Category: Topics
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Packaging codes are carrying more data and more operational weight. Domino has launched the Gx-Series PRO Printhead to help food manufacturers prepare for GS1 Digital Link and higher-volume 2D code printing.
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Lower-sodium reformulation is moving closer to ingredient-scale manufacturing. SALTWELL Group has opened a new Chile facility to increase output, strengthen supply, and support food manufacturers reducing sodium without giving up functionality or clean-label positioning.
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Mettler-Toledo is strengthening its European inspection offer through Eagle. The move adds higher-performance x-ray and inline fat-analysis capability for processors looking to tighten contaminant detection, yield protection, and composition control.
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Magtein is using Vitafoods Europe to sharpen its scientific positioning. ThreoTech plans to put fresh clinical results, delivery-format strategy, and commercial market access in front of formulators as the magnesium category becomes more segmented.
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Poultry processors are tightening control over yield, labour, and risk. At VIV Europe 2026, Ishida Europe will present X-ray inspection, robotic grading, and AI-led monitoring systems aimed at faster, more consistent poultry production.
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Sensient is committing new capital to natural colour manufacturing in St Louis. The expansion reflects how quickly reformulation pressure is turning colour from a marketing issue into a production, sourcing, and process challenge.
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The UK deposit return scheme has entered a more technical phase. Exchange for Change has now set out container, barcode, and identification rules that producers will need to build into packaging decisions ahead of registration deadlines.
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Celleste Bio has moved cultured cocoa butter closer to scale. Milk chocolate bars made with its ingredient by Mondelēz now put the technology into a more practical discussion about cost, functionality, and future supply resilience.
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HiPP’s baby food recall has widened across Central Europe rapidly. What began as a suspected tampering case in Austria has become a cross-border traceability and packaging-integrity problem with immediate implications for recall speed, shelf controls, and pack inspection.
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Kerry has opened expanded lactase capacity in Carrigaline, County Cork. The move lifts industrial-scale enzyme output for lactose-free and reduced-sugar dairy as processors look for faster commercialisation, steadier supply, and tighter process support across multiple markets.