NEWS

Book presentation The Future of FOOD

In a setting that breathes innovation and future thinking, we proudly presented our book The Future of FOOD. Hosted by Koppert Cress, we gathered with our OSV network to not only hand over the first copy of the book, but..

ACM to research misleading sustainability claims

04 May 2021

The Dutch Consumer & Market Authority (ACM) will investigate misleading sustainability claims in the dairy sector. The ACM has chosen this sector because in preliminary investigations it saw many potentially misleadi...

Higher raw material prices provoke nationalism

04 May 2021

The sharply higher raw material prices this year are going to bring about more so-called resource nationalism of the raw material-rich countries. . The spurt in industrial metal prices and the sharp rise in oil and grain...

Utrecht province wants to strengthen regional food chains

30 April 2021

The Province of Utrecht is going to promote sustainable production of more local food. Many farmers in the region already offer the possibility to buy products directly at the farmyard. With provincial stimulation plans,...

Pioneering labelling for pizzas

28 April 2021

Automatic labelling, high-quality appearance and a large information area with an unobstructed view of the product: MULTIVAC's full wrap labelling solution for pizzas and other flat foods fulfils the requirements in ever...

Braas Brood- en Banketbakkerij chooses Fobis

28 April 2021

At Braas Brood- en Banketbakkerij b.v., bread and pastries are produced in a precise and very modern way. Here, automation and robotisation are used to a great extent. Braas aims to continuously improve the comp...

Mini-organs reduce the need for animal testing

26 April 2021

Science and industry are constantly striving to end the use of animal testing in toxicological research. As part of these efforts, researchers at Wageningen have worked with Unilever to develop tiny, three-dimensional or...

9 percent living wage gap in banana chain

22 April 2021

Several Dutch supermarkets, affiliated to CBL, signed the 'Liveable Wage Banana Commitment' in October 2019 within the IMVO Food Covenant. They did this together with IDH, The Sustainable Trade Initiative. The aim of the...

Alpro inspires to help save the planet through food

22 April 2021

On Earth Day (22 April 2021), Alpro will launch its new "Help the planet while you eat" campaign. The goal is to inspire as many people as possible to choose vegetable products more often, because this is good for them a...

Intelligent robots increase the benefit from fresh produce

21 April 2021

Around the world, grading, sorting and assembling of fresh fruits and vegetables is done predominantly manually. “It would save companies a lot of time and costs if these time-consuming, dull and repetitive tasks were ca...

A well-known name in cleaning for 40 years

20 April 2021

This year, we can say that we have been happily contributing to cleaning in our customers' businesses for 40 years. Good cleaning obviously contributes to food safety. We design, build, install and maintain machines for ...

JBS S.A. acquires European company Vivera

20 April 2021

JBS, the world’s largest protein company and second-largest food producer, has entered into an agreement to purchase Vivera, Europe’s third-largest plant-based food company, for an enterprise value of €341 million. Viver...

NVWA finds possibly harmful jars with herbs

19 April 2021

The Dutch Food and Consumer Product Safety Authority (NVWA) is warning against the use of a number of glass jars containing herbs and spices of the Verstegen brand. The producer had taken these jars off the market in Mar...

9 startups are ready to rock the food industry

16 April 2021

Nine pioneering companies from Mexico, Chile, India, and across Europe comprise the sixth cohort of the world’s leading incubator of plant-based and cultured food startups. This latest round of the accelerator program...

Online edition April 2021

12 April 2021

An oven croquette that splits when heated, a product that releases too much moisture during baking, reducing the salt, sugar and/or fat content, wanting better adhesion between layers in the product. The questio...

Forgotten treats