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Americas: Mondelez International works with Facebook on consumer engagement
Mondelez International has renewed its partnership with Facebook to leverage and innovate around consumer insights and Messenger to create more meaningful mobile-first experiences between...
Africa: Pentair, partners open solar-powered community site
Pentair joins The Coca-Cola Company, Ericsson, Medshare, Phillips, Solarkiosk and TIGO Rwanda to open the flagship solar-powered Ekocenter in Ruhunda, Rwanda.
The site was designed...
Europe: New business models open with intralogistics, says Beumer CEO
With Internet, e-commerce and wireless connectivity, intralogistics plays an important role for businesses to expand and scale.
Dr. Christoph Beumer, chairman and CEO of the...
Asia Pacific: Scientists in Singapore invent material that kills E Coli in 30 seconds
Researchers at the Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology (IBN) of A*STAR have developed a new material that can kill the E. coli bacteria within...
Americas: Silk keeps fruit fresh without refrigeration
Tufts University biomedical engineers have demonstrated that fruits can stay fresh for more than a week without refrigeration if they are coated in an...
Europe: Henkel shares insights to preventing forming primary aromatic amine in packaging
Food safety has been very high on the agenda of the primary packaging material manufacturers and the packaging and food industry for many years.
In...
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...
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...
Asia Pacific: Nestle expands reach to China’s rural with Alibaba
Nestlé and Alibaba will grow online sales, build key brands and offer new products to millions of consumers in China.
Nestlé has introduced products including...
Europe: Plant pilot turns gases into baking powder
The Schwelgern coke plant (KBS), ThyssenKrupp Industrial Solutions and Berlin Technical University (TU Berlin) have installed a pilot plant on the works site of...