News & Analysis on Chocolate, Candy and Cocoa
Privately owned Gelnex, which pioneered the production of type A pork skin gelatin in South America, has recently opened a beefskin gelatin plant in Brazil. Philippa Nuttall spoke to the company's CEO about the challenges the industry faces.
The rise of snacks as grazing food has seen the Czech Republic, recently identified by the European Commission as having the longest working hours in Europe, emerge as one of the region's most dynamic savoury snacks markets, writes Chris Mercer .
Investment in a new modified atmosphere packaging line will help Russian meat processor Atiashevsky to offer products of a higher quality and a longer shelf life to its major customers - the latest move by a company which has already decided that a...
This week's Ingredients Russia show in Moscow will highlight the importance of healthy food, a sector which has seen spectacular growth in western Europe over the last few years. But structural problems continue to dominate the Russian market, where...
At IPA 2004, in Paris, Tetra Pak is displaying a range of products it believes will help processors exceed regulatory obligations and offer cutting edge production techniques. Anthony Fletcher reports.
Ladco Advanced Engineering, the parent company of Scotland-based MacIntyre Chocolate Systems, has acquired Petzholdt-Heidenauer International, in a bid to extend both companies' global reach in the competitive chocolate processing machinery market,...
Number one cultures supplier Chr. Hansen is up for sale as its major stakeholder decides to pull away from the ingredients slice of the company to focus on the pharmaceutical unit. The move will make the company's still growing cultures division in...