Harrogate, UK: Bettys Craft Bakery has put two electric temperature-controlled vans into its fleet. Bettys Craft Bakery is part of Bettys & Taylors Group, a family business running Yorkshire Tea, Taylors of Harrogate, and Bettys Café Tea Rooms. Prohire’s vehicle hire and alternative fuels division, ProGreen, provided the vehicles with bodies built by Bespoke Bodies. …
Reading, UK: The proposed Border Target Operating Model, planned to start at the end of April, will jeopardise the UK’s food supply chain, warns the Cold Chain Federation. It has written to Defra Secretary Steve Barclay, arguing that the government’s plan for full border checks for imports from the EU poses a major challenge to …
Dubai, UAE: Consultant Thomas Eskesen, who worked for Maersk for 30 years, has been appointed chair of the Join the Move to -15 deg C, according to RAC Plus. The initiative is designed to build up a coalition of companies in favour of storing frozen food at -15 deg C, rather than the lower temperature …
Market Drayton, UK: Thomas van Mourik, chief executive, Culina Group, for the past 30 years is to step down, reports Motor Transport. Van Mourik will become group chairman from October, a part-time position. Ian Smith, the current chief executive of the chilled business unit, will take over from van Mourik. Steve Winwood will become chief …
Wincanton, UK: The Wincanton board of directors is backing a £762m takeover offer from GXO in the latest twist in a bidding war for the company. Wincanton said that directors intended to recommend unanimously an offer of 605p a share made by GXO. As a result, the board is withdrawing its support for an “increased …
Lusaka, Zambia: Transaid supporters Samworth Brothers Supply Chain, and Fagan and Whalley, have donated two trucks to boost driver training in Zambia. The trucks were serviced and fitted with the cameras and telematics systems, donated by Brigade Electronics and Microlise, to help Transaid train hundreds of new and existing truck drivers in Zambia as part …
Easton Properties Limited, part of the wider Sadel Group, has submitted plans to regenerate part of the brownfield site off Burton Lane in South Kesteven. The plans outline the intention to bring food production back to the area with a modern food production facility and supporting facilities to enable both food waste reduction and the …
Sherborne, UK: Hunt’s Food Group has taken delivery of its first tractor fitted with Carrier Transicold’s Eco-Drive and three 15.5m variable deck longer-trailers, all with Carrier Vector HE 19 MT fridges. The addition of the new Gray & Adams trailers means that 12 of the company’s 13 trailers are Carrier-cooled. Hunt’s can carry more payload …
Fraserburgh, Scotland: David Duguid, Banff and Buchan MP, is backing Gray & Adams’ call for a law change to allow wider refrigerated trailers in the UK. Gray & Adams has developed new corner caps for its latest trailers but their use exceeds the 2.6m overall refrigerated trailer width limit. There is no change in the …
Hemel Hempstead, UK: Sysco is to open a new 475,000 sq ft warehouse in Hemel Hempstead in 2026 at a cost of $100m (£79m). Sysco, which owns Brakes, will be adapting a former Amazon site to make it suitable for foodservice operations, including the introduction of frozen and chilled areas. The new site will be …
Reading, UK: The Cold Chain Federation has today published the Cold Chain Manifesto ahead of this year’s General Election. Cold Chain: The Vital Link to Turbocharging UK Growth & Security sets out the actions the next government should take to help unlock the great potential of the UK’s temperature-controlled logistics industry. The federation is asking UK political …
Lydney, UK: Jones Food Company, which runs the world’s largest vertical farm, has installed Carrier AquaSnap air-cooled scroll chillers to provide cooling and heating. The vertical farm, the size of seventy tennis courts, has 148,000sq feet of growing space for stacking crops 15 layers high, and is expected to supply 1,000 tonnes of fresh produce …
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