Category: Technology
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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.
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Tate & Lyle is widening its BioHarvest sweetener collaboration. The expanded programme covers multiple plant-based sweetener molecules, strengthening its technical route into sugar reduction as manufacturers seek taste, label, cost, and processing solutions beyond single-ingredient fixes.
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Volkmann has launched contained unloading equipment for allergenic powders. The system combines dust-tight docking, glove box access, and pneumatic conveying integration to improve ingredient handling and operator protection.
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Digital CIP systems are targeting water waste in food plants. Ecolab’s platform uses continuous monitoring and AI-supported recommendations to improve sanitation efficiency, uptime, compliance evidence, and resource control.
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Schubert has introduced a denser TLM platform for packaging lines. The redesign targets higher throughput, smaller footprints, and faster changeovers for food plants upgrading existing automation.
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TraceGains has appointed Zoli Gombosi as senior vice president of engineering as it deepens Veralto integration and expands AI capability across compliance, formulation, packaging, and sustainability workflows.
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Somic Packaging has launched the 434 SuperFlex case-packing platform, designed to handle multiple secondary packaging formats through a modular architecture for food and consumer goods producers.