Archives for November 20, 2012

Dispatches from Emballage 2012

SIPA presses ahead with greener packaging

Plastics firm SIPA is making headway with greener packaging initiatives such as lightweighting and increased recycled polyethylene terephthalate (rPET) content, according to the company’s packaging innovation director Laurent Sigler.

PARNUTS update: Specialist foods reforms due for EU lawbooks

Revision of the laws governing specialist food products like sports foods, infant foods and gluten-free foods is set for a final vote in the European Parliament in December or January, 2013, with the leading industry group broadly welcoming the passage.

DISPATCHES FROM BRAU BEVIALE 2012, NURMEBERG

Shelf life is not an issue for wine can consumers – Ball Packaging

A maximum shelf life of one year will not be an issue for wine can consumers, Ball Packaging’s sales director for Benelux and Scandinavia Gerlof Toenhake told reporter Mark Astley.

DISPATCHES FROM BRAU BEVIALE 2012, NUREMBERG

Anti-microbial air treatment will become ‘important’ hygiene factor - Ecolab

Anti-microbial air treatment systems will become a “very important” hygiene factor in the food manufacturing industry in coming years, Ecolab’s Marcus Ley told reporter Mark Astley.

DISPATCHES FROM BRAU BEVIALE 2012, NUREMBERG

‘Naturalness’ trend driving unfiltered beer mix demand – Wild

Growing consumer “naturalness” trend has resulted in a shift in demand from filtered to unfiltered beer mix drinks, ingredients giant Wild told Ben Bouckley.