News & Analysis on the Bakery and Snacks Industries
The worldwide market for automation products and services for process industries, worth more than $44 billion in 2001, is expected to grow at the compounded annual growth rate (CAGR) of just over 5 per cent over the next five years, reaching close to...
Germany's Boekels group has upgraded its WS 30 kg B and WS 60 kg B heavy duty weighers, giving them a new weighcell designed by parent company Sartorius and an EWK 2000 weighing electronics unit.
Armfield, the UK processing equipment manufacturer, has teamed up with US counterpart RBD Technologies of Los Osos, California, and compatriot Ebortec, to offer a full range of small scale edible oil processing equipment.
Alcoa, the US packaging group which makes the Reynolds and Baco food wrap brands, is to buy the Chicago-based Ivex Packaging Corporation for around $790 million, broadening its presence in the food packaging sector.
UK-based meat processor George Adams is planning to roll out an enterprise resource planning (ERP) system in five of its factories in a £1 million bid to improve its production procedures.
Rexam, the world's leading producer of beverage cans, has sold two flexible packaging plants in the UK to Australian group Amcor for A$30 million (€17.9 million)