Speciality Breads invests GBP 20 m in ‘bakery of the future’
Speciality Breads announced a GBP 20 million investment in a new, 180,000 sq ft bakery where it plans to relocate. The new facility should become operational by the end of the year.
Tag: sustainability
Fedima launches local sustainability grant
Fedima announced a new project supporting sustainability in bakery and patisserie, the Fedima Grant for Local Sustainable Initiatives. The grant is open to small businesses, bakeries, craft bakers, and research institutes in Europe.
“We can now push the next button on sustainability”
Last year, Raymond Nogael was promoted to President of MECATHERM. He shared the company’s strategy for development and sustainability, along with his perspective on the industry after 10 years with MECATHERM.
Continuous baking: Go with the flow!
The key to continuous baking success is in the oven. For biscuits, crackers and cakes, a steady, continuous production flow is ideal in high-volume operations.
Building a green brand
Green branding is a challenge, even for the baking industry. For credible green brand management, bakeries must take comprehensive and holistic measures in all areas of the company.
MULTIVAC system earns sustainability award
The MULTIVAC Cooling@Packing System is the winning Sustainable Packaging Machinery, a category of the Sustainable Packaging News Award. It is a vacuum application that integrates the cooling process for bakery products into the thermoforming packaging machine.
The medium is the message
Automating packaging and coding not only streamlines the process but also checks all of the boxes – efficiency and transparency, material traceability and sustainability.
A clear approach for a complex issue
Sustainable packaging in the bakery sector lies at the intersection between EU regulations and industry commitments.
“The key to sustainabilityis to think globally”
Sustainability is multi-layered and complicated, partly because it’s difficult to tackle the topic in isolation from other partners in the value chain. Germany’s largest baked goods manufacturer, Harry-Brot GmbH, found this to be true as it has been making strides with CO2 reduction, in-house and along the value chain for years. In this interview, Norbert Lötz, Managing Director of Production and Technology, talks about the challenges and obstacles on the way to sustainable baked goods production.
Harry Brot bakes first bread with low-carbon flour
Harry Brot baked sandwich bread with flour made from CO2-reduced wheat for the first time at its plant in Wiedemar. The wheat used has a 24%-lower CO2 footprint and is the result of a joint project between Harry-Brot, Yara Germany and the Bindewald & Gutting Mühlengruppe.
Fedima asks EU to approve EUDR postponement
While it recognizes the objectives of the EU Deforestation Regulation (EUDR) and the value of supporting sustainable and deforestation-free supply chains, Fedima asks the EU Commission to “swiftly postpone” EUDR implementation to give companies time to establish a feasible implementation process.
All together now!
The biggest organizations in the industry joined their efforts to formulate a shared vision regarding the essential role of bread production in Europe, for Europe.
