Tagatose to take on the globe
Arla Foods' new functional ingredient, Gaio tagatose, believed to enhance toffee and mint flavour and prolong the sweetness delivery in chewing gum, is to debut in the US market under Pepsi.
Archives for September 23, 2003
Volumetric filling
Evergreen Packaging Equipment, a business unit of International Paper, and AVE Industries of Spinea, Italy have developed a long-term strategic agreement that will allow Evergreen to manufacture, sell, and service rotary bottle filling equipment...
Brewing the Alfa Laval way
Swedish multi-national Alfa Laval is to premiere its ALDOX-HGB process module for the brewing and beverage industries at the BRAU Bevaile exhibition in Nuremburg this November.
GMO traceability
As the European Union is poised to adopt some of the most stringent regulations on labelling and traceability of genetically modified products, a conference is being organised by Cert ID to help food manufacturers respond to the challenges of GMO...
Ilapak upgrades flow-wrapper
Ilapak has completely redesigned its Astra inverted flow-wrapper to offer what is claimed to be a more efficient method of packaging irregularly shaped products.
Synthetic vanilla- a favoured flavour?
When Cyclone Hudah struck the island of Madagascar in April 2000 destroying 15 per cent of the world's vanilla crop the news sent prices rocketing for the peoples favourite ice cream ingredient.
Lubricate or pay the price!
A report from Dow Corning claims that billions of euros are lost each year because of unnecessary repair work which has to be carried out on processing equipment that has not been sufficiently lubricated. The report details a host of measures that...