New Packaging Policies Are A Global Game Changer

Susan Hansen, Global Strategist, Food&Agri Supply Chains for Rabobank, explores the changing packaging policies in China and its global impact.    The Policy Challenge Over the last couple of years, local and national governments worldwide have presented strategies for dealing with the growing challenges of packaging waste. Some of these proposed…

Ecological Awareness Challenges The Packaging Industry

In the packaging sector, one should never lose sight of the big picture: the overall goal is to produce packaging with low ecological impact over its complete product life cycle. By Jörg Sabo, marketing director of Greiner Packaging International.   Sustainability is the order of the day. Once scoffed at…

Improving Efficiency, Sustainability And Profitability In Beverage Production

Liquid product recovery and pigging technology will help businesses increase yields, reduce costs, speed up changeovers and become more sustainable, says Peter Elgar, group marketing manager of HPS Product Recovery Solutions.   Why More Companies Will Start “Pigging” In 2018 Beverage production is changing. Droughts, sugar taxes, raw material costs,…

The Forthcoming Food-Grade Lubricants You & The Environment

Moving towards business sustainability, companies would have to create economic values by contributing to a safe and healthy environmental system, without compromising and affecting the future generations. By Benjamin Teo, senior technical sales engineer and Nicholas Seow, senior marketing executive, Tecsia Lubricants When it comes to food industry plants, the…

Sustaining The Seas

Sustainability of food sources is becoming an ever increasingly important issue among consumers, food manufacturers and even governments. APFI talks with Kenjyu Kawamura, director of Kesennuma Shishiori fisheries processing cooperative association, who gives his insight on this.

Small Steps For APAC’s Food Industry, Big Steps For Humanity

With packaging a large waste contributor worldwide, all parties need to think of sustainable packaging and other ways to reduce waste. Marcel Cote, director, strategic marketing, Avery Dennison, South Asia pacific and Sub-Saharan Africa, discusses the small steps that companies can take to make a change for the better world.
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