The Manitoba government is working to grow the province’s food-related business, currently valued at $4bn annually, with financial and educational encouragement.
Frost & Sullivan host GIL Europe 2014 May 14, London
Food producers need to keep up with technology, adopt risk management practices, and work together to meet the increasing demand for food in the coming years; according to Frost & Sullivan.
Big interview: Craig Lieberman, founder & CEO, 34 Degrees
When Craig Lieberman flew to Sydney to study for a Master’s Degree in International Relations in the mid-1990s, his goal was to be a diplomat. But not long after he arrived, the idea for another, very different, career started to take shape.
Political instability in the Ukraine has reinforced the UK’s need to increase its own food security and production, National Farmers Union (NFU) president Meurig Raymond has warned.
As one of the forerunners of the commercialization of edible insects in the US, Chapul, makes its first big push into the national market with its cricket protein bars, founder Pat Crowley caught up with FoodNavigator-USA on the enviable efficiency of...
Olympus Automation’s Steam Infusion has won a £30k award by Shell Springboard a competition sponsored by industry giant Shell for reducing carbon emissions.
Holmach plans to kick off its 40th anniversary this year with Heinz and the Institute for Thermal Processing Specialists at the Thermal Processing conference at Campden BRI from June 12-13.
As part of FoodProductionDaily’s ongoing series of 60-second interviews with the movers and shakers of the food and beverage industry, we caught up with Tim Durance, chairman, and Co-CEO of EnWave Corporation.
US consumers feel they don’t know enough about where their food comes from, and how it’s grown and produced—and that knowledge gap could be creating mistrust of retail food products.
The Pure Michigan Agriculture Summit brings together the state’s food and beverage processors with retailers like Whole Foods, and raw materials suppliers.
2 Sisters Food Group has announced a multi-million pound expansion of its ready meals plant in Carlisle, UK that will increase the factory’s output from 80m-90m meals a year.
High-pressure processing is gaining popularity in food and beverage processing; Universal Pasteurization is opening its doors to give food professionals a chance to check it out for themselves.
Indian Tobacco Company (ITC) will open a Rs.700 crore ($113m) food manufacturing facility producing branded packaged biscuits, snacks, noodles, juices and Atta (wheat/powder flour).
Materne North America, the makers of GoGo squeeZ Applesauce, will reportedly invest $85m in a food processing plant in Nampa, Idaho, creating 230 jobs.
Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology (JKUAT), in Kenya, has partnered with Nissin Food Holdings in Japan to open a food processing factory.
Spiroflow’s remodelled T2 bulk bag discharger, which stops dust from settling on the machine and food items in the bakery and snack sector, will make its debut at FoodEx in March.
Nestlé has defended itself and its allergy charity consort against criticism of the marketing of its ''lunchbox friendly'' muesli bars to schools despite them being unsuitable for nut allergy sufferers.
Finger foods that are specifically designed for people suffering from Alzheimer's disease could help those suffering with the condition to eat more and improve their nutritional status, say researchers.
Automation, sustainability, shelf-life extension, smart packaging and other technologies are some of the items FoodProductionDaily has planned for the year.
In the face of the ever-growing number of edible items and pack configurations, packaging equipment must keep up with the rapid evolution of the industry.
Tunisia, Iran, Serbia and Indonesia hold great promise for dry dessert mixes given that these markets have less chilled and frozen storage, an analyst says.
Systems Integration has sold its Integreater food software to JCS Fish, which supplies fresh and frozen salmon through its Big Fish brand and customers’ own labels.
Thanks to affordable manufacturing labor and increased demand for Latin-flavored foods, Mexico is becoming an attractive locale for processing and packaging firms.
‘Time and time again we hear reports about ingredients used in packaging materials migrate into the comestible contents. Frequent causes include printing inks on labels or the use of contaminated waste paper.
