Flexicon Corporation has introduced a flexible screw conveyor fitted with a trough hopper, designed to receive material from multiple outlets of feeders, grinders, blenders, bulk bag dischargers, or any process equipment with a wide-style discharge. For food scientists and processing engineers managing bulk ingredient transfer, the design addresses a common bottleneck: collecting material from broad […]
The Guild of Fine Food has announced the results of Great Taste 2026, its annual food and drink accreditation scheme, with Dutch producers featuring prominently among this year’s award winners.
Mark Montgomery, Vice President, Lubrication Reliability Solutions, Lubrication Engineers, examines why lubrication remains an overlooked variable in industrial asset reliability, despite its measurable influence on component longevity and operational uptime. Drawing on oil analysis methodology and documented case data, including results from Lubrication Engineers’ own Wichita facility, he assesses how structured, condition-based lubrication programmes can […]
Grupo Daabon has become the largest producer of sustainable palm oil in the Americas following its acquisition of Agropalma, Brazil’s leading palm oil and derivatives producer. The deal significantly scales Daabon’s supply chain and is set to increase the availability of fully traceable, EU Deforestation Regulation (EUDR) compliant palm oil for food manufacturers across the […]
LyondellBasell has partnered with Mondelez International to launch a flexible packaging solution for Marabou chocolate bars made from 75% recycled content, marking one of the more significant applications yet of chemical recycling technology in food-contact flexible packaging.
Specialist ingredient distributor ACI Group has warned that unprecedented demand for protein is placing significant pressure on global ingredient markets, driving up whey protein costs, tightening supply and increasing the need for more resilient formulation strategies across the food and beverage sector.
Mike Pipe, Head of Product Inspection UK at Mettler-Toledo Product Inspection, examines the technological demands of bulk food contamination detection. He analyses how metal detection and x-ray inspection systems address distinct physical hazards across loose-form processing lines, and reports on strategic placement, automatic reject mechanisms and data monitoring capabilities that are redefining quality assurance standards […]
Three major food and drink manufacturers, Kraft Heinz, Avara Foods and Pickstock, have partnered with Telford College to design a new Level 3 Food and Drink Maintenance Engineering apprenticeship, aimed at closing a skills gap affecting the sector’s engineering workforce.
Nous, an Italian ingredient company developing functional ingredients for the food, beverage and nutraceutical sectors, has raised a €2.315 million seed round to progress its botanical functional ingredient Koncentra towards commercialisation. The round was led by dsm-firmenich Ventures, with participation from FoodSeed, the foodtech programme of CDP Venture Capital’s National Accelerator Network, and Eatable Adventures […]
Crespel & Deiters has begun industrial-scale production of textured vegetable proteins (TVP) using a patented dry extrusion process developed by Finnish foodtech company Happy Plant Protein. The technology, now running at Crespel & Deiters’ Helmond site in the Netherlands, converts European-grown pulses such as fava beans and peas into functional plant proteins, marking a further […]