Packaging
New API Amaranth PG foil meets latest colour trends
Brand enhancement specialist API has underlined its on-trend credentials by adding a new colour to its PG range of pigment hot stamping foils.
Food crime reporting facility launched
Food Crime Confidential – a reporting facility where food crime can be reported safely and in confidence, over the phone and by email – has been launched in the UK by the FSA’s National Food Crime Unit (NFCU).
World’s lightest aluminium seafood can
Work at Ardagh Group’s specialist aluminium can plant in Cuxhaven, north Germany, has resulted in the production of the world’s lightest aluminium seafood can.
Environmentally friendly packaging from Crown
Crown Aerosols and Specialty Packaging Europe has collaborated with specialist tea brand Løv Organic to produce a range of premium tins, inspired by the brand’s ethos of respect for the environment.
Round-Up: Processing
Here is your weekly round-up of processing news. Next week’s round-up will focus on Shelf Life news.
Regulatory upheaval warned in event of Brexit
Trace One is warning that UK food retailers and manufacturers will have to plan for potential regulatory upheaval in the event of a ‘leave’ vote in this week’s EU referendum.
Food safety, Ingredients, Packaging, Regulatory, Sustainability
Grinsted DuPont plant switches to green energy
From next year, the DuPont Nutrition & Health plant in Grindsted, Denmark, will become virtually carbon dioxide neutral when the plant’s large coal boiler is retrofitted to burn wood chips.
Light work of heavy sacks
Pacepacker Services has designed and built a bespoke collator system for a potato packing company which supplies a major UK food retailer.
Tunnock’s first
Italian manufacturer PFM has delivered the first of its new Sirio flow wrappers in the UK to family run Scottish baker Tunnock’s, Uddingston, Glasgow.
Condiments meet robots
Swiss food manufacturer Hero has installed three Fanuc six-axis robots fitted with customised grippers to handle the heavy and labour intensive task of palletising the company’s jams and preserves.
Equipment for herbs
UK fresh herb supplier R&G Herbs is expanding rapidly due to the increasing popularity of fresh herbs.
Risky business
Chirag Sheth on cracking the food safety code in a global supply chain
Food safety, Ingredients, Packaging, Regulatory, Sustainability
Fabulous packaging
Diet Coke is partnering with Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie from Fox Searchlight Pictures, which releases in cinemas nationwide on 1 July.
New look Magners
Magners bottles have been relaunched, along with new packaging across all cans and draught formats.