency, high quality and sustainability, thanks to: • New Dryer using superheated steam + low pressure technology: ensuring efficiency through better heat transfer and a better quality of product due to lower temperature.

• Two-step cleaning system: removing the dust/particles from the extra steam and allowing its reuse in the upstream process, reducing the energy bill.

• Food quality multi-sensor and process control: integrated in the process control, to monitor the food drying quality along with the energy balance of the system.

The Steamdry process will enable the food processing machinery and food processing SMEs to recover their competitiveness via the

production of high quality dried products, with lower process impact on energy environment.

The project is being financed by the European Commission-Research Executive Agency (EC-REA), under the 7th programme, which provides financial aid to SMEs to carry out R&D activities.

Under the terms of the contract, a consortium of SMEs had to be formed, including some Research Centre’s and a British University. The consortium partners are: • SMEs participants: HRS Heat Exchangers SLU (as project coordinator), Arnold & Partner AG, Avenisense SaS and Fiordelisi Srl • RTDs performers: Tecnologias Avanzadas Inspiralia SL, Brunel University and Fondazione Parco Tencnologico Padano.

HRS Heat Exchangers will be acting as coordinator for the Steam Dry project and will be adding their 30-year+ experience, in food

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processing and heat transfer technologies to the project mix. The Steamdry Project stems from the current trend in the EU market for processed foods: There is now an increasing demand by consumers for foods that have undergone fewer changes during processing, foods that look less processed and are closer to their original state while retaining high nutritive values, flavour and a ‘natural’ image.

These pressures are especially significant for an SME-dominated sector. While dried foods represent more than €8bn of sales in Europe, these sales are currently in stagnation or declining.

Food processing machinery SMEs must not only improve the drying process to achieve the

high quality demanded across the EU customer base, but also they must tackle the energy consumption and pollution issues which are typical of such equipment.

For food machinery SMEs, now is the time to respond to these demands and enable the dried food industries to recover their competitiveness. To do so, they need to face three main challenges: 1) Low quality of the final dried products (50 percent of the nutrients, vitamins and aroma are currently lost), 2) High energy consumption to dry the raw materials (Conventional dryers have an efficiency of 40-60 percent); and 3) Significant environmental pollution (via odour and CO2 emissions).

Contact HRS Heat Exchangers on tel 01923 232335 or visit www.hrs-heatexchangers.com

Thermal fluid specialist launches maintenance plans Thermal fluid specialist Global Heat Transfer has launched three new maintenance plans: essential, premium and ultimate. Each of the maintenance packages is designed to ensure compliance and increase productivity for companies that operate systems using synthetic thermal fluids for heat transfer. In addition, all three maintenance plans come as standard with a rapid response facility to help business cope in the event of an emergency.

The essential maintenance plan provides all the basic requirements to ensure efficient operation and employee safety in accordance with DSEAR (The Dangerous Substances and Explosive Atmospheres Regulations of 2002) and HSE (Health and Safety Executive) standards.

The 36-month package includes biannual thermal fluid sample and analysis, five percent top-up thermal fluid, and a thermal fluid return programme for compliant waste management. A wide range of thermal fluids are also made available to firms opting for this level of service.

Furthermore, the essential maintenance plan also offers safety training in the form of half day in-house session for up to six people, as well as a system safety survey to meet insurance and health and safety requirements.

The next level up, premium maintenance, is designed specifically for companies which need to run at optimum levels to meet high standards and customer expectations. The duration of this plan is also significantly longer, lasting three to five years, depending on the particular circumstances.

The premium maintenance plan contains all the elements detailed in the essential level as well as thermal fluid sampling and analysis four

times a year and a biannual system safety survey.

Companies opting for this level can be assured of the safety and compliance of their systems, as every year a two-day DSEAR audit is conducted, in line with HSE legislation and insurance requirements.

Other benefits of this package include annual heater service and waste management through a fluid return programme and, of course, on-site safety training.

Lastly, Global Heat Transfer's ultimate maintenance package, which is the highest of the three service agreements, allows high output companies to maintain productivity and maximise assets.

The ultimate maintenance plan has been proven to reduce the overall cost of maintaining thermal fluid by up to 50 percent.

In addition to the benefits offered by the other two plans, with the ultimate maintenance level, customers receive as much thermal fluid analyses as required and system safety surveys are conducted quarterly.

The ultimate maintenance plan, which lasts three to five years, also makes use of the thermal fluid, reprocessing programme which allows for highly effective use of energy.

“The three levels of maintenance agreements we have created respond to the needs of companies, irrespective of their size, scope and industry sector,” explained Clive Jones, Chief Executive of Global Heat Transfer. “The common elements for all three agreements focus on compliance and staff safety, as well as rapid response as standard in case of emergency. That is because we understand that all manufacturers have the same basic safety and maintenance requirements that must be observed,” concluded Clive.

Contact Global Heat Transfer on tel 01785 760555 or visit www.globalheattransfer.co.uk

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Mettler-Toledo maintains moisture measurement The latest models of professional moisture analyzers from Mettler-Toledo feature USB, Ethernet and WLAN connectivity for easy data transfer, and now can send measurement reports in A4 or letter format direct to a networked page printer. In addition to the outstanding connectivity, the built-in instrument tests are easy to perform and ensure accurate results. With a five-click guided procedure, the performance of all the instruments together can be qualified thanks to the certified reference substance SmartCal™.

Besides outstanding measurement performance, ease-of-use is paramount be it in the laboratory or on the production floor.

Measurement results, displayed by an instrument on the factory floor, can be sent directly to a regular A4/letter printer anywhere on the company network, for example in the quality control office.

The same data may also be transferred to a file server as a PDF for on-screen viewing and electronic archiving, as well as in standard CSV or XLS format for interchange with laboratory and office software.

Professional moisture analyzers are tested as with SmartCal to verify the performance of the instrument’s overall functionality. After following simple instructions, normalization for ambient conditions is automatic thanks to a new plug-in humidity and temperature sensor.

Reports are generated in A4 or strip printer format as well as PDF or CSV files.

“Whether the new Mettler-Toledo Professional moisture analyzer instrument is being used in a laboratory or on the factory floor, it achieves highly reproducible results while full network support and USB connectivity simplifies data transfer and ensures convenient and secure reporting” said Kathrin Annaheim, Product Manager, MettlerToledo Laboratory Weighing. “With OneClick graphical user interface also SmartCal tests can be started with one click. Once the test has started, the user is guided step by step through the test.”

Contact Mettler-Toledo on tel +41 44 944 4760 or visit www.mt.com

Holmach celebrates forty years as processing solutions provider

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arket leader in thermal processing solutions provision, Holmach Ltd will celebrate its fortieth anniversary this year with appearances at the Thermal Processing Conference at Campden BRI and the PPMA Show, Stand C30. The company will also be in

attendance at Interpack to support its principal suppliers. From installing retorts at Griffith Laboratories for marinade production to a scraped surface heat exchanger for Naturediet pet food, Holmach’s experience in thermal processing covers baby food, ready meals, condiments, nut sterilising and more. New developments for the company include becoming the new agent for Roboqbo of Italy, who produce cook-cool vessels, with innovative UK installations expanding shelf life in the chilled cabinet for dips and sauces.

Holmach Ltd has a long established history. Its founder, Peter Holland, joined Mitchell Engineering in 1948 as a design engineer in the fledgling hydrostatic steriliser manufacturing division. In 1966, Peter Holland left Mitchell Engineering to found Peter Holland Ltd, which offered maintenance solutions for existing hydrostatic steriliser installations. Given the boom in the market for retailed frozen vegetables in the late sixties, the business also sold and serviced vegetable processing equipment, the basic design of which is still being used today. During this time Peter began to work as a freelance hydrostatic steriliser designer for Mather & Platt Engineering, who sold a number of these machines until around 1972, at which point the market began to turn to batch retorts. Peter Holland Ltd diversified into new market areas in 1974, with the business sector concerning food processing being concentrated into Peter Holland (Food Machinery) Ltd. At that time, the focus for this division was vegetable flash peeling, filling and seaming groups for cans and batch retorts. Peter had this to say about the invention of flash peeling, which happened accidentally: “Whilst we were installing a boiler from PKC, a German manufacturer of steam peelers. As it happened, we had sized the boiler based on the machine’s consumption of steam per hour, which had not worked because it took too long to bring the vessel up to pressure without cooking the product. So we put in a steam receiver, filled separately by the boiler which connected via a valve to the process vessel.

It was so effective in getting the temperature up fast that we used it from there on, showing once again that the best innovation comes about when you overcome a problem!”

Retiring from Peter Holland (Food Machinery) Ltd in 1992, Peter’s sons Chris and Clive began to grow the company’s focus on tunnel pasteurising. When Lagarde, world leader for autoclaves and retorts, approached Chris for representation in 1995, the core of the business took shape. In 2000, Chris decided to buy the business from the parent company, which was renamed Holmach and adopted the familiar cog and windmill symbol. Together with his wife Niki, the pair concentrated on raising

Lagarde Retorts

the profile of thermal processing technologies to produce better products. Holmach has since done pioneering work in food processing such as with refrigerated processed foods of extended durability (REPFEDs) and in introducing retort technology to the “slow cooked” meat processing industry. Now the company operates from its Stamford offices in Lincolnshire, with a small but perfectly formed team managing sales and solutions consultancy for thermal processing technology. Chris described the following as the most promising developments for food processing: “Holmach are very excited by the possibilities offered by: Pulsed electric field processing to the UK market for the treatment of juices and other liquids, with recent installations in the Netherlands by Cool Wave Processing.

Rapid heating and cooling for chilled products using Scraped Surface Heat Exchangers is also set to catch the attention of producers of soups, sauces or dairy nationwide. Lastly we look forward to strengthening the established UK market for continuous pasteurising and cooling tunnels, for doypacks and sachets in everything from baby foods to cook-in-sauces.” In addition to Lagarde, Holmach represents Terlet and Roboqbo in the UK for cook-cool vessels, Revtech for decontamination of dried products, Niko for in-container tunnel pasteurisers and coolers, CFT for fillers and seamers, and Jorgensen for retort handling systems. Most recently, Holmach has installed a complete robotized retorting plant for pet food.

Contact Holmach on tel +44 (0)1780 749098 or visit www.holmach.co.uk

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Multi-featured Counter Module for CPX systems Festo has introduced the latest addition to its well-established CPX Modular Automation Platform, the CPX-2ZE2DA-PI Counter Module. System builders can now incorporate counting capability simply by plugging a CPX Counter Module directly into their CPX system; this eliminates the need for an external counter and the associated costs it would present in terms of hardware and software integration effort, space requirement, cabling and installation time.

Once installed, the Counter Module’s high I/O, operational mode and parameterization flexibility allows engineers and machine builders to set up sophisticated counting applications with minimal effort. These can be implemented directly on the CPX system with a wide range of plant sensors and actuators far more rapidly than was previously possible.

Festo’s CPX platform is a complete automation solution that integrates a wide choice of pneumatic and electrical, analogue and digital I/O. CPX systems configured for specific requirements are delivered pre-built, tested and ready for installation, enabling system integrators to meet tight timeframes and budgets. For additional flexibility, the CPX platform can operate as either a self-contained industrial PLC, or as a local unit on a Fieldbus or Industrial Ethernet-based distributed system. In addition, a wide choice of I/O and connector modules makes interfacing to process sensors and actuators easy.

The CPX Counter Module has two channels, allowing compact and cost-effective solutions for applications with multiple sensors. Each channel accepts most 24V and 5V pulse and single-ended or differential incremental

encoders, as well as SSI absolute types; this facilitates a wide range of length, position, speed and angular position measurement applications. A direction signal, or 90˚phase shift inputs, on each channel allow extraction of direction information for incremental encoders. Count continuously, count once and periodic count modes at 24V and 5V levels are supported with pulse count frequencies to one MHz. Output functions are also well supported; these include configurable 24 V digital, pulse, pulse train, pulse-width modulation (PWM), On/Off control with delay and frequency output to 20kHz. In addition, by pairing the Counter channels 24V DC motors can be controlled.

The Counter Module has features to improve the quality of its results. These include hysteresis to overcome encoder fluctuations, and limit monitoring and diagnostics. For ease of use and added flexibility, parameterisation of each channel for its input and output connections and functionality can be managed via a laptop using Festo’s free to download FMT software, as are commissioning and diagnostics.

IP-rated CPX systems using the Counter Module can be mounted directly onto the machine being controlled rather than relegated to a cabinet, as the module can achieve IP65rated ingress protection with an optional cover.

This allows engineers to design more compact, reliable and cost-effective systems with reduced cabling requirements. The module features Festo’s new push-in connection technology, which makes connection to the counters’ inputs and outputs quick and easy.

Contact Festo on tel 01252 775000 or visit www.festo.co.uk

ELGA Process Water’s new level of service ELGA Process Water, a Veolia Water Solutions & Technologies Company, has equipped all its service engineers with tablet PCs as part of its new AQUAConnect intelligent service management system. With AQUAConnect, customers benefit from quicker, more efficient plant servicing with any potential issues identified early, reducing the risk of plant downtime.

At the end of a service visit, the service engineer’s report, complete with calibration certificates, operational recommendations and supporting documentation, is delivered imme-

diately to the customer’s inbox in a PDF format.

AQUAConnect’s 3G connectivity allows the service engineer instant access to plant details, present and historical performance trends and previous service reports, as well as health and safety documentation, technical information and advice. All of which enables the service engineers to do their jobs without interruptions and time spent searching for information, and benefiting the customer with an instant comprehensive service report.

Contact ELGA Process Water on tel 01628 897000 or visit www.shop.elgaprocesswater.co.uk

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Smart phone app enables easy management T&D Corporation has developed a free of charge “ThermoWeb” app for Android and IOS that enables users to supervise its TR-7wf series high precision data loggers, which monitor temperature and humidity.

To facilitate data monitoring in all situations, T&D Corporation, the Japanese market leader for data logger systems, offers its clients a range of free-of-charge cloud solutions that are designed to make life easier. With the company’s latest innovation – the convenient ThermoWeb app for use with its TR-7wf series of high precision data loggers – users can access logged data via tablet or smart phone from anywhere at any time. The TR-71wf, TR72wf and TR-72wf-H data loggers automatically upload recorded temperature and humidity data to T&D’s free of charge WebStorage Service, which provides a storage capacity of up to 20 MB. Their high precision and wide range measurement facilities combined with their flexibility makes the TR-7wf data loggers ideal for use in industrial as well as public areas. If a disturbance should occur while the data loggers are in use, warning notifications can be sent via e-mail. The ThermoWeb app is also able to receive visual and acoustic warning signals. If the access point is not available, the ThermoWeb App can be used to communicate with the data loggers directly.

T&D Corporation presents the MCR-4TC, a new high precision data logger that is capable of 4-channel measurements and recording from a single unit simultaneously Also with its latest model, the MCR-4TC, T&D Corporation has introduced a new device that can be coupled together with up to four units, making it possible to measure and record up to 16 channels simultaneously. This facilitates easy temperature management in industrial situations such as in pipes, ducts and boilers, cooking equipment and chilled goods storage areas.

The battery operated temperature monitoring data logger runs on two AA alkaline batteries and supports thermocouple types K, J, T, S and R, enabling wide range measurement from 270°C up to +1760°C. Recorded data can be relayed to a PC via USB connection or saved to an SD card and then transferred to a PC. Data can also be viewed and checked on the logger’s handy LCD display. For additional flexibility, the MCR-4TC can be connected to other models in the T&D range, such as the MCR4V, for quick and precise voltage measurement.

Contact T&D Corporation on tel +49 6034 930970 or visit www.tandd.com

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This 20th exhibition about modern bakery will take place in Pavilion 2 at the Expocentre Fairgrounds, in Moscow. Russia.

www-owp.international.com HOTELYMPIA This event will take place at the London Excel Exhibition Centre in Docklands.

www.hotelympia.com

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APRIL

MAY

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8-14 visit

VITAFOODS EUROPE Co-located with FINISHED PRODUCTS EUROPE Both these trade exhibitions last for 3-days and take place at the Palexpo, Geneva, Swizerland

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INTERPACK This trade fair on processes and packaging will take place in Duesseldorf, Germany.

MACHINERY GUARDING This one-day seminar on the application of EN Standards is organized by the PPMA and takes place at the Carlton Hotel, Dublin Airport, Ireland.

visit www.ppma.co.uk

www.info@itsluk.co JUNE

11-13

THE ASIAN SENSORY AND CONSUMER RESEARCH SYMPOSIUM This event will take place at SingEX, in Singapore.

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www.senseasia.elsevier.com SIAL CHINA This show will take place in Shanghai, China.

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ORGANIC MARKETING FORUM This eighth forum will take place in Warsaw, Poland.

visit www.organic-marketing-forum.org

17-19

www.sial.com

CHOCO VISION This 2nd conference on the cocoa and chocolate industry will take place in Davos, Switzerland.

visit www.chocovision.ch

13-16 visit

14-15 visit

14-15 visit

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SEOUL FOOD & HOTEL This exhibition for the Food & Hospitality Industry returns to Kintex, the Korean Exhibition Centre in Goyang-si, Seoul, South Korea.

www.seoulfoodnhotel.co.kr IFST JUBILEE CONFERENCE This conference will celebrate the 50th year of IFST. It will take place at the Holiday Inn, London – Kensington Forum.

www.ifst.org CAFFE CULTURE SHOW Will take place at Olympia Exhibitions Halls, London.

www.caffecultureshow.com LABEL SUMMIT This summit will be held for the first time in Colombia at the InterContinentaL Hotel in Medellin, USA.

www.labelsummit.com/Colombia

17-20

EXPO PACK Mexico This packaging exhibition will take place in Mexico City, Mexico.

visit www.packexpo.com

19-21

AFRO FOOD EXHIBITION This conference and exhibition will take place at the Cairo International Convention Centre, Egypt.

visit www.afrofood.net

24-27

SIAL BRAZIL This tradeshow for food and beverage will take place in Sao Paulo, South America.

visit www.sial.com

26-28

FOOD INGREDIENTS ASIACHINA Concurrently with Health Ingredients China and Natural Ingredients China.

These trade shows will take place at the SNIEC, Shanghai, China.

visit www.fiasiachina.com

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ALLERGY & FREE FROM SHOW This 3-day trade show takes place at the Grand Hall, Olympia, London.

visit www.allergyshow.co.uk AUGUST

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NOTTINGHAM FOOD & DRINK FESTIVAL This new Food Festival will take place in Nottingham.

visit www.idm.com/living heritage events

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These two shows will for the third time appear in Mumbai, India.

visit www.drintechnology-india-com & www.packtech-India.com

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30 Sep/ 1 Oct

visit www.speciality&finefoodfair.co.uk EUROSENSE This 6th European conference on sensory and consumer research will take place at the Bella Center, Copenhagen, Denmark.

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LABELEXPO AMERICAS This 25th trade show for label and package printing will take place in Chicago, USA.

visit www.labelexpo.com

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WORLDFOOD MOSCOW This 23rd food exhibition will take place at the Expocentre in Moscow, Russia.

visit www.ite-exhibitions.com

16-18

visit www.equipmag.com

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17th WORLD CONGRESS OF IUFoST The International Union of Food Science and Technology conference entitled: ‘Research that Resonates’ and the IUFoST Expo take place for five days in Montreal, Canada.

visit www.iufost2014.org

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INTERPOMA This ninth international apple trade show will take place in Bolzano, South Tyrol.

visit www.interpoma.it

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LUNCH! This show will take place at the Business Design Centre, Islington, London.

visit www.lunchshow.co.uk

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This 9th annual summit will take place in New Orleans, USA.

TOKYO PACK This 4-day trade exhibition with more than 2,600 stands, organized by the Japan Paxkaging Institute will take place at the Tokyo Big Sight international exhibition centre.

visit www.tpkyo-pack.jp/en

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FOOD STRUCTURE DESIGN This first congress will take place at Porto, Portugal.

visit www.skyros-congressos.pt/foodstructure

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EQUIPMAG This show will take place at Paris Expo, Porte de Versailles, France.

OILSEED & GRAIN TRADE SUMMIT

visit www.conferences@soatech.com

visit www.eurosense.elsevier.com

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PACKAGING INNOVATION This show will take place at the Business Design Centre, Islington, London.

visit www.easyFairs.com/PIUK SPECIALITY & FINE FOOD FAIR & SPECIALITY CHOCOLATE FAIR These exhibitions will take place at the Olympia, London.

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PPMA SHOW This annual packaging and food machinery trade show will take place at the NEC, Birmingham.

visit www.ppma.co.uk

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DRINK TECHNOLOGY INDIA & INTERNATIONAL PACK TECH INDIA

SIAL This exhibition of food products, food ingredients, wines and spirits will take place in the Paris Nord, Villepinte exhibition centre, France.

visit www.sial.com NOVEMBER

2-5

PACK EXPO/PHARMA EXPO These events will take place at the McCormick Place, Chicago, USA.

visit www.packexpo.com

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INTERNATIONAL FOODTEC INDIA This exhibition and conference for food processing, packaging, ingredients, beverages, cooling and refrigeration, will take place in Mumbai, India.

visit www.foodtecindia.com

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Alpen launches Trail Bars

The Hut’s amazing Cheeseburger Crust Pizza When the management team at Pizza Hut decided it wanted to hit the streets with an exciting new idea, a really great fully cooked beef burger was needed. Pizza Hut turned to Snowbird foods, having found it to be reliable and a speedy solutions provider in the past.

And Snowbird really delivered, enabling Pizza Hut to introduce an amazing Cheeseburger Pizza to the delight of its customers.

The Cheeseburger Pizza is made with ten mini 100 percent British beef burgers which are cooked into the pizza crust and then

topped with mozzarella cheese. It is the latest in a line of successful innovations from the brand, which has also created and launched Cheese Stuffed Crust, Hotdog Stuffed Crust and Cheesy Bites pizza bases.

Following a successful campaign in September 2013 when the cheeseburger pizza was launched – it is now back on the menu again for a limited time only, and now available with bacon as an optional, additional topping. So that many more customers can enjoy the product and delight in its quality and sharing convenience.

Contact Snowbird Foods on tel 020 8805 9222 or visit www.snowbirdfoods.co.uk

Alpen is launching Alpen Trail Bars, a new range of wholesome and filling cereal bars in an effort to bring new customers to the bars category and drive incremental growth. Aimed at customers who crave a more filling option to snack on, the new Alpen Trail Bars are a nutritious option. At a bigger than average 48g per serving, they aim to keep consumers satisfied until lunch.

Available in three variants: Fruits and Nuts, Big Berries and Chunky Nuts the new bars are crammed full of real fruit and nut pieces and are a great source of fibre which means they not only taste great but are a convenient and nutritious snacking option at any time of day.

Ciara O’Connor, Group Brand Manager at Alpen commented: “From listening to our customers we realised that there was a gap in the market for a more filling cereal bar which would appeal to those, who are looking for a more satisfying snacking option that does not involve reaching for more treat like options.”

Contact Weetabix Food Company on tel 01536 722181 or visit www.weetabix.co.uk

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Taywell looks east for inspiration Luxury ice cream maker Taywell has launched a range of Japanese-inspired ice creams and sorbets.

The adventurous new selection features ten ice cream and sorbet varieties, each of which boasts a delicious and unique Japanese twist that is sure to delight food connoisseurs everywhere.

The new range incorporates traditional flavours long associated with Japanese cuisine, including black sesame, mango sorbet and green tea ice cream, combined with Taywell’s trademark smooth real dairy ice cream or its famously crisp and refreshing sorbet.

There has already been early interest in the innovative range. Japanese food wholesaler Tazaki Foods will distribute the new ice creams and sorbets across the UK. Alastair Jessel, Managing Director of Taywell, said: “We are driven by two passions at Taywell – quality and innovation. Nowhere is this more evident than in our new range of Japaneseinspired ice creams and sorbets. We know that dessert remains a great opportunity for all, including Japanese, so this new selection offers a superb opportunity for operators to offer options that will encourage their customers to spend a little bit more.”

Made in Taywell’s artisan kitchen in Kent, the ten products currently available in the new Japanese ice cream and sorbet range are: • Black Sesame ice cream • Chocolate & Wasabi ice cream • Chocolate & Wasabi sorbet • Kinako (soya & brown sugar) ice cream • Mango sorbet • Matcha (green tea) ice cream • Yude Azuki (sweet red bean) ice cream • Umeshu (plum wine) ice cream • Yuzu (citrus fruit) sorbet • Yuzu ice cream Alastair added: “Like all of our products, our Japanese ice creams and sorbets are made using the finest ingredients, to recipes that have been perfected in our product development kitchen by our expert team of specialists.

The taste profile of these ingredients is utterly unique to many Europeans, compared to our more conventional flavours, but with a Japanese twist that is guaranteed to excite.”

Contact Taywell Ice Creams on tel 01892 835555 or visit www.taywell.co.uk

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UK’s Protected Food Names boost More than 60 unique British foods have now achieved protected status to help safeguard these iconic products and deliver a major boost to the economy.

Anglesey Sea Salt, West Country Beef and West Country Lamb have all today had their Protected Food Name (PFN) status confirmed by the European Union – joining the ranks of some of the UK’s best loved foods such as Welsh Lamb, Melton Mowbray Pork Pies and Stilton cheese.

It’s estimated that these food items helped contribute more than £900m to the European economy.

Sixty-two of these items have now gained the prestigious award that protects their authenticity and origin from imitation and fraud. Defra is working with the food industry to inspire further applications for protected food name status.

Farming Minister George Eustice said: “Exceeding the 60th registration is an achievement to be proud of. Legal protection of the quality, provenance and reputation of British food will help small businesses make a valuable economic contribution both locally

and nationally. We now want to help many more UK food producers who are thinking about making an application for protected name status to get their quality produce fully recognised.”

Having been awarded the protected food name status, the family business of Halen Mon Anglesey Sea Salt is expected to grow its workforce by 25 percent this year.

Alison Lea-Wilson from Halen Mon said: “We are absolutely delighted that Halen Mon is the first Welsh PDO status and joins the other greats of Welsh Lamb and Beef and Pembrokeshire Early Potatoes. Consumers can now be 100 percent sure that when they buy Halen Mon Anglesey Sea Salt they are getting a product which has been harvested and packed in Anglesey.”

Peter Baber, Chairman of Meat South West, said: “We are delighted to be awarded PGI status for West Country beef and lamb. We look forward to working with farmers and processors in the south west region to market top quality beef and lamb under the West Country PGI banner.”

Contact Defra Press Office on tel 0207 238 6092 or visit www.defra.gov.uk

Extraordinary Eden pasty range The Eden Project has teamed up with TV chef James Strawbridge and a team of top local suppliers to create a range of truly extraordinary pasties.

The pasties were unveiled at Eden by James, wife Holly, James’s business partner Tom Larkin and Eden’s head chef Tony Trenerry.

There are four pasties in the Eden Extraordinary range. Complementing the traditional steak pasty will be minted lamb and Cornish yoghurt, three Cornish cheeses and spicy three bean varieties.

The suppliers include Colwith Farm in Lostwithiel, who grow the potatoes, Davidstow, Whalesborough Cheese and Cornish Gouda Company, who make the cheeses, Kittows of Fowey, who are supplying the beef skirt and lamb shoulder, Trewithen Dairy, who make the butter and yoghurt, and a collection of Cornish farmers who are growing the swede (or turnip as it is known in Cornwall).

All the suppliers are based close to Eden and food entrepreneur James and his family live locally, near Fowey.

Eden, James and the suppliers are working with Crantock Bakery who will be making the pasties to the chef’s recipe and supplying them exclusively to Eden.

The team at Crantock Bakery, based in Indian Queens, combines craft bakery skills, quality ingredients and chef driven product development to deliver baked goods to

companies across Cornwall and the rest of the UK. Visitors to Eden’s third annual World Pasty Championships were among the first to sample the extraordinary pasty range.

James said: “I am incredibly excited about working with Eden on the extraordinary Eden pasty. We are working with suppliers of great local produce and have come up with something delicious and unique that sums up Eden's attitude to really good food.

“Showcasing Cornish produce in a unique pasty is a great way to celebrate Cornwall. We have got so many amazing artisan producers providing ingredients for a tasty, proper pasty - I think it is an absolute winner.”

Andrew Holden, Eden’s Procurement Director, said: “For many years, pasties have been one of the best-selling foods at Eden, home of the World Pasty Championships. We wanted to make ours extra special so we have teamed up with James Strawbridge and Crantock Bakery to develop these truly extraordinary pasties.”

The Championships, are backed by the Cornish Pasty Association, after it won European Union Protected Geographical Indication (PGI) status for the Cornish pasty last year. It means only pasty makers based in Cornwall who make pasties in a traditional manner and follow a traditional recipe are able to label their products as Cornish pasties.

Contact Crantock Bakery on tel 01726 861120 or visit www.crantocks.com

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Holland’s pub classics Holland’s has launched two new premium pies as part of its new Pub Classics range. This new range features the finest British ingredients, and includes two flavour varieties: Peppered Steak Pie and Chicken & Ham Pie. With Holland’s out-performing the national pie market, with increased sales YOY for its shortcrust pastry products, its introduction of a premium offering in the chilled category is a welcome addition to its pie portfolio.

Larger in size than Holland’s current range, these 247g individual pies offer the best of British, with traditional pub classic fillings. Featuring British beef, the Peppered Steak Pie offers chunks of tender slow-cooked steak in a rick dark creamy peppercorn sauce, wrapped in Holland’s unique short-crust pastry and sprinkled with cracked black peppercorns. The Chicken & Ham Pie includes British chicken and British ham, seasoned with black pepper in a creamy sauce; its golden pastry is finished with a sprinkling of thyme.

Holland’s is giving consumers traceability assurance with its on-pack British meat message. It is not only a guarantee from Holland’s on its meat sourcing assurance; it also demonstrates Holland’s support for British farmers and the importance of low food miles by sourcing within the UK. Holland’s Pub Classic range is available in single box packs giving unique stand out on shelf. The iconic pie brand recently modernised its look by introducing a new logo, new bolder coloured packaging and new on-pack messages including standout microwavable cooking instructions, GDA’s and a British flag to emphasise the British meat provenance. What is more the new Pub Classics pies can be microwaved from chilled in less than four minutes.

David Girdler, spokesperson for Holland’s, said: “We wanted to create a new range of pies offering something new and different to the category, this quality pub classics range does just that; its rich, tasty, traditional pub classics fillings, are made with the finest British ingredients. Holland’s new branding complements the new range and provides stand out on shelf.’’

Contact Holland’s Pies on tel 01706 213591 or visit www.hollandspies.co.uk

More from Merchant Gourmet After the continued success of their ready to eat lentils and grains pouches, Merchant Gourmet have launched three new lines, a new Spelt and SunBlush® pouch in their popular ‘meals in minutes’ range, a ready-to-eat Spelt and a Grains, red rice and Quinoa mix under the Merchant Gourmet banner.

Speaking about the decision to launch the products in greater detail, Sanjay Davda, Head of Retail said: “The decision to extend our ready-to-eat range was born out of its continued success within the marketplace. We have been experiencing 240 percent YOY growth across our entire ready-to-eat lines and we believe that these new additions will prove to be equally successful. This is the first time that we have introduced Spelt and Freekeh products into supermarkets, but after extensive research and sampling, we are confident that it will be popular addition. The significant sales growth on key ready-to-eat pouches has contributed to the confidence in buyers that there is demand for alternative, convenient and healthy side of plate meal solutions in the ambient aisle. There is definitely an acknowledgement from retailers also about the

opportunity that exists within this category hence additional space that supermarkets are looking to dedicate to these products.”

The main ingredient of spelt in two of the pouches has been rising in popularity in recent times as has Freekeh that is a key ingredient in the grains mix. With the increased interest in the health benefits of pulses and grains thanks to cookery shows such as Ottolenghi, Sanjay believes that the pouches will make these harder to cook and source grains, more accessible to the consumer: “The great thing about these ingredients is that they really capitalise on the growing popularity of ancient grains. We saw it with Quinoa and I believe we will see the same type of uplift with these new pouches. By making grains such as Spelt and Freekeh more convenient and easier to use, we believe that we will attract a new customer base, which may not have the time or knowledge to prepare a meal with the dried grains from scratch. The range extension offers a convenient offer, which can be eaten directly out of the pouch or combined with other ingredients to make a whole, quick and tasty meal.”

Contact Leathams Foods on tel 01795 476154 or visit www.merchant-gourmet.com/www.leathams.com

Speciality food brand Garden of England Garden of England is fast becoming well established in the UK having gained listings with key retailers and leading food distributors. The range, which comprises sweet and savoury preserves, pickles, compotes and condiments is different to its contemporaries: Garden of England only use seasonal fruit and vegetables grown on carefully selected farms across the UK. This provenance coupled with the traditional packaging style has proved to be a winning formula for the brand.

“We initially introduced the range at the Farm Shop & Deli Show last year but this really was our way of testing the market and to gauge the reaction of the buyers. We are therefore delighted that we were able to go away from last year’s show and develop the range. Garden of England is really starting to gain momentum and we have already obtained fantastic listings. Our point of difference is obviously that the Garden of England range is only made using UK grown fruit and vegetables, which addresses ever-growing consumer demand for brands with provenance” explained Paul Mendel, Brand Manager at Garden of England.

Contact Garden of England Foods on tel 01795 476154 or visit www.gardenofenglandfoods.co.uk

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Scotty Brand secures new seasonal lines Scotty Brand, an umbrella brand for premium seasonal Scottish produce, has secured further listings with the supermarket chain Morrison’s across its stores in Scotland.

First to hit the shelves are new Scotty Brand packs of baking potatoes. Available in packs of four, these large potatoes come from the main crop which means they have had time to bulk up in the ground.

Like all of Scotty Brand potatoes, the ‘bakers’ are grown by a number of different farmers across Scotland and are then sorted, washed and packed by Albert Bartlett in Airdrie. Scotty Brand baking potatoes will often use the signature Kestrel variety, although occasionally Scotty Brand may use other varieties to ensure best in season.

Two new lines of prepared vegetables are also available: Casserole Vegetables Mix – a convenient mix of prepared swede, carrot, potato, leek and onion, this combination of chunky rustic vegetables can make a great vegetarian dish on its own, or simply serve it as a pot of vegetables to accompany any roast.

Carrots & Sprouts Mix – these two vegetables are both delicious and healthy, simply boil on the hob or in the microwave in the bag. Sprouts in particular are timeconsuming to clean and trim; Scotty Brand has done all that for you and at the same time cut the carrots to size, so that both will cook in the same time.

Michael Jarvis, Head of Marketing for Scotty Brand said: “Our prepared vegetables

are all prepared and packed with care in Scotland – no washing, peeling or chopping required, and none of the goodness taken out.

We have done the hard work for you, so that you can simply cook and enjoy.”

Scotty Brand has also extended its soup mix range and now has two new varieties to add to its name. Alongside traditional Scotch Broth soup mix launched last year, Scotty Brand has introduced: Vegetable & Lentil Soup Mix – this real Scottish favourite is deliciously healthy and is accompanied with a handy separate sachet of lentils to ensure the pulse stays dry until needed.

Carrot & Parsnip Soup Mix – this classic combination is a firm favourite all year round.

This tasty soup comes with a separate sachet of croutons which simply need to be sprinkled on top of the soup just before serving.

All Scotty Brand soup mixes are produced and packed in Scotland for Scotty Brand by Fife based Kettle Produce. The soup mixes contain fresh vegetables in exactly the right proportions and each variety has a separate sachet of a special ingredient to give the soup that added touch of authentic tastiness.

Michael Jarvis added, “Our new Scotty Brand soup mixes are guaranteed to appeal to those looking for a healthy soup that can be simply prepared, heated up and enjoyed.

Made using fresh vegetables picked at their prime, the hard work has been taken care of with none of the goodness taken out”.

Contact Scotty Brand on tel 01236 771740 or visit www.scottybrand.com

Delamere Dairy goats’ milk for Hong Kong Delamere Dairy has launched its fresh goats’ milk into supermarkets in Hong Kong. The speciality dairy now airfreights weekly shipments to the country which is seeing a growing interest in dairy products. Delamere Dairy opened its Far East office in 2011 and already sells long life goats’ milk and long life cows’ milk in both the Delamere Dairy brand and private labels to countries in the Far East. Its products can be found on supermarket shelves in China, Hong Kong, Singapore, Thailand, Malaysia, Vietnam and Japan.

Ed Salt, Managing Director at Delamere Dairy commented: “There has been a positive uptake of Delamere’s products in the

Far East where the consumption of dairy products is exploding. As well as the now established supply of UHT milks, we are working with our Far East customers on a new product development programme to supply a wider range of dairy products including yogurt drinks and cheeses in various formats to meet market demands.

Export now accounts for over 10 percent of our business and we expect it to be around 20 percent by the end of the year.”

The provenance of dairy products from Europe is a key selling point and the Far East markets hold this in high esteem. Delamere Dairy is looking to develop this activity in 2014.

Contact Delamere Dairy on tel 01565 632422 or visit www.delameredairy.co.uk

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Frobishers raise the bar with premium juice Premium juice brand Frobishers is set to burst onto the global on-trade market as they roll out a campaign for international expansion. Successfully established as one of the UK’s finest juice brands, a reinvigorated export focus has met positive support amongst key distributors.

With established export partners already secured across Northern Europe, Scandinavia and parts of the Middle East, the team at Frobishers are looking for new distributors to help them identify key emerging territories for the premium juice sector and secure their slice of the international market.

Speaking on their expansion plans, Steve Carter, Sales and Marketing Director said: “The UK premium soft drinks sector is growing rapidly, as operators and consumers increasingly choose 100 percent natural fruit juices over juice drinks with added sugar, sweeteners and flavourings. We have enjoyed steady sales growth in the UK, doubling our business in the last four years. We have ambitious plans for the future, and with the success we have already seen across Northern Europe it makes sense for us to capitalise on the global consumer trend for not from concentrate, pure, honest fruit juice. We have had some great support from UK Trade & Investment, and look forward to rolling out our brand into new and exciting territories.”

Appearing at Gulfoods, Dubai, Frobishers showcased their entire range of not from concentrate, pure fruit juices, including new kid on the block Cherry Juice, three smoothies and three blended juice drinks. With proven credentials in aligning exporters with new distributors to assist in sales across the Middle East, Africa and South Asia, Gulfood provides a vibrant backdrop for conducting world-class international trade.

Frobishers hope to capitalise on successful in-roads already achieved in the Middle East. Frobishers are actively searching for further partners to facilitate expansion into Singapore, Hong Kong and the Middle East. Frobishers, working with UK Trade & Investment, have also exhibited at further leading global food and drinks events in 2014.

Contact Frobishers on tel 01392 825333 or visit www.frobishers.com

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Indo European Foods’ Little Secret Leading food manufacturer Indo European Foods has announced the launch of its new product range, Our Little Secret, which includes nineteen products under Indian, Oriental & Moroccan meal kits, Indian & Oriental cooking sauces as well as single portion, low calorie Pot Rice.

The launch of Our Little Secret marks a new era in Indo European Food’s journey towards becoming a more Internationally focused food company, bringing mainstream products for consumers with a better taste and convenience appeal.

Kaushik Dutta, Marketing Manager of Indo European Foods, said: “Our Little Secret is ideal for busy consumers looking for a great tasting product that is quick and easy to make.

By providing cuisines from different parts of the world, customised for their needs, these products are targeted at mainstream British consumers. The portfolio of products adds a wow factor to various meal occasions.”

The Our Little Secret product range is available on the shelves at Morrisons, one of the UK’s top 4 grocery multiple and Makro, one of the country’s leading Cash & Carry Groups.

Two of the products from the range have already won an award at the Grocer New Product Awards in October. The Our Little Secret Kadhai won the Meal Kit award and Makhani won the Ethnic Cooking Sauce award.

Contact Indo European Foods on tel 0208 863 5745 or visit www.ols.co.uk

OSO sets a Frozen yogurt brand category precedent launches new look and feel Bircher Muesli brand, OSO, is leading on category innovation, with a unique pot format to improve on-the-go consumption and two exciting, new line extensions.

The first-to-market, single-serve pot, features a bold, new packaging design and a revolutionary integrated spoon within the lid, driving out-of-home consumption by making it easier to enjoy OSO on-the-go.

The brand refresh will also include the launch of two new flavours, Rhubarb and Forest Fruits, as additions to the existing range, which includes Mango & Passion Fruit, Strawberry and Raspberry.

Commenting on the step-changes, OSO Founder, Paul Hayes, said: “At OSO we strive to continuously improve quality and, as an entrepreneurial brand, we react fast to meet the needs of our consumers.

“Refuelling on-the-go is a growing consumer need-state and our new, high quality format, with a spoon that will not just snap when you try to eat with it, will improve the OSO eating experience and help grow Bircher Muesli outof-home driven trial and repeat purchase”.

The new 170ml range will be showcased by five revamped flavours including Chocolate Heaven, Strawberry Swirl, Mango & Passionfruit, Mixed Berry & Granola and Cherry Chocolate. The range also includes the introduction of a new 500ml tub including yoomoo®’s three most popular flavours (Vanilla, Strawberry and Cherry). All new products are just 3 percent fat or less, and full of natural goodness, real fruit, and no artificial flavours.

Founded in 2011, yoomoo® is the leading frozen yogurt brand in the UK with annual growth of 15 percent YOY and retail sales through supermarkets of £4.5m* from launch

in March 2012 to date*. yoomoo® specialises in creating tasty, guilt free frozen yogurt which is free from additives.

Holly Twiss of yoomoo® frozen yogurt said: “Our relaunch is a direct result of acting on consumer feedback to gain continued growth in the market. Being the leading frozen yogurt brand we know that our customer’s views are very important and we are confident that they will love our new flavours and distinctive packaging. We have always encouraged consumers to enjoy what they eat, and we continue to promote this message with the re-launch of our home range. *source: AC Nielsen

Contact yoomoo on tel 0207 289 2151 or visit www.yoomoo.com

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Alimentaria, Barcelona closes its most international show with 30 percent of foreign visitors At the beginning of April, Alimentaria, the International Food & Drinks Show, closed its most international, gastronomic and innovative show ever, which has been demonstrated by the increase in foreign visitors, 42,000 from 141 countries¿ and the arrival of major buyers from around the world who took part in over 10,000 business meetings with exhibitors, 25 percent more than in 2012. The presence of chefs that hold 50 Michelin stars between them and the presentation of a large variety of innovative products have ensured that Alimenatria has become a major marketing platform for the international food and drink industries.

Alimentaria 2014 received over 140,000 visitors, who visited the different pavilions of the Fira de Barcelona Gran Via Exhibition Centre, Barcelona, Spain, during the four-day trade show. Thus the show successfully ended a new edition to the general satisfaction of exhibitors and with high expectations of bringing national and international business deals to fruition in the coming months.

Alimentaria has taken yet another step in the internationalisation process with an increase in visitors and business meetings with participants from the five continents aimed at promoting foreign sales. The number of international visitors was up 2 percent to reach 42,000, representing 30 percent of total visitor numbers.

Moreover, the show attracted over 600 top foreign buyers, 50 percent more than in 2012: major importers and distributors from Europe, Asia, Latin America and the USA, who participated in over 10,000 business meetings with exhibitors, an increase of 25 percent over the last show in 2012.

The President of Alimentaria and of Fira de Barcelona, Josep Lluís Bonet, said: "The fair has fulfilled its main objective to serve as support and leverage in the internationalisation of SMEs in the sector, for which export and exposure to new markets are no longer just options but requirements". For his part, the Chief Executive of Alimentaria Exhibitions and the show's top executive, J. Antoni Valls, said: "This year, the show has been prominent for the increase in professionalization and quality of attendees, giving around 3,800 participating companies the opportunity to do business, make trade contacts and gain access to international markets".

Gastronomy, innovation and business Moreover, this edition has been, undoubtedly, the most gastronomic. The new space "The

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Alimentaria Experience", with a totally innovative format, was very well received by the public, who were able to see the culinary skills of Spanish cuisine's major figures, such as Joan Roca, Carme Ruscalleda and Pedro Subijana, among many others. Over 50 chefs, who hold 50 Michelin stars between them, participated in over fifty show cooking sessions. In other culinary activities, 5,000 people took part in the olive oil tasting sessions, over 10,000 in the wine tasting 'Vinorum' and more than 2,000 in the cheese tastings at 'Spain, Land of 100 Cheeses'.

The Alimentaria Hub has again been the show's think tank, with over 50 speakers who analysed the present and the future of the sector in the Congress on the Mediterranean Diet; the Second Nestlé Forum, "Creation of Added Value", on nutritional challenges of the 21st century; and the FIAB innovation and Technology meetings, among other events. The Innoval space showcased almost 300 new products launches, among which there were brands such as Nice Fruit, Nestlé, Maggi, Nutriblock and Danone that won awards.

It is estimated that at the end of Alimentaria, volunteers from the Fundació Banc dels Aliments (Food Bank Foundation) collected over 20 tonnes of food and beverages donated by exhibitors.

From the point of view of packaging recycling something like 22 tonnes of glass containers used during the fair were recycled.

Alimentaria Exhibitions Alimentaria is a leading international trade show organised by Alimentaria Exhibitions, a Fira de Barcelona company specialising in events for the food and beverage industry. Its portfolio of shows includes Bta. -Barcelona Food Technologies-, Alimentaria & Horexpo Lisbon, Alimentaria Mexico, Alimentaria Brazil and Seafood Expo Southern Europe.

Alimentaria Exhibitions will start working immediately on the next edition of the major Barcelona food and beverage show that will be held in March 2016 and also on the coming equivalent fairs in Mexico, in June this year, and in Brazil, in September. In September, Fira de Barcelona will also be hosting Seafood Expo Southern Europe, the major seafood fair in Southern Europe and the Maghreb.

Contact Alimentaria Exhibitions on tel +34 934 521800 or visit www.alimentaria.bcn.com/en

for life.

The Charity’s Food and Drink Directory has been improved to make it easier to search for over 10,000 gluten-free products and those carrying the Crossed Grain symbol, and an extensive Recipe Database.

The new site will continue to provide a wealth of information about coeliac disease and the gluten-free diet as well as specific areas for healthcare professionals and the catering industry.

The app will be free to download and available for all and includes free content on the gluten-free diet, eating out tips and information on coeliac disease. Available exclusively to Members as part of their Membership package, there are the added features of the Food and Drink Directory with barcode scanner and Venue Guide.

Contact Coeliac UK on tel 01494 437278 or visit www.coeliac.org.uk

Patent guarantees absence of off-flavour DSM’s patent application for Maxilact® lactase, which is free from arylsulfatase, has been granted in Europe. Maxilact® enables dairy producers to formulate lactose-free dairy products without any off-flavours.

The patent relates to a lactase enzyme, which is free from arylsulfatase.

Arylsulfatase is an impurity found in lactase that converts components naturally present in milk to cause off-flavour in lactose-free dairy products, resulting in a limited shelf life. Adding arylsulfatase-free Maxilact® to a dairy formulation ensures that off-flavour development is no longer an issue and the shelf life can be extended.

This year marks the 50th anniversary of DSM leading the lactase market. It was the first company to launch a solution for low

lactose dairy products, such as milk, ice cream, whey drinks and yogurt. Merel Roes, Marketing Manager of Maxilact®, commented: “DSM is delighted to have been granted this patent. It rewards our long-standing scientific efforts and investments to improve lactose-free products. Maxilact® is our promise to our customers to develop stable lactose-free dairy products without any off-flavours. The lactose-free dairy market continues to expand globally and we see a rapid growth in overseas exports. This requires a longer shelf life and is thereby putting extra demands on enzyme quality. With Maxilact® our customers are able to deliver on their brand promise, no matter where in the world the consumer is located.”

Contact DSM Food Specialties on tel +31 15 279 3474 or visit www.dsm-foodspecialties.com & www.Maxilact.com

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Coeliac UK, the national Charity for people with coeliac disease has launched its new and improved website, with the introduction of increased functionality for people with coeliac disease.

The Charity, which currently has over 60,000 Members, has redesigned its original website, successfully tackling a host of challenges around integration of technologies and now offers new and revamped services which have been built specifically to incorporate the Charity’s first ever app.

One in one hundred people in the UK have coeliac disease, an auto-immune disease caused by intolerance to gluten that is found in wheat, barley and rye. Damage to the lining of the gut occurs when gluten is eaten. There is no cure or medication for the condition and the only treatment is a strict gluten-free diet

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Digital technology to help with coeliac disease

Renshaw colour coatings product line Renshaw has developed a new range of coloured compound products, inspired

by US trends.

The new product, ‘Renshaw Colour Melts’, will sit within the non-block cake coverings fixture and aims to capitalise on increasing appetite in the category area, which is growing at over 200 percent year-on-year.

Developed as an improvement on current market options, Renshaw Colour Melts have been formulated to melt easily, giving a strong and stable colour. Available in seven hues (Yellow, Green, Blue, Red, Pink, Black and White), the vibrant shades available will provide customers with a wider range of decorating options.

Created to ensure superior taste attributes, Renshaw Colour Melts are highly versatile in application for both dipping and moulding, with the product set to appeal to all skill levels - from amateur to experienced cake decorators and bakers.

Mark Bosworth, Renshaw’s Marketing Director, said of the new product development: “We keep a keen eye on the trends emerging in the States and are confident that Colour Melts will perform well with our UK customers.

“The development of Colour Melts has ensured that its attributes are superior to competitor products, offering a range of colours without compromising on taste. The application method is easy and fuss-free and provides broad appeal to a variety of skill sets.”

Contact Renshaw on tel 0151 706 8203 or visit www.renshawbaking.com

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Frutarom expands its Tate & Lyle alliance with McNeil Origanox™ portfolio Nutritionals New oil-soluble plant extract effectively counteracts rancidity in fried and extruded foods, suitable for clean label formulations.

Frutarom Savory Solutions introduces Origanox™ OS-T, a new oil-soluble variant within its portfolio of natural plant extracts which secures the freshness, taste and quality of foods throughout their shelf life. The extract leads to excellent results in fried foods, extruded snacks and baked goods. Origanox™ OS-T is free from emulsifiers and can be labelled as ‘natural flavour’ or “natural plant extract” and thus contributes to more appealing product labels. It is available in liquid form and is easy to handle in terms of usage and dosage.

The base for Frutarom’s new extract is a specific mix of selected tealeaves. Thanks to the particularly high content of phenols in these leaves, Origanox™ OS-T inhibits

oxidation effectively. The extract remains stable and active even at very high temperatures of more than 180°C, which are commonly achieved when baking, extruding or frying.

When Origanox™ OS-T is added to frying oil, the fried products such as fries, potato chips, chicken nuggets and donuts are stabilized. The result is foods that are appealing and retain their freshness for longer.

When used for baked and extruded goods, Origanox™ OS-T just has to be added to the dough.

Even at low dosages, the extract is extremely effective against rancidity. This makes it a cost effective way of improving the quality of foods in a straightforward and natural way.

Origanox™ OS-T is organoleptically neutral and does not impact on the taste and smell of the finished products.

Contact Frutarom Savory Solutions on tel +49 7150 20900 or visit www.frutarom.com

Glanbia Nutritionals granted US patent Glanbia Nutritionals Ireland has been granted United States Patent Number 8,637,102, titled: ‘Acidified whey protein compositions and methods for making them.’ The patent relates to acidified whey proteins with desirable organoleptic and functional characteristics, including significantly improved flavour, odour, tartness and sweetness compared to conventionally processed acidified whey protein, all whilst providing a required amount of whey protein.

Eric Bastian, Vice President R&D, Glanbia Nutritionals, Idaho, commented: “With a high nutritive value and balanced array of amino acids, whey proteins have long been recognized as an important protein source for health conscious consumers, athletes and

body builders, as well as those looking to stay active in later life. This latest patent not only signifies our commitment to technical advancements for our customers, but also broadens the opportunities for everyday protein supplementation by consumers.

“Traditional dry-blended acidified whey proteins tend to have undesirable taste profiles, for example being too tart, too astringent or exhibiting other off flavours that decrease palatability and consumer acceptance. Our patented process creates a high quality protein ingredient with a pH of between 2.8 and 5.6, which crucially hits the taste and flavour buttons with consumers while allowing the delivery of increased protein levels.”

Contact Glanbia Nutritionals on tel +353 5677 96000 or visit www.glanbianutritionals.com

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Tate & Lyle Plc announced the latest phase of its 30-year Sucralose partnership with McNeil Nutritionals LLC through the establishment of a renewed Splenda® Alliance. The focus for the renewed partnership will be the development and growth of the global market for Sucralose and the Splenda® Brand. This is a natural evolution of the long-term partnership that has nurtured the success of Sucralose and the Splenda® Brand, following the strategic realignment announced in 2004. At that time, Tate & Lyle took over McNeil Nutritionals’ Sucralose manufacturing assets and responsibility for worldwide food and beverage ingredient sales, while McNeil Nutritionals retained ownership of the Splenda® Brand and the retail and food service business.

Both companies will partner on the continued development and promotion of the Splenda® Brand and Sucralose, including ingredient and brand protection initiatives.

The new arrangements include terms for ongoing supply upon expiration of the current agreement. The partnership will continue to leverage the strengths of each company and ensure the continued growth of the Splenda® Sucralose business and the Splenda® Brand globally.

Javed Ahmed, Chief Executive of Tate & Lyle, said: “We are delighted about the continuation of our established 30-year partnership with McNeil Nutritionals and look forward to the next phase of the relationship. Alongside our global partners, we are committed to growing the global market for Splenda® Sucralose, which remains the high intensity sweetener of choice due to its superior taste profile and stability, enabling its use across a broad range of applications. Together, we will continue to ensure that the Splenda® Brand remains the benchmark within the industry for quality, reliability and innovation well into the future.”

Contact Tate & Lyle 0207 257 2100 or visit www.tateandlyle.com

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Swedish Government supports Baltic research Bayn Europe and Barentz have launched a stevia research project aimed at developing the use of stevia dietary fibre blends as a substitute for chemical sweeteners in the Baltic region. The project is supported by the Swedish Government due to its positive effects on the environment and public health in a prioritized region.

Blends with stevia, a non-chemical sweetener, and insoluble dietary fibres, will be used in three high sugar demonstration products – jam, ketchup and chocolate powder – instead of the chemical sweeteners normally used to make calorie-reduced products. The dietary fibres are derived from a natural source in the form of recycled residue from manufacturers of apple juice and oat based products.

The project will demonstrate an example of the positive effects stevia and dietary fibre have on public health issues regarding diabetes and obesity, with up to 90 percent reduction of calorie levels and a remarkable improvement of digestion. Chemical sweeteners are not biodegradable and are harmful for both the body and the environment.

Using natural recycled dietary fibres also has a positive effect on the production costs, which can be an issue in stevia applications. Fibres add both bulk and texture so the costs of adding other bulking agents are reduced.

The Swedish Agency for Economic and Regional Growth supports the stevia research project, in line with the Swedish Government’s focus on environmental and public health improvement in the Baltic region.

The project will run until December 2014 in three phases. Phase 1 includes research, production and distribution of the three demonstration products in the target region. Phase 2 will focus on collecting feedback from the end consumer. During phase 3 the project results will be processed and the products further developed and distributed wider in the region.

Contact Bayn Europe on tel +46 8 613 2888 or visit www.bayn.se and Barentz Food Solutions on tel +31 23 567 3456 or visit www.barentz.com

“Superior” bioavailability of Curcumin Micelle Frutarom Switzerland, Health BU Switzerland, in conjunction with Aquanova AG, Darmstadt, Germany, is pleased to announce the results of a recently published human study examining the bioavailability of curcumin across three different oral delivery systems.

Recognized as the most biologically active compound found in the turmeric rhizome ‘Curcuma longa’, curcumin presents wideranging health benefits. Key to capitalizing on curcumin’s health benefits is improving its limited uptake into the body. The typically low systemic bioavailability of the lipophilic curcumin is attributed to its poor solubility in the aqueous phase of the digestive tract and its rapid metabolism and excretion from the body.

Over the past several years, new delivery systems have emerged and were touted for their potential to enhance uptake and retention. The study, ‘Oral bioavailability of curcumin from micronized powder and liquid micelles is significantly increased in healthy humans and differs between sexes’, provides strong data demonstrating enhanced systemic uptake and sustained circulation of NovaSOL® curcumin micelles in comparison to both native curcumin and curcumin micronisate.

“The numbers are exciting,” explained Jan Frank, Professor at Hohenheim University’s

Institute of Biological Chemistry and Nutrition, Stuttgart, Germany and the principal investigator on the recently published human trial. “The AUC-[the area under the plasma concentration-time curve, which is the gold-standard measurement of the bioavailability of a compound] places the NovaSOL® curcumin micelle head and shoulders above other delivery systems. This provides significant opportunities to truly utilize curcumin’s properties to maximum effect.”

Based on comparisons of plasma AUC, the study demonstrates significant differences between the three curcumin formulations with total AUC as follows: native curcumin 66 ±116 nmol/L×h, curcumin micronisate 583 ±289 nmol/L×h, and curcumin micelle 12148 ±4547 nmol/L×h. The numbers show a 185fold higher AUC, demonstrating conclusively the superior bioavailability of the curcumin micelle compared to native curcumin.

Therefore, using a small single dose of NovaSOL® curcumin is the bioavailable equivalent to high, multiple gram dosages of a standard extract.

Further studies, including an exploration of the differences in plasma concentration between men and women and the bioefficacy of micellar curcumin, are underway at Professor Frank’s laboratories.

Contact Frutarom Health on tel +32 5231 9536 or visit www.frutaromhealth.com

Ingredion showcase expertise at CFIA The Ingredion group of companies presented its latest clean label innovations at CFIA Rennes 2014, France. Combining the best of National Starch and Corn Products International, the leading global ingredient solutions provider showcased its wide portfolio of nature-based clean label starches that can be used in a broad range of applications, such as dairy, bakery and savoury products.

Ingredion demonstrated how its cutting-edge technical support, culinary expertise, R&D, sensory science and market intelligence can combine with its ingredient innovations to enable customers to keep ahead of trends.

Ingredion showed its recent launches including the Novation Endura™ series, a revolutionary addition to the Novation range of clean label (no E number) starches.

Novation Endura™ 0100 starch offers maximum stability and the ability to withstand higher cooking temperatures, enabling manufacturers to create a wider range of appealing food products without additives than ever before, including many savoury products, dairy desserts, fruit preparations, sauces and salad dressings.

Also highlighted was the Novation® Indulge 1720 speciality starch a clean label co-texturiser that replaces protein to enable lower overall ingredient costs, whilst delivering thick and creamy indulgent yoghurt products with a sought-after additive-free positioning. This makes Novation Indulge 1720 perfect for the yoghurt market, including Greek-style products that have become increasingly popular.

Contact Ingredion UK on tel 0161 435 3308 or visit www.ingredion.com/emea

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Enzyme to bring low-pH liquefaction Novazymes announce the launch of a new alpha-amylase enzyme solution that lowers pH during liquefaction. The solution is designed to break down starch in a way that creates more dextrose when compared to conventional alpha-amylases. The result is higher yields, and chemical, water and energy savings. The combined benefits can enable a starch processor to save up to a US Dollar per tonne of substrate.

Running at pH 5.5, the enzymes used for conventional starch liquefaction require the addition of chemicals to raise pH levels before liquefaction. Chemicals are added again at the end of the process to ensure the lower pH necessary for the next step in starch processing, saccharification.

“LpHera brings the liquefaction pH level as low as 4.5-4.8. This means you can reduce your use of pH chemicals in some instances by more than 50 percent,” said Thomas Nilsson, Global Launch Manager for Food at Novozymes. “It also prolongs the ion exchange service cycle, which in turn enables more savings on chemicals, water and

wastewater.”

Liquefaction with LpHera also increases dextrose yields by 0.2 percent. As starch customers are processing large amounts of starch every day, such an increase can be significant.

“Starch plants vary in size and can process from 0.2 to over 1m tonnes of substrate each year,” said Thomas Nilsson, “So if a plant processes 0.5 million tonnes of substrate, the additional yield coupled with the energy, water and chemical savings associated with LpHera means that such a plant can save up to 0.5m USD per year compared to today’s technology.”

“We see LpHera as bringing value beyond liquefaction,” explained Thomas. “Producers of high fructose syrup benefit from more efficient evaporation and water and energy savings. In crystalline dextrose production, it ensures higher crystallization yield, and when producing fermented products, it achieves higher yield and better by-products with lower salt levels. LpHera is just the beginning of new and needed innovation for the starch industry.”

Contact Novozymes on tel +45 4446 0000 or visit www.novozymes.com

Research finds ground flaxseed significantly reduces cholestrol The Flax Council of Canada is pleased to announce the acceptance by Health Canada of a health claim linking ground whole flaxseed to cholesterol lowering, a major risk factor for heart disease.

An incredibly nutritious crop, flax’s omega-3 fatty acids, fibre and other nutritional benefits have made flaxseed a popular food ingredient for people of all ages. Flaxseed is available as whole seed, and ground whole seed. Grinding or milling the seeds makes the nutrients more available.

“Based upon the strength of the scientific data we submitted, Health Canada’s Food Directorate recommended the acceptance of a health claim showing flaxseed can lower blood cholesterol”, stated William Hill, President of the Flax Council of Canada. “This is a proud achievement as Canada is the first country in the world to allow a health-related claim for flaxseed for use on food labels. This claim is one of only a dozen deemed to meet the rigorous scientific criteria established by Health Canada.”

"Flaxseed is an important crop for Western Canadian farmers and the economy, and Canada is the world leader in production”, said Linda Braun, Executive Director of the

Saskatchewan Flax Development Commission.

Health claims are an important way to inform consumers about the nutritional value of a product and let consumers know how many servings of a particular food they need to eat to obtain the maximum benefit. The daily consumption of five tablespoons (40g) of ground flaxseed will help to reduce cholesterol levels. Flaxseed is easy to incorporate into many foods, including muffins, cookies, snack foods and casseroles.

“Now food manufacturers will be able to clearly state on labels the relationship between flax consumption and a reduction of cholesterol. This health claim will help encourage the development and demand for products containing flax.”, stated Eric Fridfinnson, Chairman of the Manitoba Flax Growers Association.

Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada provided guidance on the science and the regulatory pathway to substantiate the ability of flax to lower blood cholesterol. The approval of this claim is an example of the importance of industry and government partnerships working on behalf of Canadian producers to ensure greater understanding of the health benefits of Canadian crop based foods.

Contact The Flax Council of Canada on tel +1 204 982 2115 or visit www.flaxcouncil.ca

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Frutarom Health BU Builds Innovation Frutarom Switzerland, Health BU Switzerland, is making a strategic move in the global nutraceutical and functional food market to better address customers’ needs. The strategy is based on four critical foundations: innovation, natural ingredients, research and responsible sustainability.

“We made significant investments in the last year to improve our plants in Switzerland and North Bergen NJ, USA, to provide high-quality, sustainable natural ingredients,” said Holger Riemensperger, General Manager of Frutarom Health BU. “We also sponsored several clinical research trials on specific nutraceuticals, plus our R&D team developed several innovative ingredients intended for world-wide launch this year. We are attentive to our customers’ needs and seek for smart ingredient solution to address specific health conditions and market trends in functional food and supplements.”

Frutarom will publish research results during 2014 for several clinical studies covering the health benefits of: * Neuravena® - patented wild green oat extract for cognitive health * Pelargonium® - a natural root extract for immune health * LinumLife® - flax lignan ingredient for men’s health * Go-Less®- a proprietary blend of extracts to support bladder wellness Frutarom Health BU will continue developing new studies to carry on the reinforcement of the comprehensive proprietary scientific data, which remain the core driver for Frutarom Health BU. Science is key to prove product efficacy and push new products through future health regulations, which appear to become more and more rigorous.

“Frutarom intends to launch from five to seven proprietary natural ingredients in 2014, and boost health and sales growth among existing and new customers,” added Holger Riemensperger. “We also intend to expand the market of our nutraceuticals to pharmaceutical companies and so are in the process of attaining the highest pharmaceutical certifications.”

Contact Frutarom Health on tel +31 612 742974 or visit www.frutaromhealth.com

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Incromega™ granted Friend of the Sea© Croda’s Incromega™ range of omega-3 fish oil concentrates has been awarded the Friend of the Sea© certification.

The Friend of the Sea© programme certifies sustainable seafood from fisheries and aquaculture. Accreditation of the Incromega™ range provides assurance that the fisheries in the Incromega™ supply chain are operating responsibly – including no over-fishing, no bycatch of endangered species and no illegal, unreported or unregulated (IUU) fish.

Both the Incromega™ supply chain and the production site have been audited by independent international certification bodies, against strict sustainability criteria to achieve the certification.

Croda’s Nutritional Sales Director, Gerry Purnell, said: “Croda is committed to ensuring responsible marine sourcing and raw material traceability throughout the supply chain. We are delighted to have our stance on marine sustainability accredited by the industryrecognised Friend of the Sea© certification programme.”

Incromega™ fish oil concentrates are produced using industry-leading PureMax™ technology, ensuring the highest level of quality assurance at every stage of the supply chain and 100 percent purity guarantee on every batch. Friend of the Sea© certification acknowledges the integrity of the PureMax™ process, from responsible sourcing to final batch release.

This follows the announcement that Croda International Plc, the company behind the Incromega™ brand, has been listed as one of the top Global 100 Most Sustainable Corporations in the World for a second consecutive year. Croda was ranked 28th in the Global 100 listing, which assesses 12 quantitative indicators covering financial, social and environmental performance of around 4,000 of the world’s largest listed companies.

Incromega™ brand manufacturer, Croda, has become the first supplier of omega-3 fish oil

concentrates to attain the prestigious IFOS™ (International Fish Oil Standards™) 5-Star Supplier Certification.

The IFOS™ Programme is a voluntary third party testing and certification programme for omega-3 fish oil products that sets the industry ‘gold standard’ for fish oil safety, purity and quality. The certification programme rates both consumer products and omega-3 fish oil suppliers.

Croda’s Nutritional Sales Director, Gerry Purnell, said: “Croda’s achievement of the IFOS™ Supplier 5-Star certification assures our customers that Incromega™ fish oil concentrates are consistently of the highest quality and also provides confidence that consumer products made with IFOS™ 5-Star Incromega™ oils can achieve the desirable IFOS™ Consumer 5-Star status.”

Consumer products are tested by IFOS™ to the highest global standards for omega-3 content, contaminants and stability. The results are published on the IFOS™ website in the form of a Consumer Report based on a 5star rating system, providing consumers with an easy to understand, scientifically validated way to compare products and brands.

The IFOS™ Supplier 5-Star rating takes the requirement for superior quality a step back up the supply chain and requires that: • The manufacturing facility is an approved and registered food/dietary supplement manufacturing facility with an appropriate certification.

• The company and/or product has been registered in accordance with the regulatory authorities’ requirements where the product is produced.

• The analytical methods used have met the IFOS™ standard of testing.

• Each lot of certified IFOS™ raw material has been individually inspected and reviewed for IFOS™ programme compliance.

• The product has met the IFOS™ Consumer Report 5-Star Rating Criteria.

Contact Croda on tel 01405 860551 or visit www.croda.com

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Algatechnologies extends shelf life of AstaPure® The successful completion of stability studies for the AstaPure® line of natural astaxanthin products has been announced

by Algatechnologies. The research included the successful increase of a recommended retest date for its leading ingredient, 10 percent astaxanthin oleoresin, to four years at room temperature.

This breakthrough shelf-life extension was approved after completion of more than four years of real-time stability studies. In order to test how various environmental conditions affect the stability of astaxanthin in finished products, Algatech performed a comprehensive series of experiments on the concentration of natural astaxanthin in AstaPure® products to study the influence of air, heat and light, as well as various combinations of these parameters and over extended periods of time.

“In light of the impressive results of the studies, we are able to extend AstaPure’s shelf-life at room temperature with complete confidence, providing that the packages remain sealed in their original containers,” explained Oran Ayalon, Director for R&D at Algatech. “In order to make sure the temperature is controlled and to further extend the shelf life, it is recommended to store the product in refrigerated conditions.”

“The successful completion of the stability tests is an important part of Algatech's continuing efforts to provide customers the best, highest quality, sustainable and, importantly, most stable product,” said Efrat Kat, Director of Marketing & Sales at Algatech.

Unlike artificial astaxanthin, Natural Algae Astaxanthin is a highly potent antioxidant, exhibiting approximately 500 times greater effectiveness than tocopherol (vitamin E). It is much more powerful than other carotenoids. AstaPure® Natural Algae Astaxanthin has demonstrated numerous benefits, including enhancing cardiovascular health, ameliorating symptoms of central nervous system disorders, improving athletes’ performance, protecting the skin from premature ageing and more.

Algatech is a member of NAXA, the Natural Algae Astaxanthin Association, a trade organization dedicated to educating the public and industry about the health benefits of Natural Algae Astaxanthin and the major differences between sources.

Contact Algatechnologies on tel +972 8635 6425 or visit www.algatech.com

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Heat-sealing specialist Proseal is launching its latest innovation in tray sealing. The new fully flexible Proseal GT5 incorporates a number of technical developments and enhancements to deliver a machine that, in twin configuration, is capable of achieving in excess of 200 trays per minute across all pack formats.

In particular, the machine has been developed to be completely adaptable in order to handle any type of packing operation including atmospheric sealing, MAP gas flushing, Vacuum MAP sealing, skin packaging below and above the flange, and Skin Deep, which allows a 100mm protrusion of product over the top of the tray. Customers can simply select the format types they require and these can be added to or taken off at any time. This allows food manufacturers to change their pack formats in line with customer demands without having to invest in new equipment.

The GT5 features new Proseal technologies Pro-Motion, which speeds up the infeed of trays to the sealer, and Pro-Tect, an advanced user login security system. The machine has been designed to maximise floor space, enabling it to achieve the highest output from the smallest footprint.

Pro-Motion uses following-motion, and intelligent buffering technology to enable trays to feed continuously into the sealer without stopping. An auto-detect product flow monitoring system regulates the speed of the in-feed conveyor according the amount of trays being supplied.

The Pro-Tect security system provides each authorised operator of the machine with his or her own access. Different levels of authorisation can be set for individual

personnel. The system keeps a log of information input for full traceability in the event of any problems and any attempt to log in above a person’s level of authorisation will also be registered and recorded.

An enhanced servo film feed and rewind system reduces machine duty by around 75 percent. Further energy efficiencies are achieved using Proseal’s recently launched Eseal® technology which delivers a highprecision seal with an extremely strong sealing force, ensuring every seal offers the tightness and reliability to meet the stringent quality requirements of the food retail sector.

Equally important, the retention of valuable pneumatic functions means the machine can also offer additional benefits such as date coding of pre-printed film.

The GT5 retains Proseal’s renowned rugged construction to food industry approved hygiene standards with full wash-down protection, while the new compact design and improvements to wiring systems have made daily maintenance even easier. Proseal’s established ‘Auto Tool’ connection system enables tool changes to be carried out in around five minutes, while downtime is further minimised by the use of quick-change conveyor belts, and an auto-lock film reel holder.

“The aim of every new Proseal tray sealer is to take performance and ease of use to another level,” commented Proseal Director, Steve Malone. “The flexibility of our new GT5, combined with its high speed capacity, means food manufacturers have a machine more than capable of meeting both current and future production requirements.”

Contact Proseal UK on tel 01625 856600 or visit www.proseal.com

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Tesco increase Shaken Udder listing Customers will be able to pick up packs of Shaken Udder’s new all-natural milkshake in cartons. The retail giant already stocks Shaken Udders range of 330ml bottled milkshakes and have further committed to the Essex-based brand by stocking the Strawberry, Chocolate and Banana Kids Milkshake in handy, portion-sized 200ml Tetra Pak® cartons.

The drinks will be available in packs of three from the lunchbox drink aisle.

Co-founder of Shaken Udder Jodie Farran, explained: “Tesco is one of our biggest stockists so we are thrilled that they believe in the brand enough to take on our full range. We launched our milkshake in cartons in October last year and sales have gone from strength to strength ever since.

Shaken Udder recipes have natural ingredients, with nothing artificial added. The special layers of the carton also protect the goodness of the product, right up until it is opened, without the need for refrigeration or preservatives.

Each milkshake is made with semiskimmed British milk blended with real pieces of strawberry, Belgian chocolate or banana and is packed full of calcium and vitamin B12.”

Contact Tetra Pak on tel 01978 834000 or visit www.tetrapak.com/uk

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Superlight Krones PET bottle wins award An ultralight PET bottle from Krones was among the winners at this year’s packaging design awards in the ‘Beverages’ category. In recognition of this achievement, the “PET lite 9.9 carbonated” is now entitled to wear the internationally prestigious iF label.

The innovative bottle is suitable for being filled with carbonated beverages, and has a capacity of 500mm. It tips the scales at a mere 9.9g – making it 30 to 45 percent lighter than comparable PET containers.

The lightweight bottle was developed by a design team at Krones, that has already won several awards for its innovative packaging solutions. One of the designers’ paramount priorities is to develop containers that are both supremely marketable and at the same time eco-friendly. Like the “PET lite 9.9 carbonated”, that marries affordability to ecological awareness. Since it can be produced with minimal expenditure of energy and material, it is a true lightweight, not least in terms of production costs and minimised environmental impact.

Most of the PET material is located in the upper part of the bottle, where it is held and opened. The walls in the lower section, by contrast, receive only half as much material.

Nonetheless, the bottle is reassuringly stable for handling and consumers’ use, thanks to its sophisticatedly ingenious container geometry, in which the designers have left not a single

square millimetre to chance. Further significant weight savings are achieved with the special neck finish, since in contrast to other PET bottles this one does not have a screw cap, but a tear-off ring-pull closure.

Coca-Cola Amatil CCA has won the 2013 Australian Packaging Design Award with a NitroHotfill bottle designed by Krones. For the newly conceived 600mm Powerade Sports bottle, CCA was voted ‘Best of Show’. The challenge involved was to develop an extremely lightweight, eco-friendly hot-fill bottle with a 38mm wide-neck closure. This was successfully accomplished in full.

The container’s weight has been reduced from 33 to 24g, the filling process was changed over from hot-fill to warm-fill, which led to substantial savings in energy consumption.

With the Krones NitroHotfill process, bottles can be produced with a minimised weight, without the typical vacuum panels, featuring flatter, design-optimised bases that significantly improve the bottles’ visual appearance. The Powerade container elicited a ‘Wow!’ from the jury.

The World Packaging Organisation, too, appreciated the exceptionally creative design work from Krones and Coca-Cola Amatil, and chose the container, which manages without a petaloid base, as the 2013-2014 Worldstar Winner in its packaging competition.

Contact Krones on tel +49 940 1700 or visit www.krones.com

New shape for Tetra Brik® Aseptic family Tetra Pak have launched the Tetra Brik® Aseptic 250 Base Crystal. Featuring two crystal shaped panels on the front side of the familiar Tetra Brik Aseptic, the new package provides customers with more graphic design possibilities, helping their products stand out on shelf.

“As consumers have less time to choose from an increasingly wide range of products, differentiation becomes more important to brands. This new package is a way for food producers to bring distinctiveness to their brands through a low-cost, retrofittable solution,” says Manuel Calderon, Product Director at Tetra Pak. Following a successful field test with Mengniu, a leading dairy producer in China, the new package will now be launched worldwide.

“We appreciate cost efficient solutions such

as the retrofit solution for the Tetra Brik Aseptic Crystal,“ said Zhao Xingji, Head of Brand Management at Mengniu Dairy, “It provides us a simple way to support the upgrade of our dairy drinks products.”

Consumer research in both China and Pakistan found that the Tetra Brik® Aseptic 250 Base Crystal performs strongly in package design, visual appeal and functionality. With an increased stiffness of the packaging material, the new package shape enables retailers to stack and distribute packages efficiently. In addition, it also has a robust environmental profile, with a higher paper content and increased renewability.

Tetra Brik Aseptic 250 Base Crystal can be retrofitted on existing TBA/22 filling lines. The rollout on new generation Tetra Pak® A3/Speed lines will start in 2015, enabling any customer to introduce the new package.

Contact Tetra Pak on tel 01978 834000 or visit www.tetrapak.com/uk

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Panel Scan™ PCB Traceability System Microscan, a global technology leader in barcode, machine vision and lighting solutions, announces the release of a new traceability and inspection system specifically engineered for printed circuit board arrays.

PanelScan™ is a user-friendly and easily integrated machine vision solution for capturing 1D and 2D barcode data from multi-array PCBs at the front-end or midstream on any SMT line. This integrated system replaces error-prone manual scanning with a solution that allows for inline reading and keeps electronics production lines moving.

Industry leaders within electronics assembly and manufacturing employ barcode traceability technology to enable lean manufacturing, assure quality, and optimize efficient use of resources. Microscan’s barcode and machine vision products are already commonly used throughout automated electronics assemblies to monitor, track, and trace critical data. Microscan’s new PanelScan™ system is uniquely designed to read barcodes on the entire length and width of any PCB array, with an intuitive user interface that allows line operators to quickly train and recall jobs to ensure production is always running. “This solution was designed so that product mix and barcode location changes would no longer require lengthy line shut-downs to reposition, reconfigure, and test barcode readers,” commented Matt Van Bogart, Microscan’s Electronics Vertical Director.

“With its unique user-friendly interface and large format imaging capability, the PanelScan™ system is the ideal inline PCB traceability solution for any high mix, low volume electronics manufacturer to ensure their data integrity.”

The PanelScan™ large-area imaging system is available in both Standard and Wide configurations, and includes up to two GigE line scan cameras and lenses, up to two NERLITE® Smart Series LED lights, software, trigger, and cables. The built-in software application utilities allow easy integration into an existing Manufacturing Execution System (MES). In addition, the scalable software allows an upgrade to the full functionality of Microscan’s robust Visionscape® software to access value-added inspection tasks such as absence/presence, measurement, and OCR/OCV.

Contact Microscan Systems on tel +31 172 423360 or visit www.microscan.com

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A lot of pick locations on a small footprint BITO Storage Systems has launched a new shelving system called Smart Slide.

The shelving’s simple but effective sliding design presents a large number of products at the pick face within a minimal footprint, provides the flexibility to change pick slot sizes to meet changing needs and adheres to insurers’ requirements for fire regulations.

Smart Slide shelving can provide a 30 percent saving on floor space, offers a high number of flexible picking slots adjustable in size and location, combines dense storage system for slow and fast moving products. It does all of this while producing a cost saving compared to a pallet racking based design for a bespoke picking solution. It is ideal for all kinds of picking operations, particularly eCommerce businesses and warehouses dealing with peaks.

Smart Slide is based on BITO’s Boltless Shelving and works in a similar way to a sliding wardrobe. In other words, combines fixed shelving at the rear and a slideable shelving system at the front, allowing pickers to slide the bay to one side to gain access to the full width of each bay at the rear.

Each slideable front bay is mounted on castors and comes complete with a roller mechanism that allows it to slide easily and smoothly to one side - stops on the shelves prevent them from impacting into each other. For added flexibility, the bay can be released from the roller track, which connects it to the fixed shelving at the rear, by pulling down a handle on the mechanism. This allows the bays to be moved for replenishment purposes.

Smart Slide shelving includes BITO’s new perforated sprinkler shelf, together with mesh sides and backs. This means that in addition to being light in weight, the design adheres to legal requirements in terms of fire regulations from insurers. Each shelf can support loads up to 100kg.

A single module of the shelving will accommodate four, standard 600mm deep x 400mm high x 300mm wide containers. With four levels of shelves, the front bay can hold 16 containers.

Contact BITO Storage Systems on tel 02476 388850 or visit www.bito.co.uk

Luxury presentation box is wicked and wonderful Rigid box specialist Pollard Boxes has developed a luxury presentation gift box for the launch of a new chocolate brand.

Created by Shed Brand Innovation’s professional pastry chef, the Wicked and Wonderful bars are premium hand-crafted dark and milk chocolate respectively – the Wicked bar infused with chilli and a splash of brandy essence, and the Wonderful bar mixed with lavender.

To launch the new products, a special gift pack was required which would create excitement and anticipation through a series of revelations before the chocolates were presented, and which would reflect the luxury, premium positioning of the brand. It was also important that the chocolate bars were well protected to reach each recipient in perfect condition.

Working with print solutions specialist Print Monkey, Pollard Boxes devised a stylish high quality presentation box, manufactured in Colorplan paper board and incorporating lines of gold foil blocking across one half of the lid at a diagonal, together with the Wicked and Wonderful logo. A magnetic closure ensures a secure fastening and easy opening.

The lid opens up to reveal a similar second layer of board and foil blocking, this time in two halves. These two sides are held together with a tab and parted to reveal the bars of

chocolate securely held in individual compartments beneath. The inside of the lid includes explanatory copy about the brand in gold lettering.

As part of the development process, Pollard created a variety of different foil line effects to enable the customer to select the one that they felt delivered the best overall impact.

Brand delivery specialists Print Monkey managed the project, providing the allimportant liaison between the client and Pollard Boxes.

“Suppliers like Pollard are an integral part of our business - we love working with companies who like to be challenged and we enjoy supporting them through such projects,” commented Emma Moore, Print Monkey’s Managing Director. “It also means our offering to our clients is greatly increased.”

The gift box generated a hugely popular response with one recipient commenting: “So many things about this make me happy… the printing… the paper… the copy... and oh, my, the chocolate.”

“Wicked and Wonderful bars offer a new experience for chocolate lovers and we wanted to convey this sense of excitement, luxury and difference in our launch,” explained Angelique Green of Shed Brand Innovation. “The gift box created exactly the right tone and image to deliver a highly successful result.”

Contact Pollard Boxes on tel 0116 275 2666 or visit www.pollardboxes.co.uk

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Metsä Board for luxury packaging Metsä Board is launching a new carton-board, Carta Allura, designed especially for luxury end-uses. Carta Allura has exceptional smoothness making it ideal for foil lamination, high-gloss varnish and other special effects. It also has high brightness and an attractive visual appearance that creates the right impression when used for premium products.

Carta Allura is most suitable for beautycare, high-end food and beverages as well as graphic applications.

Carta Allura is lightweight yet firm, giving

more cartons per tonne and enhancing sustainability. Its consistency and stiffness make production processes trouble-free. Its reverse side is also coated to ensure a good finish to the inside of the carton.

“There is a trend towards using special effects to distinguish packaging,” said Christophe Baudry, Commercial Director, Beautycare & Healthcare, Metsä Board. “Hot foil stamping and foil lamination work best with an exceptionally smooth surface, and that is exactly what Carta Allura provides.”

Contact Metsä Board on tel +358 10 4611 or visit www.metsaboard.com

Grade A BRC pass for Dempson Crooke Following a lengthy audit, manufacturer of paper packaging products, Dempson Crooke, is delighted to announce that the company has been upgraded to the highest possible BRC certification – Grade A. Dempson Crooke achieved BRC certification 12 months ago for its manufacturing facility in Maidstone, Kent. To follow that with an improved certification just one year later is a remarkable achievement, as BRC auditor, Brian Peckett, explained: “I have seen many companies achieve an initial pass and then take years to actually implement any further improvements.

Some never do, some even lose their certification. For Dempson to go from achieving

certification to a Grade A pass in one year is very unusual. It demonstrates the commitment of everyone in the organisation to this Standard.”

Dempson Crooke’s Quality Manager at the Maidstone site, Paul Simmons, was delighted with the award: “Last year we won certification with a B/C pass. With all that has happened in the last year, we simply hoped to be able to pass again and to improve the standard a bit,” he said. “As long as we maintain this standard and keep looking to improve, we are doing things properly.”

“Everyone has played an important part in this achievement,” said Managing Director, Jon Katzauer. “It has been a brilliant team effort.”

Contact Dempson Crooke on tel 01622 727027 or visit www.dempson.co.uk

New convenience for honey lovers Greiner Packaging International and a renowned closure manufacturer modify the packaging of Breitsamer honey A better base, a design for easier handling, and drip-free dispensing: together with Breitsamer+Ulrich and a recognized closure manufacturer, Greiner Packaging International has modified the packaging. Taking the environment into account, the total packaging weight has also been reduced. Breitsamer honey products in the new PET bottles containing 350 or 500g have been in store since the beginning of the year.

Breitsamer+Ulrich GmbH & Co KG from Münich is one of the leading honey bottlers in Europe. Their products combine tradition and quality and are sold in glass as well as in plastic packaging.

Greiner Packaging International produces the new honey bottles for Breitsamer from PET, using the stretch blow moulding process.

“We use our exclusive ‘kavoblow’ technology

for this. It facilitates highly efficient implementation of individual designs and combines flexibility with productivity; and is therefore ideal for innovative bottles and containers for the food industry”, explained Günter Ausserwöger, Head of the Kavo Division at Greiner Packaging. The look and handling of the bottle were improved. And thanks to the new base design, the packaging is more stable during filling.

Honey in plastic bottles has some basic advantages in terms of convenience for daily consumption: It provides the consumer with hygienic and clean handling, as well as precise dispensing without dripping. The new dose cap with membrane plays an important role here.

It is equipped with an integrated, tear-off tamper-proof band and is made of polypropylene. Combined with a highly transparent PET bottle, the system fulfills the highest demands for precise dispensing of viscous products.

Contact Greiner Packaging on tel +43 7583 72510 or visit www.greiner-gpi.com

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Procap introduces an advanced closure solution Procap has launched 38 Proline for sensitive non-carbonised beverages that must be packaged in clean conditions, such as juices and milks. 38 Proline was specifically developed to adhere to the stringent conditions in which such products must be bottled. The closure is also suitable for bottled waters. 38 Proline can be used for any PET container featuring a 38-3SOT neckfinish.

38 Proline’s unique design also comprises a venting feature to help assure end-user safety.

Venting is enabled as a result of the design of the closure’s inside, including the thread shape. The discontinuous thread allows pressure inside the container to be released in the event of fermentation of the product.

Relieving the pressure means the closure is unlikely to suddenly discharge and strike the end user. It makes the closure extremely secure and reliable for consumers. Safety is further enhanced as the seal between the closure and bottle is also lost only when the TE band bridges are sufficiently stretched or broken. This provides evidence of possible intentional product contamination or adulteration, as does the dropping of the TE band on first opening.

The new solution has been devised to aid the aseptic cold fill technology, although it is suitable for both wet and dry aseptic processing. No slip agent is used in its production. As a result, aseptic filters require less cleaning and maintenance. The inner shape of the TE band further aids aseptic processing by discouraging the retention of the chemical product used that could then spoil the product.

Procap has extensive experience in the design and development of solutions for the beverages industry. 38 Proline further underscores the significant investment in research and innovation that the company undertakes to continue to provide advanced closure solutions.

The closure is produced in accordance with ISO 14001. It is also fully BRC/Iop certified.

It is available in a wide range of colours and also offers the possibility for a brand logo or other information to be engraved on the top surface. 38 Proline features standard dimensions so that no modification of capping lines is required.

Contact Procap Group on tel +352 95 0550 or visit www.procap.com

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Domino fastdrying ink for food packaging Domino Printing Sciences has launched a new ink that answers the coding demands of the food packaging industry.

Developed by Domino’s ink specialists for high-speed production environments, the BK652 ink has an unparalleled drying time of less than half a second and is four times more resistant to fade.

The new ink is available now for use with Domino’s G-Series Thermal Ink Jet range, which prints high-definition codes onto a variety of food packaging substrates including labels, cartons, sachets and pouches. The unique G-Series printers can print bar codes, Datamatrix codes, graphics and text onto a variety of porous and semi-porous surfaces.

BK652’s dry time enables codes to be completely fixed and bonded in record time without impeding on the productivity of the rest of the packaging line. The high-contrast TrueType code allows for easier reading by machine vision systems now found on food production lines, which helps maintain continuously running lines and reduces reject rates and stoppages.

“We anticipate that BK652 will build on the success that we have already seen in this sector with BK651,” explained Phil Parkins, Technical Product Manager for Thermal Ink Jet at Domino. “The superfast dry time combined with excellent decap time will reduce the initial rejects that manufacturers see after the machine has been idle, thus cutting reworking requirements.”

“There is a growing need for high resolution, high quality scratch resistant coding, which are key requirements for the packaging of ready meals and convenience foods,” concluded Greg Treanor, Product Marketing Manager at Domino Printing Sciences. “In order for food manufacturers to comply with the latest legislative requirements, they require an ink that is certified for use in packaging applications. Thermal ink jet lends itself well to the food industry, as it is one of the most efficient and clean solutions for delivering high speed, high definition coding within the controlled environments of food packaging production lines. We are confident that BK652 will prove to be a popular choice for businesses operating in the food sector.”

Contact Domino on tel 01954 782551 or visit www.domino-printing.com

Ishida First Range Ishida Europe has developed a range of entrylevel weigher/bag-maker combination units which offer an economic, medium speed solution for food manufacturers, thus delivering a fast payback on a reduced investment cost while ensuring consistent weights, pack quality and seal integrity.

The Ishida First Range comprises either a 10or 14-head CCW-SE economy multi-head weigher with an intermittent motion Astro-S103 bag-maker or a 14-head economy weigher with a rotary motion Atlas-113 packaging machine.

Whilst the Atlas option is ideal for handling pillow bags at speeds of up to 90/bpm, the Astro will usually be specified for speeds up to 70bpm, offering in addition to pillow bags also gusseted and block bottom bag formats

with minimum change parts and simple machine maintenance.

Both the Atlas and Astro bag makers feature servo-motors and software controlled variable seal time, jaw temperature and pressure that allow the handling of many film types, including standard, metallised, recyclable and biodegradable. Stripping plates clear the seal area before sealing which ensures good pack quality, and servo driven and vacuum assisted pull down belts enable accurate and consistent bag lengths to maximise film use and optimise pack presentation.

A user-friendly operator interface includes integrated self-diagnostics and a colour touchscreen. This allows easy and rapid transfers between bag types and film, and minimise down-time.

Contact Ishida Europe on tel 0121 607 7700 or visit www.ishidaeurope.com

New Witt RFID module for gas equipment Gas mixers, gas analysers and leak testing equipment from Witt Gäsetechnik are now even easier and more reliable to operate by using an RFID module that can be retrofitted.

RFID enhances quality assurance in several ways. Users can prevent error-prone inputs from touch screens, keys and controllers. The technology even replaces barcode readers, which may fail due to illegible barcodes. RFID also provides better protection against changes by unauthorised persons. The new RFID module can be used on all equipment that is fitted with Witt’s digital “Gas Control Centre” and can be retrofitted without any problem, replacing all barcodes and passwords. The benefits are, therefore, available to a large number of users. This type of technology offers a high level of security and reliability and is comparatively inexpensive. RFID is arguably faster and easier to operate compared to all alternatives. For example, the user can

simply hold his/her staff identity card in the vicinity of the device in order to automatically log in. If the production batch changes, only the ID card of the new product has to be held in front of the device and it is immediately reprogrammed. Innumerable scenarios are conceivable, all contact-free.

The retrofit set consists essentially of an RFID module to connect to the gas equipment. Its corresponding tags are located as miniature electronic circuits in the staff identity cards, made of plastic, cardboard or any other object - even sewn into employee clothing. Tags can be as small as a grain of rice or they may consist of a flat printed circuit.

They function passively in all cases; requiring no power supply, they can be used virtually indefinitely. The assignment of the tags is made per identification number - a simple operation that is performed directly on the device.

Contact Witt-Gasetechnik on tel +49 2302 89010 or visit www.wittgas.com

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Pallet wrap offers up to 80 percent savings

New food tub has re-closing convenience RPC Bebo Plastik has introduced a versatile and user-friendly re-closable food packaging concept for a variety of applications, including soups, sauces and ready meals.

The new Bebo Twist™ container can be specified in either mono or multilayer polypropylene and with a variety of decoration options to meet individual customer requirements.

The thermoformed tub incorporates thread segments in the seal flange which securely lock with the inner thread flights on the injection moulded PP lids to combine easy and reliable opening and closing with an accurately fitting lid that keeps product safe between uses.

The high-barrier version features an EVOH layer that provides an effective barrier against oxygen ingress for an extended ambient shelf

life. It also delivers the necessary strength to allow hot fill, pasteurisation, sterilisation and aseptic filling.

The tub can be decorated by in-mould label thermoforming or by printing, labelling or sleeving after manufacture, enabling food manufacturers to create effective on-shelf differentiation and tailor the pack to meet specific brand objectives. The complementary cap, injection moulded by RPC Bramlage Food, can also be labelled.

“Our new Bebo Twist™ tub combines consumer convenience with effective product protection and promotion,” commented Robert Steinmeijer, RPC Bebo Sales and Marketing Manager.

“Initial customer reaction has been extremely positive with the first two product launches already in the pipeline for 2014.”

Contact RPC Bebo Plastik on tel +49 4761 8600 or visit www.rpc-beboplastik.de

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Golden Valley Pallet Wrap Specialists (GVPS), the Gloucester-based specialist supplier of hand and machine pallet wrap, has launched Fusion 33 – a new machine applied pallet wrap that, the company says, will save users up to 80 percent of their pallet wrap costs.

“Fusion 33 represents a micro technology advancement that will deliver substantial stretch efficiencies in excess of any other substrate on the market which means less wrapping is needed to achieve optimum palletised load stability,” explained Martyn Sumner, Managing Director of GVPS. Golden Valley say that not only will Fusion 33 reduce costs per pallet wrapped, the material’s inherent strength means it offers exceptional pallet retention capability.

“There are plenty of films available on the market that allow pallets to be wrapped cheaply but many of them will not protect a load which is subjected to more than 10kg of force,” said Martyn Sumner.

Fusion 33 is the latest addition to GVPS’s extensive range of modern pallet wrap products.

Aside from the obvious cost and load stability benefits the new wrap brings, Fusion 33 also means users experience less pallet-wrap machinery downtime: the greater yield per roll means the frequency with which a roll of machineapplied wrap has to be changed is greatly reduced.

GVPS is offering to undertake a personalised ‘packaging health check’ service to help businesses compare their existing film’s performance against Fusion 33 and demonstrating the guaranteed actual cost savings users will make by adopting Fusion 33 into their supply chain process.

Contact Golden Valley Pallet Wrap Specialists on tel 08456 434405 or visit www.gvps.co.uk

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Goplasticboxes.com keep going for longer

ConviTray is ovenable up to 240°C With long shelf-life and ovenable up to 240°C, the new ConviTray® looks set to expand premium product opportunities for the €30 billion ready meal market. It is the first ever PVC and EPOXY-free ready meal tray to enable in-container pasteurisation for extended shelf-life of fresh products and can be re-heated to real gratination temperatures of 220°-240°C in conventional household ovens.

The new ConviTray® concept was conceived by Norwegian food manufacturer Fjordland. The company wanted to bring greater diversity to ready meals with better taste and quality and more convenience.

Fjordland collaborated with Swiss packaging development company Comvince to make the innovation a reality, with UK-based food packaging specialist, Nicholl Food Packaging providing technical and design support from the early stages to take the new tray from initial samples to full-scale production at its factory in the UK. Comvince owner and packaging specialist Jörg Weltert said; “That ConviTray® can withstand temperatures up to 240°C and can be pasteurized for longer shelf-life make it a real innovation for ready meal production.

With up to four weeks shelf-life for fresh products, ConviTray® brings superior cost efficiencies within the cold chain.”

ConviTray® enables in-container steam process which is the most secure and efficient

method of pasteurization. It enables the highest food safety standards compared to other pasteurization processes and protects the taste and aroma of food. Additionally, the closed container process preserves the nutritional values of food to the same quality as fresh preparation at home.

The aluminium tray features a specially developed layer enabling a tight seal and providing a heat-stable container that does not lose its shape in household ovens. The addition of an easy-peel transparent lid gives the ConviTray® concept unparalleled convenience.

“Larger production runs and therefore cost efficiencies are possible due to the longer shelf-life with reduced food waste risks compared to short shelf life,” says Weltert.

“This is a modern innovation for today’s lifestyles where busy consumers want good tasting quality meal experiences for their family and friends. With this new innovation manufacturers have the opportunity to create new recipes and higher quality, better tasting premium meals.”

Fjordland is the first manufacturer to launch ConviTray® with its new range of ‘Ovnsklar’ premium ready meals launched across Norway. Two products Salmon Fillet and Lasagne will be introduced in the new ConviTray first with further products planned for summer 2014.

Contact Nicholl Food Packaging on tel 01543 460400 or visit www.nfpfoil.com

Reusable plastic crates are fundamental for storing, transporting and distributing perishable goods from the producer to the retailer, but have you ever questioned whether the type of plastic crates you use offer maximum return on investment?

Goplasticboxes.com’s range of food crates that stack and nest provide all the advantages of traditional bale arm crates, but with the huge additional benefit of offering a prolonged life span.

Russell Smith, Business Development Manager for Goplasticboxes.com, explained: “Bale arm crates get their name from the lever or ‘bale arm’ that moves forward and backward to allow either positive stacking or nesting, which ensures minimal wastage of space in storage and transit.

“The traditional bale arm crate design however is not as durable or hygienic as other more modern alternatives on the market for several reasons.

“Firstly the bale arm is a moving part so frequent use weakens the lever, which can loosen over time and eventually break off. Those using this style of crate must also take extra care since fingers and loose clothing can easily get trapped. Another important consideration is hygiene. Dirt and dust can accumulate in the areas beneath the moving bale arm which in humid environments provide the perfect breeding ground for harmful bacteria” “In contrast, our range of food crates that stack and nest do not have any movable parts, so they offer a much tougher, cleaner and longer lasting solution for retailers. In fact, when used in accordance with specified storage limits, these crates can last up to and even exceeding 15 years.

“Ten different models are available in the range offering storage capacities from 26 to 60 litres and five different heights from the shallowest 140mm crate to the tallest which stands at 320mm.

“The crate’s clever design allows a 180 rotation offering stable stacking of goods and nesting to 50 percent when empty, helping businesses achieve maximum vehicle fill and reduce fuel costs on return journeys from the retailer. For instance, a standard sized trailer can hold up to 3,960 of our

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GoBox 4950 FD crates – measuring 600mm (L) x 400mm (W) x 140mm (H) – making it one of the most popular models in our range.

“The crates are available with perforated or solid side walls, each style offering its own benefits. Those with perforated side-walls allow good air flow helping preserve the quality of perishable goods in storage and transit.

These also act as drainage holes, ideal for handling meat and poultry. Our solid-walled versions have straight, smooth sides which are easy to clean and give maximum internal storage space.

“Hand holes are standard features on all of our food crates, but solid versions are available with label holders. We also offer customisation options for orders of 500+ including a choice of different colours and printing methods.”

Contact Goplasticpallets.com on tel 01323 744057 or visit www.goplasticpallets.com

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The Dempson Bag, the latest innovation from paper packaging products manufacturer, Dempson Crooke, is the perfect solution for bakeries, delicatessens, takeaways and any retailer selling products in larger boxes or containers that need to lie flat when carried out. This includes cakes, chocolates, sushi, pizzas and any other takeaway hot food.

The revolutionary technology of the Dempson Bag has made it possible to manufacture a paper carrier bag with a uniquely wide bottom in tailor-made sizes up to 350mm.

This enables delicate items or boxes of food to be laid flat in the bag, rather than risk being tipped on their sides in a traditional bag.

The Dempson Bag is strong and visually ‘impactful’ whilst also delivering additional cost savings and environmental benefits.

Unlike standard SOS bags the Dempson Bag has no bottom seam. This means Dempson Crooke has been able to reduce the weight of the paper used in the bag’s construction whilst maintaining its strength. In turn, this enables better stock density, bringing savings on distribution and stock holding. These factors, together with the energy efficient production methods utilised by Dempson Crooke, mean

the Dempson Bag can bring a greener footprint than traditional paper carrier bags.

The Dempson Bag also packs a powerful marketing punch with its large, printable surface area, which maximises the potential for brand marketing on a bag. Printing can be in up to eight colours, including the four-colour process. The bag features a turnover top, which adds strength to the opening as well as the opportunity to extend the printed bag design around the inside edge for further aesthetic appeal.

If the branding and design possibilities are not striking enough, the Dempson Bag also has a streamlined look, which means it looks great from any angle. A range of different handle options provides the finishing touch.

Sales Director Paul Laskey said “With the Dempson Bag we have applied our heritage of innovation and years of experience in paper bag production to provide yet more solutions to retailers and satisfaction for their customers.

Not only does the product arrive home in the same perfect condition that it left the shop but the Dempson Bag looks great too, so it has the power to enhance the retailer’s branding whilst doing the job for which it was designed.”

Contact Dempson Crooke on tel 01622 727027 or visit www.dempson.co.uk

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Fresh coffee and tea direct from the bag Bossar Packaging based in Barcelona, Spain has developed an innovative solution to pack ground coffee and tea leaves into a “coffee pot” shaped stand-up pouch. The pouch comes complete with an integral filter, zipper closure system and corner valve insertion for pouring the freshly brewed coffee and tea.

The pouch is made of flexible high barrier materials coupled with easy opening and reclosing features which allows hot water to be poured into the pouch and subsequently reclosed. The pouch works by allowing hot water to pass through the filter containing the ground coffee or tea leaves, and the fresh coffee or tea is ready to serve once it is deposited into the bottom of the pouch. The corner valve can then be opened and used to pour the drink in a convenient and practical way.

The Bossar machine, model BMK 2600STU concept was used to manufacture and fill these pouches; this modular concept machine was redesigned and adapted for this special application, where the pouch is formed from four independent reels: Firstly the special filter material enclosing the ground coffee or tea is formed, secondly a reel of high barrier transparent film forms the stand-up gusset section of the pouch and the remaining two films form the front face and back face of the pouch. A specially designed un-winder section for multiple reels with independent tension control enables the synchronised sealing of all four films.

The front and back face of the pouch has self-adhesive labelling units located after the unwinder to apply a self-adhesive label to the front and the back faces of the pouch. The labelling enables the customer to change the description of the packed product quickly by simply changing the self-adhesive labels to suit the product being packed at the time.

Downstream from the unwinding section, the bottom of the bag, the filter and both faces of the pouch are brought together and sealed, the zipper is inserted, a die cut and a spout are also inserted to create the final article.

Auger filling was used to fill the product into the pouch, complete with gas flushing treatment to preserve the quality of the product.

With this innovative packaging system the consumer can enjoy a superb coffee anywhere in a quick, clean and convenient way.

Both Coffeebrewer and Teabrewer are patented concepts by Coffeebrewer Nordic A/S.

Labelling system ‘10 years ahead of its time’ Labelling specialist Industrial Labelling Systems (ILS) has been appointed exclusive UK distributor of a breakthrough range of automatic print and apply labelling systems incorporating several unique features that give users improved economy, problem-free operation and full machine availability.

Built by Swedish company Autolabel AB, the new range takes ease of use, maintenance and integration to a new level. Thanks to a clean and straightforward web path, both the ribbon and label roll are quick to replace, it takes just 20 seconds to change the Label roll or ribbon rolls. The print-head, print roller and driving belt are also easy to replace without tools.

An on-board industrial PC eliminates the need for an external computer, so, for example, label data can be collated and labels designed and uploaded via the labeller’s PC or a networked PC loaded with control software.

The structure of the Linux based operating system makes it easy to emulate various print engines. The labeller will also interface with established ERP systems such as SAP or WMS without the need for any additional expensive ‘middleman’ third party software.

Brushless DC motors, the solid, monoblock construction of the frame and the patented label-sensor play a major part in ensuring reliability and high quality printing.

The aluminium chassis is machined as one piece, eliminating the need for any mechanical adjustments and ensuring tight tolerances are maintained over the lifetime of the labeller. A patented label sensor checks that each label is correctly positioned and automatically selfadjusts when changing label type.

Buyers can choose from a variety of applicators, including the patented Autolabel Blow Vac. This applicator plate, with integrated vacuum injectors and blow nozzle, applies large labels (up to 150x100mm) with high precision from a distance of up to 200mm. The applicator has no mechanical moving parts, so there is no need for costly and cumbersome safety covers. The applicator automatically folds away during media changes and cleaning, allowing easy access to the print head and print roller for in situ cleaning.

There are three models in the Autolabel range: the D43, T43 and T63, all of which are operated via an optional intuitive touchscreen. Designed chiefly with the food industry in mind, the D43 is a direct thermal printer with a print width of 108mm and 300dpi resolution. Also with a print width of 108mm and 300dpi resolution, the T43 thermal transfer/direct thermal printer is ideal for pharmaceutical and other applications where the product has a long life span, is stored for a long time or is subjected to tough handling. The T63 thermal transfer printer has a label width of 175mm and standard 300dpi print resolution and is suitable for box and pallet labelling applications, where large labels carrying lots of data are commonplace.

“This print and apply system is 10 years ahead of its time. We have already shown it to key customers in FMCG industries and they have been extremely impressed by how simple it is to operate and maintain and above all, the overall cost of ownership,” said David Brett, Managing Director of Industrial Labelling Systems.

Contact Industrial Labelling Systems (ILS) on tel 0161 655 4846 or visit www.ilsystems.co.uk/print-apply-autolabel.html

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Almondy gears up Plastic beverage for allergy labelling closures take lead Swedish baker Almondy is redesigning the packaging for its frozen, almond biscuit-based cakes to comply with new EU food labelling regulations.

An estimated 21m people in the UK have at least one allergy, while the gluten-free market – now worth around £136m* – is expanding rapidly, bolstered by the one percent of population who suffer from Coeliac disease and the growing army of people who avoid grains containing gluten for lifestyle reasons.

The new EU Food Information for Consumers Regulation (EU FIR 1169/2011), which comes into force on 13 December 2014, requires both manufacturers and caterers to warn customers of the presence of 14 key allergens, including nuts and gluten.

Andrew Ely, Managing Director, Almondy commented: “The new regulations mean a major shake-up in how manufacturers provide allergen warnings, but it is a whole new ball game for the catering industry. We have set the ball rolling for our customers by providing clear signage that will make it easier for them to accommodate the new demands being made on them.”

The new packaging for the Almondy range – which includes the toppings of a number of well-known chocolate brands such as Toblerone and Daim – will highlight any potential allergens in bold text on its ingredients list. This falls in line with the new rules, which aim to consolidate general and nutritional information into one place - the ingredients list - and to outlaw the use of statements such as ‘contains nuts’ elsewhere on the packaging.

As the new regulations do allow separate alerts over possible accidental contamination by small amounts of potential allergens, all Almondy packs will carry a ‘May contain traces of peanuts and other nuts’ warning.

Free-from statements are unaffected by the new labelling laws, so Almondy will continue to emphasise the naturally gluten-free credentials of its cakes. Caterers have the added reassurance of knowing that the cakes are 100 percent safe for gluten-intolerant customers as they are made in a dedicated and certified gluten-free bakery that eliminates any risk of cross-contamination during production.

The 14 allergens that need to be declared under the new EU FIR 1169/2011 laws are: cereals including gluten, crustaceans, molluscs, fish, peanuts, lupin, tree nuts (such as almond, hazelnut, walnut), soya, eggs, milk, celery, mustard, sesame, and sulphur dioxide. *Kantar 2013

Contact c/o Central Foods on tel 01604 858522 or visit www.centralfoods.co.uk

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Plastic beverage caps and closures are now more popular than metal closures, according to a new report from Canadean.

According to the report, plastic closures (49 percent) overtook metal closures (48 percent) last year, gaining the largest share of the global market for beverage closures. In comparison, metal closures held 51 percent of the market in 2007. The advance of plastic closures is primarily associated with a shift towards more innovative, lightweight, cost saving packaging.

Over recent years, the economic downturn has encouraged a focus on cost and material savings in the beverage industry, with the aim of delivering cheaper closures that require minimal adaptation of installed technology.

Plastic closures have benefitted from this with their intrinsically lightweight properties and strong potential for innovation.

There have been a number of new innovations for plastic closures in the last two years, with more resistant, technologically advanced lightweight caps providing greater potential for energy reduction and material savings. Lightweight packaging in general has been a strong trend in the beverage industry, as suppliers continue to strive to develop products that satisfy both environment and cost concerns.

In May last year, can2closure launched a resealable end. The closure consists of a

tamper-evident lever that opens the can when turned 180˚ in either direction. This simple mechanism is designed to be easier to open than the standard stay-on tab opening of beverage cans, and can be repeatedly sealed.

Innovation in plastic closures continues to be of growing interest, holding great potential for development in the future. As a result, the gap between plastic and metal closures is expected to widen, with 52 percent of the market to be held by plastic closures in 2017.

“Plastics closures crossed a critical threshold last year in overtaking the share of their metal counterparts across all CPG end-markets,” said Dominic Cakebread, Director of Packaging Services at Canadean.

According to Dominic, the recent growth of plastic closures has been driven partly by the associated gain in share of plastics containers and partly by further advances in closure design, materials and systems.

“These have been focusing on reducing polymer weight and cost, while maintaining or improving technical performance and convenience features. It is the greater flexibility of plastics to adapt to the changing demands of the closure market that give them their on-going advantage.”

This information is based on findings from the Canadean report ‘Innovation in Caps and Closures’ published in November 2013.

Contact Canadean on tel 01256 394201 or visit www.canadean.com

Smart launches automatic blow moulding machine Smart launches its New Fully Automatic Blow Moulding Machine with auto de-flashing and in-mould labelling. The All New AD+IML Series machine is highly acclaimed for its low power consumption and simple, user-friendly operation. With robust design and higher efficiency, these machines are suitable for producing HDPE, PP & LDPE containers with consistency and good quality.

Shreeram Rane, Managing Director of Smart Machines & Moulds acknowledges that, the industry needs more innovations and new technology at an affordable price.

Smart Team emphasises that, ‘Smart’ is the only Blow Moulding Machines manufacturer, that has developed into a preferred brand in a very short space of time because of their

compact, fast and reliable machines and the excellent after sales service support.

Due to consistent quality output with lower weights and fully automatic operation, Smart AD+IML Series machines have great potential in both local and international market. Smart follows strict good manufacturing practice at all stages of pre-production, production, and post-production.

The Auto De-flashing Attachment can De-flash the product automatically online instead of this being carried out manually, saving an extra operation and skilled labour.

The In-Mould Labelling likewise saves post operation printing and means the product is ready for delivery straight after blow moulding.

Contact Smart on tel +91 22 2920 0407 or visit www.smartmmpl.com

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// PROCESSING / PACKAGING / PLANT / EQUIPMENT / SUPPLIES

BAKING SHEET WASHING AND DRYING MACHINES

Newsmith Stainless Ltd, Fountain Works, Child Lane, Roberttown,

Oliver Douglas Ltd, Amberley Works, Chelsea Close, Leeds,

Liversedge, West Yorkshire WF15 7PH. Tel:01924 405988.

West Yorkshire LS12 4HP. Tel: 0113 279 7373. Fax: 0113 279 1014

Fax:01924 403304.

E-mail: admin@oliverdouglas.co.uk Web: www.oliverdouglas.co.uk

E-mail: sales@newsmith.co.uk Web: www.newsmith.co.uk

BAR CODE LABELLING SYSTEMS Weyfringe Barcode and Labelling Systems, Longbeck Road, Marske, Redcar, Cleveland TS11 6HQ. Tel:01642 490121. Fax:01642 490385 E-mail: sales@weyfringe.co.uk Web: www.weyfringe.co.uk BISCUIT MAKING MACHINERY Jayton Systems Ltd t/a Robinson’s, 20 Parker House, Mansfield Road, Derby DE21 4SZ. Tel:01332 679898. Fax:01332 342828.

E-mail: Tony@wsrobinson.com Web: www.biscuitmachines.co.uk

E-mail: sales@wirebelt.co.uk Web: www.wirebelt.co.uk CONVEYORS AND ELEVATORS (STAINLESS AND MILD STEEL) Cox and Plant Products Ltd, Monument & Tabor Works, Balds Lane, Lye, Stourbridge, West Midlands DY9 8SE. Tel:01384 895121.

Fax:01384 893611. E-mail: andy@cox-plant.com Web: www.coxandplant.com Dunelm Supplies Ltd, Netherset Lane, Madeley near Crewe, Cheshire

CHEESE CUTTING MACHINERY

CW3 9PF. Tel:01782 750884. Fax:01782 751305 Email:

Dunelm Supplies Ltd, Netherset Lane, Madeley, near Crewe, Cheshire

sales@dunelmsupplies.co.uk Web: www.dunelmsupplies.co.uk

CW3 9PF. Tel:01782 750884. Fax:01782 751305

Gough (Engineering) Ltd, Alderflat Drive, Newstead Industrial Estate,

E-mail: sales@dunelmsupplies.co.uk Web: www.dunelmsupplies.co.uk

Stoke-on-Trent, Staffs ST4 8GE Tel:01782 654770. Fax:01782 654771.

Marchant Schmidt Europe Ltd, Unit D3, Sapphire Court, Isidore

E-mail: spharding@goughengineering.com Web: www.goughengineering.com

Road, Bromsgrove, Worcestershire B60 3FL. Tel:01527 888030.

COOKERS-STEAM

E-mail: uksales@marchantschmidt.com Web: www.marchantschmidt.com

Holmach Ltd, The Dingle, Pilsgate, Stamford, Lincs PE9 3HW.

CHOCOLATE MACHINERY Jayton Systems Ltd t/a Robinsons, 20 Parker House, Mansfield

Tel:01780 749097. Fax:01780 749098. E-mail: sales@holmach.co.uk Web: www.holmach.co.uk

Road, Derby DE21 4SZ. Tel:01332 679898. Fax:01332 342828

DRAINAGE (Stainless Steel Channels and Gullies)

E-mail: Tony@wsrobinson.com Web: www.biscuitmachines.co.uk

Dunelm Supplies Ltd, Netherset Lane, Madeley, near Crewe, Cheshire

CONFECTIONERY MACHINERY Jayton Systems Ltd t/a Robinsons, 20 Parker House, Mansfield Road, Derby DE21 4SZ. Tel:01332 679898. Fax:01332 342828.

E-mail: Tony@wsrobinson.com Web: www.biscuitsmachines.co.uk CONVEYOR BELTING Interbelt Ltd, Glensyl Way, Burton-on-Trent, Staffs DE14 1LX. Tel:01283 562598. Fax:01283 515316. E-mail:interbeltltd@aol.com

CW3 9PF. Tel:01782 750884. Fax:01782 751305.

E-mail: sales@dunelmsupplies.co.uk. Web: www.dunelmsupplies.co.uk EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEMS Puriflo, Division of Robin Hawkins Engineering Ltd, 44 Holton Road, Holton Health, Poole, Dorset BH16 6LT. Tel:01202 625656. Fax:01202 621002. E-mail: sales@rhe-puriflo.co.uk Web: www.puriflo.co.uk EMULSIFIERS Rigal Bennett Group, Gravel Hill Lane, Whitley, near Goole, East

CONVEYOR BELTS (WIRE)

Yorkshire DN14 0JJ. Tel:01977 661095. Fax:01977 662165

Wire Belt Co. Ltd, Castle Road, Eurolink Industrial Centre,

E-mail: sales@rigal-bennett.com Web: www.rigal-bennett.com

Sittingbourne, Kent ME10 3RF. Tel:01795 421771. Fax:01795 428905.

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Wire Belt Co. Ltd, Castle Road, Eurolink Industrial Centre, Sittingbourne, Kent ME10 3RF Tel:01795 421771. Fax:01795 428905.

FILLING MACHINES

E-mail: sales@wirebelt.co.uk Web: www.wirebelt.co.uk

Holmach Ltd, The Dingle, Pilsgate, Stamford, Lincs PE9 3HW.

CONVEYORS AND CONVEYOR SYSTEMS

Tel:01780 749097. Fax:01780 749098. E-mail: sales@holmach.co.uk

Conveyor Systems, George Holme Way, Hearthcote Road,

Web: www.holmach.co.uk

Swadlincote, Derbyshire DE11 9DF. Tel:01283 552255.

FLOOR AND WALL FINISHES FOR THE FOOD INDUSTRY

Fax:001283 552266.

KDH Projects Ltd, KDH House, Millfield Road, Donnington, Spalding,

E-mail: sales@conveyorsystemsltd.co.uk Web:

Lincs PE11 4UR. Tel:01775 822888. Fax:01775 822892.

conveyorsystemsltd.co.uk

E-mail: sales@kdhprojects.co.uk Web: www.kdhprojects.co.uk

Gough Engineering Ltd, Alderflat Drive, Newstead Industrial Estate,

Kemtile Ltd, Unit C3, Taylor Business Park, Warrington Road,

Stoke-on-Trent, Staffs ST4 8GE. Tel:01782 654770. Fax:01782 654771.

Warrington, Cheshire WA3 6HT. Tel:01925 763045. Fax:01925 763381.

E-mail: spharding@goughengineering.com Web: www.goughengineering.com

E-mail: all@kemtile.co.uk Web: www.kemtile.co.uk

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FLOORING SURFACES FOR FACTORIES

PASTEURISERS AND COOLERS (IN-CONTAINER)

KDH Projects Ltd, KDH House, Millfield Road, Donnington, Spalding,

Holmach Ltd, The Dingle, Pilsgate, Stamford, Lincs PE9 3HW.

Lincs PE11 4UR. Tel:01775 822888. Fax:01775 822892.

Tel:01780 749097. Fax:01780 749098. E-mail: sales@holmach.co.uk

E-mail: sales@kdhprojects.co.uk Website: www.kdhprojects.co.uk

Web: www.holmach.co.uk

Kemtile Ltd, Unit C3, Taylor Business Park, Warrington Road, Warrington, Cheshire WA3 6Bl. Tel:01925 763045. Fax:01925 763381.

POTATO PEELING MACHINES - ABRASIVE RE-LINING

E-mail: all@kemtile.co.uk Web: www.kemtile.co.uk

Porcher Abrasive Coatings Ltd, Nursery Road, Riverside Industrial

Veitchi (England) Ltd, Grange Works, Mill Lane, Rugeley, Staffs

Estate, Boston, Lincs PE21 7TN. Tel:01205 356666.

WS15 2JW. Tel:01889 586621. Fax:01889 579923.

E-mail: info@porcher.co.uk Web: www.porcher.co.uk

E-mail: rugeley@veitchi.com Web: www.veitchi.com

PROCESS VESSELS

HEAT EXCHANGERS (SCRAPED SURFACE)

Holmach Ltd, The Dingle, Pilsgate, Stamford, Lincs PE9 3HW.

Holmach Ltd, The Dingle, Pilsgate, Stamford, Lincs PE9 3HW.

Tel:01780 749097. Fax:0208 9771818. E-mail: sales@holmach.co.uk

Tel:01780 749097. Fax:01780 749098. E-mail: sales@holmach.co.uk

Web: www.holmach.co.uk

Web: www.holmach.co.uk

PROJECT CONSTRUCTION SPECIALISTS TO THE FOOD

HOMOGENISERS

INDUSTRY

Rigal Bennett Group, Gravel Hill Lane, Whitley, near Goole, East

KDH Projects Ltd, KDH House, Millfield Road, Donnington, Spalding,

Yorkshire DN14 0JJ. Tel:01977 661095. Fax:01977 662165.

Lincs PE11 4UR. Tel:01775 822888. Fax:01775 822892.

E-mail: sales@rigal-bennett.com Web: www.rigal-bennett.com HOSES AND COUPLINGS Guyson International Ltd, Hose and Couplings Division, Southview Business Park, Guiseley, Leeds LS20 9PR. Tel:01943 870044.

Fax:01943 870 066.

E-mail: leeds@guyson.co.uk Web: www.guyson.co.uk HYGIENIC WALL CLADDING Be-Plas Hygienic Walls and Ceilings Ltd, Unit 2, Junction 8 Business Park, Ellesmere Port, Wirral CH65 3AS. Tel:0151 334 5133.

Fax:0151 355 7970.

E-mail: sales@beplas.com Web: www.beplas.com KDH Projects Ltd, KDH House, Millfield Road, Donnington, Spalding, Lincs. PE11 4UR. Tel:01775 822888. Fax:01775 822892 E-mail: sales@kdhprojects.co.uk Web: www.kdhprojects.co.uk LABELLING MACHINERY Atwell Self Adhesive Labellers, Unit 18, Bolney Grange Business Park, Stairbridge Lane, Hickstead, West Sussex RH17 5PB. Tel:01444 239970. Fax:01444 246609. E-mail: sales@atwell-labellers.co.uk Web: www.atwell-labellers.co.uk Weyfringe Barcode and Labelling Systems, Longbeck Road, Marske, Redcar, Cleveland TS11 6HQ. Tel:01642 490121. Fax:01642 490385.

E-mail: sales@weyfringe.co.uk Web: www.weyfringe.co.uk

E-mail: saleskdhprojects.co.uk Web: www.kdhprojects.co.uk PUMPS AND PUMP MAINTAINANCE AxFlow Ltd, Orton Park, Northfield Avenue, London W13 9SJ. Tel:0208 832 1831. Fax:0208 280 0796. E-mail: info@axflow.co.uk Web: www.axflow.co.uk PUMPS-HYGIENIC FOOD (MASO SINE and PERISTALTIC PUMPS) Watson Marlow Pumps, contact Geoff Sanders, Mobile:07799 665533 Office fax/phone:01255 863932. E-mail: geoffsanders@watson-marlow.co.uk Web: www.watson-marlow.co.uk PUMPS-HYGIENIC FOOD Grundfos Pumps Ltd, Grovebury Road, Leighton Buzzard, Beds LU7 4TL. Tel:01525 850000. Fax:01525 853981.

E-mail: uk.grundfos.com Web: www.grundfos.com READY MEALS LINES Sealpac UK Ltd, Units 1 - 3, The Concept Centre, Innovation Close, Poole, Dorset BH12 4QD. Tel:0845 302 3056. Fax:0845 302 3057.

E-mail: sales@sealpac-uk.com. Web: www.sealpac-uk.com REFRIGERATION AND VENTILATION FOR THE FOOD INDUSTRY

LABEL OVERPRINTING AND APPLICATING SYSTEMS Atwell Self Adhesive Labellers, Unit 18, Bolney Grange Business Park, Stairbridge Lane, Hickstead, West Sussex RH17 5PB. Tel:01444 239970. Fax:01444 246609. E-mail: sales@atwell-labellers.co.uk Web: www.atwell-labellers.co.uk Weyfringe Barcode and Labelling Systems, Longbeck Road, Marske, Redcar, Cleveland TS11 6HQ. Tel:01642 490121. Fax:01642 490385.

E-mail: sales@weyfringe.co.uk Web: www.weyfringe.co.uk

KDH Projects Ltd, KDH House, Millfield Road, Donnington, Spalding,

METAL DETECTION Lock Inspection Systems Ltd, Lock House, Neville Street, Oldham, Lancs OL9 6LF. Tel:0161 6240333. Fax:0161 6245181.

E-mail: sales@lockinspection.co.uk Web: www.lockinspection.com

RIGID PLASTIC PACKAGING

MIXERS (DRY AND WET PROCESSES) Farleygreene Ltd, Unit 8, Alpha Centre, Aldershot, Hants GU12 4RG. Tel:01252 322233, Fax:01252 325111.

E-mail: sales@farleygreene.com Web: www.farleygreene.com PANS-JACKETED AND TILTING Rigal Bennett Group, Gravel Hill Lane, Whitley, near Goole, East Yorkshire DN14 0JJ. Tel:01977 661095. Fax:01977 662165.

E-mail: sales@rigal-bennett.com Web: www.rigal-bennet.com

Lincs PE11 4UR. Tel:01775 822888. Fax:01775 822892.

E-mail: sales@kdhprojects.co.uk Web: www.kdhprojects.co.uk RETORTS Holmach Ltd, The Dingle, Pilsgate, Stamford, Lincs PE9 3HW. Tel:01780 749097. Fax:01780 749098. E-mail: sales@holmach.co.uk Web: www.holmach.co.uk

Sharpak Aylesham, Aylesham Industrial Estate, Aylesham, Kent CT3 3EF. Tel:01304 840581. Fax:01304 842207.

E-mail: sales@sharpakaylesham.com Web: www.sharpak.com Sharpak Bridgwater, Colley Lane Estate, Bridgwater TA6 5YS. Tel:01278 435000. Fax:01278 423019. E-mail: sharpakbridgwater.com Web: www.sharpak.com Sharpak Yate, Highway, Yate, Bristol BS37 7AA. Tel:01454 874100.

Fax:01454 874304. E-mail: sharpakyate.com Web: www.sharpak.com SIEVES (ROTARY AND VIBRATORY) Farleygreene Ltd, Unit 8, Alpha Centre, Alfa Road, Aldershot, Hants GU12 4RG. Tel:01252 322233. Fax:01252 325111.

E-mail: sales@farleygreene.com Web: www.farleygreene.com

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Gough Engineering Ltd, Alderflat Drive, Newstead Industrial Estate,

TRAY AND UTENSIL WASHING MACHINES

Stoke-on-Trent, Staffs ST4 8GE. Tel:01782 654770. Fax:001782

Industrial Washing Machines Ltd, Facet Road, King Norton,

654771. E-mail: spharding@goughengineering.com

Birmingham B38 9PT. Tel.:0121 459 9511. Fax:0121 459 9001.

Web: www.goughengineering.com

E-mail: sales@indwash.co.uk Web: www.indwash.co.uk

SORTING MACHINES-COLOUR AND SHAPE

Newsmith Stainless Ltd, Fountain Works, Child Lane, Roberttown,

Buhler Sortex Ltd, 20 Atlantis Avenue, London E16 2BF. Tel:0207

Liversedge, West Yorkshire WF15 7PH. Tel.:01924 405988.

055 7777. Fax:0207 055 7700.

Fax:01924 403304.

E-mail: firstname.surname@buhlersortex.com Web: www.buhlersortex.com

E-mail: sales@newsmith.co.uk Web: www.newsmith.co.uk

Radix Systems Ltd, 1 Moorside Place, Moorside Road, Winnall,

Oliver Douglas Ltd, Amberley Works, Chelsea Close, Leeds,

Winchester, Hants SO23 7FX. Tel:01962 892530. Fax:01962 813354.

West Yorkshire LS12 4HP. Tel.:0113 279 7373. Fax:0113 279 1014.

E-mail: info@radixsystems.co.uk Web: www.radixsystems.co.uk

E-mail: admin@oliverdouglas.com Web: www.oliver-douglas.co.uk

Satake ESM, Horsfield Way, Bredbury Industrial Estate, Stockport, Cheshire SK6 2FN. Tel:0161 406 3888. Fax:0161 406 3889. E-mail: ve@satake.co.uk Web: www.satake.co.uk SPICE STERILISING EQUIPMENT Holmach Ltd, The Dingle, Pilsgate, Stamford, Lincs PE9 3HW.

TRAY SEALING MACHINES Sealpac UK Ltd, Units 1 - 3, The Concept Centre, Innovation Close, Poole, Dorset BH12 4QD. Tel:0845 302 3056. Fax:0845 302 3057.

E-mail: sales@sealpac-uk.com. Web: www.sealpac-uk.com

Tel:01780 749097. Fax:01780 749098. E-mail: sales@holmach.co.uk

TRAY WASHERS

Web: www.holmach.co.uk

Newsmith Stainless Ltd, Fountain Works, Child Lane, Roberttown,

SPIRAL COOLERS/FREEZERS, CONVEYING SYSTEMS

Liversedge, West Yorkshire WF15 7PH. Tel:01924 405988.

Starfrost UK Ltd, Newcombe Road, Lowestoft, Suffolk NR32 1XA.

Fax:01924 403304.

Tel:01502 562206. Fax:01502 584104. E-mail: sales@starfrost.com

E-mail: sales@newsmith.co.uk Web: www.newsmith.co.uk

Web: www.starfrost.com

Oliver Douglas Ltd, Amberley Works, Chelsea Close, Leeds,

Gordian Strapping Ltd, Gordian House, Brunel Road, Basingstoke,

West Yorkshire LS12 4HP. Tel.:0113 279 7373. Fax:0113 279 1014.

Hants. RG21 6XX. Tel:01256 394400. Fax:01256 394410. E-mail:

E-mail: admin@oliverdouglas.com Web: www.oliver-douglas.co.uk

sales@gordianstrapping.com Web: www.gordianstrapping.com STERILISERS

VIBRATORY FEEDERS Cox and Plant Products Ltd, Monument and Tabor Works, Balds

Holmach Ltd, The Dingle, Pilsgate, Stamford, Lincs. PE9 3HW.

Lane, Lye, Stourbridge, West Midlands DY9 8SE. Tel.:01384 895121

Tel:01780 749097. Fax:01780 749098. E-mail: sales@holmach.co.uk

Fax:01384 893 611. E-mail: andy@cox-plant.com Web:

Web: www.holmach.co.uk TANK LININGS AND COATINGS Kemtile Ltd, Unit C3, Taylor Business Park, Warrington Road, Warrington, Cheshire WA3 6BLTel:01925 763045. Fax:01925 763381.

E-mail: all@kemtile.co.uk Web: www.kemtile.co.uk THERMOFORM FILL AND SEAL MACHINERY Sealpac UK Ltd, Units 1 - 3, The Concept Centre, Innovation Close,

www.coxandplant.com WALL AND CEILING FINISHES Be-Plas Hygienic Walls and Ceilings Ltd, Unit 2, Junction 8 Business Park, Ellesmere Port, Wirral CH65 3AS. Tel:0151 334 5133.

Fax:0151 355 7970. E-mail: sales@be-plas.com Web: www.beplas.com Kemtile Ltd, Unit C3, Taylor Business Park, Warrington Road,

Poole, Dorset BH12 4QD. Tel:0845 302 3056. Fax:0845 302 3057.

Warrington, Cheshire WA3 6HT. Tel:01925 763045. Fax:01925

E-mail: sales@sealpac-uk.com. Web: www.sealpac-uk.com

763381. E-mail: all@kemtile.co.uk Web: www.kemtile.co.uk

Raw Materials, Ingredients and Additives ANCHOVY (FILLETS, PASTES, FLAVOURINGS, CANNED,

BLUEBERRY, CRANBERRY & POMEGRANATE (AIR DRIED)

JARRED, TUBE)

Kanegrade Ltd, Ingredients House, Caxton Way, Stevenage, Herts

La Monegasque UK Ltd, The Priory, High Street, Ware, Herts SG12

SG1 2DF. Tel:01438 742242. Fax:01438 742311.

9AL. Tel:01920 469107. Fax:01920 486646.

E-mail: enquiries@the cannedfish.co.uk Web: www.lamonegasque.com Meridian Sea, 10 Thornby Road, Estover, Plymouth PL6 7PP.

Web: www.kanegrade.com

Tel.08702 400172, E-mail: info@meridian-sea.com

BUTTER PORTIONS (IQF FILLINGS) AND BULK GARLIC

Web: www.meridian-sea.com

SPREADS

ARROWROOT

Markus Products Ltd, Murray Way, Wincanton Business Park,

The Essbro Co. Ltd, 1 South Street, Rochford, Essex SS4 1BL

Wincanton, Somerset BA9 9RX. Tel:01963 435270. Fax:01963 435271.

Tel:01702 530329. Fax:01702 530331. E-mail: michael@essbro.com

E-mail: info@markusproducts.co.uk Web: www.markusproducts.co.uk

Web: www.essbro.com BAKERY INGREDIENTS British Bakels Ltd, Granville Way, Bicester, Oxon OX26 4JT. Tel:01869 247098. Fax:01869 242979. E-mail: bakels@bakels.com Web: www.britishbakels.co.uk

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CHEESE POWDERS-SPRAY DRIED (100% CHEDDAR…) Kanegrade Ltd, Ingredients House, Caxton Way, Stevenage, Herts SG1 2DF. Tel:01438 742242. Fax:01438 742311.

E-mail: info@kanegrade.com Web: www.kanegrade.com

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CHILLIES (RED AND GREEN, FRESH CHOPPED AND FRESH

FRUIT JUICE CONCENTRATES (INCLUDING TROPICAL)

PUREED)

Kanegrade Ltd, Ingredients House, Caxton Way, Stevenage, Herts

JDM Food Group Ltd, Monument Road, Bicker, Boston, Lincs PE20

SG1 2DF. Tel:01438 742242. Fax:01438 742311.

3DJ. Tel:01775 822389. Fax:01775 822443.

E-mail: info@jdmfoodgroup.co.uk Web: www.jdmfoodgroup.co.uk CLEAN LABEL BAKERY INGREDIENTS

E-mail: info@kanegrade.com Web: www.kanegrade.com GARLIC AND GINGER (FRESH PEELED, PUREED, CHOPPED

British Bakels Ltd, Granville Way, Bicester, Oxon OX26 4JT.

AND ROASTED)

Tel.:01869 247098. Fax:01869 242979. E-mail: bakels@bakels.com

Beacon Foods Ltd, Units 3 and 4, Brecon Enterprise Park, Warren

Web: www.britishbakels.co.uk COCONUT (DESSICCATED, CREAM AND POWDERS)

Road, Brecon, Powys LD3 8BT. Tel:01874 622577. Fax:01874 622123.

E-mail: sales@beaconfoods.co.uk Web: www.beaconfoods.co.uk

F.R. Benson & Partners Ltd, 117a New Road, Croxley Green,

JDM Food Group Ltd, Monument Road, Bicker, Boston, Lincs PE20

Rickmansworth WD3 3EN. Tel:01923 293160. Fax:01923 293168.

5DJ. Tel:01775 822389. Fax:01775 822443.

E-mail: Richard@frbenson.co.uk Web: www.frbenson.co.uk

E-mail: info@jdmfoodgroup.co.uk

COCONUT PRODUCTS (POWDER AND CREAM)

GLUTEN FREE CEREALS (FLAX, QUINOA AND CHIA) F. R. Benson & Partners Ltd, 117a New Road, Croxley Green, Rickmansworth WD3 3EN. Tel:01923 293160. Fax:01923 293168.

E-mail: Richard@frbenson.co.uk. Web: www.frbenson.co.uk

Kanegrade Ltd, Ingredients House, Caxton Way, Stevenage, Herts SG1 2DF. Tel:01438 742242. Fax:01438 742311. E-mail: info@kanegrade.com Web: www.kanegrade.com COLOURS (NATURAL)

HERBS AND CHILLIES (FROZEN, AMBIENT)

Kalsec Europe Ltd, 7 Merlin Park, Fred Dannatt Road, Mildenhall,

S. Black Ltd, Foxholes Business Park, John Tate Road, Hertford,

Suffolk IP28 7TD. Tel.:01938 715011. Fax:01638 715031.

Herts. SG13 7YH. Tel:01992 825555. Fax:01992 825566.

E-mail: csimons@kalsec.com Web: www.kalsec.com

E-mail: enquiries@sblack.com Web: www.sblack.com

CONFECTIONERY GLAZING S AND RELEASE AGENTS

HYDROCOLLOIDS

British Bakels Ltd, Granville Way. Bicester. Oxon OX26 4JT.

J R Food Consultancy

Tel:01869 247098. Fax:01869 242979. Email: bakels@bakels.com

Tel:07771 716323. E-mail: jan.food@yahoo.com

Web: www.britishbakels.co.uk Capol UK Ltd, Oaktree Court, Mill Lane, Ness, Cheshire CH64 8TP. Tel:0151 342 8900. E-mail: sales@capol.co.uk Web: www.capol.co.uk

IQF/CHILLED MEATS Food Network Ltd, Keepers Cottage, Chrishall Grange, Royston, Herts. SG8 7NT. Tel:01763 837000. Fax:0208 464 1551.

CURRY POWDERS (Triton Madras, Mild & Hot) The Essbro Co. Ltd, 1 South Street, Rochford, Essex SS4 1BL. Tel:01702 530329. Fax:01702 530331. E-mail: michael@essbro.com Web: www.essbro.com DRIED FRUIT (SWEETENED AND UNSWEETENED) F.R. Benson & Partners Ltd, 117a New Road, Croxley Green,

E-mail: sales@food-network.com Web: www.food-network.com MAPLE SYRUP AND SUGAR F.R. Benson & Partners Ltd, 117a New Road, Croxley Green, Rickmansworth WD3 3EN. Tel:01923 293160. Fax:01923 293168.

E-mail: Richard@frbenson.co.uk Web: www.fr.benson.co.uk

Rickmansworth WD3 3EN. Tel:01923 293160. Fax:01923 293168.

MEAT AND POULTRY POWDERS AND MINCE

E-mail: Richard@frbenson.co.uk Web: www.frbenson.co.uk

F.R. Benson & Partners Ltd, 117a New Road, Croxley Green,

EGG POWDERS (WHOLE, YOLK AND ALBUMEN)

Rickmansworth WD3 3EN. Tel:01923 293160. Fax:01923 293168.

E-mail: Richard@frbenson.co.uk Web: www.fr.benson.co.uk

F.R. Benson & Partners Ltd, 117a New Road, Croxley Green, Rickmansworth, WD3 3EN. Tel:01923 293160. Fax:01923 293168.

E-mail: Richard@frbenson.co.uk Web: www.fr.benson.co.uk FLAVOURS (LIQUID AND POWDER) Kanegrade Ltd, Ingredients House, Caxton Way, Stevenage, Herts SG1 2DF. Tel:01438 742242. Fax:01438 742311.

E-mail: info@kanegrade.com Web: www.kanegrade.com

MISO (POWDERS AND PASTES) F. R. Benson & Partners Ltd, 117a New Road, Croxley Green, Rickmansworth WD3 3EN. Tel:01923 293160. Fax:01923 293168.

E-mail: Richard@frbenson.co.uk. Web: www.frbenson.co.uk MUSHROOMS (EXTRACTS, POWDERS AND SLICED) F.R. Benson & Partners Ltd, 117a New Road, Croxley Green, Rickmansworth WD3 3EN. Tel:01923 293160. Fax:01923 293168.

E-mail: Richard@frbenson.co.uk Web: www.fr.benson.co.uk

FOOD ACIDS Rigest Trading Ltd, Hipocampus House, Hulme Lane, Lower Peover, Knutsford, Cheshire WA16 9QQ. Tel:07595 793224.

E-mail: d.white@rigest.com Web: www.rigest.com

MUSTARD SEED AND FLOUR F. R. Benson & Partners Ltd, 117a New Road, Croxley Green, Rickmansworth WD3 3EN. Tel:01923 293160. Fax:01923 293168.

E-mail: Richard@frbenson.co.uk. Web: www.frbenson.co.uk

FRUIT AND VEGETABLE POWDERS, FLAKES AND CONCENTRATES

NATURAL COLOURS

F. R. Benson & Partners Ltd, 117a New Road, Croxley Green,

Kalsec Europe Ltd, 7 Merlin Park, Fred Dannatt Road, Mildenhall,

Rickmansworth WD3 3EN. Tel:01923 293160. Fax:01923 293168.

Suffolk IP28 7RD. Tel:01638. 715011. Fax:01638 715031.

E-mail: Richard@frbenson.co.uk. Web: www.fr.benson.co.uk

E-mail: csimons@kalsec.com Web: www.kalsec.com

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Kanegrade Ltd, Ingredients House, Caxton Way, Stevenage, Herts SG1 2DF. Tel:01438 742242. Fax:01438 742311. E-mail: info@kanegrade.com Web: www.kanegrade.com NUT PASTES AND NUT PRODUCTS Kanegrade Ltd, Ingredients House, Caxton Way, Stevenage, Herts SG1 2DF. Tel:01438 742242. Fax:01438 742311.

E-mail: info@kanegrade.com Web: www.kanegrade.com ORGANIC BAKERY INGREDIENTS British Bakels Ltd, Granville Way, Bicester, Oxon OX26 4JT. Tel:01869 247098. Fax:01869242979.

E-mail: bakels@bakels.com Web: www.britishbakels.co.uk ORGANIC VEGETABLES (ROASTED OR PUREED) JDM Food Group Ltd, Monument Road, Bicker, Boston, Lincs PE20 5DJ. Tel:01775 822389. Fax:01775 822443. E-mail: info@jdmfoodgroup.co.uk Web: www.jdmfoodgroup.co.uk PASTA (Durum Wheat Semolina, Egg, Spinach, Tomato, Cooked/Chilled) Food Network Ltd, Keepers Cottage, Chrishall Grange, Royston, Herts. SG8 7NT. Tel:01763 837000. Fax:01763 838280.

E-mail: sales@food-network.com Web: www.food-network.com PET FOOD INGREDIENTS Tech-Pet Ltd, 11 Hammond Way, Market Harborough, Leics LE16 7JW. Tel:01858 434545. Fax:001858 432828. E-mail: mail@tech-pet.co.uk PRESERVATIVES Rigest Trading Ltd, Hippocampus House, Hulme Lane, Lower Peover, Knutsford, Cheshire WA16 9QQ. Tel:07595 793224.

E-mail: d.white@rigest.com Web: www.rigest.com PULSES-CANNED (RED/WHITE BEANS, CHICKPEAS, BORTOLLI BEANS, BUTTER BEANS, FLAGEOLET BEANS, HARICOT BEANS, BLACKEYE BEANS, BLACK TURTLE BEANS, BLACK TURTLE BEANS, ADZUKI BEANS, PINTO BEANS) Food Network Ltd, Keepers Cottage, Chrishall Grange, Royston, Herts SG8 7NT. Tel:01763 837000. Fax:0208 464 1551.

E-mail: sales@food-network.com Web: www.food-network.com

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Key Ingredients Ireland, Units A3 & A4, Annacotty Business Park, Limerick, Ireland. Tel:+353 61 358977. E-mail: sales@keyingredients.ie Web: www.keyingredients.ie SPECIALITY SUGAR AND SPICE Speciality Farm Foods Ltd, Cleave Farm, East Down, Barnstaple, North Devon EX31 4NX. Tel:0845 812 0129. Fax:01271 882843.

E-mail: alan@specialityfarmfoods.com Web: www.specialityfoods.org.uk SPICE OLEORESINS AND EXTRACTS Kanegrade Ltd, Ingredients House, Caxton Way, Stevenage, Herts SG1 2DF. Tel:01438 742242. Fax:01438 742311.

E-mail: info@kanegrade.com Web: www.kanegrade.com Kalsec Ltd, 7 Merlin Park, Fred Dannatt Road, Mildenhall, Suffolk IP28 7RD. Tel:01638 715011. Fax:01638 715031.

E-mail: csimons@kalsec.com Web: www.kalsec.com SWEETENERS Rigest Trading Ltd, Hippocampus House, Hulme Lane, Lower Peover, Knutsford, Cheshire WA16 9QQ. Tel:07595 793224.

E-mail: d.white@rigest.com Web: www.rigest.com TAMARINDS The Essbro Co. Ltd, 1 South Street, Rochford, Essex SS4 1BL Tel:01702 530329. Fax:01702 530331. E-mail: michael@essbro.com Web: www.essbro.com THAI INGREDIENTS JDM Food Group Ltd, Monument Road, Bicker, Boston, Lincs PE20 3DJ. Tel:01775 822389. Fax:01775822443. E-mail: info@jdmfoodgroup.co.uk Web: www.jdmfoodgroup.co.uk TOMATOES (CANNED AND ASEPTIC) Food Network Ltd, Keepers Cottage, Chrishall Grange, Royston, Herts SG8 7NT. Tel:01763 837000. Fax:01783 838280.

E-mail: sales@food-network.com Web: www.food-network.com TUNA (POUCH AND CANNED) Food Network Ltd, Keepers Cottage, Chrishall Grange, Royston, Herts SG8 7NT. Tel:01763 837000. Fax:01783 838280.

E-mail: sales@food-network.com Web: www.food-network.com VEGETABLE INGREDIENTS-SPECIALITY (DRIED/PRESERVED) L’Aquila Importers and Distributors, 860 Coronation Road, London NW10 7PS. Tel:0208 965 0666. Fax:0208 965 0999.

E-mail: info@laquila.co.uk Web: www.laquila.co.uk

ROAST VEGETABLES AND FRUIT Beacon Foods Ltd, Units 3 & 4, Brecon Enterprise Park, Warren Road, Brecon, Powys LD3 3BT. Tel:01874 622577. Fax:01874 622123.

E-mail: sales@beaconfoods.co.uk Web: www.beaconfoods.co.uk JDM Food Group Ltd, Monument Road, Bicker, Boston, Lincs PE20 3DJ. Tel:01775 822389. Fax:0775 822443.

E-mail: info@jdmfoodgroup.co.uk Web: www.jdmfoodgroup.co.uk

VEGETABLES (FREEZE DRIED, AIR DRIED, SPRAY DRIED, FLAKES) Kanegrade Ltd, Ingredients House, Caxton Way, Stevenage, Herts SG1 2DF. Tel:01438 742242. Fax:01438 742311.

E-mail: info@kanegrade.com Web: www.kanegrade.com

SAVOURY FLAVOURS AND SNACK FLAVOURS Savoury Flavours, Units 2B/C, Riverside Avenue West, Lawford, Manningtree, Essex CO11 1UN. Tel;01206 399540. Fax:01206 393345.

E-mail: sales@savouryfoods.co.uk Web: www.savouryflavours..co.uk

WILD AND EXOTIC CULTIVATED MUSHROOMS L’Aquila, Importers & Distributors, 860 Coronation Road, London NW10 7PS. Tel:0208 965 0666. Fax:0208 965 0999.

E-mail: info@laquila.co.uk Web: www.laquila.co.uk

SEAFOOD POWDERS (ALL VARIETIES) Kanegrade Ltd, Ingredients House, Caxton Way, Stevenage, Herts SG1 2DF. Tel:01438 742242. Fax:01438 742311.

E-mail: info@kanegrade.com Web: www.kanegrade.com

YEAST INACTIVE (DEBITTERED POWDER) Kanegrade Ltd, Ingredients House, Caxton Way, Stevenage, Herts SG1 2DF. Tel:01438 743242. Fax: 01438 742311.

E-mail: info@kanegrade.com Web: www.kanegrade.com

SEAWEED (FRESH AND DRIED) Meridian Sea Ltd, 10 Thornbury Road, Estover, Plymouth PL6 7PP. Tel:08702 400172. E-mail: info@meridian-sea.com.

Web: www.meridian-sea.com

YOGHURT AND SOUR CREAM POWDERS (SPRAY DRIED) Kanegrade Ltd, Ingredients House, Caxton Way, Stevenage, Herts SG1 2DF. Tel:01438 743242. Fax:01438 742311.

E-mail: info@kanegrade.com Web: www.kanegrade.com

SEASONINGS

ZEST (ORANGE, LEMON AND LIME)

Unbar Rothon Ltd, Radford Crescent, Billericay, Essex CM12 0DR.

Kanegrade Ltd, Ingredients House, Caxton Way, Stevenage, Herts

Tel:01277 632211. Fax:01277 830151.

SG1 2DF. Tel:01438 742242. Fax:01438 742311.

E-mail: seasonings@unbarrothon.com Web: www.unbarrothon.co.uk

E-mail: info@kanegrade.com Web: www.kanegrade.com

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