Compostable plastic packaging for vegetables. Photo: Domino

Compostable plastic packaging is easier said than done

Environmental concerns have prompted a tremendous rise in alternative ‘sustainable’ solutions that look and feel like traditional plastic but can be composted at end...
Innovative handling system for cookies and crackers from Syntegon

Innovative handling system for cookies and crackers from Syntegon

Syntegon has come up with a new solution for handling and portioning cookies and crackers with its IDH (intelligent direct handling) process, which is...
Taco Bell experiments with plant-based protein

Taco Bell experiments with plant-based protein

Fast-food brand Taco Bell is experimenting with a plant-based protein in its new offering, the crispy melt taco, for its customers in Birmingham. It...
FSSAI has announced legal action to be taken against adulteration of edible oil. Photo: iStockphoto

FSSAI campaigns to check edible oil adulteration

The Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) launched a nationwide campaign from 1 to 14 August to check the adulteration of edible...
Ankush Mittal (Left) and Amit Gupta (Right), both Millennium Cans & Containers’ founders, at their Stand in PackPlus Delhi 2022. Photo: PSA

Millenium Cans & Containers talks about composite cans at PackPlus

Delhi-NCR Sonipat-based Millennium Cans & Containers is a leading manufacturer and supplier of a wide range of composite cans, paper tubes, tin cans, and...
Rice paddy fields in India Photo Wikkicommons

Poor monsoon in June jeopardizes rice cultivation in India this year

In a comprehensive article in DownToEarth dated 1 August 2022, Shagun reported that the failure of the monsoon in June has meant that in the Kharif...
Buhler

Bühler and Al-Hazaa open flour mill in Aqaba, Jordan

Bühler and Jordanian Al-Hazaa Investment Group celebrated the opening of the Red Sea Flour (Ayla Mill) in Aqaba, Jordan, on 4 July. With the...
Arvid Nordquist coffee

Arvid Nordquist coffee – A tale of film and little air

A concept as vast as sustainability is hard to pinpoint. Its many facets, however, present great opportunities, as they allow organizations across industries to...
Cupfee edible coffee cups Photo Bühler

Bühler and Cupffee on the circular economy

Plovdiv (Bulgaria), Uzwil (Switzerland), 19 July 2022 – Swiss Bühler Group and Bulgarian start-up Cupffee have been joining forces to address the urgent problem...
Active food packaging can help to avoid food wastage and improve food safety. Photo credit: Sophia Marston on Unsplash

Food wastage needs proper management

Active packaging technologies are the best preventive measures to reduce food waste. But many of these never reach the common public. The communication director...