Great Taste 2026 winners

Guild of Fine Food announces Great Taste 2026 winners

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.

Lubrication Engineers specialist conducts an onsite lubrication reliability

Beyond the grease gun: Turning lubrication into a strategic reliability advantage

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 […]

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Daabon becomes largest palm oil producer in the Americas after Agropalma deal

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 Mondelez recycled packaging

LyondellBasell and Mondelez bring recycled plastic to Marabou wrappers

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.

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ACI Group warns whey protein costs face long-term structural rise

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.

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Bulk food safety: Why inspection technology is a game-changer

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 […]

Left to right: Engineering manager at Kraft Heinz Ben Groom, pictured with Lawrence Wood, principal and chief executive of Telford College, Kraft Heinz site director Anton Hickey and Sarah Davies, executive director of partnerships

Kraft Heinz, Avara Foods and Pickstock back new Telford College engineering apprenticeship

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.

Lorenzo Pessini, CEO of Nous

Nous secures €2.315m seed funding led by dsm-firmenich Ventures

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 scales up dry extrusion technology for plant proteins

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 […]

Casa Herrera Rolled Tortilla Chip line

Casa Herrera rolls out a new tortilla chip line for large-scale manufacturing

Casa Herrera, a provider of tortilla chip production systems, has launched a Premium Rolled Tortilla Chip line, adding a new format to its equipment portfolio for manufacturers in the specialty snack sector.