In the last five years, the proportion of Australians drinking soft drinks such as colas and lemonades in an average seven days has declined from 56 per cent to 49 per cent, but could it be that more consumers are simply starting to enjoy a ...
Tags: Soft Drinks, Agriculture, Food, beverage
UK-based 'wholefood' breakfast cereal brand Jordans has launched its Crispy Oat Clusters and Crunchy Oat Granola across Australia following a trial in 2013. Jordans was founded in 1972 by Bill and David Jordan, but Holme Mills, the home ...
Tags: Agriculture, Food
Six major categories of plastic packaging help to significantly reduce energy use and greenhouse gas emissions compared to packaging alternatives made with other materials. A recent study: "Impact of Plastics Packaging on Life Cycle ...
Tags: Plastic Packaging, greenhouse gas, packaging alternatives
"Lighter, more attractive, consumer-friendlier packages." Has Krones got your attention? How about, "energy-economical, eco-friendly and affordable production operations"? These are the vital advantages that Krones will be putting on ...
In The Raw has unveiled Sugar In The Raw Organic White, a USDA organic certified, non-GMO verified, Eco-Social certified unbleached cane sugar. Packed in a 24oz, re-sealable and recyclable bag, the Sugar In The Raw Organic White is ...
Private equity investor Blackthorne Partners has partnered with business executive Ross Lund to buy food processing equipment manufacturer Hughes Equipment. The financial terms of the transaction have not been disclosed. Established in ...
Tags: Food Processing Equipment, Hughes Equipment, Blackthorne Partners
More Australians shopping for fresh vegetables at farmers' markets, 'local' food trend grows Taking the trend towards 'local' food to a new level, new national consumer research examining where Australians typically shop for their fresh ...
Tags: Agriculture, Food
Most of us go to grocery store to buy food items, vegetables, fruits, medicines, etc without a second thought to industrial refrigeration. Do you know that ammonia refrigeration systems play a crucial role in many of the products you buy ...
Tags: Industrial Refrigeration, food items, vegetables, fruits
Canadian packaging products manufacturer Cascades has designed EVOK brand polystyrene foam food tray for poultry processing firm Exceldor. Designed for packaging meats, poultry, fish and seafood, as well as fresh fruit and vegetables, ...
Tags: packaging products, polystyrene foam food tray, Packaging
Quebec-headquartered Exceldor has selected EVOK packaging, a polystyrene foam food tray (XPS), from Cascades for its meat products range. EVOK, claimed to be made from 25% recycled material, is designed for packing meats, poultry, fish ...
Tags: Meat Packaging, EVOK, packaging
Norwegian conglomerate Orkla plans to source sustainably produced palm oil for use as an ingredient in its consumer products. Palm oil is a widely used vegetable oil across the world with around 87% of it coming from Indonesia and ...
Compass Cider House has completed the merger with Cedaredge, Colorado-based Blossomwood Cidery. Following this merger, both the cider makers will produce cider and perry at their facilities.Blossomwood Cidery founder Shawn Carney and ...
Pyramid tea bags have taken the premium tea world by storm,so contract packaging company Packmasters International has launched a new service to enable brand owners to join the movement. In Australia,demand for premium tea is on the ...
Tags: Boutique Tea, Lipton, Twinings
Mars, Incorporated announced today a new policy to help build a fully sustainable palm oil supply chain. This sees Mars commit to both industry leading standards and develop a fully traceable pipeline back to known palm oil processing mills ...
Tags: Palm Oil, Mars, Deforestation Policies
The installation was for a new company set up to serve the whole southeastern region of Asia. When Thai businessman, Pongsakorn Pongsak established the General Beverage Company Limited in his home country, he was entering the beverage ...