News & Analysis on the Bakery and Snacks Industries
Austrian company Frantschach, a market leader in northern Europe in flexible packaging for deep-frozen foods, bread and poultry products - has acquired a majority stake in Danish packaging company Neoplex.
The PPMA sponsored Starpack Award has gone to Field Packaging Systems, UK, for the process technology in its carton erecting system for After Eight mints.
The Food Safety Authority of Ireland has said that it is about to undertake a consultation period for the European Community's proposed new regulation to govern food products in relation to nutrition and health claims.
Northampton-based packaging firm Boxes Prestige has won the packaging business of the year award at the UK's national Starpack Awards.
Biscuit manufacturer Lu Polska, which is part of the French-based Danone Group, is to close down its production plant in Jaroslaw, Poland. The closure will result in the loss of 500 jobs.
Eating in between mealtimes is fundamentally ingrained in Europeans' eating habits, claims a new report.
Europe is a continent of snackers, and eating between meals is set to grow there over the next five years. The challenge now for manufacturers is to turn the oft-maligned snack into an integral part of the daily diet as meal occasions continue to change.
Engineers at the Russian company Izobretatel in Moscow have designed and patented a new device for rapid and cost-effective analysis of the consistency of various food- and non-foodstuffs for future standardised replication.