News & Analysis on the Bakery and Snacks Industries
In a speech given yesterday in Brussels, Dr Franz Fischler, EU Commissioner for Agricultural, Rural Development and Fisheries, outlined a number of pressing areas relating to enlargement, with quality and administrative issues being highlighted.
Global packaging group Sonoco has just opened a new manufacturing facility in Brazil to produce steel easy-open closures for use on metal cans. Annual capacity of the plant is projected to be more than one billion closures.
Speciality ingredients continue to deliver improved results for wheat-based ingredients supplier MGP Ingredients with the company this week raising its estimated revenue for the year on the back of higher than expected sales.
The Russian Agricultural Ministry is already estimating the impact of EU enlargement on its exports of grains, claiming that soon-to-be implemented quotas could cost it more than €300 million year.
US-based Checkpoint Systems, the world's largest integrator of (RFID) technology into consumer product packaging, has announced the expansion of its RF source tagging design centre. This could be of interest to European manufacturers, where growing...