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  YOU now have free access to the August 2022 electronic issue of  FoodPacific Manufacturing Journal (FPMJ) a Ringier publication for the food and beverage industry in Southeast Asia and the rest of the Asian region.  From the latest ingredients and nutrition information to developments in automation for processing and packaging, here's a sampling of what's inside the latest issue of the magazine. SPECIAL REPORT Can a cyberattack happen to your company? While the adoption of IoT and smart technologies is paving a future that ensures efficient operations, better processing, and safer products, it has exposed companies to cyber criminals. In this report, Vijay Vaidyanathan, Regional Vice President – Solutions Engineering, APJ talks about the cybercrime in the food industry. INGREDIENTS Treading the road to less salt According to Harsch Kosthi, marketing director for Taste Technologies for APAC, Middle East and Africa for Kerry, salt is one of the top five ingredients that c...

 THERE might have been a time when hacking into a food or agricultural company's system was far from a hacker's mind. Why threaten a company that provides a basic need? But this is simply just a rhetorical question. Because just like any other business, food companies have to protect their data and operations, and more so because if they don't, the health and safety of their consumers could also be at risk. While the adoption of IoT and smart technologies is paving a future that ensures efficient operations, better processing, and safer products, it has exposed F&B companies to sophisticated cyber criminals. Many manufacturers are falling victims to these crimes, and the threat to the food supply chain persists as long as systems are easy to breach. The only way forward is to continually strengthen their cybersecurity.   To understand the issues, we talked to Vijay Vaidyanathan, who is currently the Regional Vice President – Solutions Engineering, APJ at the industria...

SPONSORED CONTENT Wu-Hsing Electronics CO., LTD Wu-Hsing’s vertical band sealer WSY-905 seals bags in upright position on the conveyor. The band sealer can seal bags containing liquid, powder or grit, and can be used for sealing large bags or products that can't be sealed horizontally. Applications: food, chemicals, hardware parts Specifications: Variable conveyor belt speed: Adjustable (1-10M/per min.) to accommodate materials of various thickness. Height of sealing head: Adjustable around 500mm. Loading weight of Conveyor <10kg.  Conveyor width: 200mm Optional features: Date Imprinter, stainless steel housing About the company Wu-Hsing Electronics Co., Ltd. is a professional manufacturer and supplier of sealing and vacuum sealing machines. In 1991 it began producing heat sealers for plastic bags and films. In 2002, the company developed nozzle type vacuum sealers for electronics factories in Taiwan.  In 2003, Wu-Hsing introduced the non-nozzle type vacuum sealer, and then...

 LEADING beverage packaging manufacturer Taiwan Hon Chuan Group (THC) is accelerating product innovations and expanding its range of metal and aluminium caps with features to match different customer needs in preparation for market uptick. Drawing upon half a century of industry experience, the Taichung, Taiwan-based company is one of few suppliers serving as a one-stop shop for beverage packaging requirements, offering caps of different materials, preforms, bottles and labels. THC even does beverage filling. With the global beverage industry expected to continue thriving, the packaging market is likewise projected to rise. Ecommerce market data and intelligence provider PipeCandy forecasts total worldwide beverage market value this year will hit US$1813 billion and keep on its upward trajectory to reach US$1885 billion in 2024 and US$1961 billion the year after that. This positive outlook means only good news for the beverage packaging market, itself seen to maintain an upbeat...

MEASUREMENT tools are most important in understanding product characteristics necessary in quality development. Particularly for the food industry, human perceptions that lead towards final judgement about a product under study, provide one of the best measures absolutely necessary in product development and quality monitoring efforts. To achieve accurate and reliable sensory evaluation results, proper selection, training and calibration of sensory panelists (SP) are very important activities which need to be properly executed. The well-trained and maintained SPs serve as the instruments which cannot be replaced by any objective or physical measuring tools utilised especially in food research and quality assurance. Furthermore, these “human instruments” have to be properly maintained and regularly calibrated to ensure that their performance remain accurate and reliable through time. Retention of properly selected, trained and calibrated SPs is thus, an imperative in the food enterprise...

  SPONSORED CONTENT Food and beverage producers invest in eye-catching, unique, and extraordinary packaging designs to attract consumers to their products.  For this, shrink sleeve film is an essential tool and carrier. And as label designs and bottle shapes are becoming more diverse, these all require higher standards when it comes to equipment, accuracy and technical capabilities. The i-Vision peripheral device, for example, is one that DASE-SING uses on its Auto Shrink Sleeving machine to ensure the smooth flow of bottles and containers on the conveyor. This orientation system is specially designed for a variety of containers in a production line, and is suitable for all kinds of bottle shapes. When a container or bottle shifts from its position, i-Vision guides it back to the right track in order to reach the next stage in the process. Steering can be done before or after filling. During the course of operation, the bottles can be steered without stopping the mechanism; af...

Robotics have been improving the processes in F&B production and packaging lines, from speeding up the work to ensuring safer products.   Recently,  Soft Robotics Inc ., Quest and Ossid said they are already offering a robotic handling and packaging solution powered by Soft Robotics' m GripAI TM technology. This solution includes: Quest's primary product handling system utilising a FANUC robot designed to load, orientate, stack and group products into a wide variety of primary packaging machines, Ossid's flexible and tray packaging solutions, ideal for fresh proteins, produce, baked goods, and more and Soft Robotics' m GripAI platform that uses ultra-fast 3D vision, artificial intelligence, and soft robotic grasping to enable picking of irregular and delicate food items directly from bulk. Key benefits of the integrated packaging solution: Combats workforce shortages by reducing dependency on labour Increases available floor space by eliminating the...

Ringier Events invites food & beverage manufacturers to its latest virtual conference: ASEAN Food and Beverage Ingredients Summit 2022 | Enhancing Taste, Flavor and Functionality  will be held on 31  May 2022 (13:00-17:00 SGT).  As with all of Ringier's conferences for the industry, this event aims to help F&B manufacturers sift through the trends that matter, to understand and quickly adapt to the region’s consumer needs, and to innovate with knowledge of the latest ingredients and their applications.  To be sure you get the best information, Ringier has a line up of speakers from established and up-and-coming companies serving the F&B sector, as well as experts from industry, government, and the academe.   If you want to know more about this event, you may contact Ms Yumi Chen, conference planner, at yumichen@ringier.com.hk.

  G loryTab is the new generation of moon tab liner which provides easy and clean peelable induction sealing for different types of plastic bottle and even glass bottle. Our new tab design is unbreakable and no tab size limitation whatever it is just half-moon, full page or only a small part on the foil, GloryTab can peel off smoothly without tab failure defect.   In fact, the liner seals on liquid bottle packing is increasingly becoming popular and important particularly in E-commerce. Online shopping now is the main sales channel, and how to ensure liquid bottle packing like drinks, skin and body care, and cosmetic products without leakage risks during small pack delivery through courier services is the big challenges. According to new guidelines from several brand online shopping platforms like Amazon and Taobao, the liquid product must have ‘double seal’ packing design distributing in their platform.  A double seal is defined as: -     ...

THE FAO defines food security as when all people, at all times, have physical, social and economic access to sufficient, safe and nutritious food that meets their dietary needs and food preferences for an active and healthy life. In many parts of the world, even in highly industrialised countries, food security is challenged by population growth (2 billion by the year 2050), climate change, changing consumer tastes, water scarcity, agricultural problems, and now the pandemic. In this interview, James Zhou, Chief Commercial Officer and Head of Asia, Louis Dreyfus Company (LDC), talks to FoodPacific Manufacturing Journal about the situation in Asia, and how LDC is helping with solutions for the agricultural sector. James Zhou, Chief Commercial Officer and Head of Asia, Louis Dreyfus Company What does food security mean for the diverse region of Asia, and why does the region remain at the core of global food insecurity? How has the region reached this point? Asia is the world’s key supp...