UK food manufacturing developments, filtered through an engineering lens. AFME separates consequential change from industry noise and explains what it means operationally.
Automate UK has renamed and aligned its PPMA Panel, BARA and UKIVA bodies, offering a coordinated route to processing, robotics and vision expertise.
Read intelligence →Sun Chemical announced an updated SolarFlex FSP UV flexographic ink range for food-packaging applications. The supplier reported performance and compliance-related claims, which need verification…
Read →University of Reading researchers reported laboratory inactivation of Campylobacter strains using violet-blue light; factory performance remains unproven.
Read →GEA has introduced Hydract water-hydraulic actuation on selected VARIVENT process valves, replacing compressed-air actuation with a closed hydraulic circuit.
Read →Granarolo's £10m Willenhall distribution centre uses two independent CO2 refrigeration systems with integrated leak detection and building-management controls across its chilled and frozen storage…
Read →Multivac UK will open a Manchester customer-experience and innovation centre in October 2027, giving northern manufacturers access to off-line equipment trials and technical training.
Read →IntelliAM AI has announced a further purchase order from a major agricultural-processing and commodities customer for an EMEA trial of machine-learning and AI capability.
Read →
One-tap access to AFME guides, resources and news, even on the factory floor.