Meat & Dairy

Snowbird completes major investment programme (31 January 2012)
Snowbird foods, part of the VION Food Group, has completed the latest phase of a major investment programme that will provide greater manufacturing flexibility and an enhanced service to current and potential customers. The business specialises in the manufacture of sausages, meatballs and other products. More..

Meat specialists use Marel robot (23 January 2012)
Three years ago, cooked meats specialists, Bröderna Nilsson of Gothenburg, Sweden, invested in an Marel PolyLine to help them meet the increasing demand for their wide range of high quality beef, turkey, chicken and ham products. More..

SFP appointed administrator of ailing abattoir (10 January 2012)
SFP, the nationwide insolvency practitioners, has been appointed Administrator of Lincolnshire Prime Meat Company after the firm encountered financial difficulties, leading to debts of almost £1.4 million More..

Festo: Automation projects, organisation, people (20 December 2011)
Gary Wyles, MD of Festo Training and Consulting, discusses the people and organisational issues that arise when an organisation starts thinking about an automation project More..

Alliance to launch new ice cream brands (07 December 2011)
R&R Ice Cream, a Europe own label ice cream manufacturer, is joining forces with Kraft Foods to bring confectionary innovation to ice cream markets across mainland Europe More..

Gower Cottage Brownies 'delivered fresh nationwide' (07 December 2011)
Best Welsh Independent Retailer of the Year 2011 and multi award-winning confectioner Gower Cottage Brownies has seen its business double year-on-year with help from next day parcel company APC Overnight More..

Cheese residues 'are history with IWM' (02 December 2011)
The problem of cleaning tenacious residues from the moulds used in cheese manufacturing has been solved comprehensively and effectively by the new range of purpose-designed cheese mould washers from Industrial Washing Machines More..

R&R ice cream to acquire Durigon Gelato (02 December 2011)
R&R Ice Cream (“R&R”) has agreed to acquire, for an undisclosed sum, the issued share capital of Durigon Gelato GmbH (“Durigon”). This is conditional only on clearance from the German Federal Cartel Office which has been notified of the acquisition. More..

Golden double for pre-cooked sausage (28 November 2011)
A new product from Snowbird foods enjoyed huge success at the recent British Pig Executive (BPEX) Foodservice Pork Sausage of the Year awards, being presented with four awards, including two coveted golds More..

Linkx arranges gentle ride for nuggets (14 November 2011)
Well satisfied with the performance, reliability and ease of use of its first Matrix collator/shrink wrapper from Linkx Systems, Birds Eye decided to install a second machine More..