New Zealand-based Fonterra—the world’s largest dairy exporter—is bringing its dairy goodness to online consumers in Southeast Asia for the first time through a new partnership with Lazada, the leading online shopping destination in the region. This is Fonterra’s first partnership with an e-commerce company in Southeast Asia and will see…
THAIFEX-World of Food Asia 2018: Biggest Edition With 11 Mega Halls Fully-Booked By More Than 2,500 Exhibitors
THAIFEX-World of Food Asia—the largest dedicated trade show for the F&B industry in the region commenced on 29 May 2018 returns for its biggest edition yet, at the IMPACT Exhibition and Convention Centre in Bangkok. The show will be held from 29 May to 02 June 2018. Compared to previous…
Why Consumer Centricity Is At The Top Of The Agenda At This Year’s Global Summit
APFI speaks to Peter Freedman, managing director of The Consumer Goods Forum (CGF), about a month ahead of the Global Summit—the flagship event of the forum, which will be held in Singapore on 12-15 June 2018. CGF offers an opportunity for chief executive officers (CEOs) and senior leaders to come…
GlobalData: Chinese Demand May Lead To Seismic Shift In Sales Pattern Of Baby Formula In Australia
Daigou—the practice of a person outside of China purchasing commodities for a customer in mainland China—is creating havoc in Australia as baby formula crisis hits baby milk market, says leading data and analytics company GlobalData. The demand for foreign products has reportedly surged in China, following a series of infant…
igus: Smart Plastics To Increase Plant Safety And Reduce Maintenance Costs
“Machine Learning”, “Big Data” and “Industry 4.0”—the real potential customer benefits from digitalisation are often hidden behind these buzzwords. The company’s new intelligent plastic solutions offer many options for predictive maintenance. Intelligent such as igus smart plastics, for example, enable companies to increase the reliability of their systems, plan maintenance…
Scientific Study: BENEO’s Palatinose Improves Fat Oxidation And Performance In Athletes
A scientific study by Professor Daniel König and his team at the Department of Sports and Sport Sciences of the University of Freiburg, Germany, has shown that with a pre-load of Palatinose, endurance athletes “maintained a more stable blood glucose profile and higher fat oxidation, which resulted in improved cycling…
Roquette Inaugurates A New Pea Protein Production Unit At Its Vic-sur-Aisne Site
Roquette, a global leader in plant-based ingredients for Food, Nutrition and Health markets, is announcing the start-up of a new production unit dedicated to specialty pea protein at its site in Vic-sur-Aisne in Hauts-de-France in France. This expansion is part of the 40 million euro investment plan announced in 2017…
Meyer Industries And KOFAB Team Up To Become PFI
Two industry leaders in the food conveying industry—KOFAB and Meyer Industries—are teaming up to capitalise on their respective strengths and maximise their ability to offer innovative and technologically-advanced solutions to their customers in a new company, Precision Food Innovations (PFI) in Pella, Iowa. PFI will operate as the food division…
Kalsec’s US-Grown Crops Sustainably Sourced
All farms growing Kalsec crops in Texas and Oklahoma have now completed the Farm Sustainability Assessment (FSA) 2.0, and received an FSA Silver level rating. Crops rated as part of this assessment include: carrot, chili peppers, paprika, rosemary and beetroot, all traceable back to the farm and field. As a…
Going Plastic-Free In A World Of Sustainable Food Packaging
Following news that a Dutch supermarket has opened the world’s first plastic-free food aisle, Robert Glass, ABB’s global food and beverage communications manager, explores the alternatives to plastic food packaging. While there has been extensive talk about the environmental considerations of food manufacturing and packaging in the last 20 years,…
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