The American Botanical Council has announced a plan to create an industry-accepted practice to ensure that rejected raw materials don’t find their way back into the market and onto the shelf in the form of finished goods.
Sustainability has always underpinned the way Beneo does business from ingredient sourcing to investing in greener factories, according to its executive board member.
Perforating potato cells can soften the raw material, reducing fry times, lowering fat uptake and creating a more uniform end chip product, says the CEO of a firm specialized in Pulsed Electric Field (PEF) technology.
Danish firm ZPD has won EU food approval for its chondroitin sulfate – a process that has been riddled by misapprehension and prejudice, the company says.
Premium Blendhub has created a new centre that offers a fully transparent management model of the raw materials in food powder blends, to help customers optimise their supply chain.
A blending system dubbed Smart Powder Blends aims to shake up the old 'black box' blending system whereby traceability of ingredients and competition in pricing may be limited, say its creators Premium Ingredients and BlendHub.
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With the future looking decidedly uncertain for pre-workout stimulant DMAA (1,3-Dimethylamylamine), attention is turning to alternatives, Joe Archer, VP sales and marketing at contract manufacturer All American Pharmaceutical tells Elaine Watson
Israel-based flavours, botanicals and speciality ingredients player Frutarom has reported lower profits in Q2, with raw material hikes cited as the principal cause.
Vertellus has announced a price hike for its vitamin B3 for human
nutrition - just as it is ramping up capacity of the vitamin at its
plants in Indianapolis and Antwerp.
DSM Nutritional Products has said it will put the price of vitamin
E it supplies up by 10 per cent globally, in the wake of "sharp
increases" in raw materials.
BASF has announced that the price of its food grade vitamin A is to
go up by 12 per cent due to raw material costs - in particular a
sharp rise in methanol prices that is likely to impact a range of
industries.
BASF has confirmed that it is increasing prices of its vitamin B2
for food products, three days after it announced similar measures
for the same vitamin intended for animal feed.
BASF has announced that it is increasing worldwide prices for
vitamin B2 for animal feed due to increased production and
marketing costs - and an increase for the food grade is likely to
follow.
Canada-based Neptune Technologies will develop a new glucosamine
and krill oil blend through a partnership with Japan's Koyo
Chemical, it revealed yesterday.
German chemical giant BASF is to shed about 3,600 jobs at its main
Ludwigshafen plant over the next three years as part of efforts
ensure the site's competitiveness.
DSM expects to see full year profits rise 50 per cent on last year,
said chairman Peter Elverding, after stronger than expected growth
in the third quarter continued the positive trend.
Building on a stronger start to the year, Germany's third largest
chemicals group reports continued growth into the second quarter
with an increase in demand pushing up sales and earnings for the
period but the firm warned that...
Swiss fine chemicals producer Lonza is facing increasing pressure
from emerging markets with sales of its organic and performance
chemicals dropping 11 per cent in this year's first half.
Finland's Raisio - makers of cholesterol lowering ingredient
Benecol - announced Monday Q1 consolidated losses before tax of
€9.2 million, as had been expected, despite growth of group sales
by 3 per cent.
Organisers of Natural Products Expo Asia, held for the first time
this year, have added a 'Global Supply Marketplace' pavilion to the
tradeshow for next year. The supply pavilion will focus on raw
materials, ingredients...
