News & Analysis on the Bakery and Snacks Industries
The UK firm behind technology that gives salt a far greater kick by making it re-crystallise into tiny hollow balls a fraction of the size of standard salt - has started to make waves across the Pond.
US company Selig Sealing Products has bought Swiss speciality packaging firm ISCO Jacques Schindler and Co as part of a strategy to gain a foothold in the European flexible packaging market.
Accelerated demand from emerging markets, shrewd management of raw material price hikes and favourable currency translations all contributed to a “solid” performance in 2010, said Huhtamaki.
The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) has deregulated a variety of Syngenta corn genetically engineered (GE) to produce alpha-amylase, an enzyme that breaks down starch into sugar, thereby aiding biofuel production.