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Biofluid is known in Poland for a series of Biofix fruit infusions. The manufacturer decided to extend the portfolio and enter the black tea segment. Hence, the company invited SaltPepper Brand Design to join it in launching a new tea brand. The objective of the agency was to develop a proposal of a premium brand, which would attract more demanding customers.

The Prevention Institute, a nonprofit health advocacy group out of California, studied 37 heavily marketed foods with pictures of fruit on the packaging. Fifty-one percent of the products contained absolutely no fruit, a few had minimal amounts! Yikes, you have to be vigilant on all of these fruit claims. Just take a stroll down the fruit juice isle and try to figure out which product is real 100% juice.

If you will be visiting Fruit Logistica in Berlin then you may wish to speak to CEE Packaging!

At the end of December there will be a new product on the market, aimed exclusively at women say St Petersburg based Baltika Brewery.

An Ishida Fresh Food Weigher (FFW) is delivering a solution for the packing into trays of two diverse products for the retail market – grated beetroot and half and quarter pears – at Hot Cuisine, a Belgian specialist supplier of freshly prepared meals, soups and meal components.

Major UK retailer Sainsbury’s has recently changed the packaging of their soft fruit range and moved from trays with rigid clip-on lids to a heat sealed flexible lidding film, delivered by Amcor Flexibles. This new packaging format allows Sainsbury's to reduce the packaging weight by up to 87% and is available for strawberries, cherries and plums.

One of the Netherlands’ leading food retail companies has chosen a multi-layer container from RPC Bebo Nederland for its first venture into plastics packaging.

Cow & Gate, the Nutricia-owned baby foods brand, has launched a range of fruit desserts with traditional pudding names under its Baby Balance range. The products, which will be available in all major retailers, add to Cow & Gate’s broad product offer within the baby-feeding sector.

Ishida Europe has supplied Maître Prunille, a major producer of dried fruit, with three different multihead weigher models in order to handle a wide variety of products while meeting demanding speed and accuracy specifications.

The KHS Innofill DVD can filling system, tried and tested worldwide, now offers a variety of innovative advantages. A new generation of the Innofill DVD precisely geared towards today's requirements is now being introduced to the market. Even greater machine availability, optimized sanitizing processes, hygienic design as far as the eye can see, simplified changeover: these are just a few of the numerous benefits offered by the new Innofill DVD concept.

CROWN Food Europe has teamed up with Bonduelle Group, the European leader of processed vegetables, to launch its new brand Maïs & Fruit in single-serve bowl-shaped cans. For today’s active and health conscious woman, Maïs & Fruit is a small snack made from sweetcorn mixed with either pineapple or a mango and papaya blend.

Amcor PushPop, the easy-open and fun-shaped flexible pack from Amcor Flexibles, has been chosen by major UK retailer Sainsbury’s and Kinnerton Confectionery for the launch of the new Sainsbury’s Taste The Difference range of Dusted Milk Chocolate Hazelnuts, Belgian Milk Chocolate Fruit & Nut Selection and White Chocolate Strawberries.

Silgan White Cap seals the first energy drink with CoffeeBerryTM, an extract from the fruit of the coffee tree

The population of the world is growing older. At the same time, the desire is growing to remain active and healthy even in old age. The beverage and food industries have responded to this increasing health trend with new product developments, and according to Andreas Steinle, CEO of the Future Institute at Kelkheim near Wiesbaden, they are making process profiling themselves as 'health providers'.

Heinz have relaunched fruit syrup products offered under their brand ‘Karvan Cévitam’ using a shaped can to replace the original straight walled cans. The attractive distortion printed three piece can is the result of a demanding development collaboration between Impress Research Centre in Crosmières, France, the Impress factory in Deventer, the Netherlands and the Heinz team.

Goods worth massive sums are destroyed every year because of poor quality packaging. Billerud is now establishing its own development centre for packaging research focused on corrugated containers that will be the first of its kind in the world. It will help provide consumers with better quality fruit and vegetables, among other products.

C Kellogg Company today announced that it is undertaking two major initiatives that further strengthen its commitment to meeting consumers¡¯ health and nutrition needs by adjusting what and how the company markets to children and through new front-of-pack nutrition labeling.

In the beverages sector, natural, light and health concepts have never been so fashionable. Fruit juices focus on a health image and the origin of the fruit, while milk has invested heavily in the theme of active health.