Beef might be off the Christmas menu for many Australians this year with prices continuing to rise dramatically. Over the past year, Australian domestic beef prices have more than doubled with drought hitting Australian farms hard. Yet, ...
Tags: Beef, Meat Prices, Lamb, Bacon
Plastic consumer packaging specialist Berry Plastics has restructured its operations to better serve its customers and drive future growth. As part of the restructuring, the company created three new market-focused divisions including ...
Tags: Berry Plastics, flexible packaging, Plastic consumer packaging
It was a full house for the Packaging Council of Australia's Australian Packaging Design Awards presentation in Melbourne on 12 November. Brand owners, pack designers and packaging suppliers involved in the design projects selected as ...
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Mammoth, one of the bed industry’s fastest growing brands, celebrated a successful month in October. Following on from its best ever Bed Show at Telford in September, the company saw a great month on the back of sales from Grand ...
New research from the Netherlands has found that most Netherlands-based consumers pay little attention to the ingredients lists on food labelling. The study, which was commissioned by Unilever and was accepted on the 17 September 2015 by ...
US-based General Mills is being sued by the Center for Science in the Public Interest for alleged misleading labeling as well as false advertising. In its promotional campaign, General Mills has stated that its Cheerios Protein is ...
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British establishment W&R Barnett has bought a 60% stake in Logson Group, a group of corrugated packaging companies in the UK. Logson Group consists of four brands including Board24, Boxes and Packaging, Jardin Corrugated Cases and ...
Tags: corrugated packaging, Boxes, Logson
Plessey announced today that its dotLED range, designed specifically for wearable applications, has been expanded with a wider selection of colours, including red, green and blue. The extremely small LED die have a footprint of only 0.2mm x ...
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Older adults in long-term care facilities often spend their days and nights in dimly-lit rooms with minimal time spent outdoors. The constant, unvarying dim light found in many long-term care facilities means that older adults are not ...
Tags: LRC, Older adults, Lighting
Nestlé Lanka, a leading nutrition, health and wellness company in Sri Lanka, posted revenue of LKR 27.1 billion for the nine months period ending 30 September 2015 recording a growth of 8.6% vs previous year. The company reported a ...
Tags: Nestle Lanka, Dairy, milks
Fresh food grown in the microgravity environment of space officially is on the menu for the first time for NASA astronauts on the International Space Station. Expedition 44 crew members, including NASA's one-year astronaut Scott Kelly, are ...
Tags: LED Grown Veggies, Space, LEDs
The new SCOUT SV armoured fighting vehicle developed for the British Army by General Dynamics UK will be equipped with high-performance LED lights designed by Oxley Group, with advanced protection against electromagnetic interference. The ...
Scientists are tapping into photographs taken by astronauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS) to reliably measure the amount of light pollution worldwide. This study not only includes the well-known signatures of cities and ...
University of Technology Sydney (UTS) industrial design student Jose Navarro's design for a rice dispenser box walked off with the coveted top prize at the annual Cormack Innovation Awards, which took place at a gala event in Sydney's ...
Tags: rice carton box, Cormack Packaging
A study by researchers at De Montfort University in Leicester found that cooking with vegetable oils releases toxic chemicals which are linked to cancer and other diseases. The scientists recommend food to be fried in olive oil, ...
Tags: Cooking, Vegetable Oil, olive oil, coconut oil