News & Analysis on the Bakery and Snacks Industries
Italian company CGTI, Classica Group Technologies, subsidiary of the Classica Group, is to supply Nestle's Nestec product technology centre in Switzerland with a microwave heat processing system.
Phillip Townsend Associates (PTAI) has indicated that Styrenic Resins, which is widely used for packaging within the food and beverage industries, will becoming an increasingly important material in the future.
A new brand of organic bread has been launched in Belgium which will also help protect the environment via a link up with the Belgium arm of the Worldwide Fund for Nature (WWF).
Pall Corporation, the leading US filtration, separation and purification provider, has reported a drop in both sales and profits for the third quarter and nine months of fiscal 2002, which ended April 27, 2002.
A 24-ounce insulated beverage cup, produced by the DIXIE Foodservice Business of Georgia-Pacific Corporation, has been named the "Best of the Best" in the US Foodservice & Packaging Institute's single-use foodservice packaging awards competition.
The UK government has expressed "cautious optimism" that fish factories put into receivership by the financial problems of the Albert Fisher Group can be saved.
In the US Tyson Foods has announced an agreement to sell one of its two Mallard's Foods processing plants in Modesto, California to Michael Angelo's Gourmet Foods of Austin, Texas.
In the US, farmer-owned Farmland Industries and subsidiary Farmland Foods have announced plans to rebuild their pork processing plant located in Albert Lee, Minnesota.
In the US Bake-Line Group, a leading supplier of private label cookies and crackers, has purchased Turnbull Bakeries, a Tennessee-based private label manufacturer of biscuit and wafer products.