fruit

 

June 2014

Product Focus: Fruit and vegetables Ingredients: Emulsifiers and stabilisers Packaging: Plastics and films Processing: Lubricants and machinery maintenance; Health, safety and hygiene

Westfro expands capacity with investment in Bühler

The Bühler Group has installed additional Sortex optical sorting equipment at Westfro, the family-run Belgian producer of frozen vegetables, herbs and fruit. Westfro has an annual production capacity of 95,000 tonnes and, for over 40 years, the company has specialised in minimising the time between harvest and processing, in order to preserve the optimum level […]

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DEL MONTE adds zest to its Occasions range

Premium fruit juice brand, Del Monte is re-launching its Occasions cocktail range in new packaging and adding a new Mango Margarita flavour to the range. The packs reflect the festive nature of these juice-based drinks and highlights how, unlike traditional cocktail mixers, they can be drunk either with or without alcohol. Occasions Margarita has mango as a base, which is […]

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Pick of the crop

Summer has arrived, along with the nice, fresh-looking pineapple cover of this month. Our product focus on fruit and vegetables peels the layers off the different aspects of this sector. I’ve looked at handling, processing, logistics and new products so you get a good overview of new developments across the line. In terms of overviews, […]

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New Swedish cider flavours

Kopparberg, the Swedish fruit cider, aims to bring a touch of Scandinavian cool to this year’s summer months with two of the new ciders flavours – Kopparberg Cloudberry and Kopparberg Elderflower and Lime. Found in Sweden, cloudberries are sharper than typical forest fruits and have a flavour that provides a refreshing alternative to sweeter summer […]

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Sensient introduces five new flavours

Sensient Flavors Europe has introduced a new range of natural melon flavours.  The line includes five flavours in the most popular varieties of melon: Cantaloupe, Galia, Honeydew, Piel de Sapo and Watermelon. Using the Natural Origins extracts as a building block, they offer authentic sensory profiles and can be declared as natural flavourings. The new range […]

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Vegesentials expands range with new children’s product

The ‘Fresh Kids On The Go’ range is the newest product from Vegesentials, the UK’s first raw, unpasteurised fruit and vegetable drink brand. Having provided consumers with juices and smoothies with high nutritional value since launching in 2012, the family run company is now expanding its offering with a new line especially designed for children. […]

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Flexicon offers FLEXI-DISC line of Tubular Cable Conveyors for fragile materials

Flexicon is now offering its FLEXI-DISC line of Tubular Cable Conveyors for fragile materials, integrated with upstream and/or downstream equipment that sources material from single or multiple locations and delivers it selectively to storage vessels, filling machines or other processing equipment. Upstream equipment ranges from Inlet Hoppers and Metering Devices to Bulk Bag Dischargers, Drum/Box/Container […]

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Mariani Packing celebrates success

Mariani Packing, an independently-owned producer and packer of dried fruit, is celebrating the first anniversary of its European warehouse overseen by Mariani Europe. Mariani claims that its success in Europe in recent months is due to its continued focus on expanding service to these markets. A partnership with VAT Logistics, a warehousing facility in Rotterdam, […]

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Wild’s new concepts for beer mixes and malt beverages

‘Lime-Guaraná-Açai’ is a new beer-mix concept developed by ingredient specialist, Wild, containing lime juice and guaraná extract. Wild hopes to forge a link between beer mixes and energy drinks and enable breweries and beverage manufacturers the opportunity to tap into both of these markets. “Currently innovative flavors are especially in demand with beer mixes. Options […]

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New modular hotfill machine

Sidel, the international supplier of liquid packaging solutions to the drinks industry, has produced a new modular hotfill machine that offers customers an extensive range of possible configurations. Part of the Sidel Matrix range, it provides high standards of hygiene to meet the production demands of more natural and fresher beverages, even those including pulps […]

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