Confectionery firm Mondelez International has opened a new $30m production line at Skarbimierz factory in Poland. Located 25 miles south east of Wroclaw, the line has been built to enhance capacity, efficiency, and flexibility through a ...
Tags: Chocolate Facility, Mondelez
KitKat is set to become the first global chocolate brand to use only sustainably sourced cocoa in the manufacture of all its products. This move comes as the confectionery industry faces allegations over employing child labor in cocoa ...
Bosch Packaging Technology is launching its vertical packaging lineup, including new SVC 2620 VFFS machine, for food producers, at FachPack 2015 next month. The new addition is targeted at market segments demanding high hygiene ...
Tags: Bosch, Vertical Packaging
The Seoul Central District Court has convicted Lotte Confectionery, an arm of Lotte Group, of copying a Japanese snack maker Ezaki Glico's package design. Last year, the Japanese firm had filed a suit against Lotte Confectionery asking it ...
Tags: Snack Packaging, Packaging
Carotenoids provider Lycored has developed ingredients that give red, orange and yellow colors naturally, allowing food and beverage manufactures to give up artificial ingredients. The two new certified Kosher and Halal natural ...
Germany-based Bosch Packaging Technology will showcase its latest technologies for packaging bars and baked items in its maiden appearance at IBA 2015, in Munich, in September. The company's Pack 301 LS (Length Slug) mid-range automation ...
Sales will continue to grow as major companies roll out new products with long-lasting flavors in a highly competitive market Wallace Chung looked as if he had just stepped off a movie set. Dressed in an electric blue jacket with matching ...
Tags: Chewing Gum, chewing gum market
The New Zealand Government has launched a new initiative to supply recycling bins at retail outlets to enable consumers to dump the used soft plastic bags for recycling. Initially put on a pilot mode at New World, PAK'nSAVE and The ...
Bosch Packaging Technology has revamped its Delta lineup by introducing D3 robotic platform capable of dealing with higher payloads in the food industry. Drawn from an open platform with GD series Delta robot, D3 offers enhanced pick ...
Tags: packaging technology, D3 robotic platform, packaging machine, Delta robot
Italian chocolate producer Ferrero has agreed to acquire Thorntons, in a cross-border deal that values the British chocolate maker at around $177.7m. Ferrero will make the transaction through its subsidiary Ferholding, which has been ...
Saxony-Anhalt based Halloren is the oldest chocolate factory in Germany and offers an extensive range of finest chocolates and sweets. The Propafilm RCU BOPP film provides protection from mineral oil migration and in addition offers ...
Tags: Innovia, Chocolates Packaging
Swiss chocolate maker Barry Callebaut has agreed to acquire assets of nut-based ingredients manufacturer American Almond Products for an undisclosed amount. Under the agreed terms, Barry Callebaut will acquire the customer portfolio, ...
Bosch has introduced a packaging machine SVE 2520 DZ that produces up to 100 Doy Zip bags a minute. The vertical bagger allows for the production of seven styles of bags, and gives them a glossy finish. Manufacturers have bag style ...
Tags: Bosch, vertical bagger
AR Packaging will invest €3m in the newly acquired plants at Krakow in Poland and Graz in Austria. With the investment at the two facilities, the German company is expecting to strengthen its foothold in the European packaging ...
Confectionery producer Kinh Do is planning to build a new instant noodle plant worth $30m in northern province of Bac Ninh, Vietnam, under a partnership with Saigon Ve Wong. Both the companies have signed an agreement to form a joint ...
Tags: Kinh Do, Confectionery, Candy