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BETTER PLANT, BETTER PRODUCTIVITY, BETTER PROFIT FEBRUARY 2015 FOOD PROCESSING New packaging lines for United Biscuits How to save on energy costs The changing face of retail w w w . f p o n t h e n e t . n e t 33837837 - FPFP FFeb15eb15 EEdn.indddn.indd 1 229/01/20159/01/2015 112:552:55 DELIVERING THE SOLUTION Let’s prove it... The Spiroflow Test Centre is at the heart of everything we do. “ It’s in the Test Centre where we demonstrate the optimum conveyor, bulk bag discharger or filler for any food application. We like nothing more than finding the solution for a difficult ingredient. Proving that our equipment works, on the most challenging of particulate materials, enables customers to place their orders with confidence - knowing it’s the right solution. ” Terry Mason Test Centre Manager Flexible Screw Aero Mechanical Tubular Drag Conveyors Conveyors Conveyors Vacuum Bulk Bag Bulk Bag Conveyors Fillers Dischargers T: +44 (0) 1200 422525 E: [email protected] www.spiroflow.com 33837837 - FPFP FFeb15eb15 EEdn.indddn.indd 2 229/01/20159/01/2015 112:552:55 FOOD PROCESSING Contents February 2015 Vol 84 No 02 All change for retail? CASE STUDY VISION SYSTEMS 4 Dalco Food installs vegetarian 18 Inspection cure for drink processors dough mixture solution The problems at Tesco seemed insurmountable last year: an accounting ACRYLAMIDE scandal, falling prices and consumers QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS 20 The big debate turning away in their droves towards 6 New EHEDG section for UK and discount retailers. But January has seen Ireland HEATING + VENTILATION something of a turning point with new 22 Substantial payback for RHI CEO Dave Lewis implementing a series NEWS of strategic changes that have been 8 Fit to trade? warmly received by both the market and REGULATORY ISSUES industry. Lewis has hired a new PR team, 24 Are you prepared for workplace SECTOR FOCUS: UNITED incidents? announced closures of under-performing BISCUITS stores and launching an online network 10 New fl ow-wrap technology for for suppliers that will enable businesses Harlesden ENERGY MANAGEMENT to interact with the retailer. Shares in the 26 Producing more for less retail giant have already risen, although they are nowhere near the CHOCOLATE ROASTING 13 What’s involved? SKILLS numbers that Tesco used 29 A one stop solution? to enjoy. 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DALCO FOOD SPECIALISES in developing “Mixing“Mixing in nitrogennitrogen is a goodgood way of and producing meat and vegetarian meal quickly chillingchilling mixtures to the ideal components. A family run business, the processingprocessing temperature of approximately company has been operating for over 35 -2°C,”-2°C,” says van den Hanenberg.Hanenberg. years. “Since“Since installinginstalling the technology,technology, The company faced a problem with its productsproducts holdhold theirtheir shapeshape better,better, vegetarian dough mixture, prior to being soso we waste lessless food.food. If thethe formed. A dough that is too hot is sloppy, mixturemixture isis sloppy,sloppy, more can’t hold its shape and in the case of Dalco Food, can stick to the forming plate, resulting in unnecessary waste. Without the time to spare to store the dough in a cold chamber prior to forming, and the addition of ice water proving insufficient, the company sought a new solution. Dalco Food are now able to quickly of it remains stuck to the forming plate, but to any new mixer as well as retrofitted to an and easily set their mixture to the that is a thing of the past now and this existing one. ideal temperature and texture means a saving of two per cent for us.” By fitting the liquid nitrogen injection Freshline® LIN-IS is a cooling method that solution to the mixers, Dalco Food are now injects liquid nitrogen continuously or at able to quickly and easily set their mixture “We are processing more and more intervals through nozzles that are fitted in to the ideal temperature and texture. The vegetarian products and to form them the bottom of any type of mixer, helping to accurate and replicable temperature properly, we had to find another way of chilling control product temperature, prevent control of the dough ensures that the them,” explains Stefan van den Hanenberg, microbial growth and increase throughput. It forming step is successful, increasing the Director of Operations at Dalco Food. “You is widely used by meat, fish, fruit rate at which products can be can chill meat by mixing it with a frozen and vegetables, dairy, ready made and reducing waste product, but you can’t do that with vegetarian meals and prepared food by two per cent. goods. They consist largely of dry ingredients processors globally as “We’ve been such as soya, wheat and herbs, to which we the temperature working with Dalco add ice water, which gives a mixture with a control solution is Food for over 20 temperature of approximately 7°C.” adaptable and years, so the The company selected Air Products’ programmable to team know that Freshline® Liquid Nitrogen Injection Solution numerous food they can trust (LIN-IS) to optimise its product forming types, the advice that process. The process rapidly cools the depending on our specialists vegetarian dough mixture prior to formation, their offer, as well as which optimises its forming process and composition, rely on our increases throughput. Dalco Food has a starting products and long-standing relationship with Air Products, temperature and distribution utilising their freezing and modified desired end network,” says Ann atmosphere packaging technology and gases temperature. The Callens, Food Manager at since 1996. equipment can also be fitted Air Products. Feb 15 | Food Processing 4 www.fponthenet.net 33837837 - FPFP FFeb15eb15 EEdn.indddn.indd 4 229/01/20159/01/2015 112:552:55 Limited number of places at our FREE SAFETY. DEPENDABILITY. Technology & ContactsRelay Life Cycle seminar . 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Internet www.wago.com 33837837 - FPFP FFeb15eb15 EEdn.indddn.indd 5 229/01/20159/01/2015 112:552:55 OPINION QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS The who, what, where and why of EHEDG UK & Ireland After 26 years, the European Hygienic Engineering and Design Group has a dedicated regional section that covers the UK and Ireland. Andy Buchan, EHEDG UK and Ireland representative and MD of ACO Building Drainage, considers the role of the new regional section and the benefits it will bring to the UK and Irish food sector. THE EUROPEAN HYGIENIC ENGINEERING advantage or profit. Its reach spans across 55 have the resources or expertise to run their own AND DESIGN GROUP (EHEDG) is a not-for- countries and in a global industry which is in-house technical departments, but they still profit organisation set up to improve hygienic dealing with increasing demand for pre- need access to globally recognised, market- engineering and design across the food and prepared foods and a reduction in the use of leading knowledge and research in order to drinks industry for all aspects of manufacturing preservatives, its work in hygienic design has improve their own standards and to compete.