Post on 15-Jul-2020
A new Government and policy landscape supporting growth in the Food Industry
November 2015
Largest UK Manufacturing sector
400,000+ Employees
£12bn – 77% to Europe
Food
& Drink
50 – 60% UK Farm Production
6,000+ Businesses £76.2 bn Turnover
The UK Food and Beverage Manufacturing industry
A need to step up to the plate
A need to step up to the plate
The Complexity of the Funding Landscape
PPP Government
RCUK IUK Industry
Size Consumer need
THE FUNDING LANDSCAPE: FILLING BUCKETS AND EMPTYING BUCKETS
A safe, secure food manufacturing supply chain
A resource efficient food manufacturing supply chain
An innovative, resilient food supply chain for the 21st century populations
Redesigning the food supply chain: choosing and producing healthy, nutritious and sustainable food
• Food Processing for Enhanced Food Function - Fundamental understanding of the soft matter and physics of food structuring and how it can predict the retention and delivery of key nutrients including the triggered release of micro-nutrients in the GI tract and the design of low energy density foods.
• Manufactured Food Systems – Foods designed for nutritional value, optimal nutrient delivery and palatability through a better understanding of the interplay between food components and the manufacturing processes in order to engineer sustainable processes to create food structure fit for purpose.
• Simulation of the Food Creation Process - Modelling to understand the more efficient use of ingredients/food materials – particularly in the context of novel food sources and processing, for example turning fermented proteins into textured foods with both improved sensory characteristics and high consumer acceptability.
Redesigning the food supply chain: choosing and producing healthy, nutritious and sustainable food
• Structuring foods to increase their acceptability. This would require multidisciplinary working to link a wide range of triggers or physical parameters within the food, its packaging and presentation to the perceived and physical changes in the consumer’s acceptance or enjoyment of the food/drink product.
• Further areas would include mapping of behaviour drivers, their variability within society and between individuals and how the UK population maps onto a global environment and how these paradigms may change in the future. This may include issues related to both access to food, and foods personalised for preference or need,
necessitating new manufacturing paradigms and supply chains.
• These studies would also complete the circle of the food economy linking consumer and population behaviour to the future challenges of manufacturing i.e. utilising low energy food production and distribution, distributed (local) manufacture, low moisture structure control with late stage hydration, low moisture intermediates for late stage customisation, alternative materials for process unit operation design, with cleaning and process safety of continuing importance.
• How can the fat, sugar, preservative and salt content of foods be reduced while ensuring that palatability is maintained, waste is minimised, and food remains safe and does not spoil?
• How can primary food production be sustainably intensified whilst maintaining or enhancing the nutritional value of those food items?
Opportunities for future research funding were seen under three general headings of ‘Production’ (including safety, nutrition and sustainability), ‘Manufacture’ and ‘Behaviour’
Current thinking from the RCUK GFS working group on ‘Priority Research Questions for the UK Food System’ and the KTN / FDF ‘Priorities for collaborative pre-competitive research’
An attempt
Navigation
Collaborative Frameworks
Harmonise and simplify negotiation of intellectual
assets to facilitate collaborative strategic
applied R&D
What can / should we learn from?
• ITAL
• NZ
• Bord Bia
• Campden BRI
EPSRC Centre for Innovative Manufacturing in Food
£5.6m to be spent on Research Started 1st December 2013
Prof Tim Foster, Prof Shahin Rahimifard and Prof Ian Norton
Biomaterials Group Centre for Sustainable Manufacturing and Recycling / Reuse Technologies:
SMART
Centre for Formulation Engineering
Who are we?
Innovative manufacturing activities from ‘post-farm gate to supermarket shelf’, and the implications on Resource Efficiency and Sustainable Production • Innovative materials, products and processes • Sustainable food supply and manufacture
• Creating 38 new jobs • Creating THOUGHT LEADERS of the future
What are we doing?
A safe, secure food manufacturing supply chain
A resource efficient food manufacturing supply chain
An innovative, resilient food supply chain for the 21st century populations
Sustainable Food Supply
Chain
Eco-Food
manufacturing
Food manufacturing
for healthy diets and lifestyles
New flexible
manufacturing processes
Upgrading of
ingredients
New processing
technologies
HEFCE National Centre of Excellence for Food Engineering
Dr Martin Howarth
Thermo-dynamics/fluid
analysis
Process improvement & lean operations
Robotics, automation &
logistics
Packaging materials,
electronics and design
Electronics, sensing
Logistics & Supply Chain Management
Sheffield Hallam University’s contribution to the sector’s priority areas
Campden BRI
RAW RESOURCES INTERMEDIATES (fibres, polymers, metals, other)
PRODUCTS SERVICES
R&D Design Make Sell R&D Design Make Sell R&D Design Make Sell R&D Design Make Sell
Biomaterial Processing
Process Engineering
Consumer Science
An Integrated Approach Agri-FOOD
Value Added Materials Innovative 21st Century
Manufacturing
Deep seated understanding of consumer behaviour
and digestion
Reaching out nationally
Brunel University
Sheffield Hallam (Cof E) Liverpool Uni
PepsiCo
Unilever
Advanced Microwave Technologies
CR&D
Dairy Crest
Devro
Martec
Melton Foods
Molson Coors
Nestle
CPI
Premier Foods
Purnhouse Farm
United Biscuits
Uni of Strathclyde
Moy Park
Weetabix
Greencore Mondelez
WJFG
MTC
Global 78
RCA
M&S
Teagasc
Bakkavor Alvan Blanch
Britest Croda
Diageo
Fit to the UK Manufacturing landscape
National Formulation Centre
Knowledge and Innovation Providers
Translators Industry
THOUGHT LEADERS OF THE FUTURE