Category: Confectionery
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Fazer’s new Lahti confectionery plant is taking shape around digital control. ITI Group has been selected to deliver the MES layer for the €400 million facility, covering recipe handling, performance monitoring, and full product genealogy.
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Celleste Bio has moved cultured cocoa butter closer to scale. Milk chocolate bars made with its ingredient by Mondelēz now put the technology into a more practical discussion about cost, functionality, and future supply resilience.
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UPM Specialty Materials and Felix Schoeller have launched a fibre-based flexible pack structure aimed at food applications where recyclability, barrier control, and converting performance all need to sit in the same specification.
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Barry Callebaut lifted recurring net profit in the first half, but weaker volumes, cocoa-market overcapacity, and supply disruption pushed operating earnings lower and forced a downgrade to its full-year outlook.
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Mars and ofi are scaling regenerative cocoa work in Ecuador. The programme links agroforestry, lower-carbon inputs, and farm resilience more directly to long-term ingredient security.
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Fermtech has raised fresh funding to scale Koji Cocoa, a fermentation-derived ingredient made from cocoa side streams as manufacturers search for lower-cost and more resilient cocoa inputs.
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Cargill has expanded specialty fats capacity in Port Klang, Malaysia. The new line broadens regional supply for confectionery, bakery, frying, fillings, and dairy applications.
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Theegarten-Pactec has launched the FPC6, a new-generation flow-wrapping machine aimed at chocolate, confectionery, cereal and protein bars, functional foods, and snack applications.
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Ferrara has moved Black Forest’s everyday gummy range to USDA Organic, extending ingredient certification, packaging refresh, and national distribution across a large confectionery line.
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Cadbury Mini Eggs are moving into recycled plastic packaging. Mondelēz and Amcor have updated parts of the Easter range with higher certified recycled content and revised gift pack materials.