Category: Topics
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Italian packaging and processing machinery revenue approached €10.5bn during 2025. Food and beverage remained the largest end-use markets, reinforcing the sector’s importance to European automation, packaging, and line integration.
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New JRC estimates sharpen Europe’s food packaging compliance pressure further. Food and beverage dominate the study scope, while plastic is the only packaging material category to show absolute growth between 2011 and 2025.
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Tetra Pak has launched its first industrial fermentation bioreactor system. The Bioreactor RF supports New Food and ingredient scale up, using magnetic agitation, automated controls, and vessel sizes from 10 to 50,000 litres.
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Brainr has raised fresh capital for meat processing software expansion. The Portuguese developer will use a €1.5m extension from Portugal Ventures to scale its factory operating system across meat plants and adjacent food manufacturing sectors.
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Global food commodity prices softened slightly during June 2026 overall. FAO data showed cereals, sugar, and dairy falling, while vegetable oils rose and meat reached a record high.
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European packaging groups are seeking regulatory stability on plastics rules. Industry associations have warned that reopening the Single-Use Plastics Directive too soon could increase fragmentation, compliance cost, and investment uncertainty.
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Coexpan is pushing recycled polystyrene into Europe’s food-contact packaging systems. Its rPS Food platform targets cup-to-cup circularity for yoghurt and other thermoformed applications.
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Mars is moving more packaging toward circular design standards globally. The group says 67.6% of its consumer-facing packaging is now designed to be reusable, recyclable, or compostable.
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Holderhof has added end-of-line automation for Swiss fruit processing operations. The company has installed SMI case-packing and palletising systems for bottles, jars, trays, wrap-around cases, and europallet handling.
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Ehrmann and Glow25 are entering Germany’s functional chilled coffee market. The partners will launch Glow To Go Coffee in August, combining dairy processing, collagen, caffeine, micronutrients, and glass-bottle convenience.