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Agr International, Inc will exhibit an array of products for managing the production and quality of beverage containers at the 2017 Drinktec show. This will include latest developments for advanced blowmolder management, shelf-life control and pressurized container testing. The Process Pilot® automated blowmolder management system, designed to simplify the production of PET bottles, is ideal […]

Gainsborough Engineering Company is exhibiting two of its UK-designed and built vertical form, fill and seal machines at PPMA. Both machines have attracted a lot of interest at previous shows and helped to demonstrate the company’s versatility. The two machines on show will be the GV2K3 in stainless steel that has been sold as part […]

Sealpac, a member of the Save Food Initiative, has teamed up with Naber Plastics and PerfoTec to discuss the issue of fresh produce waste from a packaging point of view, and came up with a solution: PerfoLid. Detailed regulation of the oxygen level of fresh produce is a critical factor to achieve optimal shelf life […]

SpoonerPlus is the recently rebranded aftersales division of Spooner Industries which offers essential aftercare to new and existing customers worldwide. With a vast amount of knowledge of the paper and converting industries, SpoonerPlus engineers have the essential process skills and machine building knowledge to add value to equipment via optimisation and improved reliability. Based in […]

Linerless labelling guru, Ravenwood Packaging is embarking on a ‘quest’ with its material suppliers Evonik, Innovia, Ashland, Henkel and Antalis. The company will be showcasing its complete linerless package ‘The Circle of Linerless’ at LabelExpo. The company’s ‘Raveneers’ will be out in full force, joined by their trusty comrades, the Fauxlafels, at the leading trade […]

The rising cost of household groceries means shoppers are increasingly turning to supermarket’s own-label products at the expense of branded goods, according to Nielsen retail data. Over the past three months, consumer spend on supermarket’s own-label products rose 5.5%¹ year-on-year, nearly five times the growth in spend on branded products (up 1.2% year-on-year). The average […]

Ocado, the world’s largest online-only grocery retailer, has become the first supermarket in the UK to launch an app for the voice-controlled Amazon Alexa. The Ocado app for Amazon Alexa, the voice-controlled personal assistant powering the Amazon Echo smart home speaker, will feature a variety of functions enabling customers to add a product to an […]

Research reveals that 92% of students use canned food, but many fail to grasp its nutritional and recycling attributes. Findings of a new survey which suggests that canned food is top of students’ shopping lists. According to the survey, students average nine food cans in their kitchen cupboards at any given time, showing just how […]

After being launched earlier this year, The FoodTalk Awards are making a return for 2018 and are now open for entries. The awards were inspired by the ‘foodie heroes’ who appear on the FoodTalk radio show every week and have been launched to honor the best of UK food tech innovation. They made their debut […]

A thousand food and drink founders – from fledgling start-ups to Food and Drink’s biggest names – will descend upon the Institute of Directors in Pall Mall on October 6th and 7th. Their mission is to savour Bread & Jam’s ground-breaking agenda of talks, workshops, panels and meet-the- buyer sessions that tackle the five biggest […]