The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) is requesting additional data from the food industry on the use of sucrose esters derived from fatty acids (E473), a food additive used in baked goods and flavoured drinks.
Plastics machinery manufacturer Kiefel has partnered with start-up company, watttron on the research and development of the industrial molding of plastics.
GEA plans to extend its portfolio following its acquisition of Pavan Group in Italy, which supplies extrusion and milling technology for processing pasta, snacks and breakfast cereals.
Duravant has acquired Ohlson Packaging, a weighing, counting and filling machine manufacturer, whose clients include Frito-Lay, Hershey’s, Kraft Foods, Tyson Foods and Maple Leaf Foods.
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Piab has developed a customized suction cup, which can pick up thin and brittle food items such as sheets of pasta used in lasagna or thin slices of cracker bread.
Tipa has seen growing success with its recyclable packaging, working with Sheffa Foods, Lamb Farm Kitchen, Question Coffee, VitalBulk and Reuseit, and has now expanded in the US.
FriPura, which makes filters to reduce calories and harmful chemicals in deep-fat frying processing, has been recognised at The Caterer Product Excellence Awards.
TricorBraun packaging firm has acquired Taipak, a flexible packaging provider based in Canada – its first foray into flexible packaging in its 100-year history.
tna has opened TNA Solutions service support centre in Shanghai, China, and set up a Chinese website for its brochures, product sell sheets, demo videos, technical white papers and blogs.
Graphic Packaging International and Graphic Packaging International Canada have agreed to acquire Seydaco Packaging Corp and its affiliates National Carton and Coating Co., and Groupe Ecco Boites Pliantes Ltée.
Klöckner Pentaplast Group (KPG) has launched a kp i.center in Spain featuring a Multivac MAP (Modified Atmosphere Package) and Erca Dairy Line and plans to expand with more equipment to follow.
ConfectioneryNews speaks to Peter Dreßler, head of sales for bar production at Bosch Packaging Technology, to find out what bar manufacturers want in today's industry.
Italian food company Barilla is expanding its Cucina Barilla system, which uses RFID (Radio-Frequency Identification) tags to operate an oven for preparing and baking pasta, risottos, bread, pizza, focaccia and cakes.
PepsiCo is hosting an interactive session at the AIPIA Congress 2017, asking the Association’s members to come up with their best ideas for packaging formats for PepsiCo brands, incorporating Active and Intelligent Packaging and technologies.
Almost 60% of the European plastics converting companies find it hard or very hard to get a supply of rPM (recycled plastics materials) in an acceptable quality, according to the European Plastics Converters Association (EuPC).
McCain Foods (Canada) has officially opened its $65m potato specialty production line, expanding its potato processing facility in Florenceville-Bristol, New Brunswick.
Smartrac has launched the Midas FlagTag, an RFID (radio-frequency identification) tag for consumer food and beverage goods and industrial components with metallic, plastic and cardboard surfaces.
Mimica is developing an award-winning food expiry label called Mimica Touch (formerly Bump Mark) that claims to disrupt the food packaging industry and challenge the impact of food waste.
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Amcor Flexibles Americas (AFA), which supplies flexible packaging for bread, dairy, confectionery, snacks and coffee, has implemented a 5-10% price increase on its products.
FoodArt, which imports almonds, cashew nuts, peanuts, dates, prunes, raisins and cranberries, is planning to increase production following a partnership with Ishida.
BillerudKorsnäs has released the results of its Packaging Sustainability consumer panel to find out what consumers think about packaging around the world.
SnowValley Agricultural Group and Aviko Group have launched a joint partnership to open a $177m French fry potato processing facility, in Zhangjiakou, China, in September next year.
tna has launched tna intelli-flav 5, a closed loop slurry mixing and spraying system in response to demand for shorter production runs with regular flavor changes.
