Fonterra has announced it will exit its businesses in Russia. This follows the Co-op’s decision to suspend shipments of products to Russia at the end of February. CEO Miles Hurrell says “our first step following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine was to establish the safety of the team in Russia, and[Read More…]
Author: Poonam Bhosale
CP Foods sends its first shipment to Saudi Arabia after lifting the ban on Thai chicken
The historic shipment took place just two weeks after Saudi Arabia lifted a 18-year ban on Thai chicken and egg imports. Charoen Pokphand Foods Public Company Limited (CP Foods) says it has sent the first shipment of chicken products to Saudi Arabia since 2004 after five CP Foods’ chicken plants[Read More…]
INEOS Styrolution announces K-Resin® DK11 is an excellent material for food preservation
INEOS Styrolution, the global leader in styrenics, has announced its K-Resin® DK11 to be the material of choice for controlled atmosphere packaging (CAP) film applications. K-Resin DK11 had proven to be the ideal material for Chinese banana farmers who had been looking for a suitable packaging solution that enabled controlled ripening of bananas during[Read More…]
SPACE-F Batch III driving Innovation in FoodTech in Asia
SPACE-F is the international program run by NIA and alliances that is open to startups globally who are interested in entering the Southeast Asian market SPACE-F, the first global FoodTech startup incubator, and accelerator program in Thailand announced Batch III in November 2021. The program kick-started in early February with[Read More…]
Singapore offers coated probiotics for effective delivery into human gut
The technology has received interest from companies in the F&B industry to adopt and further develop it Scientists at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) have developed probiotics with a unique edible coating that ensures the beneficial bacteria successfully reach the intestine once they are ingested. The probiotics, gut-friendly Lacticaseibacillus[Read More…]
APAC Society for Cellular Agriculture Officially Launch
The APAC Society for Cellular Agriculture is a coalition among member companies located in the Asia-Pacific region focusing on producing a wide range of cultivated meat and seafood products. 11 trailblazing cultivated meat and seafood (CMS) ventures – game-changers in the field of cellular agriculture – have jointly formed the[Read More…]
Malaysian food and hospitality trade exhibition will be held on 29 March
The leading Malaysian food and hospitality trade exhibition is a timely platform for industry players to reconnect and recover from the impact of the pandemic The 16th edition of Food and Hotel Malaysia (FHM), Malaysia’s premier trade-only food and hospitality exhibition will make its much anticipated return this month with its first[Read More…]
Barry Callebaut announces the official opening of its chocolate factory in Australia
New factory lines add solid and liquid chocolate and compound offerings, catering to the needs of local industrial food manufacturers The Barry Callebaut Group, the world’s leading manufacturer of high-quality chocolate and cocoa products, celebrated the official opening of its factory expansion in Campbellfield, on the outskirts of Melbourne, Australia. Jo Thys,[Read More…]
CPF & Future Meat to develop cultured meat products for the Asian market
After the first launch of CPF’s plant-based products under the Meat Zero brand last year, we have received exceptional recognition from the market both in Thailand and the Asian market Charoen Pokphand Foods Public Company Limited (CPF), one of the world’s leading integrated agro-industrial and food business, announced a first-of-its-kind[Read More…]
Thailand launches RTD herbal-based functional drinks
The drinks offer a low energy density of only 15 kilocalories QminC from Tera Food & Beverage, Thailand’s leader in health beverages with revolutionary nano-liposome technology and zero preservatives, has unveiled 2 herbal-based health and functional drink flavours ‘QminC Ginger with Honey’ and ‘QminC Finger Root with Honey’. Thanthit Yuenyongtechahiran,[Read More…]