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Belgian bakery ingredients firm Puratos has a new manufacturing and innovation centre in China that will be dedicated to developing products for the local Asian taste requirements.
Save Food International Congress and Exhibition took place at Interpack and highlighted the reasons and solutions for global food loss. It brought together FAO chiefs and world leading experts from the food and packaging industries as well as the retail...
Nestle has signed up to a joint venture to sponsor research into bioplastics with the aim of developing materials adapted to the food packaging segment on a large scale
DuPont-owned Pioneer Hi-Bred has opened two seed research centres in Europe in an attempt to deliver higher yielding corn and sunflower hybrids to farmers and “meet growing demand for food and fuel”.
Some of the leading players in the Irish dairy industry are taking part in a major investment program designed to help develop a new generation of milk-derived functional ingredients to compete with international rivals.
Nizo food research and GMF-Gouda have teamed up to provide drum
drying machinery for a food-grade trial production line at a centre
in Ede, the Netherlands.
Inspired by the burgeoning health trend a collaborative research project between Danish ingredients company Chr. Hansen and dairy manufacturers has resulted in a new yoghurt culture - Yo-Flex - for products aimed at less fat and fewer additives.
Snack producers in the UK have to invest and innovate in order to
survive, and the government should do more to help them, according
to a speaker at the BCCCA Technology Conference.
A seminar is to be held in Victoria, Australia for food
manufacturers to learn how research and development providers can
improve their profits, according to a report from Industry Search.
The research arm of the Nestle Group has said that in 2003 it will
open its global culinary development and technology centre in
Singen, Southern Germany.
The move will result in a more efficient buildup, transfer and
application...
