In the US Sealed Air Corporation has announced that the federal
court overseeing the W. R. Grace bankruptcy proceeding did not
grant an immediate appeal.
UK chemical analysis company Burkard Scientific has developed a
compact package for accurate and user-friendly sugar analysis, the
company claims this week.
The Agriculture Ministry will question Nippon Meat Packers
president Hiroji Okoso today about a subsidiary's suspected
defrauding of a state-run beef buyback programme.
European Union plans to break illegal blackfish landings by
licensing fish traders and processors have received a cool
reception from Scottish fishing interests, according to a report by
Fis.com.
After nearly two years of construction work, Beck & Co's new
filtration cellar in Bremen, Germany, has been officially put into
operation. The facility raises the company's production capacity by
around 16 per cent.
Gruppo Fabbri, a leading European player in the production of
machines and plastic films for the packaging of fresh food
products, has chosen Intentia's Movex Solution to manage its
business.
In Japan, Nippon Meat Packers, hit by a beef-labelling fraud
scandal, will cut production of ham, sausage and other processed
foods by 40 per cent for August, the major dailies Mainichi and
Asahi Shimbun reported.
Asahi Breweries of Japan has turned corporate wisdom on its head,
by cutting production costs enough to compete with Chinese brewers.
The company has overcome the problem of higher labour costs by
cutting down on packaging and other...
Repak CEO Andrew Hetherington claims he is taking a pragmatic
approach to the problem of streamlining the recycling of packaging
waste in the Republic of Ireland, a challenge that the country has
had to rise to in the light of recently...
Spanish industrial group Coexpan, which specialises in yoghurt
packaging, has acquired French plastic packaging manufacturer FSP,
part of Franco-German group Bericap, according to a report in Les
Echos.
Enodis, the UK-based food equipment provider, suffered a share
price fall of more than a quarter yesterday after it said that
current weak market conditions were likely to persist "further
than we had originally expected".
RBV Leaf, Europe's second largest producer of sugar confectionary,
has brought the packaging of its Sportlife chewing gum in-house,
with two new flexible multipack packaging lines from SIG Pack
Systems.
Geac Enterprise Solutions, the UK-based division of Geac Computer
Corporation, has announced that it has won a £200,000
(€315,000)contract with ZPC Mieszko, one of Poland's leading
manufacturers of sweets, biscuits and crackers.
Danish Crown is about to begin work on the construction of what the
company claims will be the world's most modern pork processing
plant. The facility will be built at Horsens, Denmark, and when
construction has been completed...
Jefferson Smurfit used its last results as a public company to warn
that the weakening US dollar would hit demand for European and
Latin American cardboard box production, as sales of manufactured
goods into the US become less competitive.
ConAgra's public response to the second-largest meat recall in US
history differs dramatically from several high-profile food and
medicine scares of the past, say experts in crisis management.
Irish packaging group Jefferson Smurfit is set for takeover by a US
private equity group following shareholder approval of the bid
earlier this week. The acquisition comes as the company announced a
decline in pre-tx profits for the...
As we reported earlier this week Australian biscuit giant Arnott
has plans to restructure its Australian and New Zealand operations
into three separate business units as it seeks further growth in
the region.
German soft drinks company Thuringer Waldquell (TWQ) is hoping that
a new PET bottling line will help it increase sales of its popular
Vita Cola brand.
Researchers in the UK claim to have devised a new method of
selectively oxidising terpenes to produce compounds of particular
interest to the perfumery, flavour and pharmaceutical industries.
Scientists at Oxford have developed a...
Talks of a joint venture for a flour business in the Philippines
between local food and beverage firm RFM and Switzerland-based
Zuellig Group have fizzled out, reports the Philippine Daily
Inquirer.
A father-and-son team in the US are hoping to take the food
irradiation market by storm. Irad, owned by Dan and Justin Siegel,
which currently makes irradiation machines for the medical and
industrial markets is to set to branch out...
Sugar industry experts meeting this week at the annual
International Sweetener Symposium have touted the advantages for
farmers and consumers of vertical integration in the American
sugar-producing industry.
Did Nippon Meat Packers, Japan's biggest meat processing company,
incinerate beef that might have linked the company to a plot to
collect undeserved subsidies under a government beef-buyback
programme? The question is on the...
Italy's biggest miller, Grandi Molini Italiani (GMI), refuses to
import genetically modified (GM) wheat because consumers do not
want it, its CEO Antonio Costato said on Monday.
A dispute which pitted US food giant Kellogg against the somewhat
smaller Green Turtle Bay Vitamin Company over the latter's
trademark vitamin, Sunnie, has ended with a victory for the smaller
company.
Eighteen months ago, US meat giant ConAgra Foods, currently at the
centre of a scandal concerning an E.coli outbreak, sent word that
it would end its contract for poultry de-boning operations in
Milan, a north-central city in Missouri,...
A biscuit factory in Victoria, Australia, belonging to Australian
company Arnott's, is set to close as part of a $100 (€54.7m)
million expansion of Arnott's Sydney and Brisbane plants and
upgrading of its Adelaide factory,...
Arkady Craigmillar, a UK supplier of bakery ingredients and frozen
products, announced this week that production of its confectionery
mixes will move to its Manchester factory from a Unilever-owned
facility in Suffolk.
A microturbine generator that runs on methane biogas from animal
manure will be evaluated as a source of electricity and heat for a
research dairy farm in a cooperative project of the Agricultural
Research Service (ARS), the US Department...
The food unit of Mexican conglomerate Grupo Alfa, Sigma Alimentos,
said on Thursday that it had acquired Costa Rica's leading producer
and distributor of processed meats, Embutidos Zar, for an
undisclosed amount.
New research from the UK has revealed that selenium (Se) levels in
British bread-making wheats are 10 to 50 times lower than in their
American or Canadian counterparts. The study, published in the
Journal of the Science of Food and...
Food irradiation specialist signs second Asian agreement in as many
days, joining forces with a Thai company in a venture which should
allow greater access for Thai fruit products to the US market.
Crown Cork & Seal completes $23.5 million sale of packaging
units in Central and Eastern Africa, although Zambian unit sale is
still subject to anti-trust approval.
Union workers are locked out of Graphic Packaging's Michigan plant
after failing to reach a new contract agreement. Both parties
remain entrenched in their respective positions concerning overtime
and pensions, and a resolution...
