Archives for April 6, 2005

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Higher metal prices help boost Alcoa Q1

Alcoa has announced a significant jump in sales and profit for it first quarter on the back of strong steel prices, a sign that packaging costs will continue to impact many food and beverage producers, reports Simon Pitman.

Irish food agency ups salt slashing focus

Irish Consumers are still eating twice as much salt as they should be and bread is one of the biggest culprits, according to a new scientific report that recommends a UK-style labelling format and that food firms spend more money on developing new...

British poultry plant shifts to sustainable energy

A poultry plant in Norfolk, England, has installed a combination of pyrolysis and gasification technologies to process waste materials, the first time this combination of technologies has been used to provide this type of energy requirement, reports...