Latest News in the food Industry

19 Sep 2018

Herbs, spices and extracts are gaining in popularity as consumers look for natural, recognisable flavours in their foods and drinks.

4 Sep 2018

Royal FrieslandCampina revenues amounted to €5,721 million over the first half-year of 2018, 5.8% down. Profit decreased by 32.7% to €109 million, primarily due to losses on cheese, butter and milk powder basic dairy sales.

4 Sep 2018

DuPont Nutrition & Health has announced it is expanding its R&D team by creating a “clean label hub” at the Brabrand facility, Intending to boost its project pipeline in healthy nutrition and clean label texturant offerings.

30 Aug 2018

Fonterra’s new cream cheese plant in Canterbury, NZ has started production and is set to manufacture up to 24,000 metric tonnes of cream cheese annually, bound for China.

29 Aug 2018

Frutarom has announced its 2Q18 financial results. Sales grew by 16.8% to a record $401.3 million. Sales from the Flavors activity grew by 16.4% to a record $296.0 million.

28 Aug 2018

Cargill says it will invest $150 million to construct an HM pectin production facility in South America, with construction expected to start early in 2019.

27 Aug 2018

Brenntag North America has been appointed the exclusive distributor in North America for the distribution of the Silvateam Pectin Line.

23 Aug 2018

FrieslandCampina has taken over the activities of Best Cheese Holland, including its brands Parrano and Tjiezilooking to respond to growing demand for dairy snacks as dippers.

23 Aug 2018

DuPont Nutrition & Health has developed a new, naturally sourced monoglyceride emulsifier that it says brings food manufacturers improved production and handling efficiencies.

22 Aug 2018

Today is World Plant Milk Day, notes food awareness organisation ProVeg UK - a day that it says marks the fact that millions of people across the world are turning away from dairy and towards plant-based alternatives.

20 Aug 2018

Arla Foods Ingredients will launch what it claims is one of the world’s fastest cream cheese manufacturing processes at Food Ingredients South America (São Paulo,Brazil, 21-23 August 2018).

20 Aug 2018

The food industry produces an enormous amount of waste during processing, but some are looking to give such products new life as valuable specialist ingredients.