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Food Tech Event evolves into a live innovation platform

Robotics, food safety, packaging legislation and sustainability took center stage at Food Tech Event 2026. On May 20 and 21, more than 2,000 professionals from the food industry gathered at the Brabanthallen in ’s-Hertog..

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Smart Industry: “Innovate or drown"

17 October 2022

Digitalisation, automation and robotisation are bitterly necessary to keep your head above water as a food manufacturer. However, technical innovation cannot happen without the power of the people in your company. That a...

Trends in Smart Food Manufacturing

17 October 2022

Where do the raw materials come from? How much energy does the machine consume? Can production be more efficient? What is the temperature and the humidity? How can I reduce my CO2 footprint and avoid waste? To find answe...

Column Pieter Vos: The human factor

17 October 2022

Recently, insects have often been in the news as a source of protein; to feed a growing world population. But recently I stumbled across another application: the cyborg insect.  Back in 2012, the first reports of 'rem...

Zero Hunger Lab: Data science for food security

17 October 2022

Marleen Balvert, Hein Fleuren and Frans Cruijssen form the management team of the Zero Hunger Lab. All three are involved in the lab in their own way. What binds them is that they each want to use smart maths processes t...

Industry vulnerable to cybercrime

17 October 2022

Robotising and broadly digitising businesses has a down side: cyber risks are on the rise. At 1 in 5, the risk of a cyber attack is many times higher than the risk of fire (1 in 8,000) or burglary (1 in 250). Yet mitigat...

Maximum value from your ERP system

17 October 2022

There is no place where getting a grip on your business processes is more crucial, and at the same time more challenging, than in the Food industry. This puts continuous stress on your margins, on processes and on people...

Big data takes food safety to higher level

17 October 2022

New and powerful algorithms and bioinformatics tools are enabling the development of models that make it much easier to predict outbreaks of food-borne diseases. Nestlé and Mars are among the first to invest in HTS infra...

With GLN, the apple literally does not fall far from the tree

07 October 2022

GS1 together with Fresh Upstream presented the GLN (Global Location Number) register, this tool should make tracking primary food products a lot easier. With the GLN register, each farm and even each plot or tree can ...

KVK: Protect your business with these 7 measures

05 October 2022

There are many ways to be cyber-secure. What you secure and how you do it varies from one business to another. Yet there are a few security points that almost every business owner should think about. The Digital Trust Ce...

Flexcraft speeds up robotics deployment in food industry

18 July 2022

Picking up a bag of crisps or a slippery chicken breast is a real challenge for a robot. An ambitious, multidisciplinary research team is working on versatile robots for the agricultural and food industries that can cope...

Webinar on demand: Blockchain in food

28 June 2022

We know blockchain mainly as a financial tool, the driving force behind crypto currencies such as Bitcoin. But there are so many more applications possible! Blockchain is about data, about increasingly rich information, ...

Get maximum value from your ERP system

20 June 2022

There is no place where keeping a grip on your business processes is as crucial, and at the same time as challenging, as in the food industry. This places a constant pressure on your margins, on processes and on people -...

Troostwijk: a second life for equipment

20 June 2022

Machines that would end up in the shredder or in storage after a renovation or new construction can often still be of excellent use elsewhere. Through online auctions, a lot of equipment finds a second life. And that bri...

DNA Services Acquires FreshERP Software

13 April 2022

DNA IT Holding, known for DNA Services, based in Hendrik-Ido-Ambacht, has completed a new acquisition. The IT company from South Holland has acquired the FreshERP software from Coöperatieve Caswell IT Group in the past q...

Hanneke Faber: 'Without robotics, we can't feed the world'

11 April 2022

Unilever's Foods Innovation Centre in Wageningen 'Hive', opened its doors at the end of 2019. As Hive strives for openness and transparency, the idea was to host many stakeholders and interested parties from the start, b...