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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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Festive opening of MULTIVAC building after makeover

13 December 2022

Together with employees, the main contractor, architect, relations, customers and other stakeholders, Tim Hage, director MULTIVAC Netherlands, opened the completely renovated building in Woerden on Friday 2 December 2022...

Children's marketing of unhealthy food legally restricted

12 December 2022

The government wants to legally restrict child marketing for unhealthy food. For healthy food and drink, advertising aimed at minors will continue to be allowed. In addition, municipalities will be given a new legal powe...

Circular bioplastics partial solution to climate crisis

12 December 2022

With unchanged policies, global plastic production is likely to triple by 2100. By fully powering a circular biobased plastics industry with emission-free electricity, and by abandoning waste incineration, the sector cou...

'To go packaging' is hardly ever recycled

12 December 2022

The packaging of to-go stores and fast-food chains is hardly recycled and the possibilities for reuse are very limited. This is according to research by Natuur & Milieu (Nature & Environment). Whether it is coffe...

Low nutritional quality in vegan meat big problem

12 December 2022

There are many challenges regarding the nutritional value of meat substitutes. A study from Chalmers now shows that many of the meat substitutes sold in Sweden claim a high content of iron – but in a form that cannot be ...

Europe scores poorly on healthy food environment policies

07 December 2022

In eleven European countries, governments should make a larger effort to support people to eat healthy by creating healthy food environments. This can be read in an The Lancet Regional Health – Europe publication. "Th...

Rabobank: Animal protein companies face an inflection point

07 December 2022

Animal protein companies face an inflection point with a need to respond to structural changes in the market even with production levels and prices likely to remain elevated next year, according to Rabobank Producers ...

Winter offer of used Multivac machines

06 December 2022

Do you need a traysealer, thermoformer, labeller, portioner or slicer at short notice? MULTIVAC can move quickly and offers used machines for sale and for rent in addition to brand new packaging and processing machines. ...

Supermarkets notice drop in meat sales

05 December 2022

There has been a significant drop in meat sales in supermarkets over the past year. First of all, this is a correction to last year's supermarket run. In addition, prices are considerably higher, while consumers have les...

Cosun introduces new meat substitute ingredient

05 December 2022

Cosun Beet Company introduces a new innovative and functional ingredient for meat substitutes: Fidesse®, the only raw material of this 100% vegetable product is Dutch sugar beet pulp. Sugar beet pulp is a side stream ...

FNLI responds to Health Council Nutri-Score advice

05 December 2022

29 November 2022, the Health Council published the report 'Evaluation of the Nutri-Score algorithm'. The State Secretary of Health, Welfare and Sport had asked the council to assess the extent to which the revised algori...

Time-Travelling Milkman and Peelon best food startups of 2022

05 December 2022

At the Brave New Food Startup Challenge, ten finalists competed against each other with their innovative food applications. During the final pitch round, Dutch startup Time-Travelling Milkman and US startup Peelon won th...

Major project to halve farmers' greenhouse gases

05 December 2022

Nestlé and Vreugdenhil Dairy Foods are launching a major project to reduce greenhouse gases within dairy farming based on regenerative farming principles in the Netherlands. Nestlé, Vreugdenhil Dairy Foods, Wageningen Un...

Palm oil in food almost fully sustainable

02 December 2022

In 2021, the Dutch food industry used 234.2 thousand tonnes of palm oil for domestic and foreign markets. 89% was sustainably certified with the Roundtable Table for Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO). This is according to the ...

Dry summers factor into decline in dairy production

02 December 2022

The milk supply was lower than previous years due to dry summers in 2021 and 2022, among other factors. As a result, dairy production also decreased. In particular, production of milk powders for export decreased. Dairy ...