Skip to main content

Posts

Showing posts from October, 2022

Ringier Technology Innovation Awards 2022 - Breakthrough ingredients

EVERY year, The Ringier Technology Innovation Awards - Food & Beverage Industry recognises new ingredients, packaging, processing and other technological advances that will address manufacturing challenges in China’s F&B industry. In this report, we share the winning products and solutions in the Ingredients category. Organised by Ringier Trade Media Ltd, the Innovation Awards took place at the Guangzhou Huadu Crowne Plaza on 25 August 2022. GELITA GELITA’s SOLUFORM™ HST gelatin allows the substantial protein enrichment of a whole range of confectionery products. Manufacturers of marshmallows and fruit gums can fortify their products with up to 35% protein, while candies can be fortified with up to 88%. The gelatin also works with extruded products. Another product, VERISOL® HST gelatin is optimised for manufacturing sweets and high-protein candy in all sorts of categories, and ramp up the collagen levels of marshmallows and fruit gummies up to 33%. DKSH As a leading Market Exp

GloryBest: Expansion of Southern China manufacturing footprint

GloryBest has established a brand-new factory in Foshan, which is about 50 kms north of the company’s facility in Nansha, Guangdong. It has been in operation since August 2022.     The main objective of this transformative process is to expand the company's manufacturing capacity while supporting its long-term goals to provide reliable product, quality and service to its customers. Production in the Foshan factory will use the same raw materials, manufacturing equipment and production process. There will be no changes to our product specification, product code number as well as technical data sheet. The tracing system will also allow the company identify the plant manufacturing, production line, raw material and processing date. The slitting room GloryBest has obtained audit approval of ISO 9001:2015 and FSSC22000 qualification for its additional factory. The original certificate will be available beginning October 2022 on request. A glimpse of the warehouse and workshop The ove

Solving nutrition deficiencies with biofortified food - Article from FoodPacific Manufacturing Journal

TWO billion people, equal to about 25% of the global population, have diets that are insufficient in vitamins and minerals. This often leads to health and developmental problems, such as anaemia and stunting, especially among the most vulnerable sectors of the population from low- and middle-income countries. Asia's undernutrition seems a difficult one to conquer, but for the last 20 years, the CGIAR HarvestPlus program has been working on biofortification as part of the solution. Biofortification is the process of increasing the nutritional value of a food crop through conventional breeding or genetic modification. It makes essential vitamins and minerals available in foods that most people can readily afford and access. Examples of biofortified crops are iron-fortified beans, and pearl millet, vitamin-A enriched orange sweet potato, cassava, maize, rice and zinc-fortified wheat, rice and maize. To date, all biofortified crops promoted by HarvestPlus have been conventionally bre