Category: Technology
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Food manufacturers can cut waste by tightening inspection and control. Fortress Technology argues that upstream metal detection, precision checkweighing, automated testing, and connected data tools can reduce false rejects, giveaway, contamination risk, and downtime across production.
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Nedmag has launched Novasal Blend, a magnesium-based salt replacement designed to give food manufacturers a 1:1 route to 30% sodium reduction without major recipe or process changes.
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Duni Group has launched Sealable Ronda, a paper-based ready-meal bowl combining hermetic sealing and modified atmosphere packaging to extend freshness, reduce food waste, and cut plastic content in chilled and prepared food packaging.
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Bühler will use interpack 2026 to show new roasting, chocolate processing, baking, wafer, and extrusion technologies aimed at higher efficiency and broader format flexibility across confectionery, bakery, snacks, food, and feed production.
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Mettler-Toledo Product Inspection has launched the M50 R-Series AdvancedLine metal detectors, combining higher sensitivity, automated testing, secure access control, and data connectivity for food production lines.
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interpack 2026 will spotlight major shifts in FMCG packaging operations. In this Markem-Imaje perspective, Rémy Fontanet outlines how regulation, traceability, efficiency, and connected packaging are reshaping production strategy.
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Eriez will launch its X8-SF Metal Detector at interpack 2026, extending its PrecisionGuard X8 inspection platform with a system aimed at variable food products, traceability, and processing consistency.
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JDE Peet’s and Airbus are using satellite imagery and AI to map coffee plantations across East Africa, creating an open geospatial dataset designed to support deforestation-free coffee sourcing and reduce risk across global coffee supply chains.
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Hybrid meat offers food manufacturers a pragmatic route to reformulation. Dr Briony Sayers of ACI Group argues that partial meat substitution can improve nutrition, reduce emissions, and retain the taste and cooking performance consumers expect.
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Fortifi Food Processing Solutions has agreed to acquire Bradford-based Deighton Manufacturing. The deal expands Fortifi’s forming, portioning, coating, frying, and modular processing capability across meat, fish, dairy, bakery, and prepared foods.