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)...
Americas: BD lauds PolyOne as viable supplier
Becton, Dickinson and Company (BD) has named PolyOne the 2014 recipient of its 2014 Risk Mitigation Supplier of the Year award, which is the...
World: Global food import bill to reach a five-year low in 2015, says FAO...
International prices for agricultural commodities continued to decline in April 2015.
Abundant inventories are poised to offset any pressure from the slight reduction in global...
Americas: Cognex launches technology for vision inspection
Cognex Corporation's PatMax RedLine is a feature-location technology that reinvents the PatMax pattern-matching tool by maximizing speed and performance.
Available in the latest Cognex In-Sight...
Americas: Carrier Transicold reports brisk sales for CO2 container refrigerant systems
Carrier Transicold, which last year celebrated production of its one millionth container refrigeration system, reports that total global sales of its PrimeLINE unit, introduced...
Americas: Linde unveils immersion spiral freezer for food production
Linde North America's new immersion spiral freezer is a two-stage cryogenic freezer that can process more than 20,000 pounds per hour.
The first stage applies...
Americas: Chicken Waffle Burger debuts in the US
World Patent Marketing launches the Chicken Waffle Burger, a food invention that combines chicken and waffles into an easy to eat form factor.
"The fast...
Asia Pacific: Emerging markets to boost demand for corrugated packaging, finds report
The global corrugated packaging market is expected to grow at a compound annual growth rate of 4.0% during 2014 to 2020, to reach an...
Americas: Association ‘not surprised’ at report findings on bacteria, antibiotic residues in frozen shrimp
The Consumer Reports study tested 342 samples of frozen shrimp and found harmful bacteria and illegal antibiotic residues in a small percentage.
All samples were...
Americas: Local produce company to supply to four Walmart distribution centers
Urban agricultural company Edible Garden expands its line of naturally grown living produce to four Walmart distribution centers located in the Northeast and Midwest...