Rapid rise of global food prices in May
On 3 June 2021, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) reported the fastest monthly rise in food prices despite world...
Marico to scale up New Foods vertical
Konark Gaur has joined Marico as the of the New Foods Business. The company says that Gaur’s task is to scale up the new...
Cosmo Films on the pandemic, industry expansion, exports & sustainability
Amongst the fourteen new film lines coming to India in the next three years is Cosmo Films’ polyester line from Bruckner. Naresh Khanna, editor...
Indian foodgrain output to rise to 305.43 million tons in 2020-21
India’s agriculture ministry released its third advance estimate on 25 May 2021, for the 2020-21 June to July crop year – predicting a rise...
Aptar introduces PolkaLite Closure paired with SimpliCycle Valve Technology
Aptar Food & Beverage leveraged the benefits of two high-performance products, PolkaLite, a lighter version of the Polka closure (-1.3g), and the award-winning SimpliCycle...
BillerudKorsnäs and Haver & Boecker define norms for sack packaging
Last year BillerudKorsnäs and Haver & Boecker published a total of nine sack packaging norms. These norms cover the basics and some of the...
Mettler-Toledo and Evrythng partner for food safety
On 19 May 2021, UK-based Mettler-Toledo Product Inspection announced a strategic partnership with Evrythng, a pioneer of the product cloud. The association provides food...
Redefine Meat appoints Alon Bar-Shany as executive chairman
Alon Bar-Shany well known as the protagonist of HP Indigo digital printing's success for the past 15 years has most recently joined Isreali alternate...
Amcor invests in ePac for digital flexibles
Global packaging major Amcor has announced a strategic investment in US-based ePac flexible packaging, a short-run digital printing company for flexible packaging. The acquisition...
Within the KPMG Indian food processing report 2021
Most of the financial press seemed to get an early look at the recent KPMG report on the Indian food processing industry officially released...
