Category: Technology
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ULMA Packaging UK will make its FoodTech Ireland debut as it expands its Irish market focus across thermoforming, flow wrapping, tray sealing, and automated food packaging systems.
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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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ystral has opened a new ATEX-compliant trial centre in Germany, expanding customer testing capacity for mixing, dispersing, powder wetting, and process development across food and other industries.
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Finnish researchers have advanced cellulose-based films and coatings for food packaging, targeting plastic replacement without sacrificing barrier performance, converting compatibility, or end-of-life performance.
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Food processing software is shifting into operating budgets. JBT Marel has introduced a subscription model for processors seeking lower-risk access to production data, traceability, support, training, and upgrades.
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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.
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Fresh produce packing needs speed without product damage. ULMA Packaging UK will showcase VFFS technology with Venturi air-assisted handling for leafy salad and delicate produce applications.
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NORD DRIVESYSTEMS has developed NXD tupH surface protection for aluminium drive systems used in food, beverage, and primary packaging applications exposed to wash-down cleaning.
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Xampla’s Morro plant-polymer coating has moved further into the UK packaging policy debate as natural polymer materials scale into food packaging applications.