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After skipping last year because of the COVID-19 restrictions on live events, ProSweets Cologne is set to return to its usual home, the Koelnmesse, in January 2022, with a focus on sustainable packaging for the snacks and sweets industry.

A recent study has come out in favour of mandatory front-of-pack labelling (FOPL) policies – for both directing consumer choice and encouraging the food industry to reformulate products.

AmBev’s first large brewery and first malting facility have become carbon neutral: with four more breweries set to follow by the end of the year.

Polystyvert, a Canadian company that develops dissolution technology, and COEXPAN, which produces form fill seal (FFS) food packaging systems, are collaborating to validate the use of the dissolution rPS for FFS yogurt packaging applications.

There is plenty of scope in the camel meat industry for better packaging, processing and preservation techniques to increase meat quality, consumer acceptance and exports, according to a new review.

Packaging news from Tetra Pak, Mengniu, Kirin and more feature in this edition of Packaging Happenings.

Sustainability initiatives from Tetra Pak, Mengniu, Fonterra and more feature in this edition of Sustainability Snippets.

The scheme set up by five of the UK’s largest plant bakers is doubling its efforts to visit more locations of interest to track down backlogs of bread baskets and wheeled dollies diverted out of the supply chain, whether intentionally or by mistake.

Styrenics Circular Solutions (SCS), the value chain initiative to increase the circularity of styrenic polymers, has welcomed German packaging company PACCOR as a new member.

Diageo has opened its first carbon neutral distillery in Lebanon, Kentucky: which is being used to produce Bulleit Bourbon and will later expand to other bourbon and American Whiskey brands.