Food Trade Review back issues from December 2000:
Barry-Wehmiller Extend European Portfolio.(Brief Article)
Dec 01, 2000 ... American packaging group Barry-Wehmiller have increased their presence in Europe. The company have acquired Fleetwood Systems, manufacturers of conveyer systems based in St.Albans. Now called ...
Partnership to Promote Canned Food.(Canned Food UK)(Brief Article)
Dec 01, 2000 ... Major players from across the metal packaging and food processing industries have joined forces to form Canned Food UK, tel: 0800 243 364. The task of this new organisation is to influence the perception of canned foods. Members ...
Restructuring at Systemate Numafa.(Brief Article)
Dec 01, 2000 ... Systemate Numafa BV, tel: + 31 186 650750, formed as a result of the merger between Systemate Holland BV and Numafa BV, have changed the ...
Edward Billington Purchase Chocolate Supplier.(Classic Couverture Ltd.)(Brief Article)
Dec 01, 2000 ... Liverpool-based food and agricultural business Edward Billington & Son Ltd, tel: 0151 236 5371, have announced their purchase of Classic Couverture Ltd for ...
Glendale Consolidate in Salford.(Brief Article)
Dec 01, 2000 ... Glendale Frozen Foods, tel: 0161 736 8652, have disposed of the original plant in Stockport and moved their entire operation to the existing ...
Biscuit Company is Sold.(Hicks, Muse, Tate and Furst Inc.; Burtons Biscuits Ltd.)(Brief Article)
Dec 01, 2000 ... Burton's Biscuits, producers of Wagon Wheels and Jammy Dodgers, have been bought by Hicks, Muse, Tate and ...
Siemens Acquire Datatrak.(Brief Article)
Dec 01, 2000 ... In May 2000 we learnt that Siemens, through their Austrian subsidiary, were to acquire Datatrak. Now all the legalities of that ...
Tetra Pak forms centre for nutritional products.(Brief Article)
Dec 01, 2000 ... Tetra Pak, tel: 0870 442 6000, have set up an international Centre of Expertise to supply a range of services to companies who want to expand into the growing market for nutritional products. The centre will be based in the US. Its principal ...
New Engineering Network.(The Food Manufacturing Engineering Group)(Brief Article)
Dec 01, 2000 ... The Food Manufacturing Engineering Group has been launched to encourage closer collaboration between industry and academia. This group has been set up by The Institute of Electrical Engineers (IEE), with the aim ...
Unifine Dohler.(Brief Article)
Dec 01, 2000 ... Dohler, who have trading under the name Fine Bakery Ingredients UK, have been renamed Unifine Dohler, tel: 0190 828 1222, following the takeover by Cosun ....
Bestfoods Rename Ingredients Division.(Brief Article)
Dec 01, 2000 ... Bestfoods, tel: 0128 351 1111, have renamed their Ingredients division Bestfoods Food Solution. The idea is ...
3i Group Back Braes.(Group in acquiring specialty food ingredients businesses)(Brief Article)
Dec 01, 2000 ... The Braes Group have completed their fourth acquisition. In a deal backed by the 3i Group, tel: 020 7928 3131, Braes have bought ...
Bohlin Instruments Acquire the Rosand Brand.(Rosand Precision Ltd.)(Brief Article)
Dec 01, 2000 ... Bohlin Instruments Ltd of Cirencester, tel: 0128 564 4407, providers of rheological test equipment, have acquired the rheology product lines of Rosand Precision ...
Capacity Boost for Rigid Corrugated.(Brief Article)
Dec 01, 2000 ... The Rigid Group, tel: 0153 676 0266, have undergone an initial growth phase, following their acquisition by Belgium based packaging group, VPK packaging. The growth ...
Shearway Backed by Europe's No.1.(Brief Article)
Dec 01, 2000 ... Kent-based frozen food company Shearway, tel: 0162 289 1199 is now part of a group that can claim to be the Continent's largest producer of frozen ...
Personalia.
Dec 01, 2000 ... Paramount 21, tel: 0180 384 0421, have appointed STEVE LAMONT to the post of factory manager at their Brixham production unit, replacing MARK WEBBER. Mark has moved to Paramount's head office in Totnes as logistics and new projects director. Steve has spent the last 11 years in management ...
HANDBOOK OF DAIRY FOODS AND NUTRITION.(Brief Article)(Review)
Dec 01, 2000 ... 2nd Edition Edited by Gregory Miller, Judith Jarvis, Lois McBean Published 2000 Hardback 423 pages Price: [pound]61.00 (USA: CRC Press LLC) The CRC Series in Modem Nutrition is dedicated to providing the widest possible coverage of ...
HANDBOOK OF POULTRY AND FEED FROM WASTE PROCESSING AND USE.(Brief Article)(Review)
Dec 01, 2000 ... 2nd Edition Written by A.R.Y. El Boushy and A.F.B. van der Poel Published 2000 Hardback 409 pages Price [pound]128.00 (Netherlands: Kluwer Academic Publishers) The overriding aim of Handbook of Poultry and Feed from Waste Processing ...
PRINCIPLES OF ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY: A TEXTBOOK.(Brief Article)(Review)
Dec 01, 2000 ... Written by Miguel Valcarcel. Published 2000 Hardback 371 pages Price: [pound]29.00 (Germany: Springer-Verlag) Principles of Analytical Chemistry is a book that aims to ease the first contact of students pursuing different scientific and ...
CHEESE RIPENING AND TECHNOLOGY.(Brief Article)(Review)
Dec 01, 2000 ... Edited by E. Hopkin Published 2000 Soft l6l pages Price [pound]32.00 (Belgium: JDF) Cheese Ripening and Technology presents the indexes and abstracts to oral and poster presentations delivered and shown at the third International Dairy ...
FUNCTIONAL PROPERTIES OF PROTEINS AND LIPIDS.(Brief Article)(Review)
Dec 01, 2000 ... Edited by J. Whitaker, F. Shahidi, A.L. Munguia, R.Y. Yada and G. Fuller Published 2000 Hardback 292 pages Price [pound]89.00 (UK: Oxford University Press) The aim of Functional Properties of Proteins and Lipids is to bring the subject of food ...
MODERN FOOD MICROBIOLOGY.(Brief Article)(Review)
Dec 01, 2000 ... 6th Edition Written by James M. May Published 2000 Hardback 679 pages Price [pound]49.00 (USA: Aspen Publishers, Inc) The sixth edition of Modern Food Microbiology, like its predecessor, focuses on the general biology of the ...
NATURAL FOOD COLOURANTS -- SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY.(Brief Article)(Review)
Dec 01, 2000 ... Edited by Gabriel J. Lauro and F. Jack Francis Published 2000 Hardback 344 pages Price [pound]159.00 (USA: Marcel Dekker, Inc.) Incresing consumer demands for 'all-natural' products makes this selection of articles both timely and relevant ....
PHYSICAL PROPERTIES OF FATS, OILS, AND EMULSIFIERS.(Brief Article)(Review)
Dec 01, 2000 ... Edited by Neil Widlak Published 1999 Hardback 260 pages Price [pound]111.00 (USA: AOCS Press) Physical Properties of Fats, Oils and Emulsifiers provides an overview of the principles of fat crystallisation and the application of the fundamental ...
GUIDE TO HYGIENE WITHIN THE FISH INDUSTRY.(Brief Article)(Review)
Dec 01, 2000 ... Edited by J. Nierentz and M. Stern Published 2000 Soft 74 pages Price [pound]33.00 (Denmark: Eastfish) This comprehensive, accessible and well-illustrated guide provides information which is vital to the performance and survival of companies ...
Hellmann's Sandwich and Knorr Stock Brochures.(The Breadroll Company)(Brief Article)
Dec 01, 2000 ... Bestfoods UK, Claygate House, Littleworth Road, Esher, Surrey, tel: 0173 246 2181, the makers of Hellmann's mayonnaise, have teamed up with The Breadroll Company, to launch the latest Sandwich Recipe brochure. The brochure angles towards adventurous fillings, speciality breads and ...
Leatherhead Publications.(Brief Article)
Dec 01, 2000 ... The conclusion of the Functional Food 2000 conference, in The Hague, was that this is an exiting time for the European functional foods industry. The conference focused on the commercial, regulatory, strategic, investment and consumer issues likely to affect the European functional foods ...
Creative Media's Multimedia-based Training.(Brief Article)
Dec 01, 2000 ... The Creative Media Group have set up a new operating division, Creative Training Media. This division is dedicated to the development of a range of off-the-shelf Multimedia-based Training programmes for the food industry. Their new studio, in Honiton, Devon, tel: 0140 489 2100, is fully ...
Revised Version of the ISO 9000 Series.(Brief Article)
Dec 01, 2000 ... The ISO 9000 series of standards has been revised. The 2000 edition contains a number of changes which offer major organisational benefits. Typical examples of these changes are the implementation of a process-driven approach, which strives for continuous improvement, and the greater ...
New Guides from Campden.(Brief Article)
Dec 01, 2000 ... CCFRA, Chipping Campden, Gloucestershire, tel: 0138 694 2000, have produced a guide, Heat Processed Poultry Feed: Hygienic Design of Post-Process Production and Transportation Equipment. This guide highlights the importance of good hygienic design in preventing post-process contamination ...
Six new Titles from IDF.(International Dairy Federation)(Brief Article)
Dec 01, 2000 ... The International Dairy Federation have announced the release of six new publications. They are: Functional requirements for milking machines referring to ISO Standards 3918, 5707 and 6690; Minimum competency standards in dairy curricula; Variability of the influence of ...
New Brochure from Wika.(WIKA Alexander Wiegand GmbH und Co.)(Brief Article)
Dec 01, 2000 ... Wika, Alexander-Wiegand GmbH & Co KG of Alexander-Wiegand Strasse, 63911 Klingenberg, Germany, fax: +49 9372 132 389, have brought out a new brochure, Test and Calibration Equipment. It gives the reader an overview ...
Peristaltic Pump Brochures.(Brief Article)
Dec 01, 2000 ... Watson-Marlow Bredel, Falmouth, Cornwall, tel: 0132 637 0370, manufacturers of peristaltic pumps, have launched a range of 10 new, sector-specific brochures, covering the main areas of application for their peristaltic pumps. These are: water and waste, ...
Minister's Topping Day at Dawnfresh.(Dawnfresh Seafoods)(Brief Article)
Dec 01, 2000 ... Scottish Minister for Rural Affairs, Ross Finnie, has unveiled a huge company logo to mark the topping out of the new, [pound]10m. Dawnfresh Seafoods factory, tel:0169 881 7755. It is sited at Bothwell Park, Lanarkshire where the ...
Kerrygold Consult Scanvaegt.(Brief Article)
Dec 01, 2000 ... The major multiples in the UK and several other countries are very much in control of the retail market and put heavy demands on their suppliers of goods. Kerrygold are one of the suppliers that have experienced the increased strictness regarding deliveries to the multiples - labelling ...
Starfrost System Central to Expansion.(Brief Article)
Dec 01, 2000 ... A custom built chilling system from equipment manufacturers, Starfrost, tel:0150 256 2206, has played a key role in a [pound]7m. expansion programme at Kensey Foods. Kensey, a division of Samworth Brothers Ltd, produces a wide range of own label chilled desserts for retail ...
New Process Plant For Calypso.(Brief Article)
Dec 01, 2000 ... Four Tetra Plex C6 pasteuriser heat exchangers have been installed as the central feature of a turnkey processing and packaging project at Calypso Soft Drinks, Wrexham. The project was designed and commissioned in December 1999, by JD Process Engineering of Buckley, Flintshire. ...
Eatwell Install Allen Unit.(Brief Article)
Dec 01, 2000 ... As part of a move to expand their product range, Eatwell (UK) Ltd, manufacturers of fully cooked microwaveable hand-held snacks, have installed a second Allen thermal transfer printing unit at their Ashton-in-Makerfield plant. Following the highly successful use of a TT53CM ...
Meatingpoint Launch Marketplace For Meat Trading.(Brief Article)
Dec 01, 2000 ... Meatingpoint, provider of web-based solutions for the buying and selling of meat, have announced that they have launched in the UK. This follows Meatingpoints's successful launch in Sweden, Denmark and Finland in September this year. From now on users of Meatingpoint in the UK ...
Saucemaker Set To Add To Goodlife's Product List.(Brief Article)
Dec 01, 2000 ... Goodlife Foods, tel:0192 583 7810, have added a saucemaker to their sauce chiller at their Warrington processing factory. The new saucemaker will allow Goodlife to process greater amounts of dairy-based sauces. This addition will also compliement their Air Products ...
Rhone-Poulenc Choose Lindor.(Brief Article)
Dec 01, 2000 ... Aventis Rhone-Poulenc Biochimie have installed a Lindor mixer as part of a new plant for the preparation and packaging of Vitamin B-12 animal feed additives at their works at Saint Aubin les Elbeuf near Rouen. The plant comprises raw materials transport, batch weighers, the mixer feed ...
Spiroflow System Fits Packaging Needs to a Tea.(Brief Article)
Dec 01, 2000 ... Installation of Spiroflow's Pneuvac process feeding equipment at Sandra Tea & Coffee has significantly cut both labour costs and downtime as well as improving production by reducing dust. The company packages private label tea and coffee. Three CHT-10 process feeders, three ...
Prize Metal Detector From Lock.(Brief Article)
Dec 01, 2000 ... Inspection equipment manufacturer, Lock, tel:0161 624 0333, have installed a MET 30+ metal detector for free at Badobo Packing's plant in Olen, Belgium. The lucky packer was the winner of a competition run by Lock to locate the oldest MET 9 metal detector still in use. Entrants from all ...
Matadoor Takes Stainless Steel By the Horns At Dugannon.(Brief Article)
Dec 01, 2000 ... Union Industries, tel:0113 244 8393, the Yorkshire-based manufacturer of the well known Matadoor Range of Industrial Hi-Speed Roller Doors, have broken into the Northern Irish Market by providing a large meat processing company with hygienic fast action doors in Stainless Steel. ...
Banham Poultry Ltd - Busier Than Ever.(Brief Article)
Dec 01, 2000 ... In the fall of 1998 Banham Poultry Ltd burned to the ground, however, it was not long before the company was up and running again. Premises were available in the neighbourhood and the management knew exactly what processing equipment they were looking to replace in order to reach full ...
Graveley Packing Expansion Programme.(Brief Article)
Dec 01, 2000 ... Graveley Packing, tel:0135 466 0400, part of Budelpack International, have announced the start of a multi-million pound expansion programme at their site in Cambridgeshire. A new 110,000 sq.ft. plant is being built at March, adjacent to the Company's existing factory. The ...
Freshpak Install Orwak Linley Balers.(Brief Article)
Dec 01, 2000 ... Freshpak Foods, chilled food manufacturers, have solved their waste management problems with the installation of two Orwak Linley, tel:020 8206 3876, balers. Freshpak supplies ready-made sandwich fillings for retail stores and the foodservice industry. Ingredients are sourced ...
Whitby Seafoods Recent Installations.(Brief Article)
Dec 01, 2000 ... Whitby Seafoods Ltd, who operate from a modem 4000m factory on a 2 hectare site in the town's new business park, have recently installed a fully automatic packaging combination from Sandiacre Packaging of Nottingham, tel:0115 967 8787, and Ishida UK. Sandiacre's TG250L, in ...
Ice Tea Discovery at Massey.(Brief Article)
Dec 01, 2000 ... Four Massey University Bachelor of Technology (food) students have brewed up a tasty variation on iced tea, as their final-year project. Abbey Thompson, Paula Thomson, Karsten Wishnowsky and Philip Dromgool have created an all-natural iced tea, without preservatives, artificial flavours, ...
Business As Usual For Tulip International.(Brief Article)
Dec 01, 2000 ... A fire at Tulip International's ready-cooked bacon manufacturing site in Thetford, Norfolk on Friday 17th November caused only minor disruption to general bacon production, with the shortfall ...
ReadyMealsInfo - E-solution For The Ready Meals Market.(Brief Article)
Dec 01, 2000 ... ReadyMealsInfo, tel:0163 367 4605, has recently been launched as an on-line information centre specifically for businesses within the Ready Meals market in the UK and Ireland food industry. For a tour of the new service log on to - www.readymealsinfo.com/tour. ReadyMealsInfo is ...
'Oscar' for Danexport.(Danexport Protein Foods)(Brief Article)
Dec 01, 2000 ... The European Food Safety Inspection Service Higher Level accreditation has been awarded to UK meat products manufacturers Danexport Protein Foods Ltd, for the fifth year running. Danexport Protein Foods Ltd, tel:0121 521 4300, are one of the ...
Nu-Way Help Boost Palm Oil Production in Malaysia.(Brief Article)
Dec 01, 2000 ... Nu-Way, tel:0190 579 4331, the Droitwich based combustion equipment specialist, have supplied two dualfired burner systems to fire the largest Mechmar twin tube steam boiler of its type which is helping to boost the processing of palm oil at a factory in Malaysia. The 70,000 lbs ...
Bin Systems Supply British Bakeries.(Brief Article)
Dec 01, 2000 ... Bin Systems Ltd, tel:0177 265 4348, manufacturers and suppliers of container handling equipment have recently supplied a Powerkrush 75 waste compactor with side loader to British Bakeries in Ayr, Scotland. This machine compliements an existing Bin Systems compactor which was supplied to ...
Fisher Seafoods Hooks Into John Lord.(Brief Article)
Dec 01, 2000 ... Fully vitrified slip resistant tiles and high capacity stainless steel drains and kerbs are combined by industrial flooring specialists John Lord, tel:0161 764 4617, to provide hygienic and safe flooring in new food preparation areas for fish processing specialists Fisher Foods, in ...
New Opportunities For Purchase-Management.(e-commerce web site offers flow components from leading suppliers)(Brief Article)
Dec 01, 2000 ... Flowdex have launched their e-commerce web site - www.flowdex.com. This is an internet market place for Stainless Steel Flow Components from leading suppliers across Europe. The web site is aimed to help all businesses streamline their ordering process and their sourcing of components. At ...
Delta Neu Offer Chivers Hartley Temperature Solution.(Econoclim evaporative cooling units)
Dec 01, 2000 ... Chivers Hartley of Histon, Cambridge, manufacturers of jams and preserves, have recently installed three Econoclims from Delta Neu Ltd, tel:0148 373 7888. Making jam and preserves is a hot sticky business, and Chivers Hartley were faced with excessive heat being generated in the ...
Lap Top Fridge Controller From Next.(Next Control Systems)(Brief Article)
Dec 01, 2000 ... A new factory in Boston, Lincs, is being controlled via a lap top computer by engineering manager Chris Ward, whose office is the main unit of George Adams at Spalding, 15 miles away. The building and energy management system, designed and commissioned by Next Control Systems, ...
Strata Doors Safeguarding Horizon Biscuits.(fire and security door from Stokvis)(Brief Article)
Dec 01, 2000 ... Horizon Biscuits, manufacturers of the Maryland Brand of biscuits, have expanded their use of Stokvis, tel:020 8941 1212, equipment with the recent installation of Strata fire and security doors at the company's Blackpool plant. The Stokvis Strata door comprises a high strength ...
Eurobuns Builds a Second Factory.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
Dec 01, 2000 ... Eurobun's new facility, currently under construction, will be even larger than the first at 100,000 sq ft, and occupies a 4-acre green field site close to the existing ...
Danisco Cultor Invests In Flavours.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
Dec 01, 2000 ... Danisco Cultor, tel:0193 330 4224, have invested $12m in new flavour R&D centres and automated flavour compounding in their largest US and European flavour manufacturing facilities. In the US, the former Beck Flavors facility in St. Louis have received a $4m. investment in new ...
Devro-Teepak Wrap Up Sausage Supremos.(Brief Article)
Dec 01, 2000 ... Devro-Teepak, tel:0123 687 9191, suppliers of sausage casings to the British meat industry, have presented HG Dear & Sons, finalists m the annual Butcher's Association Champion of Champions Contest, with a commemorative vase to mark their prestigious achievement. Devro Handlink ...
Van den Bergh Choose Markem.(labelling systems )(Brief Article)
Dec 01, 2000 ... UK food manufacturers, Van den Bergh, have chosen Markem technology to ensure smooth running of their traded unit operation in Worksop. Fourteen Cimjet print and apply labelling systems have been installed across the site, with three dedicated to the traded unit lines in the ...
Scotbeef Selects York Refrigeration.(to install refrigeration plant at meat processing facility)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
Dec 01, 2000 ... Scotbeef's new [pound]7m. meat processing facility at the Bridge of Allan in Stirlingshire, has been installed with an advanced ammonia refrigeration system by YORK Refrigeration's Glasgow branch. The plant, the largest in Scotland, opened recently by Scottish Rural Affairs ...
Red Deer's New High Care Herb Production Line.(Red Deer Herbs Ltd)(Brief Article)
Dec 01, 2000 ... Red Deer Herbs Ltd, tel:0138 675 0734, have launched their new production line, capable of producing 500kg per hour of heat-treated 'Hi-Care' frozen herbs. Simultaneous ...