Food Bev Asia

  Operating in today's business climate has become increasingly challenging for manufacturers especially in the food and beverage sector. The effects of global crises have slowed growth and profit over the past three years, holding back the ability of companies to drive product innovation, address future trends, and ventures that will raise their profitability.   In Indonesia, government through the G20 Presidency, adopted the slogan “Recover Together, Recover Stronger” to inspire cooperation in seeking out recovery solutions. Among its priorities is to harness digital transformation particularly to strengthen MSMEs. In this context, Siemens together with partner Ringier Events will hold an exclusive roundtable, titled “Recover Stronger with Digital Transformation - Strengthening your business towards the triple bottom line (People, Planet, Profit)” at the The Langham in Jakarta, on 22 February 2023, from 9:30am to 1:00pm (SGT). This conference will be a venue for C-level...

 WITH its attractive GDP and population growth numbers, Asia is the target market for global industry players. For the food and beverage sector, the region’s diversity can be both a challenge and an opportunity. From the influential Gen Z in Southeast Asia, to the ageing population in Japan and the rising affluent consumers in China, manufacturers must be able to meet the wide-ranging needs of their chosen markets.     With presence in 14 countries in Greater Asia, IFF, a leader in taste and food ingredients, knows this diversity well, and has been helping customers understand the region’s complex demographic profile. Just this year, the company inaugurated a high-tech Singapore Innovation Centre to integrate its technologies, capabilities and expertise in its business divisions: Nourish, Health & Biosciences, Scent and Pharma Solutions.  With the new hub, IFF aims to better support Asia-based customers by accelerating their innovation and expanding co-creat...

  Gloryfoam PE foam liner, a newly developed product model 54SP, has two sides laminated with special PP film which allows the company to meet several market needs as below: Traditional induction backing usually uses pulpboard or single layer PE foam gasket for second seal application. Having considered the lined closure with paper pulpboard can’t be sent for recycling, the market requests lined closure changed to similar plastic with sustainability.  Model 54SP can provide perfect second seal barrier function without having to deal with such problems as sticking together or popping out after induction heat. It is fully recyclable as an induction liner backing or primary liner for closure wadding application. The PIR 54SP liner can be applied for more aggressive cosmetic/skin care product creams or lotion packing. PP facing with both sides laminated provide excellent high barrier function to avoid yellowish issue even if the product has been packed for over two years. In t...

  There are many challenges in the food industry, where from a manufacturer’s standpoint can be overwhelming especially since the pandemic struck. From there, other issues arose. But resilience is among the key characteristics of industry players, enabling them to survive the highly competitive landscape. Take for instance the story of Dairy Home, which through hard work became the first sustainable and organic milk producer in Thailand.    The industry is also responsible for improving nutrition and creating honest-to-goodness better products for their consumers. And we are happy to share that the winners of the Ringier Technology Innovation Awards in the Ingredients category mostly address this concern. This is also related to the growing concern that HarvestPlus sees in Asia where nutritional deficiencies remain high. HarvestPlus is well known in the area of biofortification through their CGIAR HarvestPlus Program. Ravinder Grover, HarvestPlus Program Lead for the...

  IN THIS report on the Ringier Technology Innovation Awards, we detail the winning materials and machines in the Packaging category . Organised by Ringier Trade Media Ltd, this event recognises the major technologies that contribute to the development of China's F&B manufacturing.  This year, the awarding ceremonies  were held at the Guangzhou Huadu Crowne Plaza on August 25. SABIC SABIC is a global diversified chemicals company, headquartered in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. It manufactures in the Americas, Europe, Middle East and Asia Pacific, making distinctly different kinds of products: chemicals, commodity and high-performance plastics, agri-nutrients and metals. SABIC supports its customers by identifying and developing opportunities in key end-use applications such as construction, medical devices, packaging, agri-nutrients, electrical and electronics, transportation and clean energy. Its production in 2020 was 60.8 million metric tons. It boasts 9,946 global patent ...

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...