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One in three employees sees AI as a threat

AI is gaining a foothold on the production floor, but employees have concerns. More than a third (34%) see the technology as a threat to their skills and expertise. In addition, 58% feel that decisions about digitalizati..

KIDV and KVK launch Business Challenge Innovative Packaging

28 January 2021

The Sustainable Packaging Knowledge Institute (KIDV) and the Chamber of Commerce (KVK) will launch the Business Challenge Innovative Packaging on 28 January 2021. Companies can submit a packaging challenge related to pac...

Beyond Meat and PepsiCo team up to develop plant-based snacks

27 January 2021

Beyond Meat is teaming up with PepsiCo, one of the world’s largest food and beverage companies, to develop, produce and market innovative snack and beverage products made from plant-based protein. The partnership will al...

Vegamonitor: Less people see themselves as carnivores

25 January 2021

Fewer and fewer people see themselves purely as meat eaters. 55% of Dutch people typify themselves this way, which was 59% the year before. Almost 34% of households intend to eat less meat by 2021. 31% of the Dutch say t...

A sweet world without waste with banana sweetener

21 January 2021

Fooditive BV and Frutco AG enter into a partnership to bring the Fooditive® banana sweetener line to Europe. The banana sweetener line is a continuous fermentation plant that processes by-products from banana proces...

Schouten introduces 100% plant based tuna: TuNo

19 January 2021

Schouten Europe B.V. will introduce a fully vegetable tuna in January 2021. Under the name 'TuNo' the product will be presented to interested parties in the coming period. Vegetable tuna can play an important role in the...

Ojah: quality meat alternatives with Plenti ProFiber

15 January 2021

Dutch manufacturer Ojah BV. has launched its newest high moisture texture, Plenti ProFiber™, enabling food manufacturers to develop and produce plant-based alternatives or hybrid products with their existing machinery. ...

Great start for Future Farm in the UK

14 January 2021

Brazilian foodtech company Future Farm is off to a flying start in 2021. From January, their range of meat substitutes will be available at Sainsbury's and thus throughout the UK - just in time for the annual 'Veganuary'...

Moving towards a low-plastic world

12 January 2021

As a pioneer in the packaging industry, MULTIVAC has been working for years to offer its customers alternative plastic-saving packaging options. There are plenty of opportunities to meet all plastic saving and recycling ...

Delivery trend skyrockets due to pandemic

12 January 2021

Meal delivery and grocery delivery are the two big winners from the corona crisis. In 2020, the total delivery market grew by 43.1% compared to 2019. Meanwhile, delivery players together account for nearly 10% of total f...

Protect the heat exchanger of your installation

05 January 2021

Installations such as heat exchangers pollute; leaves, pollen and insects penetrate easily, but are difficult to remove. Now there is a solution to this problem, as simple as it is groundbreaking. The Pro Safe Screen® ca...

Finnish institute makes PEF from citrus peels

05 January 2021

The shift from fossil to renewable bio-plastics requires new efficient methods. The Finnish research institute VTT has developed a new technology to use pectin-containing agricultural waste, such as citrus peelings and s...

LNV focuses on new and vegetable proteins

23 December 2020

Over the next 5 to 10 years, the Netherlands will stimulate the cultivation of protein-rich crops such as field beans and potatoes in order to become less dependent on imports of protein-rich raw materials (soy) from out...

First vegan cheese from Dutch soil is a fact

17 December 2020

At Boermarke they are ready to go! The first production tests have been done and Boermarke will, as previously announced, deliver the first vegetable alternatives to traditional cheese in the Netherlands as well as withi...

Scoop: soup of purified rainwater

17 December 2020

After months of preparation, the first soup of purified rainwater was recently produced at Uytewaal Catering in Houten. The production of food with rainwater has never been done before, until now this is done exclusively...

Grant for accelerating innovation

10 December 2020

In order to speed up innovation, the government wants SMEs to cooperate more. In order to stimulate that cooperation, there is the subsidy scheme 'MIT R&S Collaborative Projects'. The Province of Gelderland supports ...