Sustainable palm oil body reinstates Nestlé’s membership
Three weeks after Nestlé was suspended from the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) for breaching its code of conduct, the food giant has been reinstated after submitting its action plan to achieve 100 % RSPO-certified sustainable palm oil by 2023.
Lesaffre acquires bakery ingredients specialist Delavau Food Partners
Lesaffre has purchased Delavau Food Partners, an innovator in baking ingredients based in North America.
DSM extends use of enzymatic acrylamide-reduction for baked goods
Global awareness of acrylamide is on the rise. Not without reason: Acrylamide is a suspected carcinogenic substance formed in foods containing reducing sugars which are processed at a high temperature.
Barry Callebaut: volume growth across all regions and product groups
In the first 9 months of fiscal year 2017/18 (ended May 31, 2018), the Barry Callebaut Group grew its sales volume by 6.9% to 1.513 m tonnes.
JM Smucker offloads US baking business to private equity
The JM Smucker Company has signed an agreement to divest its US baking business to private equity firm Brynwood Partners in a deal valued at USD 375 m.
Hastamat: Michael Schulze new Managing Director
In June 2018, Michael Schulze took over the management of Hastamat, a packaging machine manufacturer based in Lahnau/Germany.
GEA: new machines offer record breaking speed
The machines presented by GEA at ProSweets trade fair were characterized by high production speeds. The Aquarius FlexFormer Extra High ...
Treofan launches new IML label film
EWR50, the new version of the IML label film EWR from BOPP specialist Treofan, is now even thinner than the ...
Zanders: packaging for high quality confectionery
Zanders has further expanded its Zanpack portfolio: high basis weights of 450 g/m2 in Zanpack silk (one-side, double-coated) and Zanpack ...
New loading system allows for dust-free bag feeding
In the field of bag emptying, the food industry faces various challenges that cannot always be adequately mastered in practice. Thanks to a new bag loading station of Motec, the contamination of workplaces and the slow flow of material during the bag loading of lumpy and cloggy bulk materials in particular are now obsolete.
New at the ZDS: training as a chocolatier
Artful creations, extraordinary combinations of flavours – the product spectrum of the best chocolatiers in the world ranges from hot ...
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