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Entries for tag: agriculture
Nuts goes bio
Innovia Films’ high barrier compostable cellulose-based material, NatureFlex™ NK, has been chosen by an Italian producer, New Factor, to wrap its range of organic nuts and dried fruit – Mister Nut Bio.
Read ArticlePregis selling packaging in smaller quantities
Pregis Corp.’s Hexacomb® brand, is now available for smaller quantity users via a seven item standard product offering (SPO).
Read ArticleEU project aims to create bioplastics with complete hydrosolubility
A new type of packaging obtained from non-food agricultural raw materials which after use can be disposed of with ease thanks to its complete hydrosolubility. That is the aim of the ReBioFoam (Renewable Bio-polymer FOAMs) research project, financed under the EU Seventh Framework Programme and which involves 10 partners from 8 European Countries (Italy, Poland, Spain, the Czech Republic, Ireland, Germany, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom), in association with ERRMA (European Renewable Raw Materials Association), a body devoted to Europe-wide promotion of the use of renewable raw materials in the energy and materials sectors.
Read ArticleKraft foods attempting to reduce packaging
Kraft Foods (NYSE: KFT) has reached two important achievements that progress sustainability within its agricultural supply chain. Last year, the company increased its year-over-year purchase of coffee beans from Rainforest Alliance Certified(TM) farms by 50 percent, bringing the total to nearly 30,000 metric tons -- once again making Kraft Foods the world's largest buyer of coffee from Rainforest Alliance Certified(TM) farms. In February, Kraft Foods and other industry, government and nongovernmental partners joined with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and announced the launch of a comprehensive program that will invest $90 million over five years to advance the sustainable production of cocoa and cashews in Africa.
Read ArticleRussia : an undiscovered power in food production
Agricultural trade fairs in Russia in autumn 2009: Moscow – Altay/Siberia – South Russia Russia also means: one of the biggest agricultural markets of the world. The share of Russia in world resources is 9% of the arable land, and 55% of the black-soil zone. Enormous areas of agricultural land currently remains non-cultivated. Russia supplies of 20% of the worldwide available fresh water.
Read ArticleBiotech crops poised for sustained global growth
Biotech crops, on the heels of a robust 2008 and bolstered by increased political will to meet food demands, are poised for a second wave of strong adoption that will drive sustained global growth through the end of the second decade of commercialization 2006 to 2015, according to the International Service for the Acquisition of Agri- Biotech Applications (ISAAA).
Read ArticleAnuga crossing technological barriers
For the fifth time now, Anuga FoodTec, which will take place from 10th to 13th March 2009, will be the world's only specialist trade fair that presents the international food industry with all of the relevant themes in food production from processing and packing to hygiene, storage and distribution. The key strength of Anuga FoodTec is that it is not restricted with regard to sectors, raw materials or sub-processes. This event is being staged jointly by Koelnmesse GmbH and the German Agricultural Society (DLG). Its three-year cycle precisely corresponds to the innovation cycles of the sectors it addresses.
Read ArticleAward for bioplastics company
Novamont has received the Italian-German 2008 Premio Mercurio® for its public impact, entrepreneurial flair and the promotion of Italian products in Germany. Antonio Puri Purini Italy's ambassador to Berlin will be on hand to present the award.
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Biomass for packaging
To help retailers keep pace with consumers who are ever more environmentally conscious, PWP Industries is introducing AgroResin® sustainable packaging.
Read ArticleExotic tastes from Brno
In the first March week the largest show of the food industry and related branches in new EU member countries will be staged. The complex of four fairs (Salima, MBK, Inteco, Vinex) and two specialist projects (Trends 2008 and Organic Food) will involve, by its broad scope, the whole food industry production, processing, business and gastronomy.
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Organic film for organic pasta
Birkel, a leading German manufacturer of brand name products, will now be the first to offer its organic pasta in organic film. Just as new is that the film will be printed in a high-quality 8-coloured flexoprint ¾ by the packaging specialist Kobusch-Sengewald. The plastic fabricator has also recently started to offer biodegradable and compostable film made of an extruded PLA (polylactide)-blend.
Read ArticleAgrobalt full
The tradition-rich exhibition AgroBalt is totally booked! More than 220 companies from 12 countries will take part in the most important exhibition for agriculture and food processing in the Baltic States from September 13 - 16.
Read ArticleKrasnodar in November
The 14th international specialised agricultural trade fair in Krasnodar, YugAgro 2007, will again be the second leading agro shows in Russia. Manufacturers and dealers present state-of-the-art agricultural machinery to the specialised visitors. In the open area, machinery will be exhibited on more than 10,000 sqm. A great number of tractors, combines and other machines will also be presented in the halls on an area of approx. 9,000 sqm.
Read ArticleEU commission to be present at Agrobalt
The importance of AgroBalt for European agricultural politics is rising each year. On the regular press conference on June 8th the Ministry of Agriculture of the Republic of Lithuania and the exhibition organizer IFWexpo informed about the political programme at AgroBalt. The exhibition will take place in Kaunas, from September 13 – 16 2007.
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DSM introduces film
DSM Engineering Plastics has introduced Akulon XP, a high productivity grade of PA6 for film applications. Akulon XP offers a broader processing window leading to more flexibility and more uniform thickness distribution in cast film, more melt strength and better parison stability leading to optimized LDPE/LLDPE ratio in multi-layer films without sacrificing the mechanical properties, more shear thinning than with standard PA6 enabling thus higher coating velocities possible and still absolutely gel free.
Read ArticleAgroProdMash 2007 to hit record
Like in the previous years, the Russian premier exhibition event for the food processing branches (15-19 October 2007 in Moscow) has been booked very well. Many companies have enlarged their budgets and exhibition space this year in the IFFA trade fair in Frankfurt, Germany. However, the preparations for AgroProdMash Moscow show how important the Russian market is now for the European branches. An additional stimulus for the development of the food processing sector are undoubtedly the support measures implemented since 2006 by the Russian state for the agricultural and food processing industries.
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