Category: Topics
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GEA and Siemens will use Hannover Messe to show how cloud connectivity, AI analytics, and modular automation can tighten beverage processing, reduce engineering effort, and speed plant changes from raw-material handling through filling integration.
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Barry Callebaut lifted recurring net profit in the first half, but weaker volumes, cocoa-market overcapacity, and supply disruption pushed operating earnings lower and forced a downgrade to its full-year outlook.
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Harrogate Spring Water faces a decisive planning vote over its Harrogate bottling plant expansion, with critics arguing the loss of Rotary Wood sits uneasily beside Danone’s forest commitments and wider corporate nature claims.
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London Packaging Week’s awards deadline is approaching fast. Food-pack innovation is being judged as much on performance and compliance as design.
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AIC has set out new fertiliser priorities for ministers. Finance, CBAM clarity, and market visibility remain central to the UK input outlook.
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Arla is taking GLP-1 companion dairy concepts to Barcelona. Smaller, protein-dense formats are moving quickly from niche nutrition into mainstream dairy development.
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Mars and ofi are scaling regenerative cocoa work in Ecuador. The programme links agroforestry, lower-carbon inputs, and farm resilience more directly to long-term ingredient security.
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A new supply-chain coalition is forming ahead of key EUDR milestones. The move sharpens the debate over traceability, smallholder inclusion, and workable compliance for food ingredient supply chains.
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A new Hokkaido model aims to track fish freshness continuously. The approach could support shelf-life forecasting, quality control, and lower seafood waste across longer export chains.
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Choosing inspection technology depends on product, packaging, process, and risk. In this expert analysis, Mettler-Toledo’s Kati Hope explains when metal detection, x-ray, or a combined approach best fits contaminant risk, packaging format, and production-line demands.