Public confidence will be restored thanks to the reformation of the EU Common Fisheries Policy (CFP), effective January 1, according to The Food and Drink Federation (FDF).
Consumer demand for sustainability and a desire to conserve cost is helping drive the food industry’s ever-increasing interest in lightening up its packaging.
When packaging designers set out to deliver a customer’s wish list - performance and reliability are the chief concerns. But these days, everyone has sustainability, as a packaging objective, at the top of the list.
The University of Florida will further research to develop drought resistant peanuts – a big need for industry in light of extreme weather conditions, its lead crop physiologist says.
British Prime Minister, David Cameron, has tweeted congratulations to a firm which has had success with its cooking technology and will expand to the US.
Loma, inspection equipment supplier, which works with Unilever, McCain's, Nestlé and Cadbury’s, has expanded its QuickShip Program for customers who need machinery in time for their pre-Christmas orders.
Automation firm Novafill has patented a machine which fills several moving pots at once, unlike traditional static systems. The machine was shown for the first time at Europack Euromanut CFIA tradeshow in Lyon, France.
Systems Integration has sold its Integreater food software to JCS Fish, which supplies fresh and frozen salmon through its Big Fish brand and customers’ own labels.
The global Polylactic Acid (PLA) market is expected to reach $5.2bn by 2020, according to Allied Market Research (AMR), but the material still faces stiff competition from other products on the market such as PET and PVC and PE.
Olympus Automation has won a £1m ($1.6m) grant from the UK’s Technology Strategy Board (TSB) for its PDX technology, just weeks after a former Baker Perkins chief joined the company.
Kellogg is forging ahead with sustainability goals by offsetting half of the electricity use at its waffle plant in California using fuel cell technology, its chief sustainability officer says.
Thanks to affordable manufacturing labor and increased demand for Latin-flavored foods, Mexico is becoming an attractive locale for processing and packaging firms.
