News & Analysis on the Bakery and Snacks Industries
Crown Holdings has developed a new heat-sealed peelable lid for mackerel fillets. Once the preserve of beverage manufacturers, the ring pull is increasingly being used in food applications to meet consumer demands for convenience.
This year's Foodex Meatex exhibition - which the organisers believe could be the most successful yet - promises to showcase the latest innovations in meat processing. A quick look at a couple of planned product launches suggests that a wide variety of...
Plant closures and 'competitive pressures?saw profits slide for US sugar giant Imperial Sugar despite a rise in operating income for the first quarter. Global sugar surplus keeps the prices down and competition up.
A new weighing and recording system designed specifically to track bulk materials such as food ingredients has been launched by international weighing and bagging specialist Chronos Richardson.
A strain of swine flu containing gene segments from birds and humans as well as from pigs is sweeping across North America. Now scientists in the US have developed a process called reverse genetics to try and combat the spread of yet another virus...
The market for functional food products has grown steadily for several years now, focusing primarily on the dairy sector. But other sectors of the food industry, such as bakery and snacks, are beginning to see more functional products filtering...
A small Canadian milling company has found a novel way of creating more value from its by-products - by tapping into the growing craze for low carbohydrate products made popular by the Atkins Diet.