World: Nampak wins three WorldStar awards for packaging solutions
Nampak has won awards for the Poltek live bird crate, Easy open easy pour Castle Lite can and Cadbury re-sealable chocolate packaging at the...
World: Cargill acquires Turyağ, enters Turkish oils, fats market
Cargill has signed an agreement to acquire Turyağ, a Turkish fats and oils company employing more than 200 people.
The acquisition will allow Cargill to...
Europe: DSM Nutritional Products, Isobionics to supply natural compounds to flavor, fragrances market
DSM Nutritional Products Ltd. and Isobionics B.V. have entered into an exclusive partnership to distribute Valencene and Nootkatone grades to the flavor and fragrances...
Europe: Danish university staff make local seaweed as alternative to imported ones used in...
The Danish Shellfish Centre at Technical University of Denmark (DTU) has recently provided samples of edible seaweed grown in the Limfjord, Denmark.
Staff at the...
Americas: DSM, scientist highlight beneficial effects of vitamin E on fatty liver disease at...
DSM is engaging with leading members of the scientific community, as part of ongoing efforts to further its understanding of the ways in which...
Americas: Obesity, food loss affect access to food, finds DuPont-sponsored study
DuPont and the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) on May 28, 2014 released the 2014 Global Food Security Index that showed 70% of countries in...
Europe: Taghleef Industries enters graphic arts film industry with Derprosa
Taghleef Industries (Ti), a global biaxially oriented polypropylene film (BoPP) producer, has closed the transaction to acquire Derprosa Film, a Spanish supplier of flexible...
Europe: Wipak wins PackTheFuture Award for folding, double-chamber package at interpack 2014
The film concept developed by Wipak for Hans Kupfer & Sohn is a new system for cheese, sausage and meat packaging., which uses a...
Europe: EFSA gives safety green light to Phoenix Technologies’ rPET process
The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has given Phoenix Technologies International the green light for its manufacturing process based on extra small particle size...
Asia Pacific: Offer more single portion, convenient packaged products for consumers in South Korea,...
Packaging companies in South Korea need to capitalize on consumers’ need for conveniently packaged products in single portion sizes that are convenient to eat...