The Finnish bakery products and sweets producer is building a bespoke manufacturing facility to make xylitol from oat hulls, derived as a side stream during the company’s oat milling process.
International bakery and confectionery business Fazer Group has announced it is to expand its operations with a new factory in Russia and the acquisition of an artisanal bakery in Finland.
Finnish firm Fazer has announced the closure of two of its bakeries – a move it said was unavoidable considering a market shift from pre-packed bread to in-store baked.
Finnish ag-food giant Raisio has sold its €7m a year oat, soy and rice foods business that includes its Soygurt business to €330m Norwegian food company Kavli.
Stora Enso has announced a raft of restructuring efforts to reduce costs including the closure of a Finland plant and reductions in all the Swedish sites that have corrugated packaging operations.
Industrial bread sales in Sweden, Denmark and Finland will decline in the next five years as a result of a low-carb trend and changing consumer habits, according to an analyst from Euromonitor.
Multivac said the desire to boost its palletizing operations to meet growing demand for full line solutions was a major driver behind its acquisition of Finnish company Trimaster Oy.
Huhtamaki has completed the sale of its European rigid plastics operations and immediately served notice of its expansion plans thanks to an acquisition fund of around €300m.
Huhtamaki has posted improved year-on-year figures for the first half of 2010 as it predicted better returns in H2 despite continued uncertainties in the market.
Finnish bakery group Vaasan said it is intent on developing the bake-off market in Denmark following its acquisition of a 50 per cent stake in the Danish company Nordic Bake-off.
Sweden-based firm, Lantmännen Cerealia, said that it has withdrawn some crushed linseed products manufactured under the GoGreen brand in Finland and Sweden after a batch of crushed linseed it had sourced from Russia tested positive for GM traces.
Dutch bakery ingredients leader CSM continues to slash
non-profitable activities, announcing yesterday that it will close
its BakeMark sales office in Finland as part of its restructuring
of the Bakery Supplies activities in the Nordic...
Fortifying wheat flour with iron appears to have little effect on
improving intake of the mineral, suggests a report in this month's
European Journal of Nutrition.
Elopak has decided to concentrate the carton production of its two
wholly owned Nordic manufacturing plants in Lahti, Finland and will
close its other operation in Spikkestad, Norway.
Finnish company K. Hartwall has said it has strengthened its market
position as a supplier of trays to the beverage industry by buying
out the corresponding operation within Arca Systems.
