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Labor shortages push food industry towards robotics

Food manufacturers are heavily investing in robotics to address labor shortages. Robots can make production processes more efficient and improve working conditions, but their implementation is not straightforward. Raboba..

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Food safety: Bizerba

31 March 2019

During Empack 2019 the Bizerba Luceo Mini will be on display. An unprecedented, one of our newest innovative machines in the field of 'food safety'. The Bizerba Luceo vision inspection systems check the welds, labels and...

The frustrations with packaging

25 March 2019

Packaging design today often focuses on sustainability, the design and shelf life of a product. However, less careful consideration is often given to the user-friendliness of opening the packaging. Research by ANBO and R...

Demand special meat products is growing

21 March 2019

The marketing of distinctive meat products means that producers are less dictated by large purchasing organisations and can make better margins. The demand for special meat products is growing faster than the supply. Con...

Improving the quality of fruit and vegetables

19 March 2019

Project leader Eelke Westra (WUR): "One of the most groundbreaking results, in my opinion, is the objective measuring method that can assess large quantities of fruit and vegetables for quality at the same time. This mak...

Mireille Kaptein Businesswoman of the Year 2019

19 March 2019

Mireille Kaptein, Managing Director of Kaptein, the flexible packer of cheese and butter and producer of processed cheese and powder cheese, has been named Businesswoman of the Year 2019. At the Amstel Hotel in Amster...

New construction Vergeer Holland

18 March 2019

In the presence of 3 generations Vergeer, today the first pile was laid for the new building for family business Vergeer Holland. The construction takes place at the location of the current distribution centre of Vergeer...

Bolscher is going to make vegetarian products

17 March 2019

Bolscher Meer Dan Vlees will also produce vegetarian and vegan products. The company building will be renovated to make this possible. Bolscher: "In principle, it makes little difference to us whether we process meat or ...

Food Heroes Awards presented

15 March 2019

The Food Heroes Awards were presented during the CFIA Expo. This year, EnVie (Belgium), Ovo (the Netherlands) and Mussella (France) received an award for reducing food waste in the primary sector in a special way. EnVie ...

Dutch and French cheese, extra tasty

13 March 2019

Family business Van der Heiden Kaas, distributor of many artisanal cheeses, has acquired Fromagerie Brigitte on February 1st. This has further broadened the product range. In addition to the special quality of Dutch chee...

Belona part of the Optimum Group

12 March 2019

Belona, a specialist in the manufacture of self-adhesive labels based in Oud Gastel (The Netherlands), will become part of the Optimum Group. The addition of Belona, including its subsidiary Sema Label, fits within the l...

Arla strives for climate-neutral dairy

12 March 2019

Arla Foods and its 10,300 owners present an ambitious plan to accelerate the transition to sustainable dairy production. The main objective of the sustainability programme is to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 30% per...

No foreign bodies in packaged foods

12 March 2019

Minebea Intec supports the food industry in increasing the reliability, safety and efficiency of production lines. The global provider of inspection technologies is continuously expanding its checkweighing and foreign bo...

Van Uhm BV: Dealer Ferdinand Henneken

11 March 2019

Van Uhm BV & Habuba BV have added the machines of Ferdinand Henneken GmbH to their range. Ferdinand Henneken GmbH was founded in 1977 and started producing large horizontal tumbler systems. In 2019 the family busi...

Packaged fruit and vegetables

05 March 2019

Pre-packaged fruit and vegetables are a fixture these days in the supermarket. But packaging is only complete when the right information is on it. IQ Packing and Espera can therefore mean a lot to each other. At IQ Pa...

awareness sustainability and recycling

05 March 2019

The market wants less packaging material. The focus is on environmentally friendly packaging and compostable wrapping. "We encourage the use of mono-materials. New developments also require adjustments to packaging machi...