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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 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 Th...

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...

  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...