Stora Enso has partnered with HS Manufacturing Group (HSMG), which makes plant-based barrier coatings, to develop formed fiber products, using HSMG’s Protēan technology for food contact packaging applications... Read

Labelling food with the amount of exercise needed to burn off the calories could help consumers to eat more healthily, according to a UK study... Read

Koios functional beverages has increased sales of its drinks and current estimates show it will be sold across more than 10,000 locations by 2020... Read

Satisfied Snacks is currently 'not courting a major retail listing' it has revealed. However, the innovative start-up, which turns ‘virtually any meal’ into crispy healthy snacks, remains confident in the business case for sustainability... Read

Bischofszell Nahrungsmittel (BINA), part of Swiss M-Industry (Migros Group) has installed a Sidel flexible shrink wrapping line for its square and round bottles... Read

Stora Enso will build a €9m pilot facility to produce bio-based plastics as a barrier in transparent packaging, with construction starting in the second half of 2020, with operations beginning in Q1 2021... Read

Berlin Packaging has completed its acquisition of Novio Packaging Group, a Netherlands-based supplier of plastic packaging... Read

Upcycling of food ingredients, opportunities for hemp and cannabidiol (CBD), positive impacts of ethical sourcing and foods that promote biodiversity will be discussed at the Sustainable Foods Summit in San Francisco (January 22-23)... Read

WIPOTEC-OCS, weighing and X-Ray scanning equipment, says its checkweighers have become the workhorse of the meat packaging industry, displaying its HC-M-WD-MDi Checkweigher at the International Production & Processing Expo (IPPE), in Atlanta (January 28-30)... Read