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NZMP, the global dairy ingredients brand of Fonterra, has refreshed its market-leading risk and commercial solutions. During volatile and uncertain market conditions, these solutions help customers gain confidence through improved price and supply certainty.

Eric Morrison, Head of Risk & Commercial Solutions at NZMP says the refreshed solutions are designed to remove complexity and reduce supply risk for NZMP’s dairy ingredients which are sold in more than 130 countries and are at the heart of some of the world’s most famous food and nutrition brands.

“External and often difficult to predict factors such as weather events, supply chain disruptions, and geopolitical events can impact supply, demand and pricing. We wanted to provide our broad customer base with options to reduce complexity and take back some control. Over a number of years, and with plenty of customer feedback, we have developed a range of market-leading solutions. Each is intended to reduce the distraction and noise which volatile markets can bring, and that’s what we’re hearing. Our solutions are supporting many of our customers achieve their priorities and focus on what they do best.”

NZMP recently showcased its four hero Risk and Commercial solutions at Gulfood in Dubai and Food Ingredients China (FIC) in Shanghai receiving plenty of interest and positive feedback from the industry.

Mr.Morrison explains, “At these world-leading events we received a lot of interest in our refreshed NZMP solutions. The continued market volatility and uncertainty is driving a growing awareness of the potential benefits of price and supply risk management and we are excited to be able to provide options to our customers to help support their business operations and planning.”

Mr.Morrison says NZMP’s local sales teams work closely with customers to understand their objectives and how NZMP’s solutions can best support them “We also have a specialised Risk and Commercial Solutions team who are based out of Singapore, the Netherlands and New Zealand and who are available to discuss options with customers.

“A good example is a customer’s leading consumer brand in the repack milk powder segment, operating in the Middle East and Africa market. The repack market in general is price sensitive and significant increases in commodity prices can put pressure on margins and market share. They’ve also experienced challenging supply conditions on occasion due to adverse weather events in supply regions. Our NZMP PriceLock solution for a 12-month period allowed them to lock in their supply and eliminate volatility from their milk powder pricing,” he explains.

“Another customer is a well-established nutrition company in the South and East Asia region. They were seeking to secure supply for the next nine months while also protecting their margins in the event ingredient prices increased significantly. They chose our NZMP PriceCollar solution which allowed them to secure their ingredient supply with the pricing linked to a market index but constrained to an agreed range, providing the customer comfort that their ingredient pricing could only increase to a certain pre-agreed limit.”

Sant’Antonino, Switzerland, 3 April 2019 – Interroll received a large follow-up order from Siemens Postal, Parcel & Airport Logistics (SPPAL) for the delivery of five crossbelt sorters. The fully automated, high-performance sorting system will be installed in the existing system infrastructure of a Swiss reference customer.

The increasing demand in e-commerce is driving a steady increase in mail volumes around the world and presenting many postal companies with new challenges. This particularly applies to processing and sorting the rapidly increasing numbers of smaller parcels with different packaging, sizes and weights.

To flexibly and efficiently meet this challenge as a general contractor, Siemens Postal, Parcel & Airport Logistics (SPPAL) was called upon to deliver the latest conveyor and sorting technology, as well as software solutions for a mail center in the Zurich area.

“The new order is now building on the many years of successful collaboration between Siemens Postal, Parcel & Airport Logistics and Interroll in Switzerland”, says Martin Resch, CEO of Siemens Postal, Parcel & Airport Logistics AG in Switzerland.

“We are looking forward to continuing our contribution to the performance and flexibility of postal companies in the future, thanks to our reliable and flexible sorter solutions in collaboration with Siemens,” says Jörg Mandelatz, Managing Director at Interroll Fördertechnik GmbH.

For fully automated sorting processes in the market of courier, parcel and express postal service providers, Interroll offers horizontal and vertical sorters. With a curve radius that can be reduced to as little as 2.5 meters, Interroll’s range also includes particularly space-saving sorter solutions. The new infeed modules from Interroll, which offer a substantial potential increase in goods flow from automatic sorting systems thanks to optimal configurable infeed speeds, also stand out thanks to their low space requirements.

BENEO, one of the leading manufacturers in functional ingredients, participated in FIC 2019 in Shanghai to demonstrate how the industry can create innovative sportified food and drink products that are relevant and appealing to mainstream consumers.

Driven by growing national health awareness and the advancement of national fitness activities, China’s sports nutrition market continues to expand. In 2018, the overall size of China’s sports nutrition market amounted to 329 million US dollars. In the past five years, the compound annual growth rate of industrial retail sales reached up to 40%, a figure higher than that of the global and US market. Sports nutrition is expected to be a segment that will see high demand growth in the future. In addition to athletes and bodybuilders, consumers pursuing a high quality of life will also be the target group of sports nutrition.

Christian Philippsen, Managing Director at BENEO Asia Pacific, comments: “The particular challenge is that sportified products should be for everybody, not just for athletes. Our focus on sportified products for mainstream consumers has shone the light on the growth potential available to manufacturers who are prepared to be innovative. It is estimated that the Chinese market will have a scale of 859 million US dollars by 2023, making China the world’s fastest growing market for sports nutrition products.”

Active consumers want products that help them to look and feel good, manage their busy day and maintain a healthier weight. This means that blood sugar management, sustained energy and fat burning impact are of great importance to them. However, a lot of sports and fitness-related products in the market contain ‘fast carbohydrates’ such as maltodextrin, glucose syrup and sucrose, which release glucose into the bloodstream very quickly and generally suppress fat oxidation. While suitable for those in need of instant energy, high-glycaemic carbohydrates are not ideal for consumers looking for endurance in their training, for day-to-day sports activities, or for achieving balanced energy levels throughout the day.
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Givat Haim, Israel, April 1, 2019

Gat Foods launches Fruitlift, a real-fruit-based ingredient that can replace refined sugars in RTE cereals. The innovative formulation consists of natural fruity goodness, including fibers, and offers a wide range of fruits. The base can give a fruity flavor or can be easily blended into a cereal brand’s signature flavor.

Since the advent of the modern hectic lifestyle decades ago, breakfast cereals have presented both adults and children around the world with a convenient, fast, and tasty means of fueling up in the morning. Recently, however, RTE cereal has come under fire as a commodity that is perceived as overly high in sugar, artificial stabilizers, and other less-desired ingredients, and is increasingly being rebuffed by health-concerned consumers.
Food companies are aware that they can no longer “sugar coat” the fact that many cereals are heavily laden with refined sugars. This is especially pronounced regarding children — the key target market for this sector. While the industry is harnessing efforts to bridge the “sugar gap” and make cereals more nutritive, simple sugar reduction is a tall order that incurs costs and carries technological challenges.

“The cereals market has been stagnant for some time,” says Michal Katzir Emek, International Marketing Director for Gat Foods. “Refined sugars can make up anywhere from 15% to a whopping 40% of a typical box of cereals. We decided to face the challenge head-on and give manufacturers the option of offering consumers the next generation of cereals — cereals that are more nutritious, with cleaner labels, and infused with more natural ingredients, yet without sacrificing the organoleptic qualities. And, most importantly, attaining a delicate sweetness with zero refined sugar.”
“Consumers reluctant to give up the convenience of RTE breakfast cereals are voicing a desire to see more healthful attributes attached to these products to fit their busy lifestyles,” says Hila Bentman, International Brand Manager for Gat Foods. “There are numerous cereals on the market with a fruit coating, however they still contain relatively high amounts of refined sugar. Our fruit base is designed to permeate the entire expanded cereal as a complete substitute for the refined sugars that have historically been an inseparable part of RTE cereals.”

Fruitlift is composed of 90% fruit components in a liquid base that can be injected into any flour mixture in the extrusion line, or applied via the coating drum in the production of cereals. The fruit base delivers a mild sweetness, with or without a fruity flavor.

Gat Foods’ patent-pending technology overcomes the challenge of integrating a wet solution into a dry product, ensuring flavor and sweetness without losing any of a cereal’s crispy texture. Moreover, anti-caking agents are not necessary. Gat Foods applies a built-to-fit approach, allowing the fruit base to be customized to fit any type of manufacturing or extrusion procedure. The right solution can also be formulated to fit any type of flour mixture.

Fruitlift offers food companies a wide choice of fruits to choose from, including apple, banana, mango, citrus fruits, and pineapple. In addition, sweetness levels can be adjusted to anywhere from just a hint of sweetness up to a more full robust flavor, in line with the desires of the client. (Gat Foods recommends adding the fruit base at 15% volume to endow a pleasantly mild sweetness.) The base already has undergone a successful round of initial trials in a UK extrusion pilot lab.

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29 มีนาคม 2562 – นายสุเทพ สุวรรณรัตน์ นายกสมาคมผู้เลี้ยงไก่ไข่ภาคใต้ เปิดเผยว่า ราคาไข่ไก่คละหน้าฟาร์มเกษตรกรจากการสำรวจทั่วประเทศในปัจจุบันพบว่า ราคาปรับเพิ่มขึ้นมาอยู่ที่ 2.50 บาทต่อฟอง หลังจากเกษตรกรแบกรับภาวะขาดทุนมานานกว่า 1 ปี เป็นผลมาจากความร่วมมือของทุกภาคส่วน ทั้งภาครัฐ เอกชน ผู้ประกอบการรายใหญ่ รายกลาง และรายย่อย ที่ขานรับมาตรการแก้ปัญหาราคาไข่ไก่ของกรมปศุสัตว์ กระทรวงเกษตรและสหกรณ์ ตั้งแต่ผู้ประกอบการภาคเอกชนผู้นำเข้าปู่ย่าพันธุ์ (GP) และพ่อแม่พันธุ์ไก่ไข่ (PS) รวม 16 บริษัท ที่ร่วมกันลด GP ให้เหลือ 3,800 ตัว และลด PS ให้เหลือ 460,000 ตัว พร้อมทั้งเร่งรวบรวมไข่ไก่สดส่งออกไปจำหน่ายต่างประเทศมากกว่า 138 ล้านฟอง ควบคู่กับการลดจำนวนแม่ไก่ไข่ยืนกรง 4,000,000ตัว

“ราคาไข่ไก่เริ่มปรับเพิ่มขึ้น เกิดจากจำนวนแม่ไก่ยืนกรงและพ่อแม่พันธุ์ไก่ไข่ลดลง ขณะเดียวกันปริมาณไข่ไก่ส่วนเกินจากการบริโภคก็ถูกผลักดันออกไปจำหน่ายในตลาดต่างประเทศ ทำให้ราคาไข่มีเสถียรภาพมากขึ้น และมีแนวโน้มจะปรับสูงขึ้นได้อีก หากทุกคนยังให้ความร่วมมือกับมาตรการของภาครัฐ แม้ว่าราคาจะไม่สูงถึงขนาดที่เกษตรกรจะมีกำไรมากมาย แต่ก็ถือว่าใกล้เคียงกับต้นทุนการผลิต ทำให้เกษตรกรพอมีรายได้ในการทำอาชีพนี้ได้ต่อไป การปรับตัวของราคาเช่นนี้เกษตรกรพึงพอใจและขอขอบคุณทุกฝ่ายที่เกี่ยวข้องที่ได้ร่วมกันเดินหน้าแก้ปัญหา และสร้างความยั่งยืนให้กับอุตสาหกรรมไก่ไข่ของไทย” นายสุเทพ กล่าว

นายสุเทพ กล่าวอีกว่า อยากขอความร่วมมือจากทุกส่วนให้มองผลประโยชน์ของส่วนรวม และร่วมมือกันบริหารจัดการตั้งแต่ต้นน้ำคือ การจัดการปริมาณพ่อแม่พันธุ์ไก่ไข่ PS ให้เหมาะสม โดยส่วนตัวมองว่าบริษัทผู้ประกอบการที่นำเข้าพ่อแม่พันธุ์ไก่ไข่ PS ควรหันมาเลี้ยงปู่ย่าพันธุ์ GP เอง เพื่อสร้างเสถียรภาพให้อุตสาหกรรมไก่ไข่ของประเทศ รวมถึงต้องควบคุมอายุการปลดของแม่พันธุ์ ไม่ให้ยืดอายุออกไปอย่างไม่มีการควบคุม สำหรับด้านกลางน้ำ ผู้เลี้ยงไก่ไข่ควรเลี้ยงไก่ให้สอดคล้องกับตลาดของตนเอง และไม่ควรยืดอายุการปลดไก่ยืนกรงออกซึ่งจะทำให้วงจรการผลิตผิดเพี้ยน ส่วนปลายน้ำคือ ผู้บริโภค ที่ต้องมีทัศนคติที่ถูกต้องเกี่ยวกับไข่ซึ่งเป็นอาหารที่ปรุงง่าย เมนูหลากหลาย สะดวก มีประโยชน์ และเป็นแหล่งโปรตีนคุณภาพดี ราคาถูก สามารถบริโภคได้ทุกคน ทุกวัย และทุกวัน ดังที่มีผลวิจัยเผยแพร่กันมากมายจากทั้งในประเทศและต่างประเทศ

Tokyo, 12 March 2019 – The Asian Productivity Organization (APO) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the Graduate School of Public Policy, The University of Tokyo (GraSPP), to conduct joint research for driving policy interventions and capacity development on productivity and innovation. The initiative is aimed at supporting Asian economies in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

The MOU was signed by APO Secretary-General Dr.Santhi Kanoktanaporn and GraSPP Dean Akio Takahara in Tokyo. It will enable the two organizations to conduct joint research to help Asian economies achieve decent work and economic growth (SDG #8), as well as in the areas of industry, innovation, and infrastructure (SDG #9). It will also contribute to initiatives to promote sustainable cities and communities (SDG #11) and responsible consumption and production (SDG #12) across APO member countries.

Sharing details of the agreement, Secretary-General Dr.Santhi said that the engagement would allow the APO and GraSPP to exchange experience and information in areas of mutual interest. “The unpredictable nature of the technology-driven economy makes it necessary for all economies to align their efforts to drive socioeconomic development. To achieve this, economies now need to shift from an extensive-growth strategy to a productivity-driven one. The APO is committed to helping member countries in their journey of transformation and the MOU with GraSPP is another step toward this.”

Commenting on the MOU, Dean Takahara said, “We are thrilled to have this MOU signed with the APO. I hope that we will be able to cooperate in various ways, including students’ engagement in the APO’s operations as interns. We are looking forward to developing a strong, long-lasting relationship with the APO.”

Under the MOU, the two organizations will participate jointly in conferences, workshops, training programs, and seminars. A key component of the MOU is the APO internship program to provide students from GraSPP with policy-oriented learning opportunities to gain experience through projects and research assignments.

Singapore, 5 March 2019 – Royal DSM, a global science-based company active in health, nutrition and sustainable living has appointed Anand Sundaresan as Regional Vice President of DSM Human Nutrition & Health, Asia Pacific. The new appointment, effective 15 February 2019, come as DSM continues to drive accelerated growth in Asia Pacific.

Anand Sundaresan, a US National, is an experienced global business leader, with an established record of success in creating and driving the vision to deliver revenue, profit and market share performance in different environments. He started his career at Merrick Systems, an energy software company, before joining Dow Chemicals Company in 2008. During his time with Dow Chemicals, he assumed senior commercial and marketing leadership roles before taking over as Global Business Director, Polyols, based in Michigan US. Anand has also lived and worked in China and Thailand and gained significant exposure to the American, Middle Eastern and Asian market in his various roles.

Anand will be based in Singapore, the regional headquarters for DSM Nutritional Products and home to the state-of-the-art regional Innovation Application Center. The Innovation Center which opened in 2015 has cocreated and supported the commercialisation of more than 100 products with food, beverage, and dietary supplement brand owners in the region.

“Asia Pacific is a high growth economy, with great opportunity to innovate solutions and improve the impact on our operations. As we continue to accelerate growth in strategic areas, DSM is happy to welcome Anand onboard and believe that his experience and track record will be invaluable to build on our solid growth path.” Jeremy Xu, Global President of Human Nutrition & Health, DSM.

In line with DSM’s Purpose led, Performance driven strategy, the Human Nutrition business helps keep the world’s growing population healthy, at every stage of life, through science-based products and solutions; for example, improving the micronutrient content of staple foods such as rice to enable optimal nutrition intake for vulnerable populations.

Wolfertschwenden, 5 March 2019 – At IFFA 2019 MULTIVAC will be demonstrating its expertise in complete lines and automation for the meat processing industry. Under the banner of “The DNA of Better Packaging and Processing”, the solution provider will be showing in Hall 11.1 several fully automated lines for the slicing, portioning and packing of different meat and sausage products. In addition to this, live demonstrations of MULTIVAC slicers and TVI portioners will take place in the MULTIVAC Processing Tent in front of Hall 11.

Thanks to the systematic expansion of its product range in the direction of Processing, MULTIVAC can now offer its customers high-performance equipment, both as individual components and integrated solutions, from one source for the processing and packing of meat and sausage products. As regards the areas upstream of the packaging machine, the product range extends from slicers and portioners through to transport conveyors of all types and right up to handling modules for converging or orientating the products and loading them into the packs.

Three packaging lines will be exhibited in Frankfurt, and a slicer or portioner will be integrated in each of them. In addition to the efficient linking of the slicing or portioning system with the downstream packaging machine, particular attention must always be paid to ensuring, that the sliced or portioned products are transferred gently and accurately into the pack cavities. MULTIVAC offers various groundbreaking solutions for this purpose, such as for example the MULTIVAC Horizontal Loader or various handling solutions, which ensure that the sliced or portioned products are loaded gently and hygienically into the pack cavities – and all this with the minimum of footprint.

In addition to this, various solutions are integrated into the lines for pack labelling, inspection, converging and box packing. All the system components, which are matched perfectly to each other, can be controlled via one single control terminal on the packaging machine. The result is a precise, reproducible and transparent control process, which can be operated with the minimum of effort.

A thermoforming packaging line for sliced products will be shown at the trade fair, and this consists of a R 245 thermoforming packaging machine and a high-output S 1600 slicer. The S 1600 is equipped with fully automatic central loading and, thanks to its innovative slicing technology, enables a very high slicing speed of up to 1,600 highly accurate slices per minute to be achieved. The portioning system on the machine can perform virtually any portioning task – from precise placement of sausage, ham or cheese slices in shingled, straight or offset stacked portions, through to the shingling of wafer-thin cut product, and right up to the folding of individual slices.

An automated thermoforming packaging solution for portioned fresh meat will also be shown at the trade fair. A R 245 thermoforming packaging machine is similarly at the heart of this line. A GMS 1600 twincut portioning machine, which is integrated in the line, is capable of highly accurate portioning of fresh or frozen meat products (with and without bone). The portioner offers maximum yield and portioning quality thanks to its three-dimensional forming – and it also features a significantly reduced footprint as well as a high level of cost-effectiveness, since it does not require an additional meat press.

MULTIVAC will be exhibiting an automated traysealer line for packing sliced fresh meat, which includes the highly flexible GMS 520 singlecut portioning machine. The T 800 traysealer, which can be scaled to individual requirements, is particularly suitable for producing MAP packs and MultiFreshTM skin packs in large batches. At the trade fair the packing of sliced meat products will be shown in PaperBoard skin packs. These MultiFreshTM packs are based on pre-cut board sheets, which not only have an attractive appearance but can also be easily recycled. The TVI portioner can process all types of red meat and poultry in any consistency and to any portion size, and always optimised for weight and product trim, as well as at a low level of processing cost. It ensures that the highest product quality is always achieved, even at high throughput, in terms of the cutting, forming and shingling of the product. At the end of the process a full-wrap label is automatically applied to the PaperBoard skin packs by a L 310 conveyor belt labeller.

Belgium, 1 March 2019 – BENEO, one of the leading manufacturers of functional ingredients, has invested 4.3 million Euro into a new production plant for vegetal protein in Wanze, Belgium. The opening of the new facility was officially announced at an inauguration ceremony on Friday 1st March 2019 to mark the occasion. The plant is part of the existing BioWanze factory, a modern biorefinery producing food, feed and ethanol.

The move comes following growing demand for plant-based proteins worldwide as consumer interest in meat-free alternatives continues to rise. Christoph Boettger, Executive Board Member at BENEO, commented: “We are seeing a big shift in consumer diets as an increasing number of consumers actively try to reduce their meat intake and seek out alternatives. Wheat protein was the most-used plant-based protein in new meat substitute launches in 2018 and we see great potential for this market in 2019 and beyond.”

The new facility will be operated by BioWanze, a subsidiary of CropEnergies, the leading European manufacturer of sustainably produced ethanol. Its biorefinery in Belgium utilizes the entire raw material to produce high-quality food, feed and fuel with no waste.

Boettger continued: “We’re pleased to be working with our sister company, CropEnergies, and its team at BioWanze as a trusted partner in this exciting new development for our business. Through this significant investment and new production facility, BENEO can take its first steps in exploring the market for textured plant-based proteins to allow its customers to capitalise on this rising trend.”

André Tonneaux, Director of BioWanze, said: “We look forward to working closely with BENEO as we embark on this new joint venture to produce plant-based proteins. As well as expanding production capabilities, this investment will secure future growth and open up important employment opportunities here in Wallonia.”

BENEO’s textured wheat protein comprises wheat flour, wheat protein and water. With a neutral taste and stable texture, the ingredient can be used to replace meat in a wide range of traditionally meat-based products, such as burgers, nuggets and bolognaise sauce.

กรุงเทพฯ, มีนาคม 2562 เลอแปง ผลิตภัณฑ์คุณภาพจากซีพีแรม คว้ารางวัล Finalist Best Brand Performance on Social Media ประเภทกลุ่มธุรกิจอุปโภคบริโภค (FMCG Food) ภายในงาน Thailand Zocial Awards 2019 งานประกาศรางวัลแบรนด์ที่ทำผลงานบนโซเชียลมีเดียยอดเยี่ยม ประจำปี 2019 โดยได้รับเกียรติจากคุณสาธิต เจียมบุรเศรษฐ์ ผู้ช่วยผู้จัดการทั่วไป บริษัท ซีพีแรม จำกัด เข้ารับรางวัล โดยมีคุณชัญญรัช พีราวัชร ผู้จัดการทั่วไป พร้อมด้วยผู้บริหารและเจ้าหน้าที่ร่วมแสดงความยินดีในครั้งนี้ด้วย