The University of Wisconsin was awarded first place for its freeze-dried cake bites in this year's Bimbo-sponsored baking contest at the Baking Tech Conference held in Chicago on February 27 and 28, 2018.
Kerala-based botanicals major Arjuna Natural Extracts will launch a range of preservatives that the company says will appeal to the clean-label food fixation of millennials by combining herbal extracts with advanced technologies.
British equipment manufacturer Starfrost has relocated its UK headquarters and manufacturing base to a purpose built facility near Lowestoft, in Suffolk.
Universal Pasteurization Company, which delivers outsourced High Pressure Processing (HPP) services has announced its wholly owned subsidiary, UPC Texas has acquired Global Leading Foods (GL Foods).
The Praxair ColdFront Cryo-Saver tunnel freezer is designed to offer a higher degree of freezing efficiency in the same footprint of a traditional cryogenic tunnel.
Hirzel Canning Co. & Farms has expanded its line of Truly tomato products, switching to SIG 750g Combibloc cartons, as it celebrates its 90th anniversary this year, but insists cans still have a major role to play within the industry.
H.B. Fuller Co. has introduced Flextra Fast SF8700/XR1000 laminating adhesive, designed to help speed up the process of filling flexible food packaging.
EnWave Corp. the developer of a microwave/vacuum drying technique, has formed a 70/30 partnership with Lucid Capital Management to use the technology to manufacture and market a line of dried cheese snacks for sale in US markets.
Praxair will focus on developing its temperature controlled systems in the coming year in response to US customer demand, according to Phil Davis, associate director, marketing and communications.
GEA Refrigeration Technology is offering manufacturers better quality food quality, longer shelf life and improved capacity with the launch of a High Velocity Freezer (HVF) unit.
Only an extraordinary pension return of Y27.7bn (€268m) dragged Japanese food, ingredients and pharma player Ajinomoto into the black for the March-September period as ordinary income slid 11% to Y39.2bn (€379m).
Linde Gases has launched a new high-capacity compact cryogenic spiral freezer designed to boost frozen food productivity, reduce the amount of liquid nitrogen used in the freezing process and lower maintenance and sanitation costs.
JBT FoodTech, a subsidiary of JBT Corporation, has signed a deal worth more than $4m to supply freezing solutions to a French-based food processing plant.
A ground-breaking new UK-led research project will investigate the potential for cryogenic and electromagnetic freezing and chilling technologies for food processing applications.
The prospect of not having to use heat to decontaminate food is appealing to industry but so far non-thermal techniques have failed to make it onto many factory floors. James Lyng, senior food science lecturer at University College Dublin, expects that...
Kellogg is the fifth multinational food giant to sign a research and development agreement with EnWave to test the company’s dehydration technology for a product area which includes cereals and cereal bars.
A lack of recycling options makes compostable materials the best option for flexible packaging films in the dry food market, according to Innovia Films.
Bread manufacturer, Grupo Bimbo, is the latest food giant to sign a research deal with EnWave to test “certain food products” on its nutraREV vacuum-based food dehydration technology.
JBT FoodTech said despite growing demand for its freezing and protein processing systems, year-on-year second quarter revenues fell by seven per cent to US$135m.
Around US$30bn worth of investment is needed to “revolutionise” India’s food processing sector to boost the volume of processed products to 10 per cent of overall output by 2015, according to a new report.
Manufacturers of a ‘revolutionary’ food dehydration system are bidding to expand the technology to a host of new foodstuffs after working with 15 companies to determine the benefits of the equipment.
Improved standards of hygiene for food processors and more reliable data on freezer operating performance are claimed for engineering company Linde’s new range of cryogenic freezers.
Three out of four companies which won an Innovation Award at the Institute of Food Technologists’ Annual Meeting and Food Expo in Anaheim, California, were recognized for their food processing inventions.
New consumer research indicates shoppers are falling back on frozen food to keep bellies full through the recession, according to the Food and Drink Federation – and that, in turn, can stimulate new product development geared to pressing needs.
A new study by the Freedonia Group has calculated that US demand
for frozen food packaging is estimated to increase through 2011,
driven largely by greater demand for convenience foods.
Industry needs to step up efforts to counter stigma associated with
frozen food compared with chilled or 'fresh' produce, says
Leatherhead. Although consumers are hearing the message, they are
not yet buying into it.