SPX and Smurfit Kappa hail significance of takeovers
Processing specialist SPX Corp and packaging player Smurfit Kappa both completed takeovers this week as they seek to expand their reach in Europe and South America respectively.
Archives for March 23, 2012
Starter culture can extract more curd from milk, increasing cheese capacity – DuPont
DuPont Nutrition and Health claims that its new cheese starter culture will ‘boost capacity without increasing milk consumption’, by saving protein commonly lost in whey waste when producers use other cultures.
DISPATCHES FROM PACKFORUM: CHEESE 360
'Cheese is like the Olympics: firms must go higher, longer, faster' - Chr. Hansen
Cash-strapped consumers demanding value mean that cheese producers need to reinvent themselves in order to 'produce more for less', according to Chr. Hansen's managing director of cheese cultures, Søren Herskind, while private label growth in Europe...