World: Work with agencies to offer dairy-based food to the hungry, Arla Foods Ingredients tells FNI
Arla Foods Ingredients has highlighted the need for a global industry push to ensure dairy ingredients are included as an integral part of emergency food programs. Ingredients derived from milk tend not to be included in such programs – including the United Nation’s World Food Programme, which fights hunger in the developing world – because of concerns over their cost. Henrik Jørgen...
Asia Pacific: Strong growth in food and grocery retail sector expected in Australia, finds index
Growth in retail trade is expected to soften in the lead up to Christmas, according to the Australian Food and Grocery Council (AFGC) CHEP Retail Index, which predicts year-on-year growth of 4.8% in the September quarter, slowing to 3.2% growth for the December quarter. While the Index predicts growth will slow, retail trade turnover is still expected to increase modestly...
Europe: Coca-Cola’s juice packaged in renewable Tetra Pak carton wins award
Coca-Cola’s Del Valle Reserva brand of juice won the Technology in Beverage Packaging prize at the 2014 ABRE Awards for being the first brand to use Tetra Pak cartons with bio-based low-density polyethylene (LDPE) films derived from sugar cane. "Tetra Pak has been characterized by its expertise and leadership in renewable resources," said Rino Abbondi, technics and logistics VP at...
Europe: Dairy producer installs fifth machine from Oystar Gasti
Finnish dairy producer Valio has added its fifth Combiseptic 81-series cup filling and sealing machine manufactured by Oystar Gasti. With an output of up to 16,000 cups per hour, the format and product flexible, two-lane machine will increase the production capacities at Valio’s plant in Oulu starting in December 2014. The machine with two dosing units will be filling pre-formed 75...
Europe: Discolored, dented packaging worries UK consumers of bacteria, finds report
Antibacterial packaging that is designed to delay the development of germs and bacteria in canned products is set to become a hit with consumers, a new survey from Canadean reveals. The survey of 2,000 consumers conducted in October 2014 finds that more than half of respondents in the UK are worried about bacteria on the outside of a can more...
Asia Pacific: Malaysia, Japanese companies partner to expand film production in the region
Industrial packaging manufacturer Scientex Berhad invests its ongoing and planned capital expenditure (CAPEX) of RM300 million (US$91.6 million) over three years to 2016 to expand polyethylene (PE) and biaxially oriented polypropylene (BOPP) film production capacity, as well as enter the new market of CPP film production. Scientex would construct a BOPP film manufacturing plant in Pulau Indah, Port Klang, in...
Americas: Nestlé opens ‘most water efficient’ factory in Mexico
Nestlé has opened its most water efficient factory in the world in Mexico, with plans to replicate in other factories located globally. Through new processes that deliver significant efficiencies, Nestlé’s Cero Agua dairy factory in the central, water-stressed state of Jalisco will move towards being a zero-water factory. It will use mostly recycled water from its dairy operations. The water resource savings...
Asia Pacific: Amcor to build plant in the Philippines
Amcor Flexibles Asia Pacific says it will build a multi-million dollar flexible packaging plant in the Philippines to manufacture high performance packaging for a multinational consumer brand. This investment builds on the existing customer partnership and delivers direct in-country production thereby improving the company's speed-to-market in the Filipino market. The plant is expected to be fully operational in 2016. “Emerging Asia remains...
Americas: Anti-fatigue, post-lunch beverage wins award
The WakeUp Post-lunch Waker drink has won the SupplySide West CPG Editors’ Choice Awards 2014 in the Energy Drink category. Inno-Bev says its patented, safe and clinically tested beverage formulation does not contain added caffeine, chemicals or any stimulants that can impact heart rate or blood pressure. It has been scientifically proven to overcome fatigue after lunchtime (known as post-lunch dip syndrome)...
Europe: Chr. Hansen posts €756M in revenue
Chr. Hansen has reported revenue of €756 million (US$959 million) in 2013/2014, compared to €738 million in 2012/13. This represents an organic growth of 8%. For 2014/15, the company expect organic revenue growth of 7-9% and an EBIT margin before special items is expected to be above 26.5%. Research and development expenditures incurred 7-8% of revenue. "The cultures and enzymes division and the...