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**Business need** As the UK's largest manufacturing sector, the food manufacturing industry represents £104bn \[_great.gov.uk,2024_\]. Its supply-chains are fraught with inefficiencies, resulting in significant food waste/CO2e/cost. The industry produces ~1.4m tonnes of food waste yearly \[_WRAP,2023_\], accounting for up to 10% of manufacturers' costs \[...

Dairy production and processing are key industries for many rural areas in western Britain, converting human inedible feeds into valuable components of healthy varied diets and contributing to the sustainability of rural communities. Dairy production has the lowest carbon footprint of all of the ruminant production systems that can utilise the UK's grassl...

The LHOFT Project - Liverpool - Humber Optimisation of Freight Transport uniquely brings together the combined strength of a major cargo owner (Unilever) the two key port operators at each end of the M62 corridor (ABP on the Humber and Peel Ports on the Mersey) to combine with experts from the rail industry to input into a study lead by the University of ...

Coffee is the most valuable and widely traded tropical agricultural product. Global consumption has almost doubled in the last 40 years and is forecast to reach 9.09 m tonnes by 2019. Roasting and afterburning processes use roughly 11.2x10(12) kJ fuel energy/year. In coffee bean roasting processes only 40% of energy used adds value to the final product wi...

This project is will deliver a step change to the capability of milk processing technology at Nestlé. It will deliver consistent high quality output, irrespective of the specification of the incoming milk. The Nestlé plant at Dalston in Cumbria has developed a number of innovative processes to produce a variety of milk powder based products. A key element...