Tetra Pak is stumping up €26m for an upgrade of its Italian
packaging materials plant that will significantly increase its
printing and lamination capacity, and boost the quality and speed
of its service.
UK dairy processors will be required to ensure that they do not
send any factory produced waste to landfill sites by 2020 as part
of a raft of new proposals to improve the industry's environmental
impact.
A new range of resealable beverage cartons offers a more
environmentally friendly method of packaging high acid ambient
drinks like sport beverages and iced tea in a variety of sizes,
according to its manufacturer.
Food formulators looking for novel gelling agents may soon be
offered whey protein isolates and concentrates modified by
supercritical carbon dioxide, suggests a new study.
A leading organic dairy processor in the US has announced a new
research initiative for reducing its carbon footprint, as part of a
new funding program designed to improve efficiency in sustainable
production.
Fonterra, one of the world's largest dairy companies, has become
the latest processor to announce it would measure carbon emissions
across its entire supply chain.
Four major processors, including Cadbury Schweppes and Coca-Cola,
have signed up to a UK scheme to measure the carbon emitted in
making some of their key products.
In a sign that the UK's push to cut down on greenhouse gas
emissions is working, McCain Foods has announced it will install
wind turbines at its potato chip plant in the country.
Packaging group Tetra Pak had today revealed it remains on track
with its aim of a 10 per cent cut in CO2 emissions by 2010, in a
bid to reduce the environmental impact and costs of its operations.
In a bid to boost its green credentials, Cadbury Schweppes
yesterday unveiled a programme to cut down on its use of energy,
packaging and water in response to climate change.
Researchers from Taiwan are eying a combination of gelatin and
poly(-glutamic acid) (-PGA) for the encapsulation of lycopene from
tomato pulp waste, offering alternatives for the ingredient
increasingly in the consumer's eye.
A modified atmosphere packaging (MAP) sensor just introduced in the
UK market speeds up the process of testing that the correct mix of
gasses have been used in a product.
Eastman Chemical Co. has launched three new polyethylene
terephthalate (PET) resins that it claims offer better bottle
clarity along with reduced production costs.
A machine for applying barrier treatment to PET containers can
handle up to 40,000 bottles per hour, making it the fastest of its
kind in the world, its manufacturer claims.
The UK's food processing industry, which has been fingered for
being slow to adopt new technologies and business practices, has
teamed up with university researchers to cut carbon dioxide (CO2)
emissions.
A hand-held headspace analyser is the first in the field to measure
carbon monoxide levels in modified and controlled-atmosphere
packaging (MAP) for case-ready meat, its manufacturerclaims.
The fast and accurate verification of carbonated beverage
shelf-life is now possible via what Mocon is calling the first
machine tester able to do the job.
Milliken Chemical has installed a Sidel, Series 2, SBO4 machine at
its R&D centre in support of its research into injection
stretch blow moulded clarified polypropylene (ISBM cPP).
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'environmentally friendlier' HFC refrigerants, just as Europe
pledges to reduce these types of gases.