Innovation
Americas: CrownSmart engages consumers with cans
Crown Holdings and Zappar have released CrownSmart to deliver augmented reality (AR) to brands and consumers, as well as other services like gaming, couponing...
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: Sealed Air division partners on food safety systems
Sealed Air's division, Diversey Care partners with food safety management company iCertainty to allow customers to gain business insights for reducing food safety risk,...
Asia Pacific: Cornell receives US$4.8M to develop GE eggplant in region
To strengthen capacity to develop and disseminate genetically engineered (GE) eggplant in Bangladesh and the Philippines, the US Agency for International Development (USAID) has...
Americas: Researchers discover tomato waste generates electricity
A team of scientists is exploring damaged tomatoes that are unsuitable for sale at the grocery store as a source of energy.
Their pilot project...
Asia Pacific: Tetra Pak receives manufacturing award from Japanese institute
Tetra Pak’s packaging material factory in Gornji Milanovac, Serbia, has received the world’s top award for manufacturing excellence.
Presented by the Japan Institute of Plant...
Europe: ‘Coffee Selfies’ could be a niche in the hot drinks market, report
The increasing number of hot drinks on supermarket shelves means new products have to demonstrate innovation in order to stand out from established brands.
According...
Asia Pacific: Theme park operator uses food safety system for real-time data
iCertainty and Zebra Technologies Corporation release a mobile food safety solution that can be licensed by hospitality establishments worldwide.
Leveraging Walt Disney Parks and Resorts’...
Europe: Portable system created to detect pathogens onsite
In collaboration with academia and industry, researchers at the Technical University of Denmark (DTU) Nanotech have developed a new portable lab-on-a-chip platform suitable for...
Europe: Givaudan joins start-up accelerator as founding partner
Givaudan joins start-up accelerator, MassChallenge, which is expanding into Switzerland with members Bühler Group, Nestlé, Inartis Foundation and the Swiss Economic Forum.
MassChallenge is active...