Processing
Find out the best practices, methods, technologies and equipment to produce winning products.
Europe: Logistics service provider Dachser to build €25M facility in Germany
Global logistics service provider Dachser is building a European Food Shipment Hub with a total surface of 70,000 sqm in Erlensee, Germany.
Costing €25 million...
Americas: Interroll’s drum motor receives USDA equipment certification for food processing
Interroll says its asynchronous drum motor (models 113i, 138i, 165i and 217i) has recently gained approval from the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) for...
Americas: Tyson Foods to sell Mexico and Brazil poultry businesses
Tyson Foods has reached a definitive agreement with JBS SA to sell its poultry businesses in Mexico and Brazil.
The transaction is valued at US$575...
Europe: Beumer Group launches software suite for optimized material flows
Beumer Group has launched BG, a software suite for high-level computer systems.
The suite’s modular structure allows users to adapt it to their machinery and...
Did You Know: How Halal food testing is done?
The dietary laws that forbid Jews and Muslims from consuming pork date back millennia, but when pork ingredients are included in food products, deliberately...
Americas: Cognex releases high speed vision system
Cognex Corporation has launched high-acquisition speed In-Sight Micro 1500, a compact, smart-camera vision system that achieves acquisition speeds greater than 200 frames per second...
Europe: Anti-food fraud measures are working, says European Commission
A second round of coordinated pan-European testing for horse meat deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) in beef products was launched in April 2014.
This testing was a follow-up...
Europe: Italian consumers look to ice cream in traditional flavors to ease work stress
Italian consumers are looking to the creamy texture of ice cream to help relax and unwind after a busy day at the office, according...
Europe: Food producers need to be transparent on halal processes for UK consumers, finds...
While the majority (52%) of UK consumers are not concerned about the consumption of halal meat, a third of adults deliberately avoid halal meat...
World: AAK buys Turkish brand from Unilever
AAK has signed an agreement to acquire the Turkish frying oil brand Frita from Unilever.
Frita, which covers a part of the local food service...