News & Analysis on the Bakery and Snacks Industries
A Singapore-based testing body, PSB Corporation, is spending Baht 30 million (€700,000) to make Thailand its Southeast Asian industrial testing laboratory centre, in a bid to increase food exports overseas.
Bemis Company, the global flexible packaging manufacturer, has completed the purchase of the Walki Films business of UPM-Kymmene for a cash price of approximately $68.5 million (€69.5m).
Hydro Aluminium of Norway has said that by the end of the year it expects to sell the flexible packaging operations it acquired in Germany during the take over of VAW Aluminium in January.
The humble egg box is to be given a new look in the UK in an effort to boost egg sales there and update the product's image. Promoted by the British Egg Industry Council, the new seven-cup boxes are designed to encourage consumers to take one a day.