Category: Technology
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Baby food pouch testing has intensified scrutiny on flexible plastics. Greenpeace-commissioned analysis of Nestlé and Danone products adds pressure on pouch materials, migration controls, supplier evidence, and infant nutrition packaging formats.
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Macpac has added Sulapac Flow to its thermoformed packaging range. The wood-polymer composite is food-contact compliant, industrially compostable, and designed to replace conventional plastics in inserts, trays, and single-use packaging.
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ADM has launched eight soy and pea ingredients across key markets. The new portfolio covers meat alternatives, beverages, dairy alternatives, baked goods, batters, and breadings in North America and Europe.
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Biospringer has strengthened its fermentation platform beyond yeast-derived ingredients. The acquisition of selected PTX Food technology adds bacteria-fermented ingredient capability to its food and beverage portfolio.
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Koenig has scaled suction dividing for industrial bakery production lines. The Industrie Rex Evo EC combines 24,000-piece hourly output, ±1% stated weight accuracy, modular changeover, and hygiene-focused access for industrial dough processing.
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Sanitation technology is moving beyond chemical-intensive cleaning regimes at scale. Element Six and Oxi-Tech are partnering to accelerate synthetic-diamond-enabled disinfection for dairy, food production, and other industrial users.
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Beverage packaging is becoming a production-efficiency problem. Lightweight PET, tethered closures, barrier coatings, aseptic lines, and integrated filling systems are reshaping soft drink operations under cost and regulatory pressure.
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Dairy ingredients are being pulled into higher-performance formulation work. Armor Protéines has highlighted caseins, whey systems, bioactives, and fermentation-derived lactoferrin for nutrition-led food and beverage applications.
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Hybrid meat gives manufacturers a practical route to lower-impact protein. ACI Group’s Dr Briony Sayers explains that, by combining animal and plant proteins, it can preserve familiar taste and texture while reducing emissions, land use, and reliance on conventional meat supply chains.
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ReposiTrak has added more snack suppliers to its traceability network. The expansion extends supplier-to-distribution centre-to-store data exchange across nuts, olives, trail mixes, dried fruit snacks, and other products as traceability becomes a routine operating requirement.