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Sacmi planning dairy division to offer 'complete package'

DRINKTEC 2013: SACMI STRENGTHENS DAIRY FOCUS

Sacmi planning dairy division to offer 'complete package'

By Mark ASTLEY

Hoping to build on growing consumer demand for drinking yogurt, probiotics drinks, and other liquid dairy products, Italian packaging machinery manufacturer Sacmi intends to set up a division dedicated to increasing its dairy-specific technological offerings.

Industry concerned about data abuse as EFSA fans transparency wings

Industry concerned about data abuse as EFSA fans transparency wings

By Shane Starling at EFSA in Parma, Italy

As the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) welcomed a broad range of stakeholders to its Italian HQ today to debate data and process transparency, the food industry asked at what point openness brakes innovation and competitive advantage?

Unilever: Healthier food choices must be ‘doable’

From the 20th International Congress of Nutrition in Granada, Spain

Unilever: Healthier food choices must be ‘doable’

By Shane STARLING

The food industry came under attack last week at the International Congress of Nutrition (#ICN20) for not doing enough to improve the healthiness of its portfolios…unfairly, says Unilever.

Tate & Lyle has high European hopes for Splenda-based water enhancers

drinktec 2013: live from the show floor

Tate & Lyle has high European hopes for Splenda-based water enhancers

By Ben BOUCKLEY

Abigail Storms, global marketing director, sweeteners and beverage, Tate & Lyle, insists Splenda sucralose perfectly suits liquid water enhancers as an emerging European category, against the backdrop of success for products such as Kraft Foods'...

Craft beer stardom beckons for GEA Brewery Systems

DRINKTEC 2013: LIVE FROM THE SHOW FLOOR

Craft beer stardom beckons for GEA Brewery Systems

By Ben BOUCKLEY

Jens Neidhardt, sales director, GEA Brewery Systems talks craft brewing trends and why the firm chose to launch its more compact Craft-Star brewhouse in 2013.

Italian firm promises PET with the glamor of glass

DRINKTEC 2013: LIVE FROM THE SHOW FLOOR

Italian firm promises PET with the glamor of glass

By Ben BOUCKLEY

P.E.T Engineering outlines the technical challenges involved in producing an award-winning lightweight PET bottle that retains its structural integrity, and a trend towards making PET bottles with the glamor of glass.

Diet Coke Hunk sweats on UK health and safety complaint to ASA

A WEEK IN BEVERAGE ADVERTISING: 17/7/13

Diet Coke Hunk sweats on UK health and safety complaint to ASA

By Ben Bouckley

Today's podcast rounds up two UK drinks adverts involving a Diet Coke hunk, a lawnmower and a Chinook helicopter from Coke and Heineken, which led to Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) adjudications.

Flavor hops inspire world beer revolution: Barth-Haas group

Flavor hops inspire world beer revolution: Barth-Haas group

By Ben BOUCKLEY

The world's largest hops company, Barth-Haas group, tells BeverageDaily.com why so-called 'flavor' hops are ushering in a revolution in beer flavors, starting with the craft beer phenomenon in the US but now spreading across Europe and...

Could the WTO overturn EU health claim laws?

Could the WTO overturn EU health claim laws?

By Shane Starling from Brussels

Aggrieved companies and  trade groups have already mounted legal actions against the EU’s strict health claim laws – they are in process – but the regulation’s workings could face fresh challenge from governments signed up to the World Trade Organization...

New RPC chief highlights future packaging strategy

New RPC chief sets out future strategy

By Rod Addy

Lightweighting will remain a big trend influencing RPC Group's business strategy, according to Pim Vervaat, the packaging firm's new boss.

UK is beverage startup silicon valley: Entrepreneur

DISPATCHES FROM 2013 INNOBEV GLOBAL BEVERAGES CONGRESS, WARSAW, POLAND

UK is beverage startup silicon valley: Entrepreneur

By Ben BOUCKLEY

The UK is the current European hotspot for innovative beverage startups, due to listing opportunities that extend beyond the major multiples and an investment climate that favors small to medium enterprises.

RTS unveil ingredients focused market insight database

RTS unveil ingredients focused market insight database

By Nathan Gray

A new interactive graphical database offering market insights for food and beverage ingredients will help manufacturers and suppliers identify new trends and grow their business, according to RTS.

Natural colours overtake synthetics as European growth leads the way

Global report on food colours

Clean label trend helps drive natural colours to overtake synthetics

By Nathan Gray

Natural colours have overtaken their synthetic counterparts for the first time ever, and the trend towards clean label products is one of the key drivers according to new data from Mintel and Leatherhead Food Research.

Top brands favor bag-in-box dispensing savings – Xylem

LIVE FROM THE SHOW FLOOR: BRAU BEVIALE 2012

Top brands favor bag-in-box dispensing savings – Xylem

By Ben Bouckley

Peter Wright from beverage dispensing expert Xylem tells Ben Bouckley at Brau Beviale why leading wine and beer brand owners such as Diageo increasingly favor on premise bag-in-box dispensing.

Ardagh Group reveals brewing interest in unique Absolut vodka bottles

LIVE FROM THE SHOW FLOOR: BRAU BEVIALE 2012

Ardagh Group reveals brewing interest in unique Absolut vodka bottles

By Ben BOUCKLEY

Mads Elming from Ardagh Group gives Ben Bouckley the lowdown on the development of the firm's eye-catching collaboration with Pernod Ricard's Absolut brand to create four million uniquely decorated vodka bottles, and said there was "tremendous...

Scaldopack braves flexible new frontiers in self-heating packaging

LIVE FROM THE SHOW FLOOR: BRAU BEVIALE 2012

Scaldopack braves flexible new frontiers in self-heating packaging

By Ben BOUCKLEY

Harald Saelens from Belgian firm Scaldopack tells Ben Bouckley at Brau Beviale about the firm’s innovative self-heating (quicklime) and cooling (salts) packaging for foods and beverages with a flexible twist…

GEA claims cold-filling first with aseptic system

DISPATCHES FROM PACK EXPO 2012, CHICAGO

GEA claims cold-filling first with aseptic system

By Ben Bouckley

GEA Procomac tells BeverageDaily.com why its new aseptic dual filling system to bottle still beverages with pulps, fibers, fruits or cereals benefits product taste and allows clients to use less PET than with hot filling machines.

New PTI retort pouch seal sensor risks redundant beagles

DISPATCHES FROM PACK EXPO 2012, CHICAGO

New PTI retort pouch seal sensor risks redundant beagles

By Ben Bouckley

Speaking live at Pack Expo, PTI’s Oliver Stauffer explains why checking retort pouch seal integrity is vital for food and beverage producers, and presents his firm’s new ultrasound system as a solution.

What's new in energy drinks?

Trendwatch: What's new in energy drinks?

By Caroline Scott-Thomas

The energy drink market is the fastest growing segment of the European soft drinks industry, so how are newcomers looking to get in on the action?

Enter the Pouch King…Oystar hails ‘breakthrough’ machine

DISPATCHES FROM PACK EXPO 2012, CHICAGO

Enter the Pouch King…Oystar hails ‘breakthrough’ machine

By Ben Bouckley

Mark Nease from Oystar North America shows Ben Bouckley the world’s first high-speed pouching machine that forms, fills, seals pouches of virtually any size containing free-flowing and non free-flowing dried- beverage or food powders.

Graphic Packaging packs punch with new Capri Sun board

DISPATCHES FROM PACK EXPO 2012, CHICAGO

Graphic Packaging packs punch with new Capri Sun board

By Ben Bouckley

Chuck Tarlton from Graphic Packaging tells Ben Bouckley how a new paperboard carton helped Kraft Foods/Capri Sun optimize supply chain performance for 600m beverage pouches per year.

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DISPATCHES FROM INTERBEV 2012, LAS VEGAS

Big beverage players were ‘stuck behind the 8 ball’ on HFCS – Consultant

By Ben Bouckley

Martin Concannon, founder and MD of Kentucky-based consultancy, Lafayette Associates, tells BeverageDaily.com how the media firestorm that followed High Fructose Corn Syrup (HFCS) in recent years was in part whipped-up by social media following a 2004...

'Consistent' content is king for beverage producers - Profamo VP

DISPATCHES FROM INTERBEV 2012, LAS VEGAS

'Consistent' content is king for beverage producers - Profamo VP

By Ben BOUCKLEY

Profamo VP Chris Nimptsch tells Ben Bouckley why consistency - and true readings of CO2, Brix and organic acid levels - is king for beverage producers, as he unveils VitalSensors' 'radical' new mid-infrared sensor, the VS3000.

Caliterra Vineyard in Santa Crux, O' Higgins Region, California (Picture Copyright: Viña Caliterra)

DISPATCHES FROM ANUGA FOODTEC 2012

Fraunhofer goes 'wild' with new sensor to help winemakers detect bad yeasts

By Ben Bouckley

Researchers at Germany's Fraunhofer IME are close to commercialising an inexpensive detector that they claim could save wine producers significant amounts of money and time by detecting 'bad' yeasts within grape must, as Cecilia Diaz from...

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UK whey protein market hitting ‘critical mass’ - Volac

By Ben Bouckley

Mark Neville, head of lifestyle ingredients at Volac, told BeverageDaily.com that the UK market for whey protein was hitting “critical mass”, since everyone knew someone who used such ingredients, with word spreading as to their benefits.

Getting a taste of flavor chemistry

Getting a taste of flavor chemistry

By Claire Videau

From nature to the laboratory to supermarket shelves, FoodNavigator-USA takes a journey behind the scenes of flavor development. IFF flavorist Rich Dandrea tells us about his 20-year career in the industry.

Brewing enzymes help ensure sustainable production, Danisco

EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: DISPATCHES FROM BRAU BEVIALE 2011

Brewing enzymes help ensure sustainable production, Danisco

By Ben Bouckley

Ulf Brøchner Sørensen, global product manager, brewing and distilling enzymes at Danisco, told BeverageDaily.com at Brau Beviale that there was trend globally towards less expensive, more sustainable production.

BCME chair lifts lid on beverage can sustainability

EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: DISPATCHES FROM BRAU BEVIALE 2011

BCME chair lifts lid on beverage can sustainability

By Ben Bouckley

Beverage Can Makers Europe (BCME) chairman Gerrit Heske told BeverageDaily.com that cans were thriving in Europe due to perceptions of 'convenience, taste and freshness', but that industry still had a fight on its hands to tell consumers the...

APPE laments cut-price market perceptions of rPET products

EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: DISPATCHES FROM BRAU BEVIALE 2011

APPE laments cut-price market perceptions of rPET products

By Ben Bouckley

At Brau Beviale 2011, we spoke to marketing manager Kinza Sutton - from leading European manufacturer of PET pre-forms and bottles APPE - who lamented the fact that brandowners and fillers expect cheaper prices for rPET products despite relatively high...

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