waste
Carlsberg to develop biodegradable wood-fibre bottle
Carlsberg has announced plans to develop the world’s first fully biodegradable wood-fibre bottle for beverages. It has initiated a three-year project with packaging company ecoXpac – with the collaboration of Innovation Fund Denmark and the Technical University of Denmark – to develop a biodegradable and biobased bottle made from sustainably sourced wood-fibre, to be known […]
Manufacturers slash CO2 emissions
Members of the Food and Drink Federation (FDF) have reduced their carbon dioxide emissions by 35% – ahead of the original target date of 2020. A report published today shows that the target was reached against the 1990 baseline, with emissions falling by 664,000 tonnes of CO2. The FDF Five-fold Environmental Ambition progress report details […]
New platform for processing innovations
The new Natural Processing Solutions platform from Top and its partners provides insight into the opportunities that new processing technologies can offer. Companies that are looking for innovative methods to process food can start their quest here. The technologies have in common that they process products in a natural way, with better preservation of quality […]
Roll on summer
Kliklok has sold another three automatic packaging lines to R&R Ice Cream in the UK for its factory in Northallerton, Yorkshire.
Breakfast snackification
Companies with ambitions in breakfast should not rule out NPD ideas as consumer habits are changing, writes Julian Mellentin, director of New Nutrition Business.
Business news, Food safety, Ingredients, New products, Packaging, Sustainability
Kerbside collection of beverage cartons hits 60%
Recent figures released by the Alliance for Beverage Cartons and the Environment (ACE) UK show that the proportion of UK local authorities collecting beverage cartons for recycling from kerbside has hit 60%. This milestone represents a 15-fold increase on 2006 levels when just 4% of local authorities collected cartons at kerbside and follows sustained, close co-operation […]
Get shelf life savvy
Sophisticated shelf life strategies could help accelerate industry-wide efforts to reduce unnecessary food waste, according to Leatherhead Food Research. A report produced by WRAP suggests that UK households waste around 19% of the food they bring into the home. Some of this wastage could be avoided with more precise shelf life determination. In a bid […]
Shelf life best practice
Isabel Campelos, senior technical advisor (food safety) at Leatherhead Food Research, explores the interplay of shelf life and packaging.
Business news, Food safety, Ingredients, New products, Packaging, Regulatory, Sustainability
Sensible carton
Elopak has launched its latest carton innovation for fresh products – the Pure-Pak Sense. Reflecting the global trend to combat food waste, the carton features easy-to-fold lines, which enable consumers to fold the carton and squeeze out more of the product from the pack; ideal for high viscosity products. The fold lines also enable convenient […]
Spotlight on food waste
Waste-Works, a new waste and resource event dedicated to the food and drink industry, will launch in 2015. The event will take place at the ExCeL centre in London, UK, from 22-25 March alongside IFE and Pro2Pac. The three events combined will cover the full supply chain for food businesses – from farm to fork […]
Batch fryers
FooDesign, a tna company, has launched its automated, hot oil batch-pro 12 series of cookers and fryers. The model offers an efficient way to cook root and other vegetable products, such as potato, carrot, taro, beetroot and parsnip chips. With heat capacities ranging from 90 to 272 kilograms per hour, the batch fryer optimises output. […]
Recycling packaging… and the food?
The creation and poor management of surplus food has been identified as a vast problem throughout Europe.
Cutting and portioning a piece of cake
Specialist food industry automation supplier Newtech sought the advice of Telsonic when building its latest dual robot system, designed to process tray baked product for one of the UK’s leading cake manufacturers.
Print and apply labeller installed
Coding specialist Interactive Coding Equipment (ICE) is helping the Real Yorkshire Pudding Company to increase its production line efficiencies following the UK first installation of the company’s new ICE Vulcan print and apply labeller.