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Asia Pacific: Infor shares ways digital transformation help food factories stay ahead
Digital transformation is a topic well overdone.
But little is actually understood of the topic, especially when contextualized within the food and beverage (F&B)...
World: Frutarom buys stake in start-up for US$2.6M
Frutarom Industries will invest NIS 10 million (US$2.6 million) in exchange for the allocation of 50% of Algalo shares to build a modern biotechnology...
Europe: EFSA awards duo for app
Loana Furcoi and Roberto Capuano have won first prize with 'EFSA to the people', an app that uses optical character recognition technology to perform...
Americas: Detecting food allergens on-the-go
Researchers have developed a portable allergen-detection system, including a keychain analyzer, for consumers on the go, reports the journal ACS Nano.
Most people with food...
Americas: Team wins competition for cold boxes for rental
A team of MIT and Harvard University students won the first-ever MIT Food and Agribusiness Innovation Prize for smart, modular, refrigerated shipping boxes that...
Americas: Palsgaard ahead of CO2-neutrality goal in Mexico
Palsgaard's Mexican branch celebrated having achieved carbon dioxide (CO2)-neutrality in 2016 recently.
In 2016, the company achieved CO2-neutrality at its headquarters and largest production site...
Europe: Optimizing plant performance with new service, Tetra Pak
The newly launched Tetra Pak Plant Secure is a total plant management service that is poised to boost customer profitability.
Ian Hughes, director service operations,...
Europe: DTU project to study consumer traffic in food court
By monitoring mobile phones searching for Wi-Fi signals, students from the Technical University of Denmark (DTU) are testing a tracking system to show how...
Europe: Sensor technology on shelf life of fish
A sensor that can register smoke from a fire can also be used to register even the faintest odor of bad fish.
This is...
Asia Pacific: GEA on building an earthquake-proof plant
GEA has built a whole milk drying plant for Fonterra in earthquake zone Pahiatua in New Zealand that produces at 15 tons/hour and is designed to...