A new report suggests the agriculture and food industries should adopt automotive-style, just-in-time cross-border shipping practices to improve the flow of food products across the border. The report, An Economic Analysis of Agriculture ...
Tags: Transportation, Auto, shipping
The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) has announced that manufacturers and importers of flavor packets are responsible for identifying food allergens, gluten sources and added sulphites on the labels of their products that they ...
Tags: Flavor Packets, Allergen
Weather Update June 24, 2013 Part of the reason for the delay in sending an update on the crop position is the diversity of the information we are able to obtain. The weather has been very mixed depending on where you are standing. A very ...
Tags: agriculture, lentils, pulses, grains
UK-based Automated Packaging Systems has introduced the new FAS SPrint Revolution, which has been designed for small to medium sized frozen and IQF packaging operations. The system is also said to be suitable for those who pack specialty ...
Tags: Automated Packaging, Food Industry
Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev held a meeting on the development of the chemical and petrochemical industries. The attendees of the meeting included Deputy Prime Minister, Arkady Dvorkovich, Alexander Novak, the Minister of ...
Tags: Petrochemicals
A team of researchers from a university in Spain have introduced a new packaging system for canned fresh products, as part of a research, development and innovation (R + D + i) project. Researchers at the Technological Corporation of the ...
Tags: Packaging System, Canned Food
Swedish food processing and packaging company Tetra Pak has supplied its processing and packaging equipment for Fonterra’s NZ$100m ($77m) ultra high temperature (UHT) greenfield plant in Waitoa, New Zealand. Tetra Pak commercial ...
Tags: Tetra Pak, Packaging Equipment
New Zealand-based multinational dairy co-operative Fonterra has selected Tetra Pak's processing and packaging equipment for its NZ$100m ($77.7m) UHT greenfield plant in Waitoa. The new facility, which will feature five UHT lines, will ...
Food processing industry requires great attention to be paid at every step. In this arena, removal of impurities like metal contaminants has become a common practice now-a-days. And to bring perfection in every product, a number of ...
Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen, an American quick-service chicken concept, is relaunching Zatarain’s Butterfly Shrimp, which combines Popeyes Butterfly Shrimp and Zatarain’s seasoning and signature cornmeal breading. Popeyes ...
Tags: Butterfly Shrimp, Agriculture
Blue Diamond Growers, a US-based agricultural co-operative, has opened a new almond processing facility in Turlock, California. The 200,000ft2 facility is located on an 88 acre land at N. Washington and Fulkerth roads. The products from ...
Tags: Blue Diamond, Food
Food companies including Mars, Nestle, PepsiCo, and Premier Foods have signed up to the new consistent front-of-pack nutritional label scheme introduced by the UK Government. The new labeling scheme has been launched on food products to ...
Tags: PepsiCo, Food Label Scheme
Linkx Systems has developed and manufactured an automatic tray erector loader for UK-based dry food products supplier Huegli. The machine has been designed to fit into an extremely restricted space at Huegli's facility in Redditch, England. ...
Tags: Linkx Systems, Tray Erector Loader
Austria-based food company Agrana has opened a new EUR70m wheat starch processing facility at its site in Pischelsdorf, Austria. This new facility marks an expansion of the current range of starch-based products at the site to include ...
Tags: Agrana, Wheat Starch Processing
KeHE Distributors, a US-based distributor of natural & organic, specialty & gourmet, international & multicultural and fresh products, has launched new branding. The new branding is part of the company's commitment to be the preferred ...
Tags: KeHE Distributors, Branding