Category: Markets
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Sweden’s Returpack/Pantamera has received RecyClass certification for food-safe PET bottle sorting, strengthening traceability and recycled-content confidence for beverage packaging loops.
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Dawn Foods’ 2026 Trend Report for Europe and AMEAP sets out four sweet bakery trends, linking consumer behaviour with scalable product development, formulation, and manufacturing decisions.
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Soil Capital’s European farm dataset suggests regenerative practices reduced drought-related yield losses, giving food manufacturers a sharper data point on raw material resilience and sourcing risk.
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I.T.S has introduced natural flavour solutions for creamy ready-to-drink beverages, targeting cream soda, dessert-inspired drinks, functional beverages, and dairy-style formats.
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Longer contracts are becoming supply-chain infrastructure. Lidl GB has committed £500m to British berry sourcing over five years, giving growers more certainty as cost, labour, and climate pressure persist.
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Packaging failures can turn quickly into safety incidents. Dalston’s Pineapple Soda has been recalled after concerns that affected cans may break apart unexpectedly and leave sharp edges.
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A wide frozen food alert has hit UK businesses. All frozen products sold under Inarah’s Frozen Foods, Inarah’s Fine Foods, and New York Crispy labels should be withdrawn and not consumed.
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Packaged former foodstuffs are moving further into feed systems. Trotec’s LIFE F3 project has added capacity, expanded recycling routes, and opened a replication path in Poland and Spain.
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Baking trials remain essential, but data is narrowing guesswork. KPM Analytics has opened a new baking lab in France to connect flour, dough, process, and finished product measurements.
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Meat processors face pressure to automate portioning, packing, and labelling. JBT Marel’s expanded line offer links crust freezing, cutting, weighing, tray packing, sealing, price labelling, and case packing into a single configured production flow.