FoodChain ID, one of the world’s leading food safety, testing and sustainability organizations, announced that its Board of Directors appointed Conor Kearney as CEO. He succeeds Brad Riemenapp, who led FoodChain ID as CEO for more than five years. Conor Kearney joined FoodChain ID in ...
On 1 July 2023, Lothar Zapf handed over the management of ZLV – Zentrum für Lebensmittel- und Verpackungstechnologie e. V. (Centre for Food and Packaging Technology), Kempten/Germany, to Thomas Lux. During his 30 years of management and consulting experience in the packaging world, the new ...
With Enrico Pes (55), a generalist for the strategic development of medium-sized companies takes over responsibility as Chief Sales Officer (CSO) at intralogistics specialist Trapo. The industry insider has more than 30 years of experience as an executive for in-plant automation solutions in the company’s ...
In the year of its 30th anniversary, Bell Flavors & Fragrances is reorganizing its management team. Holger Wetzler (48) has taken over the role as Managing Director of the Leipzigbased company on 1 May 2023. As a business graduate with many years’ experience in the ...
Puratos Canada acquires Foley’s Chocolates
Puratos Canada Inc. has acquired Foley’s Chocolates, a leading provider of chocolate and compound coatings to industrial manufacturers in Northern America. The agreement makes Puratos one of the country’s largest chocolate producers and the only domestic manufacturer of ingredients for bakery, patisserie and chocolate. As ...
Rausch: Quality testing of raw cocoa using AI
Rausch GmbH, a renowned manufacturer of chocolate, and QVisions GmbH, a Berlin-based start-up, have announced a cooperation for the digital quality inspection of raw cocoa. This will involve the use of AI-powered software that uses imagery to capture the quality of raw cocoa and digitize ...
Barry Callebaut and Unilever extend supply agreement
Unilever, one of the world’s foremost consumer goods companies and global market leader in ice cream, has extended its long-term global strategic agreement for the supply of cocoa and chocolate from the Barry Callebaut Group. Under the renewed strategic supply agreement, originally signed in 2012, ...
Pawi Group takes over packaging manufacturer Printmax
The Pawi Group, Winterthur/Switzerland, is taking over the Warsaw-based packaging plant Printmax. With this acquisition, Pawi is expanding its range of high-quality packaging solutions made of cardboard and paper for the food and non-food sectors. The acquisition enables the packaging specialist to enter the steadily ...
Sappi puts new barrier coating machine into operation
Packaging and speciality paper manufacturer Sappi Europe has invested a double-digit million Euro sum in a new plant to produce innovative high-barrier papers – including a new type of barrier coating machine. Recently put into operation at the company’s Alfeld site in Germany, the in-house ...
Nagel Group opens new location in Austria
The Nagel Group has opened a new logistics location in Radfeld/Austria, near Kufstein. The new transhipment warehouse for the fresh food sector was built on a site area of around 20,000 m2 directly on the A12 motorway with an investment volume of EUR 14.5 m. The ...
Syntegon with stable business development in 2022
Packaging system provider Syntegon looks back on a stable business development in 2022. The company with 5,800 employees at 37 sites in 20 countries increased both order income and sales last year despite the persistent challenges of the global supply chain crisis. Order income rose ...
