The UK food industry has fallen short of the 5% target of sugar reduction across food products set by Public Health England (PHE) in the first year of its 4-year sugar reduction program. According to a report unveiled by the executive ...
Tags: Food Industry, Sugar
OFD Foods, a supplier of freeze-dried food for the US Military, has started construction on a $25m, nearly 50,000ft2 facility in the Town of Henrietta, Monroe County in New York State. The facility, which will be operating by the end of ...
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Ishida Europe is set to showcase its food packaging solutions at this year’s Foodex exhibition in the UK. The event will take place between 16 and 18 April in NEC Birmingham. At the event, the company will exhibit new ...
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Constantia Flexibles has delivered the packaging decoration for chocolate Santa Claus, with its Tepro2 method. Every year, Constantia Flexibles manufactures packaging for more than 50 percent of the 150 million chocolate Santa Clauses ...
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Mars Food has completed the acquisition of Connecticut-based Preferred Brands International, a manufacturer and marketer of all-natural, ready-to-heat Indian and Asian food products sold mainly under the Tasty Bite brand. Preferred Brands ...
Tags: Mars Food, food products
Yamato Scale Dataweigh UK has exhibited its new Epsilon machine at this year’s PPMA show in Birmingham, UK. Epsilon is a new mid-range multihead weighing machine specifically developed for the cost-effective weighing and packaging ...
Swedish packaging firm Tetra Pak has introduced new ice cream extrusion line for medium-capacity producers. The new ice cream extrusion line employs an independently controlled horizontal cutter to slice the ice cream as it exits from the ...
Chocolate and cocoa products manufacturer Barry Callebaut has agreed to purchase the ingredients division of Gertrude Hawk Chocolates. This acquisition will strategically expand Barry Callebaut’s Specialties & Decorations business, ...
Tags: Chocolate, cocoa products
Private equity firm Levine Leichtman Capital Partners (LLCP) has collaborated with management to purchase FlexXray, a provider of x-ray inspection services focused exclusively on food safety. FlexXray assists Fortune 100 food ...
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Redpath Sugar will invest C$5.2m ($4.17m) in the expansion of its dry blending and packaging plant in Belleville, Ontario to add new pouch packaging capabilities. The Canada-based cane sugar refiner will install two new customized ...
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Naturally Splendid Enterprises has executed a definitive agreement with Prosnack Natural Foods and and iCream Capital to acquire 100% of Prosnack. Prosnack is a Canadian company based in North Vancouver. Under the terms of its agreement ...
Tags: Natural Foods
Food processing and packaging solutions provider tna is set to exhibit its ultra-high speed case packer, ropac 5, at this year’s pack expo event in Las Vegas, US. The event will take place from 25 to 27 September. At the event, ...
Food processing and packaging solutions provider tna will showcase its expansive range of high-performance solutions at this year’s ProPak Asia event. Visitors to booth BG19 will be able to experience of the company’s flagship ...
Tags: packaging, Food processing
Fisher Container Holdings has acquired US-based flexographic printing and converting solutions provider Packaging Products Corporation (PPC). Based in Mission of Kansas, PPC is involved in flexographic printing and converting of flexible ...
Tags: Packaging Products, Container
Meyn Food Processing Technology, Cabinplant and Multivac Sepp Haggenmüller have agreed to collaborate to offer joint solutions for food producers. The solutions will range from processing, filling and product weighing right through ...