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Local food? A great idea (on paper)

Getting your groceries straight from a nearby farm, who wouldn’t want that? Less transport, fairer prices for farmers, shorter supply chains. Governments have been trying to promote it for years. Still, making local food..

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Improvement agro-products

05 April 2019

Retailers, caterers and wholesalers have an important role to play in stimulating market demand for more sustainable products. With these parties there is a strong concentration of market demand (large market share), whi...

Reusable bags for fruit and vegetables

05 April 2019

Colruyt Group will replace all fruit and vegetable bags with reusable bags. This adjustment will save approximately 150 million bags a year. In June 2019, the group will introduce a newly developed reusable bag. The grou...

Rabobank starts 'Food Forward

05 April 2019

Our current food system is inadequate for the future. Steps are needed from farm to fork to ensure more responsible food with less ecological impact. With its 'Food Forward' programme, Rabobank wants to help entrepreneur...

FrieslandCampina and sustainable construction

04 April 2019

Royal FrieslandCampina N.V. is investigating opportunities for the construction of a sustainable and innovative dairy production facility in the Netherlands. The production location is intended for processing member milk...

The future of packaging technology

01 April 2019

Recycling plastic is a hot topic in the Dutch packaging industry. This theme, therefore, is discussed at length during Empack 2019, in 'food contact moments' and a mini conference. During the fair, the complete value ...

Plastic-free fresh produce department

01 April 2019

In September 2018, Albert Heijn announced its intention to reduce the percentage of packaging material by 25% by 2025. The use of plastic in fruit and vegetables is a particular thorn in the side of consumers' side. That...

2021: Prohibition of disposable plastic

01 April 2019

On Wednesday 27 March, the European Parliament gave the green light to a law banning disposable plastic products. There was a large majority in favour of the law; 560 voted in favour, 35 against and 28 abstentions. ...

Plastic-saving packaging solutions

31 March 2019

With tray seal and deep drawing packaging technology, the plastic-saving packaging of fresh food is a fact. Multivac will present their new, reliable and innovative PaperBoard packaging solutions at the trade fair. Do yo...

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...

20% less packaging

05 March 2019

Consumers, supermarkets, social organisations and governments are putting more and more pressure on companies to pack(age) in a sustainable way. Dutch supermarkets recently agreed that by 2025 there will be a 20 percent ...

Cooking with passion

05 March 2019

A striking example of cooperation: StarCuisine, specialist in oriental dishes, and Ilpra Benelux from Barneveld, supplier of tray seal machines and foils, have been together for ten years. An absolute win-win situation. ...

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...

Food-safe packaging

05 March 2019

The packaging of your product is more than just attractive wrapping that facilitates sales, and that certainly applies to fresh products. The packaging also contributes to the shelf life of your product. And therefore fo...

Packaging is a special thing

05 March 2019

The role of the Knowledge Institute of Sustainable Packaging has changed. It is increasingly becoming a partner in business, a logical consequence of the social pressure that has arisen with respect to packaging. Directo...

The consumer wants more (and less)

05 March 2019

The consumer buys more convenience, wants improved and more product information and wants less plastic packaging. The impact of these developments on the packaging industry is considerable and will increase rapidly in th...