Processing
Find out the best practices, methods, technologies and equipment to produce winning products.
Europe: WRAP lists five recommendations to cut food waste
The Waste & Resources Action Programme (WRAP) estimates that an increase of just one day on product life across a range of foods could...
Asia Pacific: Callebaut Chocolate Academy center relocates in India
The Barry Callebaut Group has opened its relocated Callebaut Chocolate Academy center and sales office in Mumbai, India.
The center and sales office has...
Europe: PerkinElmer to buy Perten Instruments for €50M
PerkinElmer, Inc. says it will acquire Perten Instruments Group AB, a global leading supplier of advanced analytical instruments for quality control of food, grain,...
Americas: Fonterra finds record export volumes in December
Fonterra Co-operative Group confirms new record for a month’s volume, with more than 300,000 mt shipped to its global markets in December 2015.
The month's...
Europe: Sugar replacer offers possibilities for chewing gum
Beneo showcased its new Isomalt translucent gum coating technology for the first time at ISM 2016 in Cologne, Germany recently.
This coating process enables chewing...
World: Nestlé builds US$120M factory in Dubai
Nestlé is investing US$120 million in a manufacturing facility in Dubai to produce coffee and culinary products and cater for rising demand throughout the...
Americas: Mettler Toledo releases whitepaper on efficient retail backroom processes
The manufacturing industry has spent decades developing management methods to keep production facilities competitive.
Retailers can apply this know-how to their meat-department backrooms in order...
Asia Pacific: Australian US$12M smokehouse gets resin floor from Flowcrete
The Australian food manufacturing design specialist Wiley specified a high performance resin floor from Flowcrete for a US$12 million smokehouse.
The flooring project at the...
Asia Pacific: Veolia wins Indonesian wastewater contract
PT Veolia Water Technologies Indonesia has won a contract to design and build a wastewater treatment system integrated into a new greenfield oleochemical production...
Americas: USDA offers US$30M in grants to food businesses, entrepreneurs
The USDA is making US$30 million available to farmers, ranchers and food entrepreneurs to develop new product lines through the Value-Added Producer Grant (VAPG)...