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2025 Trend Report for the Food and Beverage Industry

2025 promises to be a transformative year for the food and beverage sector. Strengthen your business strategy and gain a lasting competitive edge with this practical guide to the industry’s most significant challenges an..

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Sustainable and ambitious project nears completion

12 April 2021

Westfort Vleesproducten (Westfort Meat Products) is a very modern slaughterhouse, where considerable investments have been made in animal welfare, improved meat quality and sustainable energy solutions. In IJsselstein, t...

Doors make the difference

12 April 2021

Warm air supply and ice formation in the cold store gave Seacon Production headaches. It endangered the quality of the deep-frozen fish products. A new air door in combination with a high-speed door provided the desired ...

Tomassen Vlees: 'Improvement is a continuous process'

12 April 2021

Mike Tomassen is in charge of Tomassen Vlees in Someren, together with his brother Dennis. They slaughter purely for third parties, of which 70% is Beter Leven, a portion organic and the rest regular. "Mass production is...

LEGISLATION and ingredients

12 April 2021

The growing demand for plant-based products, alternative protein sources and a more sustainable food system inevitably goes hand in hand with new and adapted legislation, also with regard to food labelling. In this artic...

25% organic food in the Netherlands ‘not realistic’

07 April 2021

In a further elaboration on the Farm to Fork strategy of Euro-commissioner Frans Timmermans, the Commission states that the acreage of organic farmland should increase from the current 8.5 per cent to 25 per cent by 2030...

Toolkit helps regions in EU towards bio-economy

06 April 2021

How can regions successfully convert residual streams from the food and agriculture industry into food, animal feed, chemicals, materials or energy? A comprehensive toolkit was recently developed that allows regions to c...

Increasingly positive interest in cultured meat

06 April 2021

Cultured meat is in full swing and receiving positive attention from consumers, according to research by ABN AMRO. However, there are still major obstacles to be overcome before cultured meat really finds its way to the ...

Sustainable food packaging without quality loss

30 March 2021

With the global movement to reduce plastic use and waste, food producers are in a difficult position. Plastic remains the best material for food packaging. After all, products packaged in plastic have a much longer shelf...

Packaging solutions in Food

30 March 2021

How can the shelf life of delicate products be extended? How can the consumption of packaging materials be reduced? What sustainable packaging concepts does MULTIVAC offer especially for fresh produce and convenience foo...

Purchase of organic food increased by 7%

30 March 2021

Consumers have started to buy organic more often: The purchase frequency of organic food increased with 7% in the past year, according to a new GfK study (2021). This seems to be partly due to the increased positive atti...

FNLI in protest against high energy tax in food sector

30 March 2021

Food companies subscribe to the need for sustainability like no other. To realise the energy transition in the food industry, a fairer system of energy taxes and subsidies is needed. The food industry is one of the indus...

EC presents action plan for organic sector

26 March 2021

On Thursday 25 March 2021, the European Commission presented an Action Plan for the development of organic production. Its overall aim is to boost the production and consumption of organic products, to reach 25% of agric...

Tony's Chocolonely most sustainable brand in the Netherlands

25 March 2021

Tony's Chocolonely has been voted the most sustainable brand in the Netherlands for the fourth time this year. This is evident from the Dutch research behind Sustainable Brand Index, which was published on 25 March. I...

Dutch more interested in sustainability due to corona

25 March 2021

Climate and sustainability are gaining interest as a result of COVID-19. When the pandemic broke out in the spring of 2020, discussions immediately arose in our country about how this would affect the interest in sustain...

Albert Heijn scraps plastic bags for fruit and vegetables

25 March 2021

Albert Heijn will stop using plastic bags at the fruit and vegetable department. This saves 130 million bags - or 243,000 kilos of plastic - per year. Customers can now use sustainable fresh bags. These are washable and ...