In support of consumers shifting preference toward healthy and fresh food, Liguria Foods has developed three varieties of natural nitrate-free pepperoni for pizzerias. As with all Liguria products, Liguria All-Natural Pepperoni is made ...
Green packaging maker Cascades is to invest in the expansion of two of its packaging plants in Quebec, Canada. The company plans to invest around $4.5m in its Plastiques Cascades plant in Kingsey Falls and its Cascades Inopak plant in ...
Tags: Green packaging, Food Packaging, fresh food
Primary fresh food packaging company Linpac has partnered with Saudi Arabia-based Zultec Group to build a new PET thermoforming facility in Jeddah. The proposed facility will supply Linpac branded rigid and flexible packaging materials ...
The European Commission has launched an in-depth investigation into Mondi's proposed acquisition of two industrial packaging plants from Walki in a bid to ensure that the deal is pursuant to the EU Merger Regulation. The regulator is ...
Tags: Mondi, packaging plants, Extrusion coating
Environment Secretary Elizabeth Truss is calling on retailers to better label British produce in supermarkets, in a bid to support struggling dairy farmers in the country. The supermarkets in the country may be forced by the government to ...
Südpack Verpackungen has announced a new digital printing process which helps customers quickly personalise their packaging. It offers clear colour gradients, brilliant colours and sharp outlines. Managing partner Johannes ...
Tags: digital printing, packaging
NASA astronauts at the International Space Station became the first in the world to taste the first bite of lettuce grown in the microgravity environment of space. They cleaned the produce with citric acid-based, food safe sanitizing ...
Tags: fresh foods, tomatoes, blueberries
Swiss food business Aryzta has acquired Irish-owned gourmet food products supplier La Rousse Foods. La Rousse Foods operates own butchery, cheese-maturing room and chocolate lab to cater to more than 1,300 corporate customers in Ireland. ...
Tags: food production, fresh food, seasonal food
I’ve just returned from several weeks travelling across the United States. It is fabulous to be home – and to appreciate just how lucky we are in Australia to live in an amazing part of the world. We see so much ...
Tags: food opinion, food culture
Recent turbulence in the raw material supply chain is forcing Europe’s leading fresh food packaging manufacturer, LINPAC to increase its rigid and flexible packaging prices, but this will not impact the Australian market. The ...
Tags: Linpac, raw material
The company has considered the recent turbulence in its raw material supply chain and concluded that a rise in packaging prices is inevitable in the face of current sharp cost increases. Bart Stubbe, director of purchasing at Linpac, ...
Tags: raw material, packaging
Government's push of e-commerce in rural areas will stimulate online fresh food sales A government-backed drive toward e-commerce can help open up the agricultural sector and generate a rapid increase in incomes for farmers. At a ...
Tags: E-Commerce, Farming, Agricultural
Ulma Packaging has added to its range of flowrapping equipment, with the launch of the FM200. The new equipment from the supplier of packaging machinery and complete automated lines is for wrapping fresh food pillow pack style with ...
Tags: raw poultry, Fresh Food
The decision by the Federal Court of Australia to order Coles Supermarkets Australia Pty Ltd (Coles) to pay penalties of $2.5 million for making a claim that its par baked products were “fresh”, is likely to have broad ...
Tags: bakery products, bakery
International private equity firms show interest in Australian vegetable companies The under-cover vegetable growing industry has remained sheltered from the erratic weather conditions of the past five years, according to market research ...
Tags: Vegetables, reliable supplies, Agriculture