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Issue

June 2012

Regulars:

  • Editorial comment
  • News round up
  • Products, packs promotions
  • Ingredients news
  • Processing & packaging news
  • Diary
  • Confectioner’s comment… Mark Stone, director of Hisaki Snacks

Features:

  • Balance the challenge
  • Gentle and smart forming
  • Searching for the ideal extruder
  • Boosting automation
  • Private label vs brand names
  • Fat tax for UK
  • Whey to go
  • The need to be certified
  • The ideal agent
Issue

May 2012

Regulars:

  • Editorial comment
  • News round up
  • Products, packs promotions
  • Ingredients news
  • Processing & packaging news
  • Diary
  • Confectioner’s comment… Jeremy Dee, commercial director of Swizzels Matlow

Features:

  • Solving a sticky problem
  • Taking a closer look
  • A place for every gum base
  • Labelling laws
  • Ingredients for sweets
  • Keeping it consistent
  • All in one
Issue

April 2012

Regulars

  • Editorial comment
  • News round up
  • Ingredients new
  • Processing & packaging news
  • Products, packs and promotions
  • Confectioner’s comment… Dan Lawson, managing director of Kopiko UK

 

Features

  • Cadmium in chocolate row
  • An alternative to albumen
  • Foam stable colours and flavours
  • Is just-in-time always enough
  • Natural desires
  • Making bubbles
  • What happens to cocoa
  • The daily grind
  • How do conveyors cope?
Issue

March 2012

Regulars:

  • Editorial comment
  • News round up
  • Products, packs promotions
  • Ingredients news
  • Processing & packaging news
  • Diary
  • Confectioner’s comment… Pekka Rantala, managing director of bakeries and confectionery at Fazer

Features:

  • Acting against child labour
  • International growth at ProSweets
  • Ingredient innovations
  • Under refurb
  • A sweet solution
  • Rheology in chocolate production
  • Toffee with D-tagatose
  • The future of packaging
Issue

February 2012

Regulars:

  • Editorial comment
  • News round up
  • Products, packs promotions
  • Ingredients news
  • Processing & packaging news
  • Diary
  • Confectioner’s comment… Sara Jayne Stanes OBE, chairman of the Academy of Chocolate

Features:

  • A sweet recipe
  • The ingredients conference
  • The perfect polish
  • Keeping your temper
  • Lifting the curtain on enrobers
  • Sucrose esters: more than an emulsifier
  • Wrap it up
  • The art of chocolate
  • The cost of confectionery

 

Issue

December 2011/January 2012

Regulars:

  • Editorial comment
  • News round up
  • Products, packs promotions
  • Ingredients news
  • Processing & packaging news
  • Diary
  • Confectioner’s comment… Vince Shiers, director of recall and crisis management consultancy, RQA Europe

Features:

  • EU sugar quotas to go
  • The sour side of sweets
  • Tasty times ahead
  • Complex conching
  • Cool melting confectionery
  • Getting creative
  • Supplier profiles
Issue

November 2011

Regulars:

  • Editorial comment
  • News round up
  • Products, packs promotions
  • Ingredients news
  • Processing & packaging news
  • Diary
  • Confectioner’s comment… Alex Hutchinson, heritage manager of UK & Ireland, Nestle

Features:

  • FiE favourites
  • Flavour creations
  • Counting confections
  • Achieving chocolate consistency
  • CBEs and bloom formation
  • Cooking up confections
  • Candy focus
  • Au naturel
  • Alkalisation of cocoa
Issue

October 2011

Regulars:

  • Editorial comment
  • News round up
  • Products, packs promotions
  • Ingredients news
  • Processing & packaging news
  • Diary
  • Confectioner’s comment… Peter Meadows, marketing director of UK & Europe, California Raisins

Features:

  • Africa’s chocolate meltdown
  • Snack attack
  • Popping up everywhere
  • Winners and losers of EFSA’s health claim rulings
  • Creating value added brands
  • Going wild
  • Ideal inclusions
  • The healthier option
  • Caramelisation
Issue

September 2011

Regulars:

  • Editorial comment
  • News round up
  • Products, packs promotions
  • Ingredients news
  • Diary
  • Confectioner’s comment… Judith Murdoch, marketing controller at AAK

Features:

  • The new board
  • Fat based fillings
  • EFSA completes health claim assessments
  • Candy in focus
  • Chinese bakeries
  • The sweet smell of automation
  • Sugar confectionery- an overview
  • Essential oils
  • Taking the biscuit
  • A way with wafers
  • Making bakery fillings healthier
  • The hardest part of a good filling
  • Go with the floe
  • Crystallisation of cocoa butter
Issue

July/August 2011

Regulars:

  • Editorial comment
  • News round up
  • Products, packs promotions
  • Ingredients news
  • Diary
  • Confectioner’s comment… Solange Isidoro, vice president of Abicab

Features:

  • Fat reduction in chocolate
  • In the bag
  • New playing field
  • Sustainable seaweeds
  • Agar Agar
  • What’s cooking
  • Stevia success
  • Colourful candy
  • Crystallising confections
  • Mogul mechanisms
Issue

June 2011

Regulars:

  • Editorial comment
  • News round up
  • Products, packs promotions
  • Ingredients news
  • Diary
  • Confectioner’s comment… Philip Briscoe, marketing manager of Helveta

Features:

  • Good things come in small packages
  • Extruder stable colours
  • Explaining extruders
  • Weighing in & checking out
  • Choosing the right starch
  • reasons for robotics
  • Mix it up
  • Staying ahead of the pack

 

Issue

May 2011

Regulars:

  • Editorial comment
  • News round up
  • Products, packs promotions
  • Ingredients news
  • Diary
  • Confectioner’s comment…Frank Homann, CEO of Xoco

Features:

  • EU fights sugar shortages
  • Polyols in gum
  • New fashions in chewing gum panning
  • A line of many talents
  • Toothfriendly confectionery
  • Willy Wonka chewing gum
  • Physical operations in confectionery
  • Working together for a healthy future
Issue

April 2011

Regulars:

  • Editorial comment
  • News round up
  • Products, packs promotions
  • Ingredients news
  • Diary
  • Confectioner’s comment… Damian Allsopp, owner of Damian Allsop Chocolates

Features:

  • The nitty gritty
  • All about chocolate
  • Promoting a sustainable cocoa economy
  • Bean to bar cocoa processing
  • Quality control of CBEs
  • Moving forward
  • Rheological properties of chocolate
  • Interpack preview
Issue

March 2011

Regulars:

  • Editorial comment
  • News round up
  • Products, packs promotions
  • Ingredients news
  • Processing & packaging news
  • Diary
  • Confectioner’s comment… Sam Bompas & Harry Parr, founders of Bompas & Parr

Features:

  • New ideas generated at 41st ISM
  • Fixed flavours
  • Fruit and nutty inclusions
  • Aerating the facts
  • Dealing with chocolate
  • Russian packaging trends
  • The importance of rheology in confectionery industries
  • Speedier coatings
Issue

February 2011

Regulars:

  • Editorial comment
  • News round up
  • Products, packs promotions
  • Ingredients news
  • Diary
  • Confectioner’s comment… Peter Grothues, ISM, Koelnmesse

Features:

  • Regulation roundup
  • Sweet expansion
  • Working towards health
  • Global guidance on chocolate testing
  • Milking it
  • All aspects of chocolate
  • The future of moulds
  • Nutritional aspects of cocoa
  • Re-branded wrapping
  • Characterisation of confectionery
Issue

December 10/January 11

Regulars:

  • Editorial comment
  • News round up
  • Products, packs promotions
  • Ingredients news
  • Diary
  • Confectioner’s comment… Sabine Nafziger, secretary general of Caobisco

Features:

  • An optimistic icy perspective
  • State of play
  • Flowing freely
  • A vision of robotics
  • Supplier profiles

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