Asia Pacific: New confectionery formats are needed, states swop 2017
swop 2017 will showcase internationally advanced and innovative processing and packaging products for the confectionery and bakery sectors.
Held from November 7 to 10 at...
Europe: Brown carton for chilled products
Elopak and Stora Enso have launched a gable top carton made from natural brown unbleached paperboard called Naturally Pure-Pak.
The new paperboard, Natura Life by...
Americas: P&G to list fragrance ingredients online
The Procter & Gamble Company will share online all fragrance ingredients down to 0.01% for its entire product portfolio in the US and Canada...
Europe: Ink for oily applications Linx
Printing Technologies introduces a formula that meets the challenges of coding onto oily surfaces.
The Linx Black oil-penetrating ink 1062 can print through light layers...
Europe: Wine technology galore at SIMEI@drinktec
For the first time, SIMEI@drinktec—the international exhibition for winery and bottling machinery—will take place as part of drinktec.
There will be more than 200...
Europe: Preventing mineral-oil migration into food
While consumers can do very little to prevent mineral-oil components - MOSH and MOAH - residues, the food industry has responded by introducing minimization...
Americas: Crown company releases pre-portioned ground coffee in a can
La Colombe Coffee Roasters and Crown Beverage Packaging North America release the MiniVault, a pre-portioned single-use can that delivers café quality ground coffee to...
Europe: Unilever, institute create process to reduce sachet waste
Unilever unveiled the CreaSolv process to recycle sachets that is inspired by an innovation used to recycle TV sets.
Developed with the Fraunhofer Institute for...
Asia Pacific: Singapore researchers create probiotic beer
Researchers from the National University of Singapore (NUS) have created sour beer that incorporates the probiotic strain Lactobacillus paracasei L26.
The strain was first isolated...
Asia Pacific: Show indicates China’s economy is bouncing back
Chinaplas 2017 concluded in May 2017 after registering 155,258 trade visitors from 154 countries and regions, up 21% from the previous Guangzhou edition held...