Category: Technology
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deltaH has moved its self-cooling beverage can towards commercial launch. Brains Brewery’s Bayside Welsh Lager will provide a branded application of the system, which uses a contained endothermic reaction to cool the drink without conventional refrigeration.
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Leeds researchers have identified hundreds of potential plant-protein emulsifier ingredients. Their computational screening method narrows millions of possible proteins before laboratory testing, with pea and potato proteins among the candidates already shown to perform as predicted.
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Prosur will showcase clean-label ingredient systems at Jakarta’s FI Asia. The company is positioning its existing Get It Natural toolbox around additive reduction, fermentation, sweetening, and cocoa replacement for manufacturers facing changing formulation requirements.
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Orderly has secured Innovate UK backing for factory AI trials. The six-month feasibility project will test stock and ordering technology inside an East Midlands prepared-food manufacturer.
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Belgium is testing digital watermarks across flexible food packaging nationally. The HolyGrail 2030 trial aims to create a sortable food-contact polypropylene stream for future recycling.
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GEA is expanding separation testing capacity at its Oelde centre. The project adds a third test room and supports pilot inputs up to 5,000 litres per hour.
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Novonesis will invest €600 million in Indian enzyme production capacity. The Patalganga expansion is due online in 2030 and will serve food, beverage, biofuel, and household-care customers across growing regional markets.
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Tirlán completed its SAP separation without interrupting dairy production operations. The nine-month programme migrated core enterprise systems and analysed more than 30 billion records while maintaining an eleven-site manufacturing network.
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Wageningen has secured funding to turn agricultural side-streams into proteins. The six-year VASCO programme combines separation, fermentation, product development, consumer research, and commercial work around underused crop residues.
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Grote is acquiring Turatti to broaden European food processing capability. The transaction adds Italian fresh-produce engineering, complete lines, automation, and service capacity to an expanding international equipment group.