FoodPacific Manufacturing Journal – July 2019

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news briefs
Azelis and Tagra win Ringier Technology
Award
AZELIS has won the 2019 Ringier Technology Innovation Award
for Personal Care. Competing with 80 companies and 140 ingredients,
Azelis received the award for personal care, based on their research
and work on Cellucap™ Resveratrol by Tagra Biotechnologies Ltd.
The award criteria involved an extensive assessment and technical
research and analysis on the ingredient’s safety, efficacy, cost-
effectiveness and sustainable character.
In the selected material, Tagra’s CelluCap™ Resveratrol, the
active resveratrol is encapsulated by a cellulose-based polymer,
protecting theactive from recrystallisation and discolouration
by thermal and UV stimulation. As a powder form, CelluCap™
Resveratrol is easy to incorporate into the formulation at the final stage
of filling, with no need for of solvents to dissolve the resveratrol. The
microcapsules were designed using Release on Demand™ (RND™)
technology, in order to release the active upon application, i.e. whilst
applying the product onto the skin.
Cost a barrier to healthy eating in
Malaysia
THE Food Industry Asia (FIA) and research firm IGD recently
released the report, ‘Healthier Product Reformulation in Malaysia’,
the first-ever survey of consumers and F&B businesses in the country.
FIA sought to understand local behavioural trends and perceptions of
solutions that deliver improved nutrition such as reformulation and
product labelling.
The survey shows 99% of respondents desire to maintain a
healthy diet and try to improve their consumption habits. However,
71% said the cost is a barrier to achieving a healthy diet. On the topic
of reformulation, 76% agreed that F&B companies should tweak their
recipes to make products healthier as long as the taste remains the
same or better. Respondents also said they are not entirely satisfied
with the options available, with 3% believing F&B companies offer
sufficient healthy food options with no further changes needed from
the industry
Cargill opens innovation centre in
Singapore
WITH a new innovation centre in Singapore, Cargill can work
more closely with its customers, guiding them on market forces and
consumer values around tastes, nutrition and food safety. The centre
connects the company’s customers in Asia Pacific to a global network
of 10 other innovation centers and 2,000 food scientists. It will have
20 scientists by the end of this year.
The company has innovation centres in Beijing and Shanghai.
It chose Singapore for its third centre thanks to its strategic location
and the government’s strong focus on building the country as a global
innovation hub.
XTREME Renew bags World Star
Packaging Award
THE XTREME Renew system enables production of PET
bottles entirely out of post-consumer waste. Co-developed by
Austrian recycling technology specialist EREMA, and SIPA, a world
leader in PET preform and bottle production systems from Italy, the
XTREME produces bottles that are suitable for food contact and
with properties as good as those of bottles produced from virgin PET,
directly from flakes of post-consumer scrap, in a single heat cycle.
EREMA and SIPA were acknowledged with a WorldStar
Packaging Award for this innovative system during the gala ceremony
hosted by the World Packaging Organisation (WPO) in Prague,
Czech Republic on May 15. The WPO presents World Star Packaging
Awards every year to what are considered by independent experts to
be the best packaging solutions and applied technological innovations.
Sidel is Yili Group’s Global Strategic
Partner Supplier
DURING a supplier conference in Xiamen, Yili China, the
world’s largest liquid dairy producer, announced Sidel as the
Group’s Global Strategic Partner Supplier as well as presented the
packaging company with an Innovation Award.
Sidel said the choice had to do with its broad application
of aseptic complete PET packaging lines used to produce Yili’s
Ambrosial Yoghurt for ambient distribution – all of them integrating
the company’s Aseptic Combi Predis™ with its unique, patented dry
preform sterilisation technology.
The recognition represents the most recent milestone in the
longstanding relationship between the two companies, with Sidel
operating in the largest business segment within the Yili ecosystem
as the biggest partnering supplier of the PET product line within its
Liquid Dairy Division.
Chinese name for GNT colorings
GNT believes that localising its brand in China will increase
levels of recognition and awareness among its customers, helping
it understand their needs better. In other parts of the world, the
company’s range of Coloring Foods is known as EXBERRY®. The
name 爱百瑞 has been selected for the Chinese market because it
evokes positive feelings as follows:
爱 = Love
百 = Prosperity
瑞 = Longevity
爱百瑞 coloring foods are natural color ingredients obtained
from fruits, vegetables and edible plants using gentle, physical
processes such as pressing, chopping, filtering and concentrating.
They are not classed as additives but foods with coloring properties
and, therefore, qualify for cleaner and clearer labelling declarations.