New training facility aims to drive food sector innovation

Food production daily: "A recently opened UK university based food packaging and processing training factory, supported by equipment manufacturers and organisations, is aimed at food sector employees.

The £3.5m National Centre for Food Manufacturing at the University of Lincoln’s Holbeach campus will offer training opportunities from tailored short courses to degree programmes for staff at all levels in the food processing industry, claims its Dean, Val Braybrooks.

She said that the Centre will also support the university in its efforts to further research and innovation in the area of food packaging and processing automation"