Asia Pacific: Fonterra reduces milk volume forecast, online offerings
Fonterra Co-operative Group Limited has reduced its milk volume forecast for the 2014-15 season to 1,532 million kgMS, reflecting the impact of dry weather on production in recent weeks. The new forecast is 3.3% lower than the 1,584 million kgMS collected last season. The previous milk volume forecast, made in December last year, was 1,584 million kgMS. Group director co-operative affairs Miles...
World: Food to become cheaper due to falling oil prices, finds Index
Results from the latest Global Food Security Index (GFSI) quarterly price adjustment update reveal that food affordability improved in nearly 75% of countries in September through November 2014 largely because of a 2.8% decline in global food prices, which have reached a four-year low. According to the Economist Intelligence Unit’s (EIU) GFSI, which is sponsored by DuPont, all-time high production...
Asia Pacific: Australia’s retail sector to slow down, says Australian Food and Grocery Council
After a stronger-than-expected Christmas trading period, retail spending growth will slow heading into 2015, according to the sixteenth edition of the AFGC CHEP Retail Index released on January 9, 2014. The Index was 4.4% higher in the December quarter of 2014 compared to the same period in 2013. However, retail sales growth is expected to slow over the first few months...
Americas: Mettler Toledo releases whitepaper on optimal backroom processes
The quality of packaging film has a decisive impact on the reliability and performance of backroom processes, as confirmed by research conducted by Mettler Toledo. The company has published its findings along with tips for the effective selection and use of film in a complimentary online whitepaper titled Wrapping Machine Film: Chemical Analysis of Backroom Film. It subjected films from various...
Asia Pacific: Shimadzu Corporation launches unified chromatography system
Shimadzu Corporation launches Nexera UC, a unified chromatography system, which showcases complete automation and combines automatic sample pre-treatment with chromatographic separation and analysis. The fully automated supercritical fluidic chromatography-based Nexera Unified Chromatography system (Nexera UC) can sequentially analyze up to 48 samples utilizing automatic extraction and chromatographic separation combined with high-sensitivity detection of targets by mass spectrometry. The system is designed...
Americas: Amcor, Coca Cola, Alcoa to boost residential recycling in the US
Amcor joins Coca Cola, Alcoa, and other industry partners as the Recycling Partnership, a collaborative, industry-funded effort designed to boost residential recycling in the US, officially awards its first public grant to the City of Columbia, S.C. The funding will support the Recycling Partnership’s inaugural project in Columbia, where a complete modernization of the city’s residential curbside recycling program will...
World: Flint Group releases single-component primer in EMEA for printing on PET, OPP
Flint Group has launched a single-component primer that provides strong adhesion of nitrocellulose-based inks printed on metallized polyethylene terephthalate (PET) and oriented polypropylene film (OPP). The primer does not require the use of a cross-linker and offers benefits such as ease of use and reuse of press leftovers. PreCoat FMET P13 AE is also suitable for printing on AlOx coated PET...
Europe: Dairy plant installs two Kliklok shrink-wrapping machines
Kliklok has won a contract to supply and install two QSSF600 shrink-wrapping machines at Gloucestershire-based Cotteswold Dairy site in Tewkesbury, UK. The dairy plant had previously installed a filling equipment line, which required a higher speed packaging solution to run poly bottles of liquid milk, including 189ml, 500ml, and 1L and 2L variations. As part of the new installation, the Kliklok...
Europe: Innovia Films launches BOPP film that protects against mineral oil migration
Innovia Films has launched its first biaxially oriented polypropylene (BOPP) film that has been officially proven to provide up to 1.5 years protection from mineral oil migration – Propafilm RCU. Its development has been the result of proactive investigation into the mineral oil hydrocarbon (MOH) and mineral oil aromatic hydrocarbon (MOAH) barrier protection of their films. It included the evaluation of...
Europe: Carlsberg embarks on three-year project with partners to create wood-fiber bottles
In its participation in a panel on Wasteless Supply at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Carlsberg announced a ground-breaking agreement to develop the world’s first fully biodegradable wood-fiber bottle for beverages. The company has initiated a three-year project with packaging company ecoXpac, with the collaboration of Innovation Fund Denmark and the Technical University of Denmark, to develop a...